What are Cratchit-NET's hours of availability?

Cratchit-NET is always in operation 24 hours a day/7 days a week. Transactions that are processed by clients are collected in Batches which are transmitted to NIPR on business days after 9:00PM Eastern time. Transactions processed after this time become part of the next day's batch. Transactions processed on weekends are transmitted with Monday's batch. Please keep this in mind when processing over the weekend, and take the extra time into consideration when calculating the effective dates. Transactions processed on Legal Holidays are transmitted with the batch on the next business day.