Manual E-bill 499.41

Contents
1. Service description 6
1.1 Brief description of the service and document overview 6
1.2 E-bill process in brief 8
1.3 Delimitations 8
1.4 Legal basis 8
1.5 Service for billers 9
1.6 Service for bill recipients 10
1.6.1 Delivery of unsigned data by e-finance 10
1.6.2 Delivery of digitally signed data 10
1.7 Forwarding data to network partners (signed data) 10
1.8 Roles 11
1.8.1 PostFinance 11
1.8.2 Swiss Post Solutions AG 11
1.8.3 Billers 12
1.8.4 Biller Service Provider (BSP) 12
1.8.5 Customer Service Provider (CSP) 12
1.8.6 Bill recipient 12
1.8.7 Partner systems 12
1.9 Transmission of electronic orders 12
2. Registration processes for billers 13
2.1 Requirements 13
2.2 Biller setup using software tested with PostFinance 13
2.3 Biller setup using untested software 14
2.4 Service for delivering data to Six Paynet AG 15
3. Registration processes for bill recipients 16
3.1 Requirements 16
3.2 Bill recipient registration 16
3.2.1 Unsigned bills 16
3.2.2 Digitally signed bills 16
3.3 Registration 16
3.3.1 Registering via e-finance 17
3.3.2 Registration via business interface 17
4. Biller processes 18
4.1 Bill data preparation 18
4.2 Sorting bills and delivering bill data 18
4.3 Presentment of electronic bill details 18
4.3.1 Presentment of bill details with bill presentment module 18
4.3.2 Presentment of bill details without bill presentment module 18
4.3.3 Combination of both options with and without the bill
presentment module 19
4.3.4 Static bill detail 20
4.3.5 Presentment of bill details for Debit Direct payments 20
4.4 Bill enclosures 20
4.5 Payment by instalment 20
4.6 Checking data transmission 20
4.7 Searching for bills 21
4.8 Changes 21
4.8.1 Changes to transmitted bill data 21
4.8.2 Correcting signed bills 21
4.9 Booking incoming payments and managing accounts receivable 22
4.10 Archiving invoices 22
Manual E-bill Version October 2010 3/64