Manual E-bill 499.41

Abbreviations
Abbreviations / Terms Description
AS2 Communication report for EDIFACT messages
B2B Business-to-Business
B2C Business-to-Consumer
BESR Inpayment slip with bank reference number
Bill Presentment Bill visualization
Bill recipient A person or company who has received a service and is billed for it. Also the payer.
BillerID Unique identification number for billers in the yellowbill system
Billers A person or company who has received a service and is billed for it. Also the payee.
BSP Biller Service Provider
Business Interface (BI) https-Portal (Web-GUI)
This portal enables bill issuers to deliver their invoices and download processing
data and enables bill recipients to download digitally signed electronic invoices.
w ww.yellowbill.postfinance.ch
Consolidator The consolidator is the core component of a network. All service providers are
connected to it. All bills from all BSPs are sorted by bill recipient and made available
to the corresponding e. g. e-finance, the PostFinance application. The consolidator
also keeps track of the bill status.
CSP Customer Service Provider
e. g. e-finance, the PostFinance application
CSV Comma Separated Value
CSV is a system-independent file format for exchanging tables between spreadsheet
programs and databases (MS Excel, MS Access, etc.).
DD Debit Direct
Debit authorization issued by the bill recipient to the biller (Swiss Post).
E-bill Electronic bill
Name of the menu option in e-finance
EBillAccountID Unique identification number of a bill recipient in the yellowbill system.
EDIFACT Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport
UN/EDIFACT (ISO 9735) is an international standard for the presentation of business
and commercial data for the electronic exchange of data between companies.
E-finance PostFinance e-banking application
ElDI-V Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Department of Finance concerning electronically
transmitted data and information
Manual E-bill Version October 2010 62/64