Manual E-bill 499.41

Abbreviations / Terms Description
Swiss Sign AG Subsidiary of Swiss Post, distributor of legally accepted digital signatures.
TransactionID Transaction identification number unique to the biller (alphanumeric, max. 10 digits).
Together with the BillerID this constitutes a unique bill identification.
URL Uniform Resource Locator
A URL is a universally valid address of a resource (e. g. a file) on the Internet.
This unique address consists of a protocol name (e. g. http:/ /), the name of the server
on which the resource is located (e. g. postfinance.ch), the name of the service providing
the resource (e. g. w ww) and the actual name of the resource.
UTF-8 Unicode Transformation Format-8 character set
w ww.utf-8.com
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
The W3 Consortium is an association of prominent companies, developers and
organizations acting on and for the Internet. Its aim is to standardize the technologies
used on the Internet by adopting web standards.
w ww.w3c.org
Web services A service provided to users via the web and which makes use of e. g. XML and https
to do this. Web services differ from the classic services on the web in that they
are designed for automated use and not use by people. A further aim of web services
is to provide interoperability, i. e. web services should be usable in a standardized way
and able to interact with each other, regardless of the operating system or programming
language, etc. The basis of this interoperability is a standardized communication
protocol.
XML Extensible Markup Language
XSD Extensible Schema Definition
yellowbill invoice The XML format for data upload to and download from e-bill solution from
PostFinance.
yellowbill system System description for e-bill solution of PostFinance
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