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Service Sheet PNR www.edch.com Edition 1.0 07.2011
EDCH
Payment Notification Report (PNR)
Commercial Outline
The Payment Notification Report (PNR) is anelectronic format
including a predefined set offinancial information to be provided
by the payer tothe payment recipient facilitating reconciliation
duringthe Financial Clearing process.
After the payer has executed the payment to therecipient the PNR
will be electronically issued to therecipient. The PNR will not
make the correspondingbank notification redundant, but instead be
a
supporting report in the reconciliation process.
The benefits of the PNR are faster reconciliation ofpayments and
minimizing the risk of manual errors inthe Financial Clearing
process.
The electronic PNR format is described in PRDBA.38 and is
binding for all GSMA members from the1
stof October 2011.
Payment Notification Report
As it is commonly known, to be able to reconcile a
particular incoming payment amount against theoutstanding due
amount(s), the payment recipientneeds first to identify exactly the
same outstandingpositions referred by the incoming payment and
thento reconcile the payment amount against the dueamounts of the
referred outstanding positions. Thevalue of the PNR is to support
this process byenabling faster reconciliation and minimizing the
riskof manual errors, benefiting both parties.
The PNR provides reconciliation information to therecipient in a
standardized electronic format at thepoint in time when the payment
is executed,including:
1. Payment Section.
2. Payment Details Section.
3. Settled Credits / Debts Section.
The PNR process is very simple:
1. When ordering the execution of a payment tothe bank, the
payer will also provide therecipient with the corresponding
PNR.
2. In most cases the recipient will receive thePNR before the
corresponding bank
notification enabling the recipient toproactively initiate the
payment reconciliationprocedure.
Implementation
Each party must define a contact point for the PNRexchange and
provide that information to the otherparty. An important note is
that unless otherwiseagreed between the parties, it is assumed that
thecontact point for invoice distribution defined in AA.14,Annex
I.3.3 will be used as the contact point for thePNR exchange as
well.
Client SupportEDCHs Finance Team is supporting the PNR and
isspecialized in managing the GSMA standard.
Related Services
EDCH Invoicing: Prepares, sends and receivesmonthly GSM invoices
for each roaming partner onbehalf of the client. Follow up on
dispute resolution,and the issuance of credit/debit notes is
included.
EDCH Settlement: Receives settlement amounts
from roaming partners and allocates funds accordingto payment
notifications or break-up provided by theoperators. Records are
maintained for overduepayments and follow up / reminders are
initiated.
EDCH Reconciliation: Continued transactionmonitoring and
reconciliation for missing invoices,disputed invoices, TAP IN and
TAP OUT files etc.
EDCH EID Exchange: Exchange of electronicinvoicing data
supporting the standard paper invoicesduring the settlement process
as per the standarddescribed in PRD BA.36.
Conclusion
EDCH has many years of experience managingFinancial Clearing and
welcomes the opportunity tooffer the PNR service to our clients
worldwide.
The PNR will serve as a supporting report to theexisting
corresponding bank notification in theFinancial Clearing process
enabling fasterreconciliation of payments and minimizing the risk
ofmanual errors, providing immediate benefits to boththe payer and
the recipient.
Please contact [email protected] for moreinformation.
