EDCH Payment Notification Report (PNR)

Commercial Outline
The Payment Notification Report (PNR) is an electronic format including a predefined set of financial information to be provided by the payer to the payment recipient facilitating reconciliation during the Financial Clearing process. After the payer has executed the payment to the recipient the PNR will be electronically issued to the recipient. The PNR will not make the corresponding bank notification redundant, but instead be a supporting report in the reconciliation process. The benefits of the PNR are faster reconciliation of payments and minimizing the risk of manual errors in the Financial Clearing process. The electronic PNR format is described in PRD BA.38 and is binding for all GSMA members from the st 1 of October 2011.

Implementation
Each party must define a contact point for the PNR exchange and provide that information to the other party. An important note is that unless otherwise agreed between the parties, it is assumed that the contact point for invoice distribution defined in AA.14, Annex I.3.3 will be used as the contact point for the PNR exchange as well.

Client Support
EDCHs Finance Team is supporting the PNR and is specialized in managing the GSMA standard.

Related Services
EDCH Invoicing: Prepares, sends and receives monthly GSM invoices for each roaming partner on behalf 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 according to payment notifications or break-up provided by the operators. Records are maintained for overdue payments and follow up / reminders are initiated. EDCH Reconciliation: Continued transaction monitoring and reconciliation for missing invoices, disputed invoices, TAP IN and TAP OUT files etc. EDCH EID Exchange: Exchange of electronic invoicing data supporting the standard paper invoices during the settlement process as per the standard described in PRD BA.36.

Payment Notification Report

As it is commonly known, to be able to reconcile a particular incoming payment amount against the outstanding due amount(s), the payment recipient needs first to identify exactly the same outstanding positions referred by the incoming payment and then to reconcile the payment amount against the due amounts of the referred outstanding positions. The value of the PNR is to support this process by enabling faster reconciliation and minimizing the risk of manual errors, benefiting both parties. The PNR provides reconciliation information to the recipient in a standardized electronic format at the point 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 to the bank, the payer will also provide the recipient with the corresponding PNR. 2. In most cases the recipient will receive the PNR before the corresponding bank notification enabling the recipient to proactively initiate the payment reconciliation procedure.

Conclusion
EDCH has many years of experience managing Financial Clearing and welcomes the opportunity to offer the PNR service to our clients worldwide. The PNR will serve as a supporting report to the existing corresponding bank notification in the Financial Clearing process enabling faster reconciliation of payments and minimizing the risk of manual errors, providing immediate benefits to both the payer and the recipient. Please contact information. marketing@edch.com for more

Service Sheet PNR

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Edition 1.0 07.2011