EDI Billing and Payment
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) allows businesses to effectively communicate and process business transactions electronically. If your business is EDI-ready, or if you're considering this investment, the SCANA Energy EDI billing option makes good business sense.
Benefits
How an EDI System Works
Set Up EDI Billing
Preliminary Customer Requirements
Set Up EDI Payments
Benefits
With our EDI option, your company can realize the many benefits associated with EDI that impact how you process your company’s SCANA Energy bill, including:
- More efficient electronic transactions thanks to reduced labor, mailing, and archival costs.
- Improved accuracy and speed of information exchanged between companies. EDI requires one-time data entry and performs automatic reconciliation.
- A more environmentally friendly process that minimizes paper use and storage requirements.
- Streamlined bill management operations, such as sending and receiving invoices.
- Reduced delays, late fees and lost invoices.
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How an EDI System Works
Businesses that use EDI software and systems follow certain protocols for exchanging data electronically. Each transacting party is categorized as a trading partner, and exchange mutual agreements that define a commercial transaction.
All subsequent transactions are then communicated in a standardized manner through an intermediate channel company called a Value Added Network (VAN) or via FTP with PGP encryption. The VAN is a third-party service provider that permits different trading partners to communicate through a central clearinghouse.
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Set Up EDI Billing
Step 1
Complete an EDI billing Customer Agreement document. To obtain the agreement, contact your SCANA Energy account manager. If you do not have a SCANA account manager, contact the SCANA Energy billing department. Complete, sign and return.
Step 2
Your SCANA Energy account manager will forward the contract to the SCANA Energy EDI billing department. The EDI billing department will explain the testing requirements and will schedule a date for testing to begin.
Step 3
SCANA Energy will then transmit a set of test invoices specifically used for EDI certification testing purposes to ensure the successful download of invoices into your financial processing system.
Step 4
Following the completion of all testing, your organization's account will be switched to EDI, and you will no longer receive paper bills from SCANA Energy. The EDI billing department will notify you when the first EDI invoice is initiated.
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Preliminary Customer Requirements
1. EDI Software
If your organization does not already have EDI capability, you will need to purchase and install EDI translation software. The software must be capable of receiving the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) X-12, Utility Industry Group (UIG), Transaction Set 810 Invoice.
2. VAN Mailbox (optional)
You will need to establish an electronic mailbox with a Value Added Network Service Provider (VAN). You must have access to a VAN for EDI 810 invoices. SCANA ENERGY can also FTP EDI billing transactions using PGP encryption.
3. DUNS Number or other Unique identifier
You will need to obtain a Dun & Bradstreet Number (DUNS), a common company identifier in EDI and global electronic commerce transactions used on all EDI transactions by SCANA Energy. A DUNS number can be obtained by calling 1-866-472-7362 or by visiting the Dun & Bradstreet website. SCANA Energy can also accept a unique identifier for EDI billing transactions in lieu of a DUNS number.
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Set Up EDI Payments
At SCANA Energy, we also offer EDI payments as an option for our customers. For EDI payment setup:
Step 1
Execute two originals of the ACH agreement available from your account manager. Complete, sign and return these documents to the address provided on the form.
Step 2
Request the EDI implementation guide for 820 EDI payments from your account manager or download it.
For additional information, please e-mail us or call 404-760-6295 or toll free at 1-888-621-8828.
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