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5. PostFinance processes 23
5.1 Receipt of bill data 23
5.2 Plausibility check and data conversion 23
5.3 Generation and signature of the original bill 23
5.4 Provision of the process report 23
5.5 Provision of bills to bill recipients 23
5.6 Delivery of the signed bills 24
5.7 Data storage by PostFinance 24
5.7.1 Processing data 24
5.7.2 Data downloaded via business interface, web services
or e-finance 24
5.7.3 Data downloaded via SFTP or AS2 24
5.7.4 Archive-disk data 24
5.7.5 Swiss Post business data 24
6. Bill recipient processes 25
6.1 Processing of unsigned bill data via e-finance online 25
6.2 Receipt of digitally signed electronic bills 25
6.3 Signature check 26
6.4 Bill processing 26
6.5 Archiving digitally signed bills 26
7. Registration and cancellation Bill recipient 27
7.1 Direct registration 27
7.2 Registration and cancellation via PostFinance 28
7.3 Registration and cancellation via the biller’s platform 29
8. Bill presentment module 31
8.1 Delivery of bill details by the biller 31
8.2 Generating bill details via PostFinance 31
9. Processing log 32
10. ISR subscription at PostFinance 35
10.1 ISR subscriber number 35
10.2 Reference number 35
10.3 Delivery of incoming payment data 35
11. Communication 36
11.1 Overview of communications methods 36
11.1.1 Overview of biller channels and formats 36
11.1.2 Overview of bill recipient channels and formats 36
11.2 Forms of communication 37
11.2.1 Business interface (input and output) 37
11.2.2 Web services (input and output) 38
11.2.3 SFTP (input and output) 40
11.2.4 E-finance offline file transfer (input and output) 41
11.2.5 E-finance online view (outgoing delivery) 42
11.2.6 AS2 (outgoing delivery) 42
11.2.7 E-mail (outgoing delivery) 42
11.2.8 Archive-disk (output) 42
11.3 Data security 42
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