Streamline how you do business with PGE

Electronic Data Interchange
With Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), invoices and payments are accurately transferred between your company and PGE. Your account data is transmitted and processed in minutes — with no human intervention. We use the standard EDI format developed by the Utility Industry Group, so your PGE invoice will look and work like your other utility invoices.

Electronic funds transfer
We recommend that our large industrial and government customers use EDI for electronic payments. If you are not able to transmit payment files in our EDI CTX format, we can accept payments through ACH or wire transfer.

Electronic procurement transactions
We also use EDI for:

• Purchase orders. PGE sends purchase orders to transmission and distribution material suppliers that have contracts with PGE, using an EDI 850 transaction. This process includes Evaluated Receipt Settlement for automatic payment, without invoicing.
• Invoices. Suppliers submitting at least 20 invoices a month send PGE invoices using an EDI 810 transaction. XML invoice submittal to PGE is under development for both large and small non-ERS suppliers.

EDI guidelines and trading partner agreement
For additional information, see the reference materials below. These documents are available as PDFs (Portable Document Format):

• Guidelines for invoicing
• Guidelines for payment
• Guidelines for procurement
• Trading partner agreement

Note: You will need the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader to view and print PDF files. Visit the Adobe Web site for downloading instructions.

Resources to learn more
EDI requires special hardware and software. If you're new to EDI and want to learn more, visit the following Web sites:

• Utility Industry Group
• Northwest EC/EDI Roundtable

Contact us
To use EDI for your PGE bill processing and payment, or for more inforamation, For more information on electronic procurement transactions, e-mail us or call 503-464-8680.