Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

To make it even easier for our commercial customers to conduct business with us, Virginia Natural Gas offers a business-to-business transactional process -- EDI or Electronic Data Interchange.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)?
The computer-to-computer exchange of standard business documents such as purchase orders, invoices or payment information, in electronic format.

EDI enables organizations to remove costs and inefficiencies from transaction-based processes by using the automation of data exchange.

Benefits of Paying via EDI

• Increased speed — business documents are exchanged electronically rather than on paper.
• Improved accuracy — information exchanged electronically relies less on manual data entry.
• Cost savings — increased speed and improved accuracy of the transactions
• Improved cash flow —integrated applications, improve overall efficiencies
• Reduced overhead costs — paper, envelopes, postage, storage space costs decrease
• Increased transaction visibility—maintain electronic audit trails especially for SOX and IRS requirements.

Transactions Currently Offered via EDI

• Supply Chain — Purchase Orders (850), Invoices (110 and 810), Inventory (846) and Payment Order/Remittance Advice (ACH/CTX/EDI 820)
      - Required EDI Trading Partner Agreement
• Remittance Processing — Gas Payments (ACH/CTX or CCD+/EDI 820);
      - Required EFT Authorization Agreement
• Customer eBilling — gas bills (EDI 810)
      - Requires EDI Trading Partner Agreement
      - Requires EFT Authorization
• NAESB — Interstate Pipelines
      - Commodity Movement Services(873) and Response (873)
      - Available No-Notice (EDI 873)
      - Pre-Determined Allocation (EDI 873)
      - Requires NAESB EDI Trading Partner Agreement
• NAESB — Retail
      - Requires NAESB EDI Trading Partner Agreement
               * Customer Enrollment Request and Response(EDI 814)
               * Customer Historical Usage Request and Response (EDI 814)
               * Customer Drop and Response (EDI 814)