Transall Electronic Summary Billing (ESB)

Put Transall Electronic Summary Bill to Work for Your Business
Transall Electronic Summary Billing (ESB) is one cost-effective way to simplify the complex world of electric bill management at your organization. It might even help bolster your bottom line!

* Please note:  Transall ESB, previously known as the "Electronic Remittance Program," is available to all ComEd customers on summary billing. A ComEd customer with at least five subordinate accounts can be set up for summary billing.

Benefits
How Transall ESB Works
Setting Up Transall ESB at Your Organization
Technical Requirements for Transall
ESB Choosing Your Payment Arrangements
Transall ESB Sample File

Benefits
This electronic bill management option provides your organization with two-way communication and transaction capabilities between you and ComEd. The electronic bill management option can help your business realize the following:

• Reduced labor, mailing, archival, and bank costs from more efficient electronic transactions.
• More environmentally friendly process that minimizes paper use and storage requirements.
• Streamlined bill management operations including faster bill processing cycle, the ability to combine multiple subordinate accounts on a single payment and to direct payment application to the individual subordinate account level and more.
• Reduced clerical handling and manual processing of checks.
• Improved accuracy and speed of information exchanged between companies.
• Reduced incidents of delays, late fees and lost invoices.
• Multiple recipients -- the Transall ESB bill can be received by up to 3 individuals in your organization. 
• Downloadable billing and electric usage data for your organization's own use. 

How Transall ESB Works

• Through Transall ESB, you electronically receive your ComEd billing information through e-mail in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format. 
• This  Transall ESB file  provides your summary information and billing details for subordinate accounts, and allows you to indicate payment-posting instructions within the document.
• With Transall ESB, you can also choose from a number of electronic payment options - whichever best suits the way you like to do business. 

Setting Up Transall ESB at Your Organization

Step 1:   Complete the Transall ESB Enrollment Form and return it to  the email address listed on the form.

Step 2: ComEd will arrange for a Transall ESB test file to be e-mailed to the e-mail address you indicated on the enrollment form.

Step 3: Once you receive the test file, open it and enable the macros to verify that all command buttons operate correctly. (These macros make the two-way communication of billing and payment data possible between your organization and ComEd.)

Step 4: Using the file's command buttons, you will then e-mail back the Transall ESB test file to tell us it was received successfully.

Step 5: Following the completion of the test process, ComEd will then switch you over to Transall ESB, and you will no longer receive a paper bill.**

** Please note: Per ComEd's tariffs, ComEd reserves the right to charge a $2.00 monthly duplicate invoice fee per paper bill issued (i.e., monthly fee of  $2 per subordinate account).

Technical Requirements for Transall ESB
To participate in Transall ESB, your organization will need to have the following:

• A PC computer (i.e. not Mac Apple) with Windows 98 operating system or newer;
• Continuous access to the Internet rather than a dial-up connection to enable two-way communication between you and ComEd; and
• Microsoft Outlook 97 e-mail software or newer version.

† Please note that if you have different e-mail software (e.g., Lotus Notes), the macros in the Transall ESB file will not operate correctly. 

Choosing Your Payment Arrangements
You can use Transall ESB to send payment application instructions, as well as to make a payment. When you enroll in Transall ESB, you have a choice of payment options:

• Pre-Authorized Payment (i.e. automatic electronic funds transfer for total payment amount on the bill's due date)
• Automated Clearing House (ACH) 
• Wire Transfer 
•  EDI 820 (If you do choose to pay using EDI 820, you must have EDI capabilities and successfully complete testing with ComEd's payment processing agent.)

‡ Please note:  All Transall ESB payments are received and processed by ComEd's payment-processing agent.