820Payment Order/Remittance Advice
This standard provides the format and establishes the data contents of the Payment Order/Remittance Advice Transaction Set within the context of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. This transaction set can be used for 1) making a payment 2) sending a remittance advice, or 3) making a payment and sending a remittance advice.
This transaction set can be an order to a financial institution to make a payment to a payee. It can also be a remittance advice identifying the detail needed to perform cash application to the payee's accounts receivable system. The remittance advice can go 1) directly from payer to payee, 2) through a financial institution or 3) through a third party agent.