Patent ID: 11922488
Assignee: EASI B2B AB
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A purchase management method, comprising:
inputting, through a customer interface to a central database arrangement, purchasing rules applying to a purchasing group and a data format defined by a purchasing entity, fields in the central database arrangement allow metadata to be linked to transaction IDs, and fields in the central database arrangement are dynamically set by the purchasing entity in order to define the metadata desired by the purchasing entity and the data format for this metadata;
adding a selected purchasing group as the metadata in the data format defined by the purchasing entity linked to a first transaction ID of the transaction IDs in the central database arrangement;
adding the purchasing rules applying to said purchasing group as the metadata linked to the first transaction ID in the central database arrangement;
receiving, in a transaction authorization module arranged within a bank, a first transaction authorization request linked to the first transaction ID, the first transaction authorization request comprising transaction authorization information;
communicating a purchase approval request from the transaction authorization module, which purchase approval request comprises transaction information, the purchase approval request generated in the transaction authorization module based on the transaction information received in the transaction authorization module via a payment card network, the transaction information comprising at least the purchase amount;
deciding on the purchase approval request by approving or rejecting the purchase approval request based on whether the requested purchase fulfils the purchasing rules linked to the first transaction ID in the central database arrangement;
responding to the transaction authorization module with the approval or rejection of the purchase approval request;
responding, from the transaction authorization module, to the first transaction authorization request linked to the first transaction ID;
adding the transaction information received from the transaction authorization module as metadata linked to the first transaction ID; and
transferring the transaction information linked to the first transaction ID to the purchasing entity, the information about the purchase being automatically entered into at least one administrative system of the purchasing entity,
wherein the central database arrangement is arranged to communicate with a plurality of different parties, and comprises a plurality of adapters, each adapter corresponding to one of the plurality of different parties, and the plurality of adapters convert the data format used by a corresponding different party of the plurality of different parties into the data format defined by the purchasing entity.