Patent ID: 11966965
Assignee: VERSATA, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An electronic invoicing system for processing both purchase order based electronic invoices and electronic invoices not associated with a purchase order, the electronic invoicing system comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory, coupled to the one or more processors, storing code that when executed by the one or more processors causes the electronic invoicing system to perform operations comprising:
providing a portal, said portal having (i) respective views for a supplier submitting non-purchase order (non-PO) based type electronic invoices not associated with a purchase order or transaction receipt and (ii) respective views for a user of the web-based port for submitting, reviewing, or both submitting and reviewing electronic invoices;
enabling a supplier to search for both purchase order based and non-purchase order based invoices in an interface of the portal;
receiving configurations to configure customized invoice types and to define discrepancy tolerances between data elements in each invoice and data element in the purchase order based and non-PO based invoices to detect potentially fraudulent non-PO based electronic invoices;
automatically processing said submitted non-PO based invoices without input from said user to facilitate approval of the invoices to effect payment of the non-PO based electronic invoices, wherein automatically processing includes utilizing configured rules programmed into the computer system, including determining whether the data elements are within the discrepancy tolerances to detect the potentially fraudulent non-PO based electronic invoices and, in addition to detecting potentially fraudulent non-PO-based electronic invoices, routing the non-PO based electronic invoices for approval; and
passing approved, submitted non-PO based electronic invoices to an accounts payable system to cause the accounts payable system to effect payment of the non-PO based electronic invoices.