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

Claim 4:
5. 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-PO based type electronic invoices not associated with a purchase order and (ii) respective views for a supplier submitting non-PO based type electronic invoices not associated with a purchase order and (ii) respective views for a user of the portal for submitting, reviewing, or both submitting and reviewing non-PO based type electronic invoices not associated with a purchase;
receiving electronic invoices submitted by said supplier; and
enabling the supplier to search for both the 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 literal 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 electronic invoices not associated with either a purchase order or matching transaction receipt 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 tolerances, to detect 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 PO based electronic invoices.