Patent ID: 9697561
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A non-transient, computer readable media having stored thereon instructions for providing access to manage customer purchasing workflow information within a hosted vendor purchasing system, the instructions performing steps comprising: storing in a data repository with the hosted vendor purchasing system a listing of authorized purchasers for a customer, a listing of authorized approvers for the customer, and a listing of spending limits for the customer, wherein each of the authorized purchasers is selectively associated with one of the spending limits and is capable of being associated with one or more of the authorized approvers via use of association data stored in the data repository; causing a dashboard page to be displayed on a display associated with a client computing device within host system in communication with the hosted vendor purchasing system, the dashboard page comprising the listing of authorized purchasers, the spending limit respectively associated with each of the authorized purchasers, and an identifier of any one or more of the authorized approvers respectively associated with each of the authorized purchasers; causing a first plurality of user interface elements, each corresponding to one of the authorized purchasers, to be presented on the display associated with the client computing device; in response to a selection of one of the first plurality of user interface elements associated with a selected one of the authorized purchasers, causing both a second plurality of user interface elements and an authorization work flow diagram to be presented on the display associated with the client computing device, wherein each of the second plurality of user interface elements respectively corresponding to one of the spending limit and any one or more of the authorized approvers for the selected one of the authorized purchasers and wherein the authorization workflow diagram depicts a representation of an authorization workflow relationship between the selected one of the authorized purchasers and any one or more of the authorized approvers for the selected one of the authorized purchasers; and in response to a selection of one of the second plurality of user interface elements, respectively accessing one of the listing of the spending limits and the listing of the authorized approvers, to enable the customer to selectively change the association data stored in the data repository to thereby modify the association of the respective one of the spending limit and any one or more of the authorized approvers with the selected one of the authorized purchasers, causing the display associated with the client computing device to be dynamically updated to reflect a modification of the authorization workflow relationship between the selected one of the authorized purchasers and any one or more of the authorized approvers for the selected one of the authorized purchasers made via use of the second plurality of user interface elements, and causing the modification of the authorization workflow relationship made by the customer to be saved in the data repository with the hosted vendor purchasing system whereby the saved authorization work flow is usable by the hosted vendor purchasing system in managing and routing purchasing approvals originating from the host system.