Patent ID: 7302403
Filing Date: 2007-11-27
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for providing electronic commerce and accounting services to organizations and service providers for offerings ordered by members of the organizations and delivered by the service providers, comprising the steps of: providing said members with online access to a searchable database of said service providers with associated offerings via an interactive communication network, said searchable database being maintained by an intermediary; enabling the members to electronically select a service provider from the database; enabling the members to electronically select offerings from the selected service provider via the database; enabling the members to electronically communicate the selected offerings and billing information for payment of the selected offerings to the intermediary; electronically storing the billing information at the intermediary; electronically communicating the offerings selected by the members from the intermediary to the selected service provider; and providing a consolidated invoice from the intermediary to an organization for a plurality of offerings ordered by a plurality of members of that organization during a predetermined time period from a plurality of service providers.