Patent ID: 7774352

Claim:
A method of canceling a plurality of erroneous vendor invoices inputted into a master database stored on an accounts payable computer server, said method comprising: providing a master database accounts payable computer server for inputting a plurality of vendor invoices, said master database accounts payable computer server including programmable media containing master database programmable software; storing a cancellation request for each of said plurality of erroneous vendor invoices in a response database server, said response database server including programmable media containing response database programmable software; executing an agent on said response database server to extract data pertaining to said cancellation request stored for each of said plurality of erroneous vendor invoices from said response database server; creating on said response database server an intermediate file containing data extracted from said response database server; executing a bridge program on said response database server for delivering said intermediate file from said response database server into said master database accounts payable computer server; and processing said intermediate file in said master database accounts payable computer server in order to cancel each of said plurality of erroneous vendor invoices in said master database accounts payable computer server; and entering a cancellation request for each of said plurality of erroneous vendor invoices proffered by one or more vendors in said response database server and adding text to said plurality of erroneous vendor invoices in said master database accounts payable computer server corresponding to said cancellation request entered in said response database server; and generating a reversal entry for each of said plurality of erroneous vendor invoices in said master database accounts payable computer sever.