Patent ID: 7412418

Claim:
A method for performing automated commerce ordering, comprising: creating a budget for a transaction, the budget including a total price and at least one line item, each line item including an approved work order price, wherein one or more of the line items is created via a bidding process among a plurality of vendors; and upon verifying that the budget is within a budget maximum limit: automatically approving the budget subsequent to the verification; automatically creating a work order related to automated commerce for each line item, each work order specifying a vendor from the plurality of vendors to complete the work order; transmitting the work order to the vendor electronically; receiving invoice information from the vendor, the invoice information being received in response to the transmitted work order and including an invoiced price; automatically approving the invoiced price upon verifying that the invoiced price is within the approved work order price or a preset overage tolerance; and automatically initiating payment of the approved invoice price to the vendor.