Patent ID: 6883004

Claim:
An automated invoice management system for operation with a plurality of client systems including a plurality of vendor client systems and at least one payer client system, the automated invoice management system comprising: a network circuit for communicating invoice management data with the plurality of client systems; a session management engine coupled to the network circuit for establishing a secure session with each client system, receiving a first vendor invoice transaction from a first vendor client system and providing an export invoice transaction to a payer client system; the first vendor invoice transaction being compliant with a first vendor client transaction definition and including vendor recognized business values, including a vendor recognized payer ID code and a vendor recognized vendor ID code, and an amount due from a customer associated with the payer client system; the export invoice transaction being compliant with a payer client transaction definition and including payer recognized business values, including a payer recognized payer ID code and a payer recognized vendor ID code, and the amount due from the customer; and a translation engine for: performing data mapping translation to translate the first vendor invoice transaction from the vendor invoice transaction definition to a normalized invoice transaction definition and for performing business value translation to translate vendor recognized business values to normalized business values; and performing data mapping translation to translate the normalized invoice transaction from the normalized invoice transaction definition to the paver client transaction definition and performing business value translation to translate normalized business values to payer recognized business values.