Patent ID: 7209897

Claim:
A method for aggregating shipping charges and generating charge-back invoices using a charge-back billing system comprising: receiving an indication of a plurality of shipping charges each from a respective financial institution from a plurality of financial institutions by a first user of at least one vendor, each indication including shipping charge data, a vendor identifier, and a shipping charge identifier; then requesting detail information regarding each of the plurality of charges from the at least one vendor using the vendor identifier and the shipping charge identifier received from the respective financial institution from a plurality of financial institutions; receiving detail information regarding each of the plurality of charges from the at least one vendor; storing and aggregating the shipping charge data received from the respective financial institution with the associated detail information regarding each of the plurality of charges received from the at least one vendor; augmenting the detail information for each of the plurality of charges by adding charge-back fields, creating aggregated augmented detail information wherein the charge-back fields are comprised of charge-back data received from the first user; providing access to the shipping charge data and associated aggregated augmented detail information for each of the plurality of charges to the first user; receiving selection data from the first user for at least one of the plurality of charges and associated augmented detail information; and then generating a charge-back bill based upon the selection data.