Patent ID: 8762213

Claim:
In an electronic invoicing system, a method of processing electronic invoices, the method comprising: executing software in the electronic invoicing system for: providing a portal, said portal having respective views for a supplier submitting electronic invoices, and for an administrator of an enterprise at least one of submitting and reviewing electronic invoices; enabling said administrator of said enterprise to create and maintain a plurality of supplier groups in said portal; enabling said administrator to assign at least one of a plurality of security permissions to each one of said plurality of supplier groups in said portal; enabling said administrator to assign each one of a plurality of users to one of said plurality of supplier groups in said portal, each one of said plurality of users thereby receiving said at least one security permission assigned to the supplier group to which they are assigned; and controlling the processing of electronic invoices by users in accordance with the assignments of security permissions to supplier groups made by said administrator.