Patent ID: 8036987

Claim:
A computing system implemented process for accounts payable management comprising: using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to obtain data indicating a user's vendor payment priority criteria, the user being associated with a business; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to obtain data associated with one or more vendors to the business; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to obtain data associated with one or more invoices from one or more of the one or more vendors to the business; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to obtain data indicating funds available to the business to pay at least part of the one or more invoices from one or more of the one or more vendors to the business; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to analyze the data indicating the user's vendor payment priority criteria, the data associated with one or more vendors to the business, the data associated with one or more invoices from one or more of the one or more vendors to the business, and the data indicating funds available to the business to pay at least part of the one or more invoices from one or more of the one or more vendors to the business; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to generate a proposed vendor payment plan based on the analysis of the data indicating the user's vendor payment priority criteria, the data associated with one or more vendors to the business, the data associated with one or more invoices from one or more of the one or more vendors to the business, and the data indicating funds available to the business to pay at least part of the one or more invoices from one or more of the one or more vendors to the business, the proposed vendor payment plan including one or more proposed vendor payments prioritized to be as consistent as possible with the user's vendor payment priority criteria; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to display the proposed vendor payment plan to one or more users associated with the business that have approval authority on a display device associated with one or more computing systems accessible by the one or more users; using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to provide one or more of the one or more users associated with the business that have approval authority the capability to edit and/or approve at least part of the proposed vendor payment plan; and once the proposed vendor payment plan is approved by one or more specified users of the one or more users associated with the business that have approval authority, using one or more processors associated with one or more computing systems to make one or more payments to one or more vendors to the business for one or more of the one or more invoices from the one or more vendors to the business.