Patent ID: 8650119

Claim:
A system for managing payment resources for a plurality of transactions, the system comprising: a computer circuit programmed to: associate an invoice with a given transaction in the plurality of transactions, the transactions involving merchant offerings among parties including buyers and sellers, different ones of the transactions involving different sets of buyers and sellers; generate, for each ordered item listed on the invoice, electronic payment authorization data for the ordered item in response to determining at the computer circuit that a billed quantity of the ordered item is less than or equal to a difference between a historical fulfillment quantity for the ordered item and a historical billed quantity for the ordered item, the historical fulfillment quantity for the ordered item and the historical billed quantity for the ordered item indicated in data for the given transaction stored in a database, and update, in the database, the historical billed quantities for the ordered items listed on the invoice as a function of the billed quantities of the ordered items.