Patent ID: 7536325

Claim:
A method for providing information regarding a customer account, the customer account including a plurality of entries, each entry being indicative of a request for payment issued by a biller entity to a customer entity, each entry including a plurality of payment request parameters, said method comprising: a) receiving over a network from a user associated to the customer account a payment record including remittance detail data; b) comparing the remittance detail data in the payment record to payment request parameters in the customer account to associate the payment record to a corresponding request for payment in the customer account at least in part based on a level of match between the remittance detail data and the corresponding request for payment in the customer account, the level of match being capable of conveying a complete match, a match with variances, and an unreconciled item; c) generating account reconciliation data at least in part on the basis of the remittance detail data and the corresponding request for payment; d) transmitting over a network a signal, the signal being suitable for causing information derived from the account reconciliation data to be displayed on a display screen.