US 12,248,975 B1
Electronic processing of invoices with no purchase orders
Timothy S. McEneny, Sr., Colts Neck, NJ (US); Erick W. Schutz, South Belmar, NJ (US); Joseph E. Fallon, Liverpool, NY (US); and Rita J. Carol, Aberdeen, NJ (US)
Assigned to Versata, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed by Versata, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed on Mar. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/183,072.
Application 18/183,072 is a continuation of application No. 17/208,974, filed on Mar. 22, 2021, granted, now 11,636,531.
Application 17/208,974 is a continuation of application No. 16/230,710, filed on Dec. 21, 2018, granted, now 10,984,462, issued on Apr. 20, 2021.
Application 16/230,710 is a continuation of application No. 11/369,269, filed on Mar. 6, 2006, granted, now 10,181,149, issued on Jan. 15, 2019.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0633 (2013.01) 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic invoicing system for providing a distributed network to provide for remote submission and processing of both purchase order (“PO”) based electronic invoices and electronic invoices not associated with a PO or transaction receipt and to cause an accounts payable system to effect payment of approved invoices, the electronic invoicing system comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory, coupled to the one or more processors, having stored code that when executed by the one or more processors causes the electronic invoicing system to perform operations comprising:
providing a portal, said portal having respective views for a:
(i) supplier submitting non-PO based type electronic invoices not associated with either a purchase order or transaction receipt and submitting PO based electronic invoices; and
(ii) a user of the portal for submitting, reviewing, or both submitting and reviewing electronic invoices;
enabling configuration of processing parameters specific to said non-PO based electronic invoices not associated with either a purchase order or matching transaction receipt;
receiving configurations to configure customized invoice types and to define discrepancy tolerances between data elements in each invoice and data elements in the purchase order based and non-PO based invoices;
automatically processing a submitted non-PO based electronic invoice of a configured electronic invoice type for payment to effect payment of the non-PO based electronic invoices in accordance with said processing parameters configured by said administrator for said electronic invoice type, wherein automatically processing includes utilizing configured rules, including programmed invoice payment control algorithms, including determining whether the data elements are within the tolerances, for detecting potentially fraudulent non-PO based electronic invoices and, in addition to detecting potentially fraudulent non-PO-based electronic invoices, routing the non-PO based electronic invoices for approval; and
passing approved, submitted PO based electronic invoices to an accounts payable system to effect payment of the PO based electronic invoices.