Order-resource fulfillment and management system and approach

A method for automatically managing payment resources for a plurality of transactions involving merchant offerings among parties including buyers and sellers, the method comprising, for each of the plurality of transactions:

• associating invoice data with a particular one of the transactions as a function of data in the invoice and stored transaction-profile information;
• and
• generate electronic payment authorization data from a buyer to a seller for seller-invoiced item quantities as a function of
• fulfilled quantity data indicating items that have been fulfilled by the seller for the transaction, and
• historical billed status data for the item, the historical billed status data being indicative of a portion of the total item quantity that has been previously-billed.

A method for managing payment resources for a plurality of transactions involving merchant offerings among parties including buyers and sellers, different ones of the plurality of transactions involving different sets of buyer and seller parties, the method comprising:

• for each of the plurality of transactions, storing data characterizing historical fulfillment and billed quantities for ordered items of the transaction;
• and
• for each of the ordered items listed on an invoice for each of the plurality of transactions,
• associating the invoice with one of the plurality of transactions;
• generating electronic payment authorization data for each ordered item listed on the invoice as a function of a billed quantity of the ordered item on the invoice and a difference between the historical fulfillment quantity and the historical billed quantity for the ordered item as indicated in the data stored in the data storage arrangement for the associated transaction, and
• updating historical billed quantities for the ordered item as characterized in the data stored in the data storage arrangement as a function of the billed quantity in the invoice.

A method for automatically managing payment resources for a plurality of transactions involving merchant offerings among parties including buyers and sellers, the method comprising:

• operating a computer-based circuit, for each of the plurality of transactions, to perform the steps of
• associating invoice data with a particular one of the transactions as a function of data in the invoice and stored transaction-profile information;
• and
• in response to a discrepancy regarding a payment that is requested on the invoice and the historical data for the ordered item in the data storage arrangement, using the difference as a basis to generate a signal useful for facilitating payment from a buyer to a seller for seller-invoiced item quantities based on historical data for the item.