Automated Payment Processing System for Real-Time Account Balance Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Commercial entities face challenges in managing multiple payments and credits efficiently, leading to delays in posting transactions to customer accounts, which can result in inaccurate financial reporting and hinder business activities such as investing, debt repayment, and strategic decision-making.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for rapidly handling payments by receiving and processing transactions at a point of sale or remote location, identifying payment data, transmitting it to a customer's account on a computer network, applying the payment to the account balance, and providing immediate recognition and reporting of the updated balance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If multiple payments are manually managed and posted to customer accounts, then detailed financial records can be maintained, but the process becomes time-consuming and delays transaction posting
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical processes of payment management with an automated computer-based system. The system automatically receives payment data from multiple sources, processes transactions, and posts them to customer accounts without manual intervention, thereby maintaining accuracy while dramatically reducing the time required for transaction posting.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service automation where the payment processing system automatically manages the entire workflow from receiving payment data to posting transactions and updating account balances. The system serves itself by automatically reconciling payments, calculating balances, and generating reports without requiring manual financial management intervention.
2Loss of information
If periodic accounting is performed to calculate total balances and transaction summaries, then financial status can be assessed, but delays occur in recognizing and reporting current financial state
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements continuous real-time processing of payments and account updates. Instead of periodic batch processing, the system continuously receives payment data, automatically posts transactions, and maintains current account balances. This continuous action ensures that financial status information is always up-to-date and immediately available for decision-making.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides immediate feedback by automatically updating customer account balances and making them visible in real-time. The feedback mechanism ensures that both the business and customers have access to current financial status information, enabling timely decision-making regarding investments, debt repayment, and other financial activities.
3Reliability
If detailed management of financial transactions is maintained manually, then accurate accounting records can be kept, but the process becomes costly and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex manual accounting processes with a streamlined automated computer system. The system handles data validation, transaction processing, and balance calculation automatically, reducing human error while maintaining comprehensive record-keeping. The automation simplifies the overall process despite the detailed management required.
4Ease of operation
If transactions are posted to customer accounts with delay, then manual processing can be performed, but customers cannot accurately detail their financial status and business activities are hindered
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides continuous real-time updates to customer accounts as transactions are processed. This continuous action allows customers to accurately track their financial status at any moment, enabling them to make informed decisions about investments, debt repayment, and other financial activities without waiting for periodic account reconciliations.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are disclosed for handling a payment at a point of sale or a remote payment acceptance and processing location for a customer account. The systems and methods may include receiving a payment at a point of sale or a remote payment acceptance and processing location and identifying data including at least an amount of the payment that is associated with the payment. The data may be transmitted over a computer network and stored in a data store that is associated with a customer account. A balance of the customer account may be rapidly updated based on the data associated with the payment. The data may be transmitted over a computer network and may be utilized in a computer software application to provide a customer account with rapid recognition of a payment and of a total balance.