Business Process Elements: Activities

"An invoice, bill or tab is a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer, relating to a sale transaction and indicating the products, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services the seller has provided the buyer.
Payment terms are usually stated on the invoice. These may specify that the buyer has a maximum number of days in which to pay, and is sometimes offered a discount if paid before the due date. The buyer could have already paid for the products or services listed on the invoice.
In the rental industry, an invoice must include a specific reference to the duration of the time being billed, so in addition to quantity, price and discount the invoicing amount is also based on duration. Generally each line of a rental invoice will refer to the actual hours, days, weeks, months, etc., being billed.
From the point of view of a seller, an invoice is a sales invoice. From the point of view of a buyer, an invoice is a purchase invoice. The document indicates the buyer and seller, but the term invoice indicates money is owed or owing. ...
Payment of invoices.
Organizations purchasing goods and services usually have a process in place for approving payment of invoices based on an employee's confirmation that the goods or services have been received.
Typically, when paying an invoice, a remittance advice will be sent to the supplier to inform them their invoice has been paid." [Invoice. Wikipedia]
The flow chart example "Invoice payment process" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Flowcharts solution from the area "What is a Diagram" of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

This payment process flowchart example was created on the base of the diagram of payment process using Global Payment Processing Services from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission website.
"Global Payment Processing Services. CyberSource Advanced enables merchants to accept payments made by all major credit and debit cards including American Express®, Discover®, Diners Club International®, JCB, MasterCard®, and Visa® cards. Our customers can also accept payment by corporate procurement cards, electronic checks, PayPal® Express Checkout, and the Bill Me Later® service. Merchants that have business models based on subscriptions can utilize the CyberSource recurring billing service with automated account updating services. For merchants selling internationally, we support direct debit, and bank transfers, as well as regional card brands such as Carte Bleue, Carta Si, Dankort, Laser, Solo, and Visa Electron. We provide these services for online, call center, kiosk, integrated voice response (“IVR”), and IP-enabled point of sale (“POS”) transactions."
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The flowchart example "Global Payment Solutions" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Sales Flowcharts solution from the Marketing area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

"Trade, also called goods exchange economy, is to transfer the ownership of goods from one person or entity to another by getting something in exchange from the buyer. Trade is sometimes loosely called commerce or financial transaction or barter. A network that allows trade is called a market. ...
Modern traders ... generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money. As a result, buying can be separated from selling, or earning. ...
Retail trade consists of the sale of goods or merchandise from a very fixed location, such as a department store, boutique or kiosk, or by mail, in small or individual lots for direct consumption by the purchaser. Wholesale trade is defined as the sale of goods that are sold merchandise to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional, or other professional business users, or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services." [Trade. Wikipedia]
The deployment flow chart example "Trading process diagram" was created using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software extended with the Cross-Functional Flowcharts solution from the Business Processes area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.