Accounting Flowchart Purchasing Receiving Payable and Payment

"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.

"A payment is the transfer of an item of value from one party (such as a person or company) to another in exchange for the provision of goods, services or both, or to fulfill a legal obligation. ...
Payment methods.
There are two types of payment methods; exchanging and provisioning. Exchanging is to change coin, money and banknote in terms of the price. Provisioning is to transfer money from one account to another. In this method, a third party must be involved. Credit card, debit card, Cheques, money transfers, and recurring cash or ACH (Automated Clearing House) disbursements are all electronic payments methods. Electronic payments technologies are magnetic stripe card, smartcard, contactless card and mobile handset. Mobile handset based payments are called mobile payments." [Payment. Wikipedia]
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The Data flow diagram (DFD) example "Payment for goods using UPS code scanner" shows data flow in process of payment for goods in the shop using the MaxiCode scanner.
"MaxiCode is a public domain, machine-readable symbol system originally created and used by United Parcel Service. Suitable for tracking and managing the shipment of packages, it resembles a barcode, but uses dots arranged in a hexagonal grid instead of bars. MaxiCode has been standardised under ISO/ IEC 16023.
A MaxiCode symbol (internally called "Bird's Eye", "Target", "dense code", or "UPS code") appears as a 1 inch square, with a bullseye in the middle, surrounded by a pattern of hexagonal dots. It can store about 93 characters of information, and up to 8 MaxiCode symbols can be chained together to convey more data. The centered symmetrical bullseye is useful in automatic symbol location regardless of orientation, and it allows MaxiCode symbols to be scanned even on a package traveling rapidly." [MaxiCode. Wikipedia]
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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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This accounting flowchart example was redrawn from the article "Accounting flowchart: Purchasing, Receiving, Payable and Payment" from the website "Accounting Financial Tax" www.accounting-financial-tax.com , with the kind permission of the author.
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