eBusiness
The key to success in business-to-business transactions is a common standard that both accounting systems can work to, enabling automatic validation of the data being received.
eBusiness (business-to-business) could simply require the ability for a Purchase Order to be sent directly from the customer's accounting system, via the Internet as an email, and for it to be received automatically as a Sales Order within your accounting system.
The Internet offers a solution in terms of a delivery system and a common transport language: the natural carrier for business-to-business transactions is email.
Email is well proven, reliable, affordable, effective and established within most organisations today. XML (Extensible Markup Language), emerging as a common standard within the Internet community, is designed to allow data intercommunications between different computer systems in a simple yet efficient way
It is therefore essential that any e-Commerce solution you are looking to implement conforms to the BASDA eBIS-XML specification, as this will allow seamless integration with a wide range of companies in the future. Exchequer meets this criterion.