1. A method of facilitating financial settlement of service access transactions between multiple parties, the method including: automatically collecting data concerning a plurality of transactions from respective service providers of a plurality of service providers, the plurality of transactions being between the plurality of service providers and a plurality of service customers to facilitate service access by the plurality of service customers; automatically determining respective transaction values for each of the plurality of transactions; and automatically updating account payable balances for the plurality of service providers and account receivable balances for the plurality of service customers based on the respective transaction values for each of the plurality of transactions.