A dedicated device for permitting time-based collaborative contributions for services, said dedicated device in communication with a database; the dedicated device adapted to receive input from one or more users; said device permitting said users individually and separately to make a contribution in a predetermined amount towards a designated target contribution amount.

In one embodiment, a shopping support system has a server and a store terminal. The server stores user identification information including information of a group capable of identifying the group to which the user belongs, and shopping memo information which is associated with the user identification information, and includes information of a commodity to be purchased by the user, in a storage device. The store terminal repeatedly acquires the shopping memo information which is associated with the information of the group capable of identifying the group to which the user in whom login has been permitted belongs, from the server at a periodic prescribed timing.

A manufacturer (M), dealer (D) and consumer (C) joint transaction system and a transaction method are provided. The system includes: a manufacturer (M) client, a dealer (D) client, a consumer (C) client, and a cloud data server, wherein the cloud data server provides a manufacturer (M) operating space to the manufacturer (M) client, a dealer (D) operating space to the dealer (D) client, and a consumer (C) operating space to the consumer (C) client. The present invention effectively combines e-commerce and real industry and commerce marketing channel systems, thereby solving serious conflict between a popular B2C or B2B e-commerce model and an actual business ecosystem, which allows real manufacturers (M), dealers (D), and consumers (C) to realize e-commerce operations easily.

An online consignment shopping system supports an aggregated marketplace for consignment vendors. The online consignment shopping system has a network interface and one or more processors. The system receives a request for a consignment article that has user-specified measurements. The system searches through one or more inventory databases for a match to the request. The inventory database(s) have inventories of a plurality of consignment vendors. The system sends information about the matching consignment article that has the user-specified measurements, for potential purchase by the user.

A method for aggregating multiple independent packaging orders including receiving a plurality of packaging orders, receiving funds users for their respective packaging orders, determining an aggregate packaging order, determining an aggregate packaging order per-unit price, determining a plurality of packaging order rebates, refunding each packaging order rebate to the user associated with the packaging order associated with the packaging order rebate, and producing a plurality of packaging units.

Systems and techniques are provided for enhanced and flexible ingestion of product-related data from various and diverse data sources. The product-related data is linked to interactions that allow end-user customers to view and manipulate product listings and product data using the ingested information.

A real-time negotiation system to provide functionality to generate and cause display of specially configured graphical user interface for real-time negotiation within a networked marketplace. According to certain example embodiments, aspects of the real-time negotiation systems include various functional components to perform operations that include receiving a signal from a user, via a first client device, wherein the signal indicates an implicit interest in a first item that comprises a set of item attributes.

Embodiments of systems and methods for the aggregation, analysis, display and monetization of pricing data for commodities in general, and which may be particularly useful applied to vehicles are disclosed. Specifically, in certain embodiments, historical transaction data associated with a particular vehicle configuration may be obtained and processed to determine pricing data associated with the vehicle configuration. The historical transaction data or determined pricing data may then be presented in an intuitive manner.

In some embodiments, the present invention provides an exemplary computer system that includes at least the following components: at least one processor; a non-transitory memory storing software instructions; and where, when executing the software instructions by the processor, the computer system is configured to perform at least: controlling a plurality of first software objects; controlling a plurality of second software objects; controlling a plurality of third software object; where each software object includes at least one property programmed with at least one trigger condition and at least one programmed action; where the at least one pre-programmed action is configured to dynamically change a value of at least one property of at least one other software object based on: i) the at least one trigger condition; and ii) a value of at least one other property.

Examples are described that enable a sales notification application executing on the mobile device to provide an indication of a better price for a product. In the examples, product information may be obtained from product purchase receipts uploaded by mobile devices executing an instance of a sales notification application. Similarities may be determined between the product information received from each product purchase of the plurality of product purchases. The product information from each of the uploaded receipts may be aggregated based on the determined similarity between the product information. A selected product and a location at which the selected product has been purchased previously may be received for comparison to the aggregated information in a product purchase database. A comparison result may be output to the sales notification application. A payment card may be enabled to purchase the selected product.