A series of associated merchant websites or respective merchant websites each selling narrowly defined product categories to shoppers who browse to select products for placement into a shopping cart. While each website is operated and controlled by a different merchant or a single merchant, each website has access to a shared server farm where information about each shopper is stored. Also shared is a virtual e-commerce shopping cart that the shopper can use to check out at any of the merchant websites even though the virtual e-commerce shopping cart may contain products from multiple different merchant websites. Each merchant website is associated with metadata limited to the narrowly defined product category, thereby providing enhanced SEO benefits without the need to purchase ad words. Each boutique specifically targets a single category making the shopping and buying experience easier. Information gathered from shoppers at each unique boutique is stored at the server farm for being shared with other associated merchants in the collection of sites. A shopper's user account will transfer between sites and allow the data gathered to be used in a cross-promotional method and will ensure the shopper's experience is consistent with what they like and want in future visits. Moreover, a merchant incentivizes an account holder to make an authorized transaction by terms and agreement to auditably donate to the account holder's affinity entity. To incent desirable commerce with locals, the merchant's terms may limit its donation by a derivation of navigation time between account holder and merchant, and/or by date and time of the transaction. The account holder can direct the donation to one of more affinity entities within their own community, and/or within a community where the transaction was physically conducted. An account holder can also donate at the time of transaction where the donation is paid by the account's issuer for reimbursement as a debit to the account holder's account statement. Other payment system participants may donate (the merchant's acquirer, issuer, and transaction handler for the issuer and acquirer), by way of favorable interchange rates, can also make audible donations to account holder directed affinities entities.

Provided is a sales management system configured to: acquire: sales data on a target product sold at a shop to be targeted, the sales data indicating a plurality of time-series values relating to sales of the target product; and a period of a bargain sale of the target product at the shop to be targeted; and output an image including a graph which is based on the plurality of time-series values indicated by the acquired sales data, and in which a display mode for an area corresponding to the period of the bargain sale is different from a display mode for another area.

In various example embodiments, a system and method for an electronic commerce file system are provided. In example embodiments, a selection of an item contained in a folder of an electronic commerce file system is received. The item is offered for sale by an electronic commerce provider, and the electronic commerce file system resides locally on a client device. Based on a type of the folder, a set of actions are provided for selection, with the set of actions to be performed with respect to the item. A selection of an action to be performed with respect to the item is received. The action is performed with respect to the item, with the action being performed between the electronic commerce file system and the electronic commerce provider via a network.

A location-based mobile messaging shopping network is provided that acquires location data from a mobile computing device (MCD), receives the location data at a server, generates a collection of businesses and individual sellers offering goods or services in the location associated with the location data based on the service area of the businesses and individual sellers and user location, and establishes a real-time communication channel between the businesses and MCD. The MCD displays various real-time communication channels to enable the user of the MCD to communicate with the businesses, and enables the user to purchase goods and services directly through the real-time communication channels displayed on the MCD.

An intermediary server for intermediating ownership of energy between a supplier and a user, includes circuitry that transmits a first request to another intermediary server capable of requesting a change of ownership of energy to a decentralized ledge system that manages energy information on energy, the first request requesting to change ownership of energy produced by a same production method as a particular production method, from another intermediary agent managing the other intermediary server to an intermediary agent managing the intermediary server.

A system for managing a local area shopping network is disclosed. The plurality of subsystems includes an order request subsystem, configured to receive a request of a product order from registered/unregistered (a customer can be guest customer) customers. The plurality of subsystems includes a parameter determination subsystem configured to determine a delivery area, a delivery schedule for sellers and determine product pickup area for the customers/buyers based on their preference and location. A buyer may decide for delivery only, in that case there is no pickup area/perimeter. The plurality of subsystems includes a product transaction subsystem. The product transaction subsystem is configured to identify (all sellers. If there are none that meet criteria then it is blank) one seller from the list of the registered sellers based on received request of the product order and establish a direct communication link with the customer. The product transaction subsystem is configured to complete the delivery of the order to the registered customers upon accepting the received request. (sellers do delivery and not the application) Customers and sellers are connected in a single platform, and transaction is facilitated.

A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system for obtaining and delivering at least one alcoholic beverage through at least one supply chain are described. In some examples, the present disclosure includes obtaining and delivering at least one alcoholic beverage, through the supply chain, to at least one user. In some examples, the at least one alcoholic beverage can be delivered with at least one item that is not an alcoholic beverage. In some examples, the at least one alcoholic beverage can be delivered with at least one free alcoholic beverage obtained from a manufacturer. Some examples of the present disclosure also allow for management of inventory of alcoholic beverages throughout at least one supply chain.

A system may include processor(s), a memory in communication with the processor(s), and storing instructions, that when executed by the processor(s), are configured to cause the system to facilitate reservation trading. The system may identify an upcoming reservation and a booking rate of the reservation. The system may receive comparable reservation list rates to generate a predicted list rate of the reservation. The system may suggest the first user request a refund or place the reservation on an exchange based on whether the reservation is refundable and whether the predicted list rate is greater than the booking rate. The system may receive a resell rate from the first user to transmit to a second user. The system may receive a selection of the reservation and payment information from the second user. The system may process the payment information and transfer the reservation from the first user to the second user.

In virtualized wholesaling, orders may be filled without pre-stocked product, and rapidly enough for the product to be on the retailer's shelf in a just-in-time (JIT) fashion that benefits the manufacturer/vendor. The virtualized wholesaler can promote sales without requiring substantial pre-stocking of products that may not have a large-volume presence, and the retailer can exploit long-tail economics to increase its variety of product offerings and reach specific, often niche products and consumers with reduced risk of dead shelf space.

A system, method, and computer software program product provide an optimization of the disconnected and fragmented processes currently used in design-to-market industries. Brand companies and retailers, along with other entities, are provided a platform for pooling resources in getting new products to market in an efficient, technologically advanced and secure system using blockchain, smart contract, and/or distributed ledger technology. A system, method, and computer software program product provide a secure platform for the announcement of a new product offering, and participation by third parties in the new product offering via a computer software based platform or central controller for pooling resources in getting new products to market using electronic accounts.