In a manufacturing ordering assistance apparatus, there is received and stored each item of bidding information transmitted from a terminal of a parts manufacturer with respect to bidding item information, for each part, which is published in a browsable state, and it is set to a state where a product manufacturer can browse it only during a certain disclosure period. Then, when the product manufacturer selects the parts manufacturer as the order recipient among the items of bidding information, there is generated and presented information for confirming order reception and placement conditions to the product manufacturer and the parts manufacturer, and when both manufacturers agrees, there is generated order form information to report the order form information along with manufacturing instruction information separately generated to the parts manufacturer as the order recipient.

To make parts order placement operations efficient to reduce a load on a product manufacturer regarding the parts order placement and to enable bidding opportunities of a parts manufacturer to increase and desired bidding matters to be selected simply and correctly. Generated bidding matter information is disclosed to a plurality of parts manufacturers, and when disclosing the aforementioned bidding matter information, a plurality of items of bidding matter information are edited as a data file for disclosure capable of undergoing sorting processing by each entry therein.

The disclosure provides a bid management platform for facilitating sales of property between seller terminals and buyer terminals. A seller terminal provides listings for real estate properties for the bid management platform along with seller terms required for offers. The bid management platform publicly displays offers made for properties. Buyer terminals can access listings via the bid management platform to provide offers, review seller terms, review offers made, and buy properties instantly if seller's buy-it-now price and terms are satisfied. The bid management platform provides an efficient method and system for transparently facilitating real estate transactions and providing visibility that is not provided by current systems.

A system includes a proposal engine configured to present quotes and/or proposals to customers at a network site.

Disclosed herein is packaging material intermediation platform and method. The packaging material intermediation platform includes: a consulting unit consulting to recommend a packaging material having a material, a shape, and a specification corresponding to a query according to at least one among a product to be packaged, a packaging purpose, and a functional option on the basis of the query from a purchaser terminal; and an estimate providing unit calling for a bid for the packaging material finally selected by the purchaser terminal among the recommended packaging materials, providing an estimate received from a seller terminal to the purchaser terminal, and notifying a seller terminal selected by the purchaser terminal of a selection result.

Systems and methods are provided for managing and monitoring landscape service providers, contractors, and others, for delivery of appropriate services and/or products to a subject residential or commercial property. A computer implemented electronic system having a number of modules and/or components, including a central computer portal, a secure user interface for a potential service provider (landscape service provider, contractor) in electronic communication with the central computer portal, a consumer/customer portal linked to access information concerning service provided (accessible to a property manager, property owner, residential customer) in electronic communication with a central computer portal, and an integrated network of electronic data-collecting sensors (such as at/on a subject property of interest/subject property), is provided. The systems and methods include a number of integrated modules fashioned to perform particular tasks as part of an overall property management system, including a request for qualifications (RFQ) generating module, a procurement module, a contact compliance and monitoring module, an asset management module, a water management module and a mechanical maintenance module.

Techniques for providing a seamless user experience across electronic and physical retail stores of a retailer include storing, locally with a session corresponding to a user's visit to the retailer's electronic store, indications of items that were viewed and/or focused on by the user at the electronic store. At least some of said indications may be transferred to a centralized data storage of the retailer for persistence after the session is terminated. Subsequently, an electronic device operated by the user may determine its location and determine, based on its location, a particular physical retail store of the retailer. Via communications with one or more retailer servers, items that were recently viewed by the user at the electronic store may be identified, and indications thereof may be presented on the display of the electronic device in conjunction with information corresponding to the recently viewed items at the particular physical store.

The present invention provides a price system that comprises a sign-up process, a business process and a customer process. The system provides a method of displaying a first display, receiving the at least one credential from a user, receiving the at least one business content that includes one or more goods and services of a business, displaying a second display based on the at least one credential, displaying the at least one offer, where in the second display will display a payment method if the offer is accepted by a business.

Methods and systems to automatically respond to a request for product information are described. In one embodiment, a data collection module may collect product data over a network, identify that the product data is related to a particular product, and store the product data and an association between the product data and the particular product in a database. An instant messaging engine may receive a request for the product data after the product data is stored in the database and an interpreter module may identify, in response to the request, the request to correspond to the particular product and retrieve the product data based on the association between the particular product and the product data. The instant messaging engine may also transmit, using an instant messaging protocol, a response to the request, the response including the product data.

A user interface for use with an electronic trading system includes a display that shows a bid price axis and an ask price axis, as well as corresponding sizes, and a visual indicator of the inside market. When the inside market changes in response to changing market conditions, the display of the inside market clearly shows a spatial movement of the inside market as well as the representative price(s) associated therewith, thereby rendering the two price axis dynamic axis. The user interface is easy to use, intuitive as well as customizable, and contains features that facilitate efficient electronic trading and shows trading activity pertaining to the user as well as the market in general.