Described are systems, media, and methods for providing advertisers access to ad space on printed and electronic receipts and electronic displays at the point of sale.

Disclosed are parking pay stations, media display caps for parking pay stations, parking pay station advertising platforms including a housing, wherein at least one side of the housing comprises at least one transparent window and at least one media display screen visible through the window, wherein the media display screen is configured to display media to parking users and others, including pedestrians. Also disclosed are methods of retrofitting existing parking pay stations to upgrade them to include media display capability.

A system and method of saving deal offers to be applied at a point-of-sale (POS) of a retail store may include receiving, by a mobile device via a communications network, multiple advertisements inclusive of selectable deal offers of products being sold at the retail store for a user to select. Responsive to a user selecting to view an advertisement of a product on the mobile device, the deal offer of the product to be presented to the POS to be applied to a cost of the product may be automatically stored. Responsive to a check out request at the mobile device, data inclusive of the deal offer to be presented to the POS to apply the deal offer to the cost of the product to which the deal offer is associated may be generated.

A service provider may receive item price information and/or point of sale (POS) transaction information from a plurality of merchant devices associated with a plurality of merchants. The service provider may categorize the plurality of merchants according to the types of items offered by the respective merchants, and may further categorize the merchants according to the locations at which they conduct business. The service provider may subsequently determine a price recommendation or other pricing information for a particular item offered by a particular merchant. A merchant device of the particular merchant may present the pricing information in a user interface that enables the merchant to view projected sales at various different price points. Further, the merchant may be able to specify one or more factors used for determining the recommend price, such as a desired business model, a desired clientele, a desired profit margin, or the like.

One embodiment of the invention is directed to a system comprising a server and a consumer device in operative communication with the server. The server comprises a processor and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor. The computer readable medium comprises computer readable program code embodied therein. The computer readable program code is adapted to be executed by the processor to receive an authorization request message for a transaction conducted by a consumer with a merchant, send the authorization request message to an issuer, modify an authorization response message to include receipt preference data, and send the authorization response message comprising the receipt data to the merchant, wherein the merchant generates a receipt for the consumer according to the receipt preference data.

The embodiments herein provide a method and system for facilitating marketing and sales of products by product suppliers. The method includes displaying the product to be marketed at a kiosk located at a public or private premise. Further, the method includes capturing, at the kiosk, a first set of data through a customer dashboard presented on a customer console. Further, the method includes capturing, a second set of data through one or more sensor means configured at the kiosk. Further, the method includes receiving, at a supplier dashboard, the first set of data and the second set of data for performing product inventory, and customer related analytics, the supplier dashboard is accessible and manageable by the product supplier subscribed to the kiosk's service from a kiosk service provider. Further, the method includes managing product inventory and product related information, based on the performed product inventory and customer related analytics.

For communicating payments, a mobile device reads a point-of-sale code from a point-of-sale device. The mobile device uploads the point-of-sale code to the clearing house. The clearing house downloads a purchase menu to the mobile device. The clearing house generates a payment authorization comprising an authorization code and a transaction amount. The clearing house determine whether the point-of-sale device is in communication with the clearing house. In response to the point-of-sale device being in communication with the clearing house, the clearing house communicates the payment authorization to the point-of-sale device at a device address determined from the point-of-sale code. In response to the point-of-sale device not being in communication with the clearing house, the clearing house communicates the payment authorization through the mobile device to the point-of-sale device. The point-of-sale device completes a transaction for the transaction amount at the point-of-sale device.

A system and method for content selection and presentation is disclosed. A plurality of content elements configured for presentation in at least one content container is received and one of the plurality of content elements is selected for presentation in the at least one content container. The one of the plurality of content elements is selected by a trained selection model configured to select one of an individual context or a global context. An interface including the selected one of the plurality of content elements is generated.

A sales display unit (12A) adapted to present one or more products (32), comprising at least one module (36, 38) for displaying a set of products (48), and a processing unit comprising a processor and a memory, the module comprising: a receptacle (50) comprising a detection member (68), and a product support (52) and an identification member (84).

The detection member is adapted to cooperate with the identification member to identify the product support, and to send the processing unit information representative of the identified product support being in an installed position, the memory comprising information which, when executed by the processor, causes the processing unit to send information relating to the product set to a server and/or screen (76A).

An endorsement application can allow a user to endorse a product on a social network website when the product is purchased at a physical merchant point of sale terminal. Users of social network websites have been given the opportunity to endorse products that they have located or purchased online, but purchasers of products in person have not had that opportunity. The endorsement application can operate on a user's mobile device and can recognize a product purchased through near field or other communication using the mobile device. The application can isolate the product identification and product marketing data supplied by the point of sale terminal or other source and offer the user the opportunity to endorse the product on a social network website. If the user endorses the product, the application sends the endorsement to the user's account on the social network website for display to the user's community.