A valet ticket generation system that is operable to provide contribution to the operation of a valet service for a valet operator. The present invention includes a software configured to provide generation of valet tickets of at least two types wherein the two types of valet tickets are cross-referenced and operationally linked utilizing a first ticket identification number and a second ticket identification number. The second ticket identification number serves as a pin code for the first ticket identification number and is required to validate the first ticket identification number. The present invention further includes the providing of a unique website that is specific to the valet operator or the property on which the valet service is being provided. Further included is the ability to generate valet tickets on demand or have the tickets printed for inventory. Additional services are also facilitated by the system of the present invention.

In an approach, a processor receives a request to purchase an item from a retailer, where the request includes a location. A processor receives a request to purchase an item from a retailer, where the request includes location information associated with a buyer. A processor identifies that the item is unavailable from the retailer. A processor determines a plurality of users predicted to have a surplus quantity of the item beyond each respective user's estimated needs at a time of the request. A processor sends an offer to the plurality of users to transfer the item in accordance with the request. A processor, responsive to receiving an acceptance of the offer, selects at least one accepting user, of the plurality of users, based on geographic proximity to the location information. A processor coordinates fulfillment of the request by the at least one user.

A method and process according to this disclosure provides for marketing and distributing a product prior to ordering any product from a supplier to reduce waste, conserve resources and reduce carbon emissions generated by transportation of products. The disclosed system and method provides for the conservation of resources that minimization of impact on the environment.

A method and system optimizing source selection of an online order with the lowest fulfillment cost by considering multiple types of parameters, including shipping costs, backlog costs and markdown savings of the order. The method includes obtaining an order from the order retrieval subsystem of the OMS, selecting the candidate sources, and retrieving data from retailers or shipping companies of each selected candidate sources. The system then calculates the costs and savings parameters of the candidate sources from the retrieved data. The system identifies all possible candidate sourcing selections of the order and calculates the total fulfillment cost of each sourcing selection of the order by adding the shipping costs with the backlog costs, and subtracting the markdown savings of all candidate sources in each sourcing selection. The system identifies the optimized sourcing selection of the order with the lowest fulfillment cost and renders the selection to the OMS.

Methods, systems, and computer program products for product description-based line item matching are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining a digital invoice from a vendor comprising one or more text descriptions; retrieving a purchase order corresponding to the digital invoice from a purchase order database, wherein the purchase order comprises one or more line items; applying an out-of-vendor vocabulary model to the one or more text descriptions, wherein the out-of-vendor vocabulary model is trained to remove irrelevant text from the text descriptions based at least in part on historical purchase orders stored in the purchase order database corresponding to the vendor; and matching the one or more text descriptions from the digital invoice to the one or more line items in the purchase order based at least in part on output of the out-of-vendor vocabulary model.

Systems and methods for obtaining product information via a conversational user interface. The communication channel receives communication from a user, the intent and entities of which are deduced by the NLP. These are communicated by the fulfillment API to the knowledge engine which retrieves information that fulfills the intent. The information is communicated to the fulfillment API, which converts the intent into a response, which in turn is forwarded by the NLP to the communication channel, and back to the user.

Electronic commerce is enhanced for customer convenience. When a selection is received for non-approved items offered by a vendor, authorization for the purchase of the item may be obtained from an administrative user. A message may be sent to an address of the administrative user to obtain the authorization.

A system for providing and sourcing local groceries is disclosed, comprising a provider database storing provider information, a product database storing product information, and a consumer database storing consumer information. A user interface module displays the provider information, the product information, and the consumer information on the display of a computing device. A search engine permits the consumer to input search parameters, wherein the user interface module displays a plurality of search results corresponding to the search parameters.

A method includes, responsive to receiving a shortcode from a client computing device, identifying, by a processing device based on the shortcode, computer-executable instructions and one or more geographical locations. The method further includes causing, based on the computer-executable instructions and the one or more geographical locations, the client computing device to generate an order request form filled with the one or more geographical locations received from the processing device based on the shortcode without user intervention and without user input of the one or more geographical locations. The method includes, responsive to receiving the order request form filled with the one or more geographical locations from the client computing device, transmitting, to a vehicle computing device, an order request to dispatch a transportation vehicle associated with the vehicle computing device to provide a transportation service to a user of the client computing device based on the order request form.

Systems and methods described herein relate to processing of information, data and transactions involving content and/or experiences. According to one exemplary implementation, an illustrative method of computerized information processing may involve handling and/or processing data regarding a product, the product comprising an experience, a physical product, and/or a digital product.