METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DONATING TO THIRD-PARTY BENEFICIARIES

摘要

The present invention relates to a network based, third-party beneficiary donation system, and in particular to systems and methods that allow a merchant to provide a choice to participating consumer(s) in the form of donations to third party beneficiaries based on consumer purchases wherein the consumer chooses their third party beneficiary from a merchant curated list or customer self-generated list and independently determines the percentage amount of the donation or selects a pre-determined amount. In this manner, consumers are provided with an option to purchase products from the authorized merchant knowing that the product purchases may result in a specified donation to a customer selected third-party beneficiary or multiple customer selected third party beneficiaries on a per product or per order basis. Third party beneficiaries are generally intended to be charities or causes but are not required to have tax-exempt status.