A purchase-transaction-settled online consumer referral and reward service using real-time specific merchant sales information

摘要

A purchase-transaction-settled online consumer referral and reward systemand method using real-time specific merchant sales information is provided.The system offers merchants a one-stop place for freely publishing of their real-timeand specific sales offers and offers a risk-free service to merchants to use,who will be charged only after a referred purchase occurs and a revenue incomeis made. The system also allows merchants to determine how much they pay to theservice provider for each referred purchase transaction, based on their profitmargin and market competitiveness and the system serves all merchants, onlineor offline, big or small, and regardless of buy, sell, and payment settlementtechnologies in use. The system also offers consumers a one-stop place for findingmatching sales offers specifically meeting their needs, refers consumers tomerchants to buy at existing merchant establishments and rewards consumerswith each purchase transaction led from the service provider.