SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVELOPING A MART UNION TO BRING THE REGIONAL STORES INTO E-COMMERCE

摘要

A system and method that integrates all domains of stores into a mart unionmounted in a web server coupled to the Internet is disclosed. The disclosedmartunion encompasses a financial service unit, customer information table,purchaseinformation table, and web pages employed for introduction of the union martaccompanied with electronic stores included inside. The electronic stores canbefurther classified based on business or professional characteristics so thattraditionalstores can employ or trust their electronic stores to advertise goods,commodities, andservices they provided. Individuals can browse the web server mounted by themartunion to access information from web pages or electronic stores viacommunicationlinks. Meanwhile, the browsing sequences or traces are simultaneouslyregistered in thecustomer information table. Additionally, individuals can purchase goods ororderservices at electronic stores by putting all the ordered ones into virtualshopping cartsprovided by the mart union. Meanwhile, the information associated with allpurchasetransactions is simultaneously registered into the purchase information table.Payment services, such as accepting the amount of money of each purchasetransactionand settling based on customers' authenticated accounts for the mart union areallforwarded to and then processed by the financial service unit. Informationassociatedwith the processed payment services is later routed to banks collaboratingwith the martunion for further manipulations. All the ordered goods or services are thenofferedand delivered by associated enterprises after settling accounts.