System and method for improved management of a purchase order by intercepting and parsing messages

A method for improved management of a purchase order, comprising:

• providing one or more computing devices executing a first software application of a first supplier and a second software application of a second supplier, the second supplier being an alternative supplier to the first supplier, the second software application authorized by a user of the one or more computing devices, the second software application configured to run in a background on the one or more computing devices;
• inserting, by the first software application, one or more items into a first shopping cart associated with the first supplier to form a compiled order, said inserting being triggered in response to an online search executed by the one or more computing devices, said one or more items comprising at least one of a product and a service offered by the first supplier;
• receiving, by the first software application from among the one or more computing devices, an indication of an order submission for the compiled order;
• sending, by the first software application, an order submission message to the first supplier, in response to receiving said indication, the order submission message including information comprising the compiled order in the first shopping cart;
• detecting, by the second software application that is running in the background, the order submission message;
• based on the detecting of the order submission message, intercepting, by the second software application, the order submission message;
• parsing, by the second software application responsive to the intercepting of the order submission message, HTML code included in said order submission message, said HTML code containing the information comprising the compiled order in the first shopping cart;
• automatically creating, by the second software application, a second shopping cart associated with the second supplier responsive to the parsing of the HTML code;
• automatically transferring, by the second software application, responsive to the creating of the second shopping cart, all of the one or more items from the first shopping cart of the first supplier into the second shopping cart of the second supplier, by identifying and reformulating the compiled order in the second shopping cart based on the parsed HTML code;
• automatically searching for additional items, the additional items being identical to the one or more items transferred from the first shopping cart of the first supplier or alternative items available from the second supplier, said automatically searching being initiated by the second software application based on the parsed HTML code;
• inserting, by the second software application, the additional items found at the second supplier into the second shopping cart of the second supplier, such that the one or more items transferred from the first shopping cart and the inserted additional items all reside in the second shopping cart of the second supplier simultaneously;
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• presenting, by the second software application, the inserted additional items found at the second supplier together with the one or more items transferred from the first shopping cart simultaneously in the second shopping cart of the second supplier for comparison.