Web Service Indirect Channel Distribution System Over The Web For Ensuring Most Favored Pricing For Purchasers

In a Web communication network Web service indirect channel distribution method including vendor registration to provide distributed goods and services, a method for ensuring that purchasers of said goods and services are charged the most favored prices comprising:

• enabling a system host to negotiate prices for vendor registered goods and services;
• enabling the modifying of said host negotiated prices;
• enabling a purchaser to negotiate a special price for registered goods and services in a specific purchase transaction;
• determining a most favored price for purchased goods and services by an entitled price method carried out independent of said indirect channel distribution method comprising:
• tracking a plurality of price affecting factors selected from a group comprising said host negotiated prices;
• said modified prices;
• said specific purchase transaction prices;
• enabling a set of business partners of said host to register to provide said distributed goods and services;
• enabling said business partners to register for addenda offered by said host for modifying said negotiated prices, and
• charging said purchaser a most favored price for purchased goods and services resulting from a combination of said price affecting factors including said prices modified by said addenda.

A computer usable medium having stored thereon a computer readable program for ensuring purchasers of goods and services through a Web indirect channel distribution system are charged the most favored prices, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to:

• enable a system host to negotiate prices for vendor registered goods and services;
• enable the modifying of said host negotiated prices;
• enable a purchaser to negotiate a special price for registered goods and services in a specific purchase transaction;
• determine a most favored price for purchased goods and services by an entitled price routine carried out independent of said indirect channel distribution method comprising:
• track a plurality of price affecting factors selected from a group comprising said host negotiated prices;
• said modified prices;
• said specific purchase transaction prices;
• enable a set of business partners of said host to register to provide said distributed goods and services;
• enable said business partners to register for addenda offered by said host for modifying said negotiated prices, and
• charge said purchaser a most favored price for purchased goods and services resulting from a combination of said price affecting factors including said prices modified by said addenda.