System and method for offering and managing online purchasing card transactions
AssigneeLife Technologies Corporation
InventorsAndrea CLINE, Marilyn PARKS, Johannes WEIGAND, Abram Paul LIETZ, Yolette HUNT, Brendan M. FOGARTY
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Abstract
A purchase card system configured in accordance with the invention offers purchase card products that facilitate online purchases of life sciences research products and/or services via an e-commerce application. The acquisition and use of such purchase card products complies with mandated procurement, spending, and appropriations rules, regulations, and laws, such as the Federal Acquisition Regulation, the Anti-Deficiency Act, and the Department of Defense “bona fide needs” rule.
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A method for facilitating purchase card product transactions for a user account in compliance with procurement, spending, and appropriations rules, regulations, and laws applicable to the user account, said method comprising:
- receiving, via an e-commerce transaction, a request for a purchase card product having a stated value, said purchase card product having a product catalog identifier associated therewith;
- electronically processing credit card information, purchase order information, or a combination thereof, as a method of payment for said purchase card product;
- and
- establishing a purchase card balance for said user account in the amount of said stated value.
A method for facilitating purchase card transactions for a user account, said method comprising:
- offering an e-commerce purchase card for life sciences research products and services, said e-commerce purchase card having a stated value;
- maintaining a purchase card balance for said user account;
- and
- applying, via a subsequent e-commerce transaction for life sciences research products or services having a purchase price, said purchase card balance toward said purchase price;
- wherein
- offering said e-commerce purchase card and said subsequent e-commerce transaction are in compliance with procurement, spending, and appropriations rules, regulations, and laws applicable to the user account.
A method for facilitating purchase card transactions for life sciences research products and services in compliance with mandated procurement, spending, and appropriations rules, regulations, and laws, said method comprising:
- ordering, via an e-commerce transaction for a user account, a purchase card product having a stated value, said stated value qualifying as a “micro-purchase” as defined by the Federal Acquisition Regulation;
- purchasing, via a subsequent e-commerce transaction, life sciences research product or services for said user account, said life sciences research product or services having a purchase price;
- and
- selecting said purchase card product as a method of payment toward said purchase price without requesting a purchase order or a record of call for said life sciences research product or services.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.