Systems and methods for providing third party product cross referencing

A non-transient, computer readable media having stored thereon instructions for providing access to an automated third party cross referencing functionality related to an electronic vendor system, the instructions performing steps comprising:

• storing in a data repository a listing of a plurality of products that are available for purchase, wherein each of the plurality of products is directly associated with a vendor item number;
• causing a page to be displayed on a client computing device, the page comprising an access point in which an item number corresponding to a desired item is enterable to specify a query term;
• receiving the query term at a server;
• using the received query term to search the data repository to cross reference the entered item number with the vendor item number, wherein if the received query item does not match any vendor item number, using the received query term to search a database associated with a third party, parsing the results obtained by searching the database associated with the third party, and returning at least one of a product, category, or catalog page associated with the search results;
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• causing a plurality of user interface elements, to be presented on the client computing device, each of the user interface elements displaying at least one of the product associated with the matched vendor item number or the returned product, category, or catalog page associated with the third party.