US 2015/0317681 A1 · MERCHANT CUSTOMER SHARING SYSTEM

Abstract

Systems and methods for sharing customer traffic between merchants include a system provider device that may establish an alliance between a first merchant at a first merchant location and a second merchant at a second merchant location. The system provider device detects events associated with the first merchant that satisfy one or more merchant activity rules. The system provider may also determine an availability of the second merchant to service one or more customers. Thereafter, the system provider device refers at least one customer at the first merchant location to the second merchant at the second merchant location. In addition, the system provider device may receive bids from a plurality of allied merchants for the referral of the at least one customer, may credit a first merchant account based on a transaction with a referred customer at the second merchant location, and may recognize opportunities for merchant alliances.

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Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

at least one non-transitory memory storing merchant information;
and
one or more hardware processors that are coupled to the at least one non-transitory memory and that are configured to read instructions from the at least one non-transitory memory to perform the steps of:
determining at least one customer is at a first merchant location;
detecting an event that is associated with a first merchant at the first merchant location and that satisfies one or more merchant activity rules;
determining an availability of a second merchant at a second merchant location to service one or more customers;
and
referring, based on the detected event that is associated with the first merchant and that satisfies the one or more merchant activity rules, and on the availability of the second merchant, the at least one customer at the first merchant location to the second merchant at the second merchant location.

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A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising a plurality of machine-readable instructions executable by one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

detecting at least a customer at a first merchant location;
accessing merchant activity rules for a first merchant associated with the first merchant location;
determining at least one of the merchant activity rules is satisfied;
determining an availability of a second merchant at a second merchant location to service the customer;
and
communicating a referral of the second merchant at the second merchant location to a device of the customer at the first merchant location based, at least in part, on the at least one satisfied merchant activity rule.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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