Managing Product Acquisition Based on Product Characteristics

A computer-implemented method for managing product acquisition based on product characteristics, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• determining, by a computer, characteristics of a product in an electronic shopping cart based on product provider data and product data corresponding to the product;
• calculating, by the computer, a number of product characteristic points for the product in the electronic shopping cart based on mapping the determined characteristics of the product to user-defined product points;
• determining, by the computer, whether the calculated number of product characteristic points for the product in the electronic shopping cart is less than or equal to a user-defined product characteristic point budget;
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• responsive to the computer determining that the calculated number of product characteristic points for the product in the electronic shopping cart is greater than the user-defined product characteristic point budget, displaying, by the computer, a warning on a user client device that the user-defined product characteristic point budget is exceeded.