Payment facilitation system for facilitating payment for a transaction

A payment facilitation method for facilitating payment for a transaction, performed by one or more processors in communication with non-transitory data storage medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor or processors, performs the steps of:

• (a) receiving a check-in notification from a social media system, the notification including:
• (i) customer identification data for one or more customers;
• and
• (ii) merchant identification data;
• (b) identifying a merchant terminal, the merchant terminal being a merchant terminal of a merchant associated with the merchant identification data;
• (c) sending an enabled payment notification to the merchant terminal, the enabled payment notification comprising a group identifier associated with the one or more customers;
• (d) receiving an invoice notification from the merchant terminal, the invoice notification comprising:
• (i) transaction data for the transaction;
• and
• (ii) the group identifier;
• (e) sending the transaction data to one or more customer devices, each customer device being associated with a respective one of the one or more customers, based on the customer identification data;
• (f) receiving confirmation to process the transaction, from one of the one or more customer devices;
• and
• (g) processing the transaction in response to receiving the confirmation to process the transaction.

A payment facilitation network for facilitating payment for a transaction, the payment facilitation network comprising:

• a payment facilitation system;
• a social media system;
• a merchant terminal;
• and
• one or more customer devices,
• the payment facilitation system, social media system, merchant terminal and one or more customer devices communicating to perform the steps of:
• (i) receiving, at the payment facilitation system, a check-in notification sent from the social media system, the notification including:
• (A) customer identification data for one or more customers;
• and
• (B) merchant identification data;
• (ii) identifying, at the payment facilitation system, the merchant terminal, the merchant terminal being a merchant terminal of a merchant associated with the merchant identification data;
• (iii) sending an enabled payment notification, from the payment facilitation system to the merchant terminal, the enabled payment notification comprising a group identifier associated with the one or more customers;
• (iv) receiving, at the payment facilitation system, an invoice notification sent from the merchant terminal, the invoice notification comprising:
• (A) transaction data for the transaction;
• and
• (B) the group identifier;
• (v) sending the transaction data, from the payment facilitation system to the one or more customer devices, each customer device being associated with a respective one of the one or more customers, based on the customer identification data;
• (vi) receiving, at the payment facilitation system, confirmation to process the transaction, from one of the one or more customer devices;
• and
• (vii) processing the transaction, at the payment facilitation system in response to receiving the confirmation to process the transaction.