Check-in to checkout systems and methods

A method for checking in at a point of sale, comprising:

• starting a transaction at the point of sale in a brick-and-mortar store owned by a business in response to scanning an item for purchase;
• generating a scannable code in response to starting the transaction at the point of sale, wherein the scannable code includes a transaction identification and displaying the scannable code on a customer facing display coupled to the point of sale;
• scanning the code displayed on the customer facing display at the point of sale with a customer mobile device operating a check-in feature of a mobile application, wherein scanning the scannable code reports to a backend system that the mobile application has captured the transaction identification in response to scanning the scannable code and the backend system determines the specific point of sale device associated with the transaction identification;
• sending a check-in event from the backend system to the point of sale and the point of sale acknowledging receipt of the check-in event wherein the check-in event automatically triggers operation of software instruction on the backend system to associate the transaction identification with a customer payment profile of a customer created e-commerce account for said business;
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• effecting payment at the end of the transaction at the point of sale using at least one payment instrument stored in the customer created e-commerce account for said business, wherein the at least one payment instrument effects payment for online purchase of goods from said business and for purchase of goods from the brick-and-mortar store owned by said business.

A method for checking in at a point of sale, comprising:

• generating a code for requesting a transaction identification and displaying the code on a card processing device coupled to a point of sale in a brick-and-mortar store owned by a business;
• scanning the code at the point of sale displayed on the display with the mobile computing device operating a check-in feature of a mobile application, wherein scanning the code reports to a backend system that the mobile application has captured the transaction identification in response to scanning the scannable code and the backend system determines the specific point of sale device associated with the transaction identification;
• sending a check-in event from the backend system to the point of sale and the point of sale acknowledging receipt of the check-in event wherein the check-in event automatically triggers operation of software instruction on the backend system to associate the transaction identification with a customer payment profile of a customer created e-commerce account for said business;
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• starting a transaction at the point of sale in the brick-and-mortar store owned by said business, effecting payment at the end of the transaction at the point of sale using at least one payment instrument of a customer created e-commerce account for said business, wherein the at least one payment instrument effects payment for online purchase of goods from said business and for purchase of goods from the brick-and-mortar store owned by said business.