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US 2021/0201341 A1Published application
Systems and methods for managing a retail network
AssigneeJames William Wedderburn
InventorsJames William Wedderburn, Tom McLellan, Rick Auffrey, Amanda Cormier
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Abstract
Methods and systems for managing a retail network, the retail network including at least one manufacturer and/or merchant of a product or service; at least one retail or non-retail affiliate for promoting the product or service; and a retail network agent having a processor configured to execute computer readable instructions to manage retail transactions between the at least one manufacturer and/or merchant and the at least one affiliate.
Claims11
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A computer system for permitting an affiliate network to operate, said computer system programmed to:
- register a plurality of suppliers;
- register products of suppliers;
- register a product code related to each of said products;
- permit generation of affiliate-specific data related to said product;
- register a plurality of affiliates;
- permit said affiliates to connect to the affiliate network;
- permit said affiliates to become aware of said products;
- permit said affiliates to send said affiliate-specific data to a selected potential customer;
- wherein the affiliate-specific data include;
- a. tracking information for the combination of the supplier, product, network agent, referral occurrence;
- b. a product code;
- c. a connection to the purchasing portal of the supplier of the product provide the affiliate-specific data to the supplier identified in the affiliate-specific data;
- and, permit the customer to connect with the purchasing portal of the supplier by using said affiliate-specific data provided to said supplier, to subsequently permit the potential customer to purchase the product from the supplier.
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