Dynamic price-matching in commercial transactions

A computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to receive a price-matching claim for a product from a shopper;
• program instructions to determine whether the product is eligible to be price-matched by analyzing one or more details of the price-matching claim;
• responsive to determining the product is eligible to be price-matched, program instructions to detect a lowest price of the product from the one or more details of the price-matching claim;
• and
• program instructions to automatically adjust a current price of the product to match the lowest price of the product detected at a point-of-sale terminal of a merchant according to a set of pre-defined price-matching policies.

A computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• one or more computer readable storage media;
• program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the stored program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to receive a price-matching claim for a product from a shopper;
• program instructions to determine whether the product is eligible to be price-matched by analyzing one or more details of the price-matching claim;
• responsive to determining the product is eligible to be price-matched, program instructions to detect a lowest price of the product from the one or more details of the price-matching claim;
• and
• program instructions to automatically adjust a current price of the product to match the lowest price of the product detected at a point-of-sale terminal of a merchant according to a set of pre-defined price-matching policies.