Integrated shopping cart for sale of third party products and services via the internet

A system providing an improved method for an e-commerce retailer to display and sell items of a third party, said system comprising:

• an e-commerce retailer to identify each item of a third party supplier with a unique identifier, wherein an item of a third party supplier includes at least one graphic image and corresponds to a photo finishing service offered to a user, the unique identifier associated, at least in part, with the user;
• an image server configured to receive user information requests from the e-commerce retailer regarding certain third party supplier items including a user-initiated information request from the user for at least one specific item of the third party, and transparently provide images and descriptions of said items retrieved from a computer maintained by the third party supplier in response to user information requests at least some graphic images being based on photographs previously taken by the user;
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• an order engine module, in communication with said image server module, for processing orders for third party supplier items, the order engine module further for splitting orders that include items from the e-commerce retailer and items corresponding to user photographs from one or more third party suppliers amongst the e-commerce retailer and appropriate third party suppliers.

A computer readable medium that provides instructions, which when executed on a processing system, cause said processing system to perform a method comprising:

• identifying each item of a third party supplier with a unique identifier;
• associating the unique identifier of the item with an image for the item, said image residing on a computer maintained by the third party supplier, wherein the unique identifier is further associated with a user;
• transparently presenting, by an e-commerce system, third party supplier items to a user for on-line commerce;
• receiving user information requests at the e-commerce system regarding certain graphic images from an item presentation program logic, and providing digital images for display wherein said digital images are retrieved from a computer system maintained by the third party supplier in response to the product request, the product request being a user-initiated request for at least one specific item of the third party;
• splitting orders that include items from the e-commerce system and items from one or more third party suppliers amongst the e-commerce system and the appropriate third party suppliers, wherein a particular third party supplier provides photo-finishing services for the graphic images and at least some of the items include user photographic images;
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• processing orders for graphic images to be transparently sent to the appropriate third party supplier.

A computer readable medium that provides instructions, which when executed on a processing system, cause said processing system to perform a method comprising:

• identifying, with a tagging logic, each item of a third party supplier with a unique identifier, each unique identifier associated with data about that item and a user wherein a particular third party supplier provides photo-finishing services;
• transparently presenting, with an e-commerce logic, at least some of the items to the user for on-line commerce in response to a user-initiated information request for a third party supplier item;
• retrieving the data, with an XML request logic, about the one or more items from a third party supplier website, and enabling the e-commerce logic to present the data to the user for the on-line commerce;
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• splitting an order amongst the e-commerce retailer and appropriate third party suppliers when the order includes items from a retailer and user photographic images:
• processing orders for items with an order engine.