WO2017212327A1

WO2017212327A1 - System and method of ordering of goods and services against equivalent redeemable points

Info

Publication number: WO2017212327A1
Application number: PCT/IB2016/057732
Authority: WO
Inventors: Sravan Kumar MUKKA; Venkata Satya Bhaskar Ganesh NARALASETTI
Original assignee: Mukka Sravan Kumar; Naralasetti Venkata Satya Bhaskar Ganesh
Priority date: 2016-06-06
Filing date: 2016-12-16
Publication date: 2017-12-14

Abstract

Present invention relates to a system for online ordering of goods and services. More particularly, to a method for providing equivalent amount of redeemable points on ordering goods and services through an application software installed and/or accessed from a communication device of an user.

Description

TITLE OF THE INVENTION

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ON-LINE/OFFLINE ORDERING OF GOODS AND SERVICES AGAINST EQUIVALENT AMOUNT OF REDEEMABLE POINTS

Technical Field of the Invention

[0001] Present invention relates to a system for online ordering of goods and services. More particularly, to a method for providing equivalent amount of redeemable points on ordering goods and services through an application software installed and/or accessed from a communication device of an user.

Background of the Invention

[0002] Now a day's, a wide variety of on-line retailers operate virtual stores from which consumers can purchase products as well as services. Redeemable points are offered on purchases promoting a manufacturer's product or service while on an ongoing sale at a price. The consumers are entitled to redeem these coupons received at a retail/online store at a later point, while purchasing of other products. There exist systems and methods offering these redeemable points on purchases, offering redeemable points against a selected stock of a next sale. These redeemable points in the form of vouchers and coupons are losing significance in business as the products and services being offered are of low value or of inferior quality.

[0003] Prior art U.S. Patent 9129302 discloses a coupon service application operated on multiple platforms. The application claims, maintaining a home consumable product within user's home and a shopping list of consumable products that the user wants to purchase and compare these consumable products against a database of available coupons. User can save, share coupons and monitor the price of the products and compare the product against the average price and track historical savings. Brief Summary of the Invention

[0004] A principle object of the invention is to provide equivalent amount of redeemable points on ordering goods and services through an application software installed and/or accessed from a communication device of a user.

[0005] According to a first aspect of present invention, a computer implemented system for online ordering of goods and services is disclosed. The system comprising application software installed and/or accessed from a communication device of a user to perform the operations of presenting, a list of goods and services offered for sale listed into categories. The system performs an operation of receiving, a selection of the goods and services listed for purchase from the user accessing through his login, wherein the listed goods and services are associated with equivalent value of points that are offered to the user against the purchase. The system performs an operation of presenting, a list of destinations participating in the redemption of accumulated points. It also presents a finalized cart for one or more financial transactions to complete the online ordering.

[0006] The system performs an operation of receiving and presenting, from the payment system, an estimated time of completion and delivery of the order, wherein the payment system is configured to process a financial transaction between the merchant and the user for the order.

[0007] In accordance with the first aspect of present invention, the online sale on the system is a free sale of goods and services as the points accumulated against the sale can be redeemed for an equivalent value of products or services.

[0008] In accordance with the first aspect of present invention, the instructions further comprise receiving, from the payment system, an electronic bill for the order with the accumulated credit that can be used at participating stores. [0009] In accordance with the first aspect of present invention, the application is configured to store data describing at least one financial payment instrument of the user, and wherein the application is able to utilize the data describing the at least one financial payment instrument to facilitate the financial transaction between the merchant and the customer for the order.

[0010] In accordance with the first aspect of present invention, the system further performs operations of receiving, from the payment system, and from a logistics partner, an estimated time of completion for preparation of the order.

[0011] In accordance with the first aspect of present invention, the system further performs operations of receiving, from the logistics partner, an estimated time for delivering the order.

[0012] In accordance with the first aspect of present invention, the system further performs operations of receiving, from a monitoring partner monitoring the logistics partners, a confirmation of delivery of the order.

[0013] According to a second aspect of present invention, a computer implemented method for online ordering of goods and services is disclosed. The method comprises steps of providing, by application software installed and/or accessed from a communication device, a list of goods and services offered for sale listed into categories. Receiving, a selection of the goods and services listed for purchase from the user accessing through his login, wherein the listed goods and services are associated with equivalent value of points that are offered to the user against the purchase.

[0014] The method comprises step of presenting, a list of destinations participating in the redemption of accumulated points. A step of presenting, a finalized cart for one or more financial transactions to complete the online ordering.

[0015] A step of receiving and presenting, from the payment system, an estimated time of completion and delivery of the order, wherein the payment system is configured to process a financial transaction between the merchant and the user for the order. [0016] In accordance with the second aspect of the present invention, the method also comprises steps of providing, by the payment system and to the merchant device, data describing a geographic map that indicates respective geographic locations of one or more customers purchased goods or services.

[0017] According to a third aspect of the present invention, a method for providing equivalent points of value of goods and services ordered online is disclosed. The method comprises steps of displaying, a list of goods and services offered for sale listed into categories in application software installed and/or accessed from a communication device of a user to purchase.

[0018] The method comprises steps of offering, equivalent points and displaying a list of products and locations to redeem against an equivalent value of a purchase online. The method also comprises a step of receiving, a selection of the goods and services listed for the purchase online from the user accessing through user login. It also has a step of presenting, a finalized cart for one or more financial transactions to complete the online ordering and issuing an electronic bill for the order with the accumulated credit that can be used at participating stores.

Brief Description of the Drawings

[0019] The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this disclosure, illustrate exemplary embodiments and, together with the description, serve to explain the disclosed principles. Some embodiments of system and method for on-line ordering of goods and services against equivalent amount of redeemable points in accordance with embodiments of the present subject matter are now described, by way of example only, and with reference to the accompanying figures, in which:

FIG. 1 illustrates a flow chart depicting a step by step process of a service delivered to end customer according to the present invention. FIGS. 2a-2d illustrates a screen shots depicting a mobile application for ordering a service according to the present invention.

FIGS. 3a-3b illustrates a screen shots depicting a desktop application for ordering a service according to the present invention.

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0020] It is to be understood that the present disclosure is not limited in its application to the details of construction and the arrangement of components set forth in the following description. The present disclosure is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced or of being carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology used herein is for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.

[0021] On the contrary, it is intended to cover alternatives, modifications and equivalents. Various modifications to the present invention will be readily apparent to a person skilled in the art, and can be made to the present invention within the spirit and scope of the invention.

[0022] The present invention is directed towards a system and a method for providing coupons by ordering food/services to customer for purchasing products in stores. Referring to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals designate identical or corresponding systems, preferred embodiments of the present invention are described.

[0023] Referring to the drawings, FIG. 1 illustrates a flow chart (100) depicting a step by step process of a service delivered to end customer according to the present invention. Application software is installed in a communication device of a user and a desktop application for ordering a goods/service (104). The end customer (102) orders a goods/service (104) from a vendor (106) through the application software installed on a communication device. The ordered end customer (102) gets points (108) as a coupon. The end customer (102) consumes these points (108) into the store (110) for purchasing products. The stores (110) comprise a local store (112), E-com store (122) and a Virtual Store (114). [0024] The goods/service (104) to end customers (102) include but not limited to appliances, batteries, daily needs, furniture, kitchen and dining, stationary, popcorn, organic food etc.. The end customer (102) walked into the local store (112) using these points (108) can buy goods and/or service (104). The end customer (102) orders a service like ordering food in the virtual stores (114) of vendors (116), the order is delivered by the logistics partners (118) to end customer (102) from vendor (106). The logistics partner (118) is monitored by a monitoring partner (120) for proper delivery of the foods/services (104).

[0025] The end customer (102) orders a service like ordering food in the E-com stores (122), the order is delivered by the 3rd party Logistics (124) to end customer (102) from E-com stores (122). The 3rd party Logistics (124) is monitored by the end customer (102).

[0026] FIGS. 2a-2d illustrates a screen shots depicting a mobile application for ordering food/service according to the present invention. Application software (202a) is downloaded and installed in a communication device of a user. The application software (202a) comprises a plurality of food/services (200c) and is ordered (200d) by an end customer. The ordered end customer gets the points and by using these points the user can purchase the product in stores.

[0027] FIGS. 3a-3e illustrates screen shots depicting a desktop application for ordering food/service according to the present invention. The desktop applications comprise a plurality of food/services (300a) and are ordered by the end consumer. The food/services (300b) comprises a appliances, batteries, daily needs, furniture, kitchen dinning, stationary, popcorn, organic food etc as shown in FIG. 3 b and FIG. 3 c. The end customer gets the points on ordering the food/service and the points are stored in a wallet as shown in FIG. 3d. The ordered product is delivered according to the selected city and area (300e) of end customer by a logistics partner.

[0028] A detailed description of the above embodiment of the invention is only for ease of understanding and cited examples should not be construed as limiting the scope of the invention. Any person skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications, additions and substitutions are possible, without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention as disclosed in the accompanying claims.

Claims

Claims I/We claim

1. A computer implemented system for online ordering of goods and services, comprising:

an application software installed and/or accessed from a communication device of an user to perform the operations of:

presenting, a list of goods and services offered for sale listed into categories;

receiving, a selection of the goods and services listed for purchase from the user accessing through his login, wherein the listed goods and services are associated with equivalent value of points that are offered to the user against the purchase;

presenting, a list of destinations participating in the redemption of accumulated points;

presenting, a finalized cart for one or more financial transactions to complete the online ordering;

receiving and presenting, from the payment system, an estimated time of completion and delivery of the order;

wherein the payment system is configured to process a financial transaction between the merchant and the user for the order.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the online sale on the system is a free sale of goods and services as the points accumulated against the sale can be redeemed for an equivalent value of products or services.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the instructions further comprise receiving, from the payment system, an electronic bill for the order with the accumulated credit that can be used at participating stores.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the application is configured to store data describing at least one financial payment instrument of the user, and wherein the application is able to utilize the data describing the at least one financial payment instrument to facilitate the financial transaction between the merchant and the customer for the order.

The system according to claim 1, wherein performs operations of:

receiving, from the payment system, and from a logistics partner, an estimated time of completion for preparation of the order.

The system according to claim 1, wherein performs operations of:

receiving, from the logistics partner, an estimated time for delivering the order.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein performs operations of:

receiving, from a monitoring partner monitoring the logistics partners, a confirmation of delivery of the order.

8. A computer implemented method for online ordering of goods and services, comprising steps of:

providing, by an application software installed and/or accessed from a communication device, a list of goods and services offered for sale listed into categories;

receiving, a selection of the goods and services listed for purchase from the user accessing through his login, wherein the listed goods and services are associated with equivalent value of points that are offered to the user against the purchase; presenting, a list of destinations participating in the redemption of accumulated points;

9. The computer implemented method of claim 8, further comprising:

providing, by the payment system and to the merchant device, data describing a geographic map that indicates respective geographic locations of one or more customers purchased goods or services.

10. A method for providing equivalent points of value of goods and services ordered online, wherein the method comprises steps of:

displaying, a list of goods and services offered for sale listed into categories in an application software installed and/or accessed from a communication device of an user to purchase;

offering, equivalent points and displaying a list of products and locations to redeem against an equivalent value of a purchase online;

receiving, a selection of the goods and services listed for the purchase online from the user accessing through his login;

issuing, an electronic bill for the order with the accumulated credit that can be used at participating stores.