Suspending and resuming transactions through wireless beacon communications

摘要

There are provided systems and methods for suspending and resuming transactions through wireless beacon communications. A merchant may set up a wireless beacon with employee devices. The beacons may connect to a user's device and assist the employee with determining and suspending a transaction for the user. Based on the connections between the user's device and a wireless beacon attached to an employee device, the employee device may receive an identifier for the user. The identifier may also be received from a previous check-in by the user. The employee or a user may scan one or more items that the user may wish to purchase. A transaction may be generated using the scan and may be associated with the user's identifier. Later the transaction may be recalled using the user's identifier or a transaction code identifying the transaction. Payment information for the user may also be associated with the transaction.

主权项

1. A method for suspending transactions comprising:
detecting, by a merchant scanning device, that a consumer device in proximity to a merchant location is registered to the merchant location; connecting the merchant scanning device over a first protocol to the consumer device and associating the consumer device to a user based on a user identifier received from the consumer device; receiving, through a scanner of the merchant scanning device, transaction information for a transaction comprising at least one item selected for purchase by the user of the consumer device at the merchant location; associating, by a scanning application in the merchant scanning device, the transaction information for the transaction of the at least one item selected for purchase, with the user identifier associated with the user; receiving, by an input at a scanning application in the merchant scanning device, a request to suspend the transaction at the merchant location and suspending the transaction in response to the request; storing, by the merchant scanning device, the transaction information for the suspended transaction with the user identifier for the user based on the request; determining, based on a communication received from the consumer device, that the user is ready to checkout for the transaction at the merchant location; connecting, the merchant scanning device over a second protocol to a merchant point of service device for resuming the transaction, resuming the transaction including retrieving the transaction information based on the user identifier; and communicating the transaction information to the merchant point of service device at the merchant location for processing of the transaction.