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1. A computer-implemented method to provide a merchant with user information using a proxy account to access multiple financial accounts, comprising:
receiving, using one or more computing devices of a proxy account payment system, a first payment request from a merchant for a purchase by a user from the merchant, the first payment request comprising information identifying a proxy account maintained by the one or more computing devices and an amount of the purchase; accessing, by the one or more computing devices of the proxy account payment system, the proxy account identified in the first payment request and maintained by the one or more computing devices, the proxy account comprising user contact information and financial account information for one or more financial accounts maintained by one or more non-payment system issuers, the one or more non-payment system issuers being different from the one or more computing devices of the payment system; determining, by the one or more computing devices of the proxy account payment system, an identity of the user and at least a portion of the user contact information associated with the user based on information associated with the proxy card account; determining, by the one or more computing devices of the proxy account payment system, which of the one or more financial accounts to use to process the first payment request; submitting, by the one or more computing devices, a new payment request to an issuer of the determined financial account, the new payment request comprising financial account information identifying the determined financial account and at least a portion of the amount of the purchase; receiving, by the one or more computing devices of the proxy account payment system, a payment authorization from the issuer authorizing the new payment request to charge the at least a portion of the amount of the purchase to the determined financial account; inserting, by the one or more computing devices of the proxy account payment system, at least a portion of the user contact information into a payment authorization for the first payment request, the user contact information obtained from the proxy account maintained by the one or more computing devices and used by the merchant to communicate survey information, loyalty card information, offers, or a combination thereof to the user; and communicating, by the one or more computing devices of the proxy account payment system, the payment authorization of the first payment request to the merchant, the payment authorization of the first payment request comprising an authorization for the proxy account maintained by the payment system and the user contact information. |