摘要 |
A payment system and method comprises the steps of receiving 604 buy a data analyser device from a point of sale device data that represents a textual representation of a bill, augmenting 616 at least a portion of the received file to include data representing a non-textual, such as a QR code, representation of the bill and a merchant identifier, thereby generating an augmented file and sending 618 the augmented file away from the data analyse advice to an output device 620, such as a printer or a display. The method further comprises detecting by a computing device the non-textual representation, and based on the detected representation displaying information related to the bill on a user interface of the computing device, receiving input representing a command to initiate payment of at least a portion of the total amount due and based on receiving the input sending to a server a request to initiate payment. The method further comprising receiving by the server from the data analyser device data representing the bill from the merchant 612, receiving from a computing device a request to pay at least a portion of the bill, initiating by the server payment of the bill, determining by the server whether the payment of the bill was successful, and sending a message indicating whether payment was successful to the computing device. |