Methods and Systems for Uploading, Trading and Exchanging Loyalty Points on Social Media Websites

摘要

A method and system are provided for providing a plurality of loyalty programs for a plurality of merchants. This involves storing, on a computer-readable storage module, identification information for merchants and customers, and a plurality of rule sets for each merchant, receiving, a request from a customer identifying a customer, a merchant, and purchase information regarding a purchase made by a customer from a merchant, determining if the request complies with the corresponding rule set for the merchant, and, if so, determining a social media profile for the customer, awarding loyalty points to the customer, and uploading loyalty point reward information to the social media profile for the customer.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for providing a plurality of loyalty programs for a plurality of merchants, the method comprising:
storing on a computer-readable storage module, identification information for a plurality of merchants and a plurality of customers, and a plurality of rule sets for the plurality of merchants such that each merchant in the plurality of merchants has a corresponding rule set defining a corresponding loyalty program for that merchant; receiving, at a communication module linked for communication with the computer-readable storage module, a request from a customer in the plurality of customers, wherein the request identifies the customer, a merchant in the plurality of merchants, and purchase information regarding a purchase made by that customer from that merchant; operating a processor to determine if the request received by the customer complies with the corresponding rule set for that merchant, the processor being linked to the communication module and the computer-readable storage module for communication therewith;if the processor determines that the request complies with the rule set, then operating the processor to determine a social media profile for the customer, and awarding loyalty points to the customer based on at least the purchase information, and uploading loyalty point reward information to the social media profile for the customer, wherein the uploaded loyalty point reward information is viewable at the social media profile for the customer.