| 摘要 |
The invention concerns paying donations, and in particular, donations paid by a business entity 14 based on sales. An administrator 18 of the democratic donations system receives and stores information on purchases made from a business entity that each have an associated donation. The administrator 18 then receives purchase information from a customer 16 and the name of the beneficiary that they would like the donation associated with the purchase paid to. The administrator 18 cross-matches the purchase information and if a match is found adds the donation associated with the purchase to the total donation amount to be paid to that beneficiary by the business entity 16. Then at periodic intervals the administrator 18 sends to the business entity 16 the total donation amount to be paid to each beneficiary by the business entity 16 and allows the beneficiary and customer to know the details of the donation thus confirmed. Other aspects of the invention includes a computer system and software for managing donations. ---------------- cc,/ |
