Conversion operations for loyalty points of different programs redeemable for services

摘要

An entity and a commerce partner agree to permit transfers or conversions of non-negotiable credits to entity independent funds in accordance with a fixed credits-to-funds ratio. An account for non-negotiable credits of a loyalty program member is established. A set of two or more interactions earning additional non-negotiable credits for the loyalty program member in accordance with terms of the loyalty program is detected, resulting in the additional non-negotiable credits being added to the account. Responsive to an indication of a conversion operation occurrence, a quantity of the non-negotiable credits is subtracted from the account. The subtracted quantity of non-negotiable credits is at least a quantity of non-negotiable credits that were converted or transferred to a new quantity of entity independent funds using the fixed credits-to-funds ratio.