| 摘要 |
A facility for conducting a financial transaction is described. The facility receives a purchase order identifying a customer and an amount of a payment to be made by the identified customer to a payee. The customer identified by the purchase order has an individual account. The facility selects an account from a pool of accounts designated as being shared by a number of customers including the identified customer. The shared pool does not include the identified customer's individual account. The facility transfers the identified amount from the identified customer's individual account to the selected account of the shared pool. The facility causes information identifying a credit card number for the selected account of the shared pool to be provided to the payee for use in effecting the payment.
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