摘要 |
A web-based data processing system providing subscribers with a facility to open an Internet bank account directly, an online shopping facility and various other services. The system includes a central computing facility including a transaction manager server (12) and a client administration system (CAS) server (14) which are connected to banking servers (16, 18) of a banking institution (20). The transaction manager server (12) is connected to various merchants, via an online shopping facility (22) and a plurality of different e-commerce websites (24). The server (14) handles client user interfaces, whereas the server (12) interfaces with the banking servers and online shopping facility (22) and the e-commerce websites (24). The transaction manager handles all transactions and external communications between the various servers. The central computing facility monitors data processing carried out between remote client devices and the merchants and the banking institution and records the data in a client administration database. |