Patent ID: 9639872
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A sales management system comprising: a manufacturer pricing data store operable to store a manufacturer price for a sales item as provided by a manufacturer of the sales item; a plurality of retail input devices each adapted to receive a margin applicable to the sales item from a corresponding one of a plurality of retailers and operable to store the margin in association with the corresponding retailer; a retail display device residing at a retail location associated with at least one of the plurality of retailers and configured to display product information including a retail price for the sales item; and a product information provider embodied as computer executable instructions on a computer device located remotely from the retail display device and in data communication with the manufacturer pricing data store and the plurality of retail input devices, the product information provider configured to receive a request for product information pertaining to the sales item from the retail display device and operable to compute the retail price for the sales item based in part on the manufacturer price for the sales item and the margin associated with one of the plurality of retailers and to provide the retail price to the retail display device for display in relation to the sales item.