Patent ID: 9105050
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of automatically registering a merchant to a marketing program, the method comprising: displaying, on a display using a webserver, a merchant registration interface having a plurality of data fields for receiving merchant profile data; receiving, at at least one processor from the merchant registration interface, signals representing inputted merchant profile data associated with at least one of the plurality of data fields; populating a merchant profile with the inputted merchant profile data; identifying, at the at least one processor, at least one merchant identifier from the merchant profile, the at least one merchant identifier uniquely identifying the merchant; generating signals to instruct an automated merchant boarding module configured by the at least one processor to search one or more data sources using the at least one merchant identifier and retrieve from the searched one or more data sources additional merchant profile data associated with at least one of the plurality of data fields which are not populated with the inputted merchant profile data; generating signals for displaying the additional merchant profile data for verification, and upon receiving signals confirming the additional merchant profile data, automatically populating the merchant profile with the confirmed additional merchant profile data; populating the merchant profile with at least one incentive for transactions with the merchant, wherein the at least one incentive is identified based on the confirmed additional merchant profile data; and determining, by the at least one processor, if a predetermined minimum set of unique merchant profile data is populated in the merchant profile to generate a merchant profile and based on the determination: