Patent ID: 8972293
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, the code when executed by a processor causes a computer to audit a transaction record, the computer readable program code in said article of manufacture comprising: computer readable program code for causing the computer to receive the transaction record; computer readable program code for causing the computer to determine a surcharge attribute in the transaction record; computer readable program code for causing the computer to compare the surcharge attribute to a surcharge reference value; computer readable program code for causing the computer to detect a surcharge violation when the surcharge attribute does not correspond to the surcharge reference value; and wherein, when the transaction record is received from a merchant, the article further comprises computer readable program code for causing the computer to suspend receiving transaction records from the merchant in response to detection of the surcharge violation.