Patent ID: 7653553

Claim:
A method of processing payments related to an item that is purchased in a store by a customer and is to be shipped to a recipient, the method comprising: making the item available for sale in a store; at a shipping kiosk operatively connected to a network, receiving information relating to the item and a destination where the item is to be shipped in a shipment; determining a shipping cost for the item based on the destination using a rating engine server operatively connected to the network; storing information relating to the item and the shipping cost on an operations server operatively connected to the network and associating the information relating to the item with a unique identifier; receiving the identifier at a point of sale terminal operatively connected to the network that is located at a payment location in the store that is apart from the shipping kiosk; and using the identifier to obtain the information from the operations server and process an item payment and a shipping payment in a single transaction at the payment location, and wherein the payment location and the shipping kiosk are located in the store.