Patent ID: 8346600

Claim:
A method of processing purchaser promotion claims comprising the steps of: (a) transferring two or more products to a purchaser in a single purchase transaction, at least one of such products having a promotion associated therewith; (b) assigning a unique transaction identifier to the single purchase transaction at the point of sale, and providing the unique transaction identifier to the purchaser; (c) storing at a processing site the identification of the products included in the purchase transaction as a data record indexed by the unique transaction identifier; (d) receiving at the processing site at a time subsequent to the completion of the purchase transaction, the unique transaction identifier from the purchaser; (e) accessing the data record at the processing site by the unique transaction identifier provided by the purchaser to identify the promotions associated with the purchased products; and (f) transferring the value associated with all of the promotions in the single purchase transaction to the purchaser at a time subsequent to the completion of the purchase transaction (g) repeating steps (a) through (e) with respect to a second purchase transaction by the same purchaser; and (h) aggregating the value associated with the promotions in both purchase transactions prior to the transfer of step (f); wherein a plurality of unique transaction identifiers is received in a single electronic submission from the purchaser.