Patent ID: 7685025

Claim:
A method of presenting event-planning clients with a variety of options offered by different vendors through an integrated event-planning website, in which terms and options may be set by vendors using automated forms, comprising the steps of: providing, in a single integrated website hosted on a computer system, a plurality of vendor templates or forms tailored to particular event planning service industries for enabling a vendor to pre-register with the integrated website by inputting services and goods offered, pricing structures for the goods and services, and contract terms, said industries includes at least catering, transportation, and entertainment industries, wherein said vendor templates or and enables vendors to input information on unique packages of services and goods offered by individual vendors, as well as pricing structures and contract terms offered by the individual vendors; verifying and activating the vendor account into the integrated website by including a vendor sign-up page that identifies the vendor and permits verification of the vendor credentials and the vendor provided contact information; presenting said unique packages of services and goods, pricing structures, and contract terms to clients through said single integrated website, and enabling said clients to select vendors for an event, packages offered by selected vendors, and options within said packages based on said presentation of services and goods offered, pricing structures, and contract terms; communicating information concerning customer-selection of services and goods to said selected vendors; generating and communicating, though said website, instant good faith estimates for selected packages and options from said selected vendors to said clients; communicating, through said website, acceptance or rejection of said good faith estimates to said selected vendors.