Patent ID: 8041603

Claim:
A system for providing reimbursement of incentives provided to purchasers of one or more items, comprising: coupon data generated by a coupon processing center server for download to a merchant point of sale system via a computer network, said coupon data comprised of item records uniquely identifying one or more purchasable items, and incentive records indicative of incentives available to a purchaser in connection with the purchase of said one or more purchasable items; transaction log data generated by said merchant point of sale system and transmitted to said coupon processing center server via a computer network, said transaction log data describing one or more purchase transactions, comprised of one or more purchase records corresponding to items purchased, and one or more redemption records corresponding to a purchase record, describing incentives provided to purchasers of said one or more items; a transaction log processor server within the coupon processing center configured to identify purchase records corresponding to item records in the coupon data, and tabulate the redemption records associated with said purchase records.