Patent ID: 8352327

Claim:
A system for obtaining transaction information, said system comprising: a processing unit operative to process data and code; a transaction record interface operative to receive, from an identified first purchaser via an electronic device of said first purchaser, a first transaction record, said first transaction record originating from and transmitted by a first point-of-sale system to said electronic device of said first purchaser and including data indicative of one or more products purchased by said first purchaser from a first merchant with a non-electronic form of payment and being free of purchase-related data that facilitates identification of said first purchaser, and receive a second transaction record transmitted from a second point-of-sale system from said identified first purchaser via said electronic device of said first purchaser, said second transaction record originating from said second point-of sale system including data indicative of one or more products purchased by said first purchaser from a second merchant; a purchase tracking database operative to receive, from said electronic device of said first purchaser, at least said first transaction record and store said first transaction record and said second transaction record; and, a purchaser interface operative to provide said first purchaser access to said first transaction record and said second transaction record.