Patent ID: 6999949

Claim:
A method of providing an electronic order confirmation in an electronic transaction, comprising: electronically receiving a sales order in a private electronic environment from a purchaser in a public electronic environment, wherein the public electronic environment comprises a front end application, wherein the private electronic environment comprises a back end Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application, and wherein the electronically receiving comprises electronically receiving by the back end ERP application the sales order from the front end application; obtaining an entitled price and an estimated date of delivery, within the private electronic environment while the purchaser waits, wherein the obtaining comprises obtaining the entitled price and the estimated date of delivery from the back end ERP application, and wherein the entitled price comprises a price the purchaser is entitled to based on an entitlement; and automatically returning an electronic order confirmation from the private electronic environment to the public electronic environment for providing to the purchaser, wherein the automatically returning comprises automatically returning the electronic order confirmation from the back end ERP application to the front end application, and wherein the electronic order confirmation comprises the entitled price and the estimated date of delivery.