Patent ID: 8630927

Claim:
At a receipt application server for a merchant, the receipt application server including one or more processors and system memory, the receipt application server connected to one or more Point-Of-Sale (POS) systems and one or more auditor mobile devices at each of one or more store locations for the merchant, the receipt application server configured to manage a receipt database for the merchant, a method for locating and indicating how to reorder digital receipt data for use in an in-store audit, the method comprising: receiving digital receipt data for a sales transaction conducted at a Point-Of-Sale (POS) system, the Point-Of-Sale (POS) system in a store location selected from among the one or more store locations, the digital receipt data containing a receipt entry for each of one or more items purchased by a customer in the sales transaction; generating a digital receipt for the sales transaction, the digital receipt generated from the digital receipt data, the digital receipt containing the receipt entry for each of the one or more purchased items, the digital receipt providing proof of the sales transaction, the digital receipt for delivery to a customer mobile device associated with the customer; receiving an indication that the sales transaction is to be audited in the store location; accessing receipt entry ordering data, the receipt entry ordering data specifying how receipt entries are to be ordered to increase the likelihood of items with specified characteristics being expressly validated during an in-store audit; and sending the digital receipt and the receipt entry ordering data to an auditor mobile device at the store location, the auditor mobile device for use in auditing receipt entries contained in the digital receipt against items physically possessed by the customer upon the customer attempting to exit the store location, the receipt entries displayable at the auditor mobile device in accordance with the receipt entry ordering data such that the likelihood of expressly auditing purchased items having the specified characteristics is increased during the in-store audit of the sales transaction.