Patent ID: 8643875

Claim:
A method of processing receipts, comprising: obtaining transaction data from a point-of-sale (POS) computer system at a store location, the transaction data including a plurality of categories of information necessary to describe a purchasing transaction of a customer at the store location; obtaining image data from the POS system at a store location, the image data representing a receipt corresponding to the purchasing transaction of the customer at the store location; obtaining an e-mail address of the customer from a customer information database persistently associated with the POS system; providing, to a display device at the store location, an option to print the receipt at the store location and an option to e-mail the receipt to the customer; obtaining a selection of at least one of the provided options; if the option to print is selected, initiating printing of the image data at the store location; and if the option to e-mail is selected, e-mailing the receipt to the customer, including: providing the e-mail address obtained from the customer information database to a display device at the store location; obtaining customer confirmation whether the e-mail address is correct; if the e-mail address is not correct, obtaining a corrected e-mail address of the customer; transmitting the image data and the transaction data to a server in communication with one or more POS systems at one or more store locations, including generating a data file, the data file including the transaction data, the correct e-mail address of the customer and a file name corresponding to the image data; assigning an e-mail template based on the data file transmitted to the server; and sending an e-mail to the correct customer e-mail address, wherein the content of the email is based on the assigned e-mail template, where the e-mail provides the image data obtained by the server.