Patent ID: 7324963

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for conveying sales options comprising: offering a plurality of telecommunications related products to a customer; receiving an initial selection of j products from the customer; determining an offering price for the selection, employing a progressive discount and comprising the steps of: accessing a predetermined pricing table having a product number, a product base price, and a discount rate to determine a product price wherein the selection comprises a plurality of products; and summing the product prices employing the formula OP=Σ i=1 n S i P i (1−(A j ) i ) where: OP is the offering price; i is the product number; S i is a switch that has a value of 1 if the i th product is selected, and a value of 0 if the i th product is not selected; P i is the base price of the i th product; A j is the discount rate, where “j”>1 and represents the number of selected products; and (A j ) i is the discount rate for the i th product at the j th number of selected products; presenting the offering price to the customer; providing an opportunity for the customer to upgrade the initial selection to a changed selection that includes j+1 products; upon the customer upgrading the selection, receiving the customer's changed selection: determining a new offering price for the customer's changed selection; providing to the customer an incremental upgrade price of the changed selection in addition to the new offering price for the customer's changed selection; and presenting the new offering price to the customer.