Patent ID: 8015075

Claim:
A technical system for improved accounting and bookkeeping operations in an electronic commerce enterprise, the technical system comprising: a franchisor configured to grant a franchise to a franchisee, the franchisor comprising: a computer readable storage medium for storing computer executable programmed modules; a processor communicatively coupled with the computer readable storage medium for executing programmed modules stored therein; a payment processing module stored in the computer readable storage medium and configured to collect information from a customer via a communication network and process electronic payments for said franchisor products via a communication network; a franchisee module stored in the computer readable storage medium and configured to track hierarchical relationships between franchises; an accounting module stored in the computer readable storage medium and configured to determine a commission amount for direct sales and an override amount for indirect sales and initiate payment of said commissions and said overrides and wherein the accounting module is further configured to determine an override amount for direct sales made within a first franchise and initiate payment of said override amount to a second franchise having a hierarchical relationship to said first franchise; and a franchisee configured to make sales of franchisor products directly to customers and indirectly to customers via one or more direct sales agents.