Patent ID: 7392207

Claim:
A method for interactively validating and entering orders for products over a computer network, said method comprising: (a) providing a web order management computer system, a remote buyer's computer system, and a communications link therebetween; (b) displaying at said remote buyer's computer system, under control of said web order management computer system, an order pad screen that displays at least one of: (i) all products available for purchase by a buyer using said remote buyer's computer system, and (ii) only a pre-selected customer specific subset of the products that are available for purchase by a buyer using said remote buyer's computer system, wherein said subset of the products is pre-selected by said buyer; (c) said buyer interactively entering ordering information at predetermined locations on said order pad screen until, under control of said web order management computer system, a quality order is validated in substantially real time; and (d) said buyer submitting said validated quality order to said web order management system, by selecting at least one predetermined command.