Patent ID: 8738452

Claim:
A multi-item product comprising: a gift card coupled with a greeting card, one of the gift card and the greeting card having a first machine-readable marking associated with both a price of the greeting card provided by a first vendor and a price of the gift card provided by a second vendor, wherein a consumer incurs a first charge corresponding with the price of the greeting card and a second charge corresponding with the price of the gift upon a single scan of the first machine-readable marking, and wherein a first disbursement corresponding with the price of the greeting card is disbursed to the first vendor and a second disbursement corresponding with the price of the gift card is disbursed to the second vendor upon the single scan of the first machine-readable marking and a reception of a payment by the consumer for the first charge corresponding with the price of the greeting card and the second charge corresponding with the price of the gift card.