Shared Promotion Redemption System for POS Billing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current point-of-sale systems lack the ability to efficiently manage shared promotions and redemptions among groups of consumers, particularly in settings like dine-in restaurants, where multiple consumers are served simultaneously, leading to complexities in billing and payment processing.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes a merchant device with communications circuitry and processing circuitry to associate consumer accounts, determine transaction prices, and facilitate shared promotion redemptions by receiving redemption data, determining payment shares, and processing transactions for multiple consumer accounts, utilizing communication beacons to connect with consumer devices and manage promotions within a network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If current point-of-sale systems are used to serve multiple groups of consumers simultaneously, then the merchant can handle more customers at once, but the billing and payment processing becomes complex and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the billing process by creating separate billing records for each consumer account within a group. When a promotion is redeemed, the system automatically divides the promotion value among multiple consumer accounts according to predetermined allocation rules, allowing each account to have its own payment share without requiring complex manual billing procedures
Solution Approach 2:
The point-of-sale system acts as an intermediary that automatically manages the complex allocation of promotion values across multiple consumer accounts. The system intermediary handles the calculation, allocation, and transaction processing, eliminating the need for manual intervention and reducing processing complexity while maintaining high productivity
2Reliability
If manual promotion management is used for groups of consumers, then individual account control is maintained, but the billing process becomes time-consuming and operationally complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring promotion allocation rules and automatically associating consumer accounts with groups before the actual transaction occurs. This allows the system to automatically distribute promotion values across multiple accounts during checkout without requiring manual intervention, thus maintaining individual account control while significantly reducing billing processing time
3Productivity
If shared promotion redemption is implemented for multiple consumer accounts, then billing efficiency is improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The point-of-sale system is designed with multi-functionality to handle both individual and group consumer accounts using the same promotion redemption framework. The system universally applies promotion allocation rules across different account types and scenarios, enabling shared promotion redemption without requiring separate complex systems, thus improving billing efficiency while managing system complexity through standardized multi-functional architecture
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for programmatically grouping consumers are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system configured to provide to shared promotion redemptions. The system may include a merchant device with processing circuitry configured to associate multiple consumer accounts with a point-of-sale order. Based on receiving redemption data from a consumer device associated with one of the consumer accounts, the system may be further configured to allow the consumer device to share a selected promotion. For example, the system may determine payment share amounts for each consumer account based on a transaction price of the point-of-sale order and the redemption value of the promotion selected for shared redemption.