Systems and methods for issuing partnership checks to a customer having a financial account
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1. A method for issuing partnership checks to customers, comprising:
- analyzing a group of merchants based on a set of merchant qualification criteria to identify a merchant for associating with a partnership check;
creating the partnership check such that the partnership check is redeemable with the identified merchant; and
sending the created partnership check to a set of customer.
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Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for issuing partnership checks to customers. The disclosed systems and methods include analyzing a set of factors for a group of merchants to identify merchant(s), creating a partnership check such that it is redeemable with the identified merchant(s), and issuing the partnership checks to customers for use in financial transactions with the identified merchant(s). Further, in accordance with the disclosed systems and methods, value sharing relationships are formed between one or more issuers and merchants for the purposes of issuing partnership checks to customers with a financial account.
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1. A method for issuing partnership checks to customers, comprising:
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analyzing a group of merchants based on a set of merchant qualification criteria to identify a merchant for associating with a partnership check;
creating the partnership check such that the partnership check is redeemable with the identified merchant; and
sending the created partnership check to a set of customer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method for providing partnership checks to customers, the partnership checks being issued by an issuer, said method comprising:
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forming a value sharing relationship with at least one merchant;
generating partnership checks that are redeemable with the at least one merchant, each of the partnership checks including printed indicia that is indicative of a predetermined transaction amount; and
providing an incentive with each partnership check, wherein the incentive extends to customers that use the partnership check. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for providing partnership checks, said method comprising:
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generating a list of prospective merchants;
analyzing the list of prospective merchants based on a set of merchant qualification criteria to form a set of merchants;
generating a list of prospective customers;
analyzing the list of prospective customers based on a set of customer qualification criteria to form a set of customers; and
issuing partnership checks to the set of customers, wherein each of the partnership checks includes an incentive that extends to customers that use the partnership check as part of a financial transaction with the set of merchants. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
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22. A partnership check system, comprising:
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means for analyzing a group of merchants based on a set of merchant qualification criteria to identify a merchant for associating a partnership check;
means for creating the partnership check such that the partnership check is redeemable with the identified merchant; and
means of sending the created partnership check to a set of customers. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26)
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