Systems and methods for enrolling consumers in goods and serivces
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Abstract
Systems and methods for enrolling consumers in goods and services offered by a consumer provider are disclosed herein. Various of the methods include providing an enrollment system and displaying enrollment options via the enrollment system. Further, the methods include receiving enrollment requests and enrolling a consumer based on the enrollment request. The systems can be configured for effectuating the various enrollment methods.
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Citations
44 Claims
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26. A method for enrolling a requester with one or more consumer providers, the method comprising:
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at a payment provider location, providing an enrollment system, wherein the enrollment system comprises a point-of-sale device associated with a money transfer system maintained by a payment provider, wherein the enrollment system includes an entry device, a display screen, and a memory;
at the payment provider location, receiving into the point-of-sale device an identifier from the requester, wherein the identifier relates to a payee and a prior indebtedness of the requester to the payee for a good or service provided by the payee;
sending the identifier from the point-of-sale device to a host computer system;
at the host computer system, using the identifier to locate a transaction record relating to the requestor and the payee;
returning at least a portion of the transaction record to the point-of-sale device;
using the point-of-sale device to facilitate a payment at the payment provider location to the payee from the requestor for the indebtedness;
using at least a portion of the transaction record to obtain information about a good or service from a consumer provider that is different than the payee and loading the information into the memory;
in association with facilitating the payment, displaying via the display screen at least one enrollment option relating to the consumer provider;
receiving via the entry device a request for enrollment from the requester to enroll with the consumer provider; and
processing the request for enrollment, wherein the requestor is enrolled with the consumer provider. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A system for enrolling a consumer with one or more consumer providers, the system comprising:
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an enrollment device, located at a payment provider location, wherein the enrollment device comprises a point-of-sale device associated with a money transfer system maintained by a payment provider, wherein the enrollment system includes an entry device, a display screen, a processor, and a memory;
instructions maintained on the memory and executable by the processor to;
receive into the point-of-sale device an identifier from the consumer, wherein the identifier relates to a payee and a prior indebtedness of the consumer to the payee for a good or service provided by the payee;
send the identifier from the point-of-sale device to a host computer system, receive from the host computer system at least a portion of a transaction record relating to the consumer and the payee;
use the point-of-sale device to facilitate a payment at the payment provider location to the payee from the consumer for the indebtedness;
receive information about a good or service from a consumer provider that is different than the payee and load the information into the memory;
in association with facilitating the payment, display via the display screen at least one enrollment option relating to the consumer provider;
in association with facilitating the payment, display via the display screen at least one enrollment option relating to the consumer provider;
receive via the entry device a request for enrollment from the consumer to enroll with the consumer provider; and
process the request for enrollment, wherein the consumer is enrolled with the consumer provider. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44)
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