SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING MERCHANT WORKING CAPITAL

• US 20140358766A1
• Filed: 02/25/2014
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Nayyar, Ashish, Grech, Brian, Hale, Brian M.
• Application Number:
  US14/189,413
• Publication Number:
  US 20140358766A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/38
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/03 Credit; Loans; Processing thereof

Abstract

A system or method for implementing working capital for merchants is provided. In particular, a payment service provider may provide working capital to merchants based on the merchant'"'"'s sales or payment history. For example, based on a merchant'"'"'s sales or payment history, a close-ended (fixed amount) loan based on expected customer sales, with no fixed duration, no end date, and no interest, is provided to the merchant The “loan” may be viewed as a hybrid cash advance/loan product. Further, the repayment for the loan may be derived from future sales. The payment service provider may monitor sales volume of the merchant based on payment activities at the merchant. Based on the loan term, a portion of the sales revenue of the merchant may be directed for repayment of the loan. Thus, the repayment may be contingent on sales volume to provide the merchant with flexibility in loan repayment.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a non-transitory memory storing merchant account information, including merchant sales revenues processed through a payment provider; and

one or more hardware processors coupled to the memory and operable to read the instructions from the memory to perform the steps of;

determining a qualified loan amount based on sales revenue of a merchant processed through the payment provider;

receiving a loan amount selected by the merchant from within the qualified loan amount;

receiving a repayment arrangement selected by the merchant indicating a percentage of sales revenue to be used for repayment of the loan amount; and

collecting the percentage of the sales revenue of the merchant processed through the payment provider at periodic times for repayment of the loan amount.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the qualified loan amount is a percentage of annual sales revenue of the merchant processed through the payment provider.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more hardware processors further perform the step of determining a one-time loan fee based on the repayment arrangement and the loan amount selected by the merchant.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the repayment for each periodic time varies based on varying sales revenues for each periodic time.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the periodic times are daily.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the collecting comprises:

determining whether an account of the merchant contain sufficient fund for repayment for a present period;

determining a catch-up payment including a repayment amount missing in the present period; and

collecting the catch-up payment from the account in a subsequent period without penalty.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the loan repayment has a non-fixed end date, which is contingent on varying repayment collected at each period.

8. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising a plurality of machine-readable instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, are adapted to cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

determining a qualified loan amount based on sales revenue of a merchant processed through the payment provider;

receiving a loan amount selected by the merchant from within the qualified loan amount;

receiving a repayment arrangement selected by the merchant indicating a percentage of sales revenue to be used for repayment of the loan amount; and

collecting the percentage of the sales revenue of the merchant processed through the payment provider at periodic times for repayment of the loan amount.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the qualified loan amount is a percentage of annual sales revenue of the merchant processed through the payment provider.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the one or more hardware processors further perform the step of determining a one-time loan fee based on the repayment arrangement and the loan amount selected by the merchant.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the repayment for each periodic time varies based on varying sales revenues for each periodic time.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the periodic times are daily.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the collecting comprises:

determining whether an account of the merchant contain sufficient fund for repayment for a present period;

determining a catch-up payment including a repayment amount missing in the present period; and

collecting the catch-up payment from the account in a subsequent period without penalty.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the loan repayment has a non-fixed end date, which is contingent on varying repayment collected at each period.

15. A method comprising:

determining, electronically by a processor of a payment provider, a qualified loan amount based on sales revenue of a merchant processed through the payment provider;

receiving a loan amount selected by the merchant from within the qualified loan amount;

receiving a repayment arrangement selected by the merchant indicating a percentage of sales revenue to be used for repayment of the loan amount; and

collecting, electronically by the processor of the payment provider, the percentage of the sales revenue of the merchant processed through the payment provider at periodic times for repayment of the loan amount.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the qualified loan amount is a percentage of annual sales revenue of the merchant processed through the payment provider.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more hardware processors further perform the step of determining a one-time loan fee based on the repayment arrangement and the loan amount selected by the merchant.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the repayment for each periodic time varies based on varying sales revenues for each periodic time.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the periodic times are daily.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the collecting comprises:

determining whether an account of the merchant contain sufficient fund for repayment for a present period;

determining a catch-up payment including a repayment amount missing in the present period; and

collecting the catch-up payment from the account in a subsequent period without penalty.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein the loan repayment has a non-fixed end date, which is contingent on varying repayment collected at each period.