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Apparatus, systems and methods for applying billing options for multiple carriers for online, multi-carrier, multi-service parcel shipping management

  • US 7,117,170 B1
  • Filed: 10/06/2000
  • Issued: 10/03/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/06/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A shipping management computer system, said shipping management computer system programmed to:

  • apply, in response to a request by any particular user of a plurality of users, a set of billing option rules for each of a plurality of carriers to a single billing option preference input by the particular requesting user, wherein each user accesses the computer system over a global communications network using a client computer device, each user client computer device having an individual electronic connection to the global communications network, and wherein the set of billing option rules for each carrier comprises at least one of;

    an indication of billing options acceptable to the carrier and a pricing rule for one or more billing options.

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