Methods, non-transitory computer readable storage medium, and systems for order management and processing using a distributed commerce platform

US11423456B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Stripe, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Siddarth Chandrasekaran · San Francisco, US
• John B. Collison · San Francisco, US
• Cristina Joelle Cordova · San Francisco, US
• James William Danz · Los Altos, US
• Stanislas Polu · San Francisco, US
• Devesh Senapati · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 14, 2020
• Grant date: Aug 23, 2022
• Expiry date: Feb 15, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0635
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In embodiments, methods and systems for order management and processing based on a distributed commerce platform are provided. A distributed commerce platform supports end-to-end integrated product publication, order-management and payment services. In particular, the distributed commerce platform supports components based on Application Programming Interfaces (API) that standardize the implementation of a distributed commerce solution or configuration of off-site buying experiences. Using the distributed commerce platform, merchants can concurrently offer, sell, and process orders for products through a plurality of different affiliate channels. The distributed commerce platform can also be implemented as a federated portal from which a merchant can identify affiliate channels to publish product objects, access the plurality of affiliate channels and define configurations for processing objects of the merchant's distributed commerce solution. The configurations can be accessed during a purchase flow such that orders from a channel are processed based on the specific attributes identified in the configurations.