Electronic coupon distribution method

• Main Authors: PAN QICHUN, FAN HONGDONG, LIU LING
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 22.09.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

The invention discloses an electronic coupon distribution method. The method comprises the following steps of: (1) reading a consumer account number by a shop client; (2) releasing an electronic coupon issue instruction by the shot client; (3) obtaining the electronic coupon issue instruction by a server, extracting a merchant identifier of the shop client by the server and comparing the merchant identifier with a merchant identifier of an appointed initial issuer, if the merchant identifier of the shop client accords with the merchant identifier of the initial issuer, executing the step (4), and if the merchant identifier of the shop client does not accord with the merchant identifier of the initial issuer, executing the step (5); (4) issuing electronic coupons to the consumer account number by the server; (5) obtaining consumer account number information by the server, if the quantity of residual electronic coupons is 0, not issuing coupons by the server, and if the quantity of the residual electronic coupo