Method, medium, and system for enabling gift card transactions

• Main Authors: Linden, Lee, Zagat, Ted, Vaidyantathan, Ramkumar, Bowers, Neville, Mazumdar, Soham, Linarducci, Patrick
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 10.07.2018
• Subjects: BOOK COVERS; BOOKBINDING; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; FILES; LOOSE LEAVES; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITYFEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOTOTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORTING

One variation of the first method includes: receiving a first gift order from a first sender through a social networking system, the first gift order specifying a recipient, a first merchant, and a first monetary value redeemable through the first merchant; issuing a tangible gift card to the recipient, the gift card linked to a gift account, of the recipient, within the social networking system; receiving a second gift order from a second sender through the social networking system, the second gift order specifying the recipient, a second merchant, and a second monetary value redeemable through the second merchant; linking the first and second monetary values to the gift account; and, in response to a first purchase from the first merchant with the gift card, publishing a detail of the first purchase to a feed within the social networking system in accordance with a privacy setting of the recipient.