SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN EXECUTABLE SCRIPT RELATED TO PROVIDING A SAVINGS OPPORTUNITY INTERFACE
The present disclosure relates to comparison shopping and usage based service analysis for consumers, primarily for financial products. A consumer may not be aware of a provider's services, options, terms, conditions, costs, or how the service options change based on the consumer's particular usage characteristics. The disclosed comparison shopping method uses the consumer's actual or predicted service usage data. Service provider information is used to present the consumer with relevant alternative service offering options. Transaction data is gathered from a user's financial account and is analyzed for a savings opportunity indication. The analysis is used to match a savings opportunity from a database of savings opportunities, and the savings opportunity may be displayed in a statement of a user's financial account. Past responses to a savings opportunity indication may be gathered and analyzed. In one example, a savings opportunity is presented using executable script in a user's graphical user interface.
1 . A method, comprising:
providing an executable script such that when embedded in a graphical user interface of a user's financial account will automatically provide the user, through the graphical user interface, a savings opportunity interface, wherein savings opportunities relating to user financial transactions will be presented.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the executable program is implemented in the JavaScript programming language.
3 . A method, comprising:
embedding an executable script in a graphical user interface of a user's financial account;
executing the executable script when the user accesses the user financial account; and
using the executable script to:
gather transaction data from the user financial account and anonymize the transaction data before transmitting the anonymized transaction data to a server for analysis;
instruct a decision engine in communication with the server to select a savings opportunity to match to the user based on the anonymized transaction data analyzed by the server;
receive an indication of the matched savings opportunity from the decision engine; and
display the savings opportunity in the user financial account graphical user interface.
4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein analyzing comprises extracting at least one of a merchant name, a merchant category, a merchant location, a transaction amount, a transaction frequency, a zip code, a store name, a store category, a store number, a transaction description, a purchase frequency, and a total spending amount.
5 . The method of claim 3 , further comprising using the executable script to instruct the decision engine to consult a rules database in making the match.
6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the rules database comprises criteria that the transaction data should meet before a match is made.
7 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the criteria comprise at least one of a total spending amount with the merchant, a number of transactions with the merchant, a number of transactions within a category, total spending during a period of time, a particular transaction, a particular set of transactions, and a transaction at a particular merchant location.
8 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the financial account is at least one of a bank account, a checking account, a savings account, a credit account, a personal finance program account, and a loan account.