Transaction token issuing authorities

1. A method, comprising:

identifying, by a merchant device, a transaction between a customer and a merchant associated with the merchant device;

sending, by the merchant device and to a server of a token issuing authority, a request to generate a token for the transaction, the request comprising information pertaining to the transaction;

receiving the token from the token issuing authority, the token comprising identification information that identifies an electronic address of the server of the token issuing authority; and

displaying, in response to receiving the token, a computer-readable code having at least the identification information encoded therein.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identification information includes a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) string or a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) string that has the electronic address of the server of the token issuing authority embedded therein.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the URL string or the URI string has embedded therein: an identifier of the merchant, a transaction amount of the transaction, or a currency type of the transaction.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the displaying comprises displaying a QR code as the computer-readable code via a Point of Sales (POS) terminal, and wherein the method further comprises: displaying, via the POS terminal, instructions for electronically scanning the QR code.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving, from the token issuing authority, a confirmation that the transaction has been completed; and

transmitting, in response to the received confirmation, a transaction receipt to a device of the customer.

6. A merchant computer system, comprising:

a non-transitory memory storing instructions; and

one or more hardware processors coupled to the non-transitory memory and configured to read the instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the merchant computer system to perform operations comprising:

sending, to a token issuing authority, a request to generate a token for a pending transaction with a customer;

receiving the token from the token issuing authority, the token including token issuing authority identification information; and

electronically communicating the token to a computing device of the customer.

7. The merchant computer system of claim 6 , wherein the request comprises information about the pending transaction.

8. The merchant computer system of claim 6 , wherein the token issuing authority identification information includes a formatted Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that is linked to the token issuing authority.

9. The merchant computer system of claim 6 , wherein the token issuing authority identification information includes a formatted Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that is linked to the token issuing authority.

10. The merchant computer system of claim 6 , wherein the token further includes a token value.

11. The merchant computer system of claim 6 , wherein the token further includes an identifier of a merchant associated with the merchant computing system.

12. The merchant computer system of claim 6 , wherein the token further includes information regarding a transaction amount of the pending transaction.

13. The merchant computer system of claim 6 , wherein the token further includes information regarding a currency type of the pending transaction.

14. The merchant computer system of claim 6 , wherein the operations further comprise causing the token to be displayed as a Quick Response (QR) code on a screen of a Point of Sale (POS) device.

15. The merchant computer system of claim 14 , wherein the operations further comprise causing instructions prompting the customer to electronically scan the QR code via a device of the customer to be displayed on the screen of the POS device.

16. The merchant computer system of claim 14 , wherein the QR code contains the token issuing authority identification information configured to be decodable in response to an electronic scan.

17. The merchant computer system of claim 6 , wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, from the token issuing authority, a confirmation that the pending transaction has been processed; and

transmitting, in response to the received confirmation, a transaction receipt to the computing device of the customer.

18. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-readable instructions executable to cause a machine to perform operations comprising:

sending, to a server of a token issuing authority, information pertaining to a pending transaction between a merchant and a customer;

requesting a token to be provided by the server;

obtaining the token from the server, the token containing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that is linked with an electronic address of the server; and

displaying, in response to receiving the token, a computer-readable code corresponding to the token, the computer-readable code having at least the URL or the URI encoded therein.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the computer-readable code has embedded therein: an identifier of the merchant, a transaction amount of the pending transaction, or a currency type of the pending transaction.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the displaying comprises displaying a QR code as the computer-readable code via a Point of Sales (POS) terminal, and wherein the operations further comprise: displaying, via the POS terminal, instructions for electronically scanning the QR code.