Contacting process for online marketplace
View Patent ↗A contacting process for an online marketplace is provided. The contacting process includes scanning a scan-able code in an online marketplace environment running on a handheld device of a user. The scan-able code is associated with a predefined seller of a predefined product. The user automatically login to the online marketplace environment using pre-stored login credentials stored in the handheld device. This enables contact between the user and the predefined seller.
1. A method of establishing a direct communication through an online marketplace of a buyer with a pre-defined seller of a product purchased from the online marketplace comprising:
a. consisting of providing purchasing of the product with a QR code that is both associated directly with an online marketplace contact of the pre-defined seller and compatible with the online marketplace application installed on a handheld device, to the buyer with a login credentials for the online marketplace through a website or an application of the online marketplace installed on a handheld device, wherein the QR code is on the product;
b. consisting of allowing scanning of the QR code, of the product purchased from the online marketplace, using the handheld device with the login credentials, used in purchasing of the product with the QR code, of the online marketplace stored within;
c. allowing the buyer through the online marketplace, from where the product with the QR code was purchased, to initiate a contact with the predefined seller of the product, wherein the buyer initiated contact is a buyer defined message;
d. sending the buyer defined message and linking it to the order information to the predefined seller associated with the QR code scanned in step b.
2. The contacting process as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the contacting process is used to initiate a return of the product.
3. The contacting process as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the contact is initiated to the pre-defined seller nearest to the buyer using the online marketplace.
4. The contacting process as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the buyer defined message received by the pre-defined seller also includes a conversation history with the buyer.