Zero integration model for e-commerce merchants
View Patent ↗Solutions for e-commerce merchants that allow such merchants to interact with buyers in foreign jurisdictions are disclosed. More specifically, solutions are presented that provide an intermediation service that operates to provide variants of e-commerce (or other) Web sites in a local language of a visitor to such site, such variants including facilities to accept payments for goods or services in the currencies and/or payment forms of the foreign jurisdiction and to provide the e-commerce merchant with required shipment documents to assist in order fulfillment.
1. An electronic commerce system comprising:
a server that hosts a merchant page of a merchant, the merchant page including product information in a first language, and payment information related to one or more products associated with the product information, the payment information being in a first currency associated with the merchant; and
an intermediation server comprising at least one programmable processor connected with the server and a client computer by a network, the intermediation server hosting a localized version of the merchant page and configured to receive address information of a user of the client computer that connects with the merchant page on the server, the intermediation server further configured to receive at least a portion of the merchant page, translate at least some product information of the portion of the merchant page from the first language to a second language associated with the user of the client computer, convert the payment information from the first currency to a second currency associated with the address information of the user, and provide the localized version of the merchant page to the client computer with the product information in the second language and the payment information in the second currency when the client computer is connected with the server to query the merchant page.
2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a code module provided in the footer of the merchant page, the code module including a currency converter to convert the first currency into the second currency.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the merchant page is further configured to receive destination information from the user of the client computer, and the intermediation server is further configured to calculate a landed cost for an international shipment to a destination based on the destination information.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the server includes a toolbar generator that generates a toolbar that can be downloaded with the merchant page to the client computer.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the server is further configured to translate selected text from a first language to a second language, based at least in part on a location associated with the client computer.
6. A method for executing international commerce, the method comprising:
providing, by at least one first programmable processor to a client computer via a network, a web page including product information in a first language and payment information related to one or more products associated with the product information, the payment information being in a first currency associated with the merchant;
hosting, by at least one second programmable processor, a localized version of the web page;
receiving, by the at least one second programmable processor, address information of a user of the client computer;
receiving, by the at least one second programmable processor hosting the localized version of the web page, at least a portion of the web page being served to the client computer;
translating, by the at least one second programmable processor, at least some product information of the portion of the web page from the first language to a second language associated with the user of the client computer;
converting, by the at least one second programmable processor, the payment information from the first currency to a second currency associated with the address information of the user; and
providing, by the at least one second programmable processor via the network, the localized version of the web page to the client computer with the product information in the second language and the payment information in the second currency when the client computer is connected with the server to query the web page.
7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
calculating, by the at least one second programmable processor, a landed cost for international shipment of a purchased product; and
displaying, by the at least one second programmable processor, the landed cost on a page with the second currency.
8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising automatically generating, by the at least one second programmable processor, processor, an international package forwarder request.
9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising transmitting, by the at least one second programmable processor, the international package forwarder request to a selected international package forwarder.
10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising tracking, by the at least one second programmable processor, a shipment of the purchased product.