Abstract: Disclosed is a merchant web service module arranged to communicate with a client device and an inventory system to provide a product list of vendible e-products and workflows associated with the vendible e-products to the client device, and to facilitate execution of a workflow to order an e-product by: i) receiving data indicative of a desired e-product from the client device, ii) sending an order message comprising data indicative of the desired e-product to a transacting host, iii) receiving data indicative of the actual e-product from the transacting host, iv) converting the data indicative of the actual e-product to a format neutral file that is indicative of the actual e-product, and v) and sending the format neutral file to the client device for conversion to and output of an actual e-product. A method of vending an e-product is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for controlling usage of one or more acquirer tokens stored within a merchant system. The method comprises receiving a payment request to make a payment corresponding to a user account having associated therewith an acquirer token that enables payment to be made by communication of the acquirer token to an acquirer system, determining whether to allow the payment to be made by communicating the acquirer token to the acquirer system based on whether a payment channel via which the payment request is received is authorised for use of the acquirer token, and communicating the acquirer token to the acquirer system upon a positive determination to allow the payment.