Abstract: Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of systems and methods for use in facilitating interactions between merchants and consumers. In an exemplary embodiment, a method generally includes receiving a request to initiate a transaction at a merchant for a product offered for sale by the merchant, where the request includes a credential for a payment account associated with a consumer. The method also includes assigning an order indicia to the request, and appending the order indicia to an authorization request associated with the transaction. The order indicia provides an indication relative to other transactions at the merchant of when the product will be ready for delivery by the merchant. The method further includes transmitting a notification to the consumer, via a communication device associated with the payment account, indicating the order indicia, whereby the consumer is able to claim the product associated with the transaction consistent with the order indicia.

Abstract: An optical inspection system inspects individual sheets having scrolled and unscrolled edges for defects in a production line with high transfer velocities. Each of the individual sheets are delivered in a production line with some spacing between them and potentially with some degree of skewness and offset from the production center line. The inspection system of the present invention utilizes a formed viewing window over which individual sheets from the production line are delivered. As each sheet is delivered over the formed viewing window, the undersurface of each individual sheet is uniformly and continuously illuminated along the length of the formed viewing window with high intensity diffused light. The reflected light from the surface of each moving individual sheet is captured by at least one video camera. As the sheet moves across the formed viewing window, a line-by-line video image is captured and stored according to a rectangularization technique which eliminates the need for customized masks.