Abstract: Methods for distributing rewards to buyers purchasing products on online marketplaces, including providing a rewards servers storing community ledgers and seller ledgers, receiving orders from buyers to sellers, receiving from sellers selections of either community-directed awards or seller-directed awards, incrementing seller-specific point balances if sellers selected seller-directed awards, and incrementing community-wide point balances if the seller selected community-directed awards. Some examples may include only community ledgers and no seller ledgers. Some examples may additionally or alternatively include reading scanned identification data with a community identification reader.

Abstract: Community-based e-commerce methods for providing a buyer with a set of local retailers affiliated with a selected community and offering a desired type of product. Methods may include storing retailer data including retailer records including retailer affiliation data and retailer location data, receiving into the data storage unit with the central processing unit buyer preference data from the buyer including a desired affiliation and a desired location, selecting with the central processing unit a retailer record from the retailer data, the selected retailer record having retailer affiliation data consistent with the desired retailer affiliation and retailer location data consistent with the desired retailer location, and displaying the selected retailer record. In some embodiments, methods may additionally or alternatively include social networking features.

Abstract: Method for a seller to offer a product to a buyer on an online electronic commerce system implemented on a networked computer system including a central processing unit, and a shared data storage cooperating with the central processing unit. The method may include the steps of establishing a daily supply associated with the product and a daily availability associated with the seller, selecting an interval length, defining a time interval of the interval length, the time interval occurring within the daily availability, associating an interval supply associated with the product available within the time interval, and offering the product for purchase during the selected time interval. In some examples, the products may be goods; in some others the products may be services.

Abstract: A method for online electronic commerce including defining, by a processing unit executing logic, vendor parameters for each at least one of goods and services offered by each vendor, receiving consumer search queries, comparing, with the processing unit executing logic, the vendor parameters with the consumer search queries, and displaying to the consumers for purchase consideration the vendor parameters compatible with the consumer search queries. In some examples, the vendor parameters include a vendor defined product category, a product description, and one or more of local pickup parameters and local delivery parameters. In some examples, the consumer search queries include a consumer desired product category and one or more of local pickup preferences and local delivery preferences.