Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating product management can associate a code with product information and a product life-cycle. The code can be associated with a product and affixed to the product, for example, by printing the code on the product or a packing of the product. Users of the product can initiate an action included in the product life-cycle by using an electronic device to take a picture of the code texting the picture to the disclosed system. The system will process the code and determine a next action in the product life-cycle. For example, a user can take an image of a code and text it to the system to initiate a product registration process.

Abstract: A method for an e-commerce payment transaction to be processed by dynamically selecting at run-time, a third-party payment-processing gateway account, based on one or more rules and their attributes. An authorized system administrator configures and stores the rules and their attributes in a rules database for each third-party payment gateway. The system automatically selects the correct third-payment processing gateway account to be used for each by transaction by matching the pre-configured rules and their attributes against the properties of the payment transaction. The payment transaction is processed using the selected third-party payment gateway and is recorded in the e-commence platform payment processing database.

Abstract: A method and system to dynamically instantiate and manipulate objects using string and math operations while rendering an email in a web-application server. The method takes directives from the administrator on the objects to instantiate and manipulations to perform using a template language. The administrator can configure manipulation such as finding lengths of strings, sub-strings, addition, subtraction, division, multiplication and modulus operations. The method provides a highly flexible method of determining and rendering the content of the message at run-time.