Abstract: A system is provided for delivering a message and/or offer to consumers at the POS terminal by communicating through electronic displays and/or printing the message and/or offer onto a customer receipt tape that shows the items, totals, and payment made during a shopping event. The message and/or offer communicated to the consumer is gathered from a database which contains a plurality of promotional materials including promotional messages, advertisement, discount coupons, and offers. The system provides the enabled retailers and offer distributors with the ability to send an offer communication for cents-off, discounts, and other promotional messages so that it can be displayed and/or printed directly onto the receipt tape itself through the point of sale (POS) terminal in use.

Abstract: A method for handling the redemption, clearing and settlement of individually targeted offers includes the steps of compiling a database of offers, accessing the database with at least one point of sale (POS) system, providing the POS system(s) with a redemption engine for validating offers to be made to a consumer while a sales transaction is being processed, using the redemption engine to determine whether conditions of any offer have been satisfied and providing a reward associated with the offer to the consumer if the conditions have been satisfied, scanning at least one printed coupon presented by the consumer during the sales transaction with a coupon reading device, validating each printed coupon offer using the redemption engine, and providing a reward to the consumer if the redemption engine determines that the conditions of the printed coupon offer(s) have been satisfied.

Abstract: A system and a method for handling the redemption, clearing and settlement of a large number of individually targeted offers is provided. The method broadly comprises the steps of compiling a database of electronic offers, allowing access to the database by at least one point of sale system, providing said at least one point of sale system with a redemption engine for validating at least one offer to be made to a consumer while a sales transaction is being processed by the at least one point of sale system, identifying a consumer and a sales transaction event involving the consumer, determining whether electronically stored conditions of any offer available to the consumer and stored on the database have been satisfied using the redemption engine, and providing a reward to the consumer at the at least one point of sale system if the electronically stored conditions of the offer have been satisfied.