Abstract: A facilitator supports numerous organizations that supply personal services by providing infrastructure and a management interface for controlling and customizing the infrastructure. The infrastructure includes databases, a web site, scheduling tools, and sales tools. The sales tools can offer both personal services and goods, such as shampoo or lotion. The personal services can be purchased for direct use by the purchaser or as a gift to a recipient. The recipient can receive a gift certificate electronically, through the mail, or delivered by hand. A traveling client can select an organization far from home based on proximity or availability.

Abstract: A facilitator supports numerous organizations that supply personal services by providing infrastructure and a management interface for controlling and customizing the infrastructure. The infrastructure includes databases, a web site, scheduling tools, and sales tools. The sales tools can offer both personal services and goods, such as shampoo or lotion. The personal services can be purchased for direct use by the purchaser or as a gift to a recipient. The recipient can receive a gift certificate electronically, through the mail, or delivered by hand. A traveling client can select an organization far from home based on proximity or availability.

Abstract: A facilitator, such as SpaBoom, can provide an organization, such as a health spa, with an instant gift certificate capability. The organization instantly recognizes revenue on instant gift certificates that contain customized terms and conditions based on the organization's jurisdiction. The facilitator's web site can provide the organization with online tools for designing an instant gift certificate offer page and for designing the instant gift certificates themselves. Alternatively, the facilitator can provide a back end processing capability while the organization produces all, or some of, the web pages and related graphics.