Abstract: The clearing system comprises an affiliate linkage process means which sends a clearing completion notice, including the clearing information on the cost of the commodity purchased by a user at the shop site, to the affiliate sales system in accordance with the billing API while receiving the compensation information including the compensation to be paid from the affiliate sales system to the affiliates in accordance with the billing API, and performs the process of transferring to the shop account of the shop site the balance of the cost of the commodity from which the compensation is deducted; and the affiliate sales system comprises a clearing linkage process means which receives a clearing completion notice from the clearing system in accordance with the billing API while determining the compensation based on the clearing information and returning the compensation information to the clearing system.

Abstract: It is an object to provide an affiliate marketing system that automatically guides users to a seller's Web page and does not cause an oversight of a reward payment to an affiliater. A server of an affiliate marketing system is comprised of a guide link generating means that regards an affiliate ID for the identification of an affiliater and a product ID for the identification of a product as an argument URL and that generates URI, information as a guide link in which the argument URL is added to a URL of the affiliate marketing system and the argument URL, and an address converting means that responds to a click operation of the guide link and that carries out an address conversion of an accessed URL of a user terminal device that has done the click operation from the URL of the affiliate marketing system to the URL of the seller's Web page.

Abstract: A mail magazine delivery system is customized to suit categories that a user desires, by containing in the contents to be delivered as a mail magazine an option to select future mail delivery and giving the user a choice as to future mail delivery. User terminals and a delivery server for delivering mail contents are connected to each other through an electronic communication medium. The delivery server has a users database, a contents database, a contents selection means, an option insertion means, a mail generation means, a management server sending/receiving means, and an option determination means.