One-stop price comparison service with purchase mediation mechanism

Abstract

There are a lot of shopping sites on the Internet. Each shopping site provides different sales conditions to customers. Therefore, customers should visit many of the sites to find a product with the best offer. To resolve such inconvenience, the price comparison service has emerged. It provides the information of products and their price, gathered from catalogs of diverse shipping sites. It enables customers to reduce purchasing time and helps them make decisions on the purchase easily. However, the price comparison service so far does not serve as mediator in purchasing. So customers should visit original shopping sites to actually buy goods. This does not allow customers to buy multiple products at a time. To solve this problem, price comparison service needs purchase mediation mechanism. The one-stop price comparison service with purchase mediation mechanism is proposed. This price comparison service can provide real one-stop shopping to customers. As a purchase mediation mechanism, Form Data Forwarding Mechanism is proposed.