Kendra Payment Trial

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Kendra Payment Trial

• Romek Szczesniak
• Spiky Black Cat Records
• romek_at_spikyblackcat.co.uk

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What You Submit to an E-Commerce Site

• You send
• Name John Smith
• Address 1 Here Street, London AB1 2CD
• Credit Card Number lt12-Figure Numbergt
• Expiry Date 01/99
• And
• Purchase Details.

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What an E-Commerce Site Gives You Now

• Catalogue of Pretty Pictures for you to Window
  Shop
• Shopping Basket to Place What You Buy
• Credit Card Form
• Confirmation Page
• And
• A web server certificate (https) to guarantee
  the shop is who they say they are and so that
  your credit card details are not eavesdropped.

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How Shopping Works Now
If the item(s) are out of stock, the customer is
told we dont have any and the customer has to
actively look elsewhere. The customer needs to
know what type of goods the store is selling How
can we do this better?
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Using Kendra for E-Commerce
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Advantages of This Method
Can get hard-to-find items if they are available
online Allows customer to prioritise for price,
delivery time, quality, etc. Makes e-commerce
sites have to attract the customer rather than
the customer being stuck in a site till they
buy or quit.
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What we Need to Make it Work

• E-Commerce Sites to make their catalogues public
• E-Commerce Sites to accept batch requests for
  items
• Customers to provide how they wish to select
  items
• From this, we can obtain a level of E-Commerce
  which seamlessly allows various shops to be used
  when a customer has a set of items to purchase.
• A simple example on price selection in this
  manner was provided by Kelkoo (http//www.kelkoo.c
  o.uk)

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How this Works in Practice A Typical
E-Shopping List