Block, Inc.

Square, Inc.

Roshan Jhunja

Noah Batterson

Christopher Woodyard

Brad Seiler

Marsal Gavalda

Matthew Capers

Matthew O'Connor

Daniel B Meyers

John Joseph LaBanca, Jr

Cynthia Lobb

Justin Van Slembrouck

Megan Karande

Matthew O’Connor

Techniques for obtaining images that are representative of items of inventory are described herein. A service provider may receive transaction data from a plurality of merchants and access visual representation data associated with items in the inventory of the plurality of merchants. The service provider may receive from a merchant an indication of intent to add an item of inventory. A data model is trained that uses the transaction data and the visual representation data. Merchant-facing and customer-facing visual representations for the item are obtained using the data model. An approval user interface is displayed for the merchant to approve use of the visual representations. Based on receiving approval, the merchant-facing image is presented via a merchant-facing user interface and the customer-facing image is presented via a customer-facing user interface.

Intelligent image recommendations

Techniques described herein are directed to transacting via social media interactions. In an example, content posted by a first user of a social media service provider and/or response(s) to the content posted by the first user of the social media service can be analyzed by computing system(s) of a payment processing service provider. The response(s) can be associated with second user(s) of the social media service provider. The computing system(s) can determine, based at least in part on the analyzing, an intent of at least the first user or the second user(s) to participate in a transaction for an item depicted in the content and can create a record indicating that item(s) depicted in the content are available for purchase by the second user(s). The record can be created at or near a time that the content is posted by the first user and used for facilitating the transaction.

Transacting via social media interactions

Techniques described herein are directed to intelligently identifying items for resale based on digital records of past purchases. A computing system of a payment processing service can analyze digital record(s) of a user that are representative of previous purchase(s) of the user. Based at least partly on analyzing the digital record(s), an item previously purchased by the user can be identified as a candidate for resale to another user. The computing system can monitor marketplace(s), and can determine, based at least partly on monitoring the marketplace(s), item information for the item. The computing system can create, based at least partly on the item information, a listing for an ecommerce channel that enables the user to sell the item. The listing can include an actuation mechanism that enables the other user to purchase the item, a transaction for which can be processed by the payment processing service.

Intelligently identifying items for resale

Techniques for identifying images that are representative of items of inventory are described herein. A service provider may receive a description of an item of inventory from a merchant. The service provider may search one or more databases for images representative of the item. The images may include a merchant-facing image used to represent the item on a user interface of a merchant computing device and a customer-facing image used to represent the item to a customer on a user interface of a merchant computing device and/or a customer computing device. The customer-facing image may include an image that is more detailed, accurate, and/or aesthetically pleasing than the merchant-facing image. The service provider may associate the merchant-facing and customer-facing images with the item and may cause the merchant-facing and the customer-facing images to render on displays of the merchant and customer computing devices to represent the item.

Sever-based order persistence and/or fulfillment is described herein. In an example, server(s) associated with a payment processing service may receive, from a point-of-sale (POS) device associated with a merchant, an order associated with at least one item available for purchase from a physical location of the merchant. The server(s) may store the order in a storage data structure. In an example, the server(s) may determine an occurrence of a trigger event and may update a status of the order based at least in part on the trigger event. In some examples, the trigger event may correspond to an interruption in a connection with the POS device, fulfillment of the order, etc. The status of the order can indicate whether the order is to be sent to the POS device, removed from the storage data structure, etc.

Server-based order persistence and/or fulfillment

This disclosure describes techniques for performing intelligent rebalancing of items between physical locations of merchants and replenishment of items for physical locations of merchants. The techniques include the use of a payment service that provides various services for merchants and obtains information associated with transactions of the merchants, employees of the merchants, and vendors of the merchants. Harnessing the information and knowledge associated with the variety of merchants, the payment service may intelligently automate the rebalancing items between physical locations, such as by moving items from a physical location of the merchant with a lower rate of sale to another physical location of the merchant with a higher rate of sale. Similarly, the payment service may intelligently automate replenishment of items by generating orders to have vendors fulfill needed quantities of items at locations of merchants.

Intelligent inventory management

Sever-based order persistence and/or fulfillment is described herein. Server(s) associated with a payment processing service may receive, from a first point-of-sale (POS) device located at a first physical location of a merchant, a record identifying an item that a customer intends to purchase from the merchant. The server(s) may change an inventory status of a data item corresponding to the item in an inventory data structure associated with an inventory of the merchant to indicate that the item is reserved for the customer. Subsequently, the server(s) may receive, from a second POS device remotely located from the first POS device, a request for the item and may determine that the inventory status of the data item indicates that the item is reserved for the customer. The server(s) may manage the inventory such to enable the merchant to determine how to fulfill the multiple requests from multiple disparately located customers.

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Scarsdale, NY, United States of America

Roshan Jhunja