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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2017
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Bradley Joseph Kieffer, Rogers, AR (US);
Charles David Berry, Fayetteville, AR (US);
Mark Matthews, Rogers, AR (US);
WALMART APOLLO, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
A refund processing system and method for automatically processing refunds to a mobile payment account of a customer is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving sales transaction information from a transaction records database, in response to a request from a point of sale device when a refund for an item is initiated, transmitting the sales transaction information to calculate an amount of funds to be refunded to a payment instrument, detecting that the payment instrument is not valid while attempting to apply the refund, and determining whether an electronic gift card is currently associated with the mobile payment account of the customer, and if so, applying the refund to the electronic gift card, and if not, creating a new electronic gift card and applying the amount of funds to the new electronic gift card.