receipt-examples

Receipt

Overview of Receipt exploratory discussion goes here...

The Problem

The ability to securely purchase items through a web browser has created a large number of sites that contain the entire purchasing process online. It is common that a customer selects the items that they want to buy, a bill is displayed, a purchase occurs and finally a receipt is displayed to the customer. Currently, it is difficult for a computer to understand when a bill is displayed, when a receipt is displayed and what items are a part of that bill or receipt.

Typically, receipts are e-mailed to customers. It would be helpful if there was a better way to extract the receipt data from a website and process it using another piece of software. It would also be beneficial for other Microformats to be able to display a bill or receipt as part of their content. hListing, and hProduct, hAudio are a three examples of Microformats that could use a bill/receipt Microformat.

Real-World Examples

Bills

Bills are pre-purchase items.

Receipts

Receipts are post-purchase items.

• Amazon
  • Example
  • contains: email address, total, order id, shipping method, shipping preference, subtotal price, shipping and handling price, discount price, shipping estimate, delivery estimate, item quantities, item names

Existing Practices

Listed below is an overview of existing patterns and practices found in the wild for bill and receipt data.