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 (could not find in examples)
  • date of order
  • order id
  • shipments
    • shipping estimate
    • delivery estimate
    • shipping address
    • shipping speed
    • shipping preference (item grouping)
    • items
      • quantity
      • seller
      • price
      • item information
  • payment
    • card type
    • last 5 digits
    • expiration date
    • billing address
    • subtotal
    • shipping and handling price
    • total before tax
    • tax
    • grand total
  • discount price (could not find in examples)
• Little semantic HTML of interest, except an anchor with id "payment-info"

Existing Practices

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