Upselling offerings to customers

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus where information relating to products and services offered by various vendors may be offered for sale to customers via computing devices owned by those customers. Products and services offered to a particular customer may be related to a product previously purchased by that customer or be related to a product that a customer has access to. In certain instances, a product that a customer has access to may include a tag, such as a circuit, a chip, or printed matter that may provide information to an electronic device of a customer. After the customer's device received the information provided by the product tag, other products or services related to the tagged product may be received by the customer device.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for providing offerings to customers, the method comprising:
 receiving information relating to a plurality of different products offered by a plurality of different vendors over a network interface;   storing the information relating to the plurality of different products offered by the plurality of different vendors; and   sending a software application to a user device, wherein the software application sent to the user device includes information that associates at least one product to at least one other product of the plurality of different products and with at least one vendor of the plurality of different vendors, wherein:
 the user device receives information relating to the at least one other product of the plurality of different products based on the at least one other product being associated with the at least one product, 
 the user of the user device orders the at least one other product via a user interface at the user device, and 
 the at least one vendor of the plurality of different vendors fulfills the order of the at least one other product ordered by the user of the user device.