An electronic wallet including is made available to a user and is capable
of storing a wide variety of different types of accounts (including both
payment accounts and traditional credit card accounts). An identification
of the different accounts corresponding to a user is displayed to the
user and the user is allowed to manipulate these accounts. The electronic
wallet also allows the user to combine funds from multiple different
accounts into a single account. This combination allows the interface on
a merchant server to be designed to accommodate a single account without
concern for what types of accounts a user may wish to combine.
Furthermore, in accordance with one aspect, when the user is purchasing
goods and/or services from a merchant on-line, only those accounts that
are useable at the merchant are presented as being available to the user.