A system for coordinating business transactions between multiple vendors
of consumer products, referred to herein as selling vendors and shipping
vendors. This system includes an electronic device for allowing a
consumer to access a selling vendor's website, at least one server
connected to the selling vendor's website for receiving purchase-related
information from the consumer and sending and receiving information to
and from the system, at least one server connected to the shipping
vendor's business network for receiving and sending communications from
and to the system, and a transaction coordination hub connected to the
selling vendor's server and the shipping vendor's server for coordinating
transactions between the selling vendor and the shipping vendor. The
transaction coordination hub further includes a catalog subcomponent for
storing detailed vendor-related data and a transaction coordinator
software subcomponent for coordinating transactions between the selling
vendors and the shipping vendors.