A method is provided for effecting transactions across multiple vendors in
an integrated environment, wherein the user may purchase each of a
plurality of items the user finds independent of the vendors. The user's
selections are received from the user and mapped to a selected set of
vendors. When the user is finished, she invokes a check-out application
to fill in one or many order entry forms for each of the relevant vendors
whose goods the user selected during the course of shopping. The
check-out application uses common information, such as name, address and
credit card number, previously provided by the user in order to fill in
the order entry forms for each vendor without requiring the user to fill
in these forms. Finally, the check-out application tracks confirmation
numbers in a common information store.