Groupon, Inc.
CONSUMER BOOKING AVAILABILITY ENGINE

Abstract:

A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for receiving redemption selections from a consumer and scheduling redemption of a promotion. The method includes presenting one or more promotions for products or services offered by a merchant, and receiving an indication of a selection, by a consumer, of a promotion from the one or more promotions. The method further includes presenting one or more time slots based on predicted booking limits of a set of time slots including the one or more time slots, receiving a selection of a time slot from the one or more time slots, determining merchant time slot availability for the selected time slot, and scheduling a time slot for redeeming the promotion based on the determined merchant time slot availability. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.