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English translation: per-item purchasing

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French term or phrase:	achat à l'acte
English translation:	per-item purchasing
Entered by:	Andrew Levine

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01:12 Jun 19, 2007

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Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general)

French term or phrase: achat à l'acte

From a list of fees relating to operating an online Shop:

"Frais de raccordement de la Boutique
(comprenant la fonctionnalité achat à l'acte) "

What is "achat à l'acte"?

Thanks in advance

Andrew Levine KudoZ activity Questions: 57 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (6 closed without grading) Answers: 191 United States
Local time: 01:47

per-item purchasing

Explanation:
No need to make a subscription.

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Note added at 44 mins (2007-06-19 01:57:27 GMT)
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(Apologies to MR. Didn't see previous post as I was researching.)

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Note added at 46 mins (2007-06-19 01:58:51 GMT)
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Threshold billing - Patent EP1548671- This is commonly referred to as per-item purchasing which is the conventional method employed today. One example of this is purchasing an online greeting ...
www.freepatentsonline.com/EP1548671.html

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Note added at 49 mins (2007-06-19 02:02:12 GMT)
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Paiement en ligne
La solution de paiement s'adapte aux modèles de vente des éditeurs de contenus et de services en ligne (à l'acte, à la durée, sur abonnement ou au volume)

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Robert Frankling
Local time: 00:47

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3 +2

per-item purchasing

Robert Frankling

one-off purchase

M Rushworth

pay-per-item

Conor McAuley

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33 mins confidence:

one-off purchase

Explanation:
From experience, 'achat à l'acte' is a payment or purchase that stands in contrast to subscription. I.e. in the case of a newspaper or magazine, it would be a single purchase from a newsagent or bookstore, rather than a longer term subscription.

Reference: http://www.lesechos.fr/pratique/cgu-non-prof.htm

M Rushworth
Local time: 06:47
Works in field
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English

43 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

per-item purchasing

Robert Frankling
Local time: 00:47
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 49

6 hrs confidence:

achat à l\'acte pay-per-item

Explanation:
Compare with pay-per-view.

As opposed to bulk buying, in the case of purchasing companies' financial records over the internet - most companies offer, say, 40 records for a fixed sum, but very few offer pay-per-unit or pay-per-item, or unitary billing.

A partir de là, qu’on s’en félicite ou qu’on s’en plaigne, il a fallu trouver une solution de paiement pour le PPV (achat à l’acte- Pay Per View). ...
www.w-ha.com/new.php3?id_article=63

pay-per-use?

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http://www.proz.com/kudoz/46887

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/274118

Depends exactly what the products are too.

Conor McAuley
France
Local time: 07:47
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 91

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