US Patent 11915291 Methods and systems for determining variance between criteria

A computer-implemented method may include receiving a customer submission for a vehicle from a customer device, the customer submission including a plurality of customer criteria; receiving a request from the customer device to provide the customer submission to a merchant device; and receiving a reply from the merchant device, the reply including a plurality of merchant criteria. The computer-implemented method also may include determining a variance between the customer criteria and the merchant criteria, and transmitting, to the merchant device, at least one of the variance or the customer criteria.