hardware and software that controls and monitors fuel dispensers, fuel dispensing systems; fuel dispensing system comprised of computer hardware and software for controlling and monitoring fuel dispensers; computer software platform for use in acquiring and storing customer information entered at a fuel dispenser including customer identification and information and vessel to be fueled identification information; automation control systems for fuel dispensing systems capable of transmitting information via the worldwide web, namely, computer hardware and software that controls and monitors fuel dispensers; fuel pump controls computer software for database management; computer software for accounting management and inventory control and ordering management; computer apparatus for fuel dispensers for automatically recording the cost and quantity of fuel dispensed and the recipient of the fuel dispensed; apparatus for controlling fuel dispensers including software for recording and documenting persons accessing a fuel dispenser and for documenting the vessel the fuel was dispensed into; report generating software for preparing reports that present transactional information related to the dispensing of fuel by the fuel dispenser