JP2001273440A - Region oriented mail order sale system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a novel mail order sale system which enhances the probability of a client connected to a mail order sale site to really order an article. SOLUTION: A home page on the Internet is opened/provided on one or each of plural region oriented service providing facilities 6a, 6b and 6c (6). Each of one or plural virtual stores for selling articles capable of mail order sale is provided as a web site and the home page to be provided to the service providing facility 6 and the web site of each of one or plural virtual stores for selling the article related to a service to be provided by that service providing facility 6 are linked. When each of users 7a, 7b and 7c of the service providing facilities 6 orders the article through the order button of the virtual store linked with each of home pages by a connection to that home page, information on the ordered article and the orderer is transmitted to each of sellers 8a, 8b and 8c of the ordered article.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a community-based mail-order sales system, and more particularly, to the use of an open communication network typified by the Internet to sell goods with a user of a community-based service providing facility. And a community-based mail-order system that mediates with consumers.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as mail-order sales using the Internet, a company or an individual conducting mail-order sales establishes a virtual store on a homepage of the Internet, and a customer connected to the homepage places an order for a desired product via the Internet. However, in this type of mail-order sales, the ability to attract customers to a specific mail-order site is weak, and customers are given a specific mail-order from a large number of homepages scattered around the world. The probability of selecting and connecting to a homepage operated by the selling entity was extremely low. Also,
Even if the customer connects to the homepage as the mail-order site, the type of product desired by the customer does not match the type of product provided by the mail-order site, and the customer does not make any purchases, and the homepage is not displayed. In many cases, the connection with was disconnected.

[0003] Therefore, a mail order selling company registers for a fee on a virtual shopping street or a mail order site of a famous search page, or pastes an advertisement called a banner advertisement on a famous site, so that the company can sell it for a while. They are working to increase their access to online mail-order sites, but some are still not enough. In addition, the problem of mismatch between the product desired by the customer and the product provided by the mail order site remains, and the inconvenience that the actual number of orders is smaller than the number of connections to the mail order site has not been solved.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the problems of the prior art as described above.
A new communication that can guide customers to the mail-order site so that the number of connections to the mail-order site increases significantly, and increase the probability that customers connected to the mail-order site actually order products. It is an object to provide a sales system.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems by providing a means for establishing and providing a homepage on the Internet to each of one or more of service providing facilities closely related to an area, and a mail-order sales of products. Means for receiving information about mail-orderable products from one or more sellers;
Means for providing one or more virtual stores for selling products that can be mailed and sold based on the received information as websites, homepages provided to service providing facilities, and selling products related to services provided by the service providing facilities When a user of the service providing facility connects to each homepage and places an order through the order button of the virtual store linked to the homepage, the linking means has a means of linking the web site of one or more virtual stores to the web site. Another object of the present invention is to provide a community-based mail-order system including means for transmitting information on ordered goods and the orderer to a seller of the ordered goods via a transmission medium.

That is, according to the community-based mail-order system of the present invention, for example, a homepage on the Internet is established and provided at a service providing facility closely connected to the community, such as a golf driving range or a cooking class, and the homepage is provided through the homepage. By always providing information on the driving range and cooking class, it is expected that users of the driving range and cooking class will connect to the website, and at the same time, the website of the driving range or class will be By setting a link to the website of the virtual store for products related to the food or the dishes, the users connected to the respective homepages can go to the website of the virtual store that sells the related products. Can be induced. In addition, golf driving range and cooking class users are a group with common interests and interests such as golf or cooking, so golf related products,
Alternatively, it is highly probable that a product related to a dish is purchased, and the probability that a visit to the virtual store leads to an actual order of the product is also extremely high. An order for a product is made through an order button provided in a virtual store. When a user places an order for a product that the user wants to purchase, for example, by clicking an order button, information on the ordered product and the orderer is transmitted through a transmission medium. Sent to the seller of the ordered product. Naturally, this order information is also recorded as a record on the website of the virtual store, and can be used for calculating a system usage fee for the seller of the product.

The community-based mail-order system of the present invention is provided with a means for receiving information on mail-orderable merchandise from one or more sellers who wish to mail-order the merchandise. It is possible to determine, for each product, whether to link the web site of the virtual store to the homepage of various types of service providing facilities. on the other hand,
It is desirable that the service providing facilities close to the community are also divided into one or more provided service groups according to the type of service provided by each service providing facility,
By associating the classified service groups with products that can be mailed and sold based on the received product information, the products should be handled on the website of the virtual store linked to the homepage of the service providing facility of any group. Can be determined for each product.

With the above-described configuration, according to the community-based mail-order system of the present invention, they provide community-based service providing facilities such as a driving range and a cooking class, which are scattered in various places. Localized service providers can set up their own homepages, since they can be bundled based on the type of service and linked to the websites of one or more virtual stores that sell related products. However, the number of homepages linked by links to the virtual store website is overwhelmingly greater than in the case where mail-order sales websites are individually set up on the homepage, and customers connecting to the virtual store website It has the characteristic that the number is extremely large. In addition, since the probability of actual purchase is high, it is possible to provide a mail-order sales system that is extremely efficient, attractive, and powerful.

In the community-based mail-order system of the present invention, it is desirable to provide a means for maintaining and managing the opened and provided homepage based on information from each service providing facility. Maintain a homepage on the contact-type mail order system,
By managing, it is possible to make a homepage always attractive and to increase the frequency of connection to each homepage from a user. The homepage referred to in the present invention is not limited to a homepage in a narrow sense as an entrance page of a related web page, but also a local service-providing facility or a local community maintained and managed by the community-based mail-order system of the present invention. It also refers to the entire related web page linked by the same theme of a close-contact service providing facility.

[0010] The service providing facilities in close contact with the area targeted by the present invention include, for example, the above-mentioned golf practice ranges and cooking classes, sports facilities such as golf courses, tennis clubs, horse riding clubs, health clubs, and tea ceremonies. , Flower arrangement, dance, dance, dressing, etc., beauty salons, barbers, aesthetic salons, etc., and these service facilities always have a building as a facility that actually provides such services Needless to say, naturally, there is a case where a service is provided only when a service is provided, such as renting an existing building.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of a community-based mail-order system of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes an operator of a community-based mail order system of the present invention.
It has a virtual store server 2 and a storage device 3 connected to the virtual store server 2. A homepage server 4 is connected to the virtual shop server 2 and to the Internet network 5. The connection between the homepage server 4 and the virtual shop server 2 may be a direct line connection as shown in the figure or a connection via the network 5. The virtual store server 2 and the homepage server 4 may be separate as shown in the figure, or one computer may have the functions of both servers.
The homepage server 4 may be managed by the system operator 1 as shown, or may be managed by another provider or the like.

Reference numerals 6a, 6b and 6c denote service providing facilities, such as a golf driving range and a cooking class, which are close to the area. Although only three are shown in the illustrated example, the number is not limited to three and may be many. Of course, it may be. The system operator 1 has a service providing facility 6
a, 6b, and 6c explain the advantages of the system and prompt the establishment of a homepage, and provide service providing facilities 6a, 6b, and 6
If c agrees, a contract or the like is concluded, and a homepage is opened in the homepage server 4 for each service providing facility. The established homepage is sent to the user terminals 7a, 7b, 7 by the homepage server 4.
c via the network 5. Although only three user terminals 7a, 7b, and 7c are shown in the illustrated example, the number of user terminals is not limited to three, and it goes without saying that there are usually many more.

The system operator 1 assigns a code representing the service provided by each service-providing facility that has established a homepage to the storage device together with information on the service-providing facility and information on the established homepage. 3 is stored. At this time, from the viewpoint that related products are common or similar, it is preferable that a plurality of services be grouped into a provided service group, and a code indicating the provided service group be used as a code indicating a provided service.

It is desirable that at least one terminal for demonstration is installed in each service providing facility so that facility users can connect to the established homepage at any time. The maintenance and management of the homepage, under the guidance of the system operator 1, the service providing facilities 6a, 6b,
The service providing facility 6c can do it by itself.
It is also possible for the system operator 1 to perform the operations on behalf of a, 6b, 6c. However, even when the system operator 1 maintains and manages the homepage, the service providing facilities 6a, 6b, and 6c themselves are required for the information unique to each service providing facility and the regional information where each service providing facility is located. It is desirable to update the homepage independently while receiving the guidance of the system operator 1 according to the above. For this purpose, it is preferable to install one terminal for updating the homepage in each service providing facility 6a, 6b, 6c. desirable.

[0016] The information posted on the homepage includes:
There is no particular limitation as long as the service providing facility connected to the homepage is of interest to the user. For example, if the service providing facility is a golf driving range, golf-related information, the use of the driving range, reception of reservations In the case of a cooking class, cooking recipes, classroom schedules, and the like can be mentioned.

Reference numerals 8a, 8b, and 8c denote sellers of products for which mail order is desired. Although only three are shown in the illustrated example, the number of sellers is not limited to three. It is. The system operator 1 is the sellers 8a, 8
It is desirable to make a contract or the like in advance with b, 8c, and from the contracted sellers 8a, 8b, 8c, the product name, price, quantity, genre, seller name, and merchandise dispatch for the product desired for mail order sales Information such as a method and a payment method is provided to the system operator 1 through, for example, a network 5. The provision of the merchandise information from the sellers 8a, 8b, 8c may be performed by telephone, facsimile, electronic mail, or the like. In addition, the product for which mail order is desired may be not only a specific product but also a service such as a facility reservation.

The provided product information is stored in the storage device 3. At the time of storage in the storage device 3, it is preferable that a code indicating a service providing facility or a provided service group suitable for each product is attached based on the provided product information, and stored together with the code. The virtual store server 2 automatically assigns a code indicating the appropriate service providing facility or provided service group to each product based on a correspondence table between the service providing facility or provided service group and the product created in advance. When new merchandise information that cannot be automatically determined by the virtual store server 2 is provided, a human judges and inputs the same and updates the correspondence table.

The code indicating the service providing facility or service group suitable for each product can be obtained by notifying the sellers 8a, 8b, 8c in advance of the information on the service providing facility or provided service group to the sellers 8a, 8b, 8c. 8c.

[0020] As the number of service providing facilities for opening a homepage increases or fluctuates, the types of virtual stores that can be provided on the homepage and the types of products to be handled also change, so the types of virtual stores that can be provided on the homepage It is desirable to always provide the information about the products and the products handled to the sellers 8a, 8b, 8c through the network 5 or the like. As the number of service facilities that open websites increases and fluctuates,
As a matter of course, the sign indicating the service providing facility or the provided service group also increases or fluctuates.
If the sellers 8a, 8b, and 8c add a code indicating a service providing facility or a provided service group, information on the fluctuations is provided to the sellers 8a, 8b, and 8c each time.
Need to be informed.

The system operator 1 has a virtual shop server 2
Is used to read a list of products that can be mail-ordered from the storage device 3 and, based on the code indicating the appropriate service providing facility or service group attached to each product,
Set links to virtual stores that handle the corresponding products in the appropriate homepages.

On the other hand, the users 7a, 7b and 7c connected to the homepage of the target service providing facility through the Internet network 5 obtain information about each service providing facility and local information through the homepage and paste the information on the homepage. You are invited to the linked virtual store by the button. The virtual store has an order page along with an introduction page for various products. The user decides to purchase the product, enters the purchaser's name and other necessary items, and finally clicks the order button etc. And select, information such as the buyer name and purchased products
It is transmitted to the seller of the ordered product via a transmission medium such as the Internet.

The method of payment and the method of delivery of goods can be performed in the same manner as ordinary mail-order sales using the Internet. However, when using the community-based mail-order system of the present invention, there is a service providing facility between the purchaser of the product and the seller, so the settlement of the price and the delivery of the product are performed through the service providing facility. May be performed.

The information, such as the purchaser name and the purchased product, transmitted to the seller is also sent to the virtual store server 2, where it is processed and processed for each service-providing facility and each seller who ordered the purchase of the product. , The quantity and the amount of money are stored in the storage device 3.
It is used to calculate the commission returned to a, 6b, and 6c.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to Examples, but it is needless to say that the present invention is not limited to those shown in these Examples.

Embodiment 1 FIG. 2 shows an example of a homepage of a golf driving range established by the community-based mail-order system of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the first page of the home page is largely described as “XYZ golf driving range home page” as a title, and “notice”, “your page”,
There are buttons for "Local News", "Internet Golf School", "Latest Golf Information", "Golf Related Links", and a "Shopping Corner" button with a rather large and prominent character on the right. A user of the driving range can connect to such a homepage through a terminal installed at the driving range or a personal computer at home or the like.

The "notices" and "local news" are corners that provide information managed and managed by the driving range, such as information from the driving range, free space information, and regional information. Is performed by the golf driving range after a key such as a password is passed from the system operator. The golf driving range can receive education and guidance from the system operator as necessary when creating or updating these corners.

"Your page" is a page of the user himself / herself. By registering a character string (ID) and a password indicating the user, the user can freely register the page. In this "Your Page"
The arrangement of his / her own golf score, handicap assessment for those who have not yet acquired a handicap, his / her own golf chart, and the like are provided. This page will be updated by the user himself. It is desirable that the outline of the homepage common to the driving ranges and other general information on golf be created and managed by the system operator, and that the information be updated at least weekly.

On the other hand, when the user connected to the homepage clicks the button of “shopping corner” pasted on the upper right of the homepage and selects it, the link to the virtual store page operated by the system operator is automatically linked. As a result, the user is guided to the world of mail order.
On the page of the virtual store, “golf equipment”, “golf wear”, “golf course reservation”, and other products and services expected by golf enthusiasts are prepared. Click on the "golf equipment" button and select to select various golf equipment by equipment, manufacturer, performance, design,
Moves to a page where prices etc. are hierarchically detailed,
When the user encounters a favorite product, he or she inputs necessary information such as first and last name and address on an electronic order form, and finally selects by clicking an order button or the like. This order information is recorded on the virtual store server of the system operator,
It is transmitted to the seller of the product via a transmission medium such as the Internet. The method of payment and the method of delivering goods are the same as ordinary mail-order sales using the Internet, except that the golf driving range can be used as an intermediary.

Embodiment 2 FIG. 3 shows an example of a sports club homepage established by the community-based mail order system of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 3, the first page of the home page is largely drawn as “ABC Sports Club Home Page”, and below it, “Notice”, “Your Page”, “Local News”, “Health News” , "Related links", etc., and a "shopping corner" button is provided at the bottom with a slightly larger and conspicuous character. The user of the sports club can connect to such a homepage through a terminal installed in the sports club or a personal computer at home or the like.

"Notice" and "local news" are information managed and managed by the sports club, such as information on various events and programs from the sports club, and information on plays and concerts held in the area. Is provided, and the creation and update are performed by the sports club by receiving a key such as a password from the system operator. The sports club,
When creating or updating these corners, you can receive education and guidance from the system operator as needed.

"Your page" is a page of the user himself, which can be accessed by both the user and the sports club, and the result of the body type and physical strength measurement regularly performed by the sports club. Is posted with a graph, and advice is added as appropriate. In addition, the user himself can input his / her own time. It is desirable that the outline of the homepage common to sports clubs and other general information on sports and health be created and managed by a system operator, and that the information be updated at least weekly.

On the other hand, when the user connected to the homepage clicks the button of “shopping corner” pasted on the bottom of the homepage and selects it, the page of the virtual store operated by the system operator is automatically displayed. It is the same as in the first embodiment that the link is made and the user is guided to the world of mail order. The virtual store page contains products and services that are expected to be purchased by people interested in sports and health, such as "health foods", "check-ups", "cars", and "travels". I have.
The purchase of the favorite product or service, the transmission of the information to the seller, the payment, and the like are the same as those in the first embodiment.

[0034]

As described above, according to the community-based mail-order system of the present invention, a homepage is provided to a service providing facility closely connected to the community, and a link button to a virtual shop is provided on the homepage. A group of groups having a common hobby, taste, or interest can be very efficiently attracted to a mail-order site for related products. Users who are invited to these virtual stores, which are mail-order sites, are likely to be interested in the products introduced in those virtual stores. The probability of connection is extremely high, and extremely efficient mail-order sales can be realized.

In the community-based mail-order sales system of the present invention, the type and number of service providing facilities for providing home pages, and the type and number of sellers who wish to mail-order,
Further, there is no limitation on the type and number of products to be sold, and it is possible to link to homepages where optimal users are expected to gather according to the type of products or services desired to be sold. Therefore, from the merchant's point of view, there is an advantage that there is no need to make efforts to attract customers to their mail order site, while from the user's side, products suitable for their hobbies and interests There is an advantage that information can be obtained simply by connecting to one homepage, at the same time as information relating to one's hobbies and interests.

Further, according to the community-based mail-order system of the present invention, community-based service providing facilities scattered in various places are bundled together based on the types of services provided by the related facilities. Since it is possible to link to one or more virtual store websites that sell products, community-based service provision facilities each set up their own homepage, and provide mail-order sales websites individually on the homepage. Compared to the case, the number of homepages linked to the website of the virtual store by links is overwhelmingly large, and the number of customers connecting to the website of the virtual store is extremely large.
In addition, since the probability of actual purchase is high, it is possible to provide a mail-order sales system that is extremely efficient, attractive, and powerful. As described above, the community-based mail-order system of the present invention utilizes the Internet mechanism and is thus revolutionary and useful.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a community-based mail-order system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a provided home page.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing another example of a provided home page.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 system operator 2 virtual store server 3 storage device 4 homepage server 5 network 6a, 6b, 6c service providing facility 7a, 7b, 7c user 8a, 8b, 8c seller

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A means for establishing and providing a homepage on the Internet at each of one or more of service providing facilities closely related to a region, and a product which can be mail-ordered by one or more sellers who wish to mail-order the product. Receiving information, means for providing, as a website, one or more virtual shops for selling products that can be mail-ordered based on the received information, a homepage provided to a service providing facility, and a service provided by the service providing facility Means for linking a website of one or more virtual stores that sell products related to the service by a link, and a user of the service providing facility connects to each homepage and an order button of the virtual store linked to the homepage When placing an order for a product, the information about the ordered product and the orderer is transmitted to the transmission medium. A community-based mail-order system that includes means for transmitting the ordered goods to the seller through the body. 2. A means for linking a homepage provided to a service providing facility with a web site of one or a plurality of virtual shops selling products related to the service provided by the service providing facility, by linking the service providing facility. Means for classifying into one or a plurality of groups according to the type of service provided by each service providing facility, means for associating the classified groups with products that can be mail-ordered based on the received product information, 2. The community-based mail-order system according to claim 1, wherein each home page is linked to a website of a virtual shop based on the correspondence between the service and the product obtained as a result. 3. The community-based mail-order system according to claim 1, further comprising means for maintaining and managing the established and provided homepage based on information from each service providing facility.