JP2002342845A - Control system for managing buying and selling data of commodity - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily manage commodity buying and selling data an the store side and the customer side, that is, a point managing data and selling/buying data of commodities. SOLUTION: An application program as to a sales data of the commodities to each customer of the store is provided inside a POS register of the store, the application program is downloaded to a memory part of a personal cellular phone system of the customer to be stored as the commodity purchase data of the customer, and transfer and control as to the buying and selling data of the commodity are carried out via the POS register of the store and the personal cellular phone system of the customer.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to merchandise sales data on a store side and merchandise purchase data on a customer side.
(Hereinafter referred to as “commodity trading data”). Note that the commodity sales data in the present invention mainly means sales points of the commodity on the store side to the customer and the history of the purchased commodity on the customer side as described in detail below.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, many stores issue a point card (hereinafter referred to as a "card") to a customer and provide a discount service. That is, every time a customer purchases a product, this card presents this card to a cashier, and the person in charge reads the magnetism or barcode attached to this card with a reader to determine the customer, Points corresponding to the sales amount, that is, sales points (hereinafter referred to as “points”) are given to this card, and a discount is made.

However, in such a card-based system, the store must first create and distribute a card for each of a large number of customers, which makes the management of the customer cumbersome. In addition, there is a problem that a large amount of cost is required for installing a point giving machine and a card reader.

[0004] On the other hand, the card has to be carried and stored in the same number of stores as the number of stores, so that card management is very troublesome as in the case of stores.

[0005] By the way, on the customer's side, the history of purchased goods, that is, when, where, what goods, how much, and how much, etc., were purchased from the household account book, completely separate from the card management. Many households record their living expenses or input them into personal computers to manage their living expenses.

However, since such a record of the history of purchased goods occurs almost every day, the record is often forgotten or inaccurate. In addition, there is a problem that the recording work requires a considerable amount of time.

[0007]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems relating to the purchase and sale of merchandise on the store side and on the customer side, and manages merchandise purchase and sale data very easily for both the store side and the customer side. It is intended to provide a system capable of performing the above.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a POS register of a store having an application program relating to sales data of merchandise to each customer of the store, while storing the application program in a storage unit of the customer's mobile phone. Downloading an application program and storing it as merchandise purchase data of the customer, and exchanging and managing the sales data of the merchandise through the POS register of the store and the mobile phone of the customer. This is achieved by the commodity trading data management system according to item 1.

Further, the above object of the present invention is achieved more effectively by the commodity sales data management system according to claim 2, wherein the commodity sales data is sales points and sales histories of the commodity. You.

[0010] Further, the object of the present invention is characterized in that the exchange of the sales data of the commodity is performed via at least one of infrared rays, the Internet, or a dedicated cable. More effectively achieved by a merchandise trading data management system.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide the commodity according to claim 4, wherein the content of the management related to the sales data of the commodity is money management of the purchased commodity based on the customer's mobile phone. More effectively achieved by a trading data management system.

[0012]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS According to the present invention, a POS register owned by a store (or a company) that sells the product, that is, a cash register (register) corresponding to a point-of-sale information management system (POS system), While storing an application program that manages points and purchase histories of products purchased by the customer, by downloading the application program to the mobile phone of the customer, the store-side POS register and the mobile phone of the customer can store data related to buying and selling of the product. It enables transmission and reception.

According to the basic flow of this system, when a customer purchases a product, customer information, that is, data such as his / her personal identification number and the current number of points is transferred from the mobile phone to the POS register. The POS register confirms the receipt of this data and sells the product. When the sales are confirmed, the POS register transfers the product sales data such as the new number of points, the name of the purchased product, and the amount to the mobile phone. It is supposed to be. For this reason, the customer can receive the data on the mobile phone and manage points or manage the purchase history of the product, that is, can manage money in place of a household account book.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing the basic flow described above. That is, when a customer buys a product,
First, the customer enters the PO of the store from a mobile phone having his / her personal identification number and current point data registered in advance.
The data is transmitted to the S register via transmission means such as infrared rays (step S1). The store receives this data through the POS register (step S2), confirms the contents, gives a discount on the sales price by points and gives new points (step S3), and stores the new point data and sales data, that is, The history data of the purchased product is transmitted by the transmission means (step S4). The customer receives this data with the mobile phone (step S5), imports the data into an application program, processes the data, manages the point data, and manages the history of purchased goods, that is, creates a household account book (step S5). S
6).

Next, details of the merchandise sales data management system according to the present invention will be described below with reference to an example in which point management and purchase history management are performed by a mobile phone.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing a case where data is transmitted from the mobile phone to the POS register with respect to the exchange of points between the mobile phone and the POS register. As described above, the original application of the mobile phone is downloaded from a store in which the product sales data management system has been installed.

[0017] The customer first purchases the merchandise at the POS of the store.
After being brought to the register, a point management screen is displayed and confirmed on the display screen of the mobile phone (step S11).
Next, the registered store names are displayed, and the store that is currently purchasing is selected from the registered store names and confirmed (step S12). Next, after inputting and confirming the password of the registered customer (step S13), the data of the customer code, the password, the store (company) code, and the current point held in the mobile phone are stored in the POS register. (Step S14).

On the other hand, the POS register side of the store always
Alternatively, data reception standby is performed by an operation (step S15), and when the data is transmitted from the mobile phone, the data is received (step S16). When the reception of the data is completed (step S17), it is determined whether or not the reception is normal (step S18). If the reception is normal, the store (company) code is collated (step S19). It is determined whether this code can be authenticated (step S2).
0) If possible, collate the customer code with the customer's password (step S21). Then, it is determined whether or not these can be authenticated (step S22). If they can be authenticated, the process returns to the sales screen (step S23). If an error is found or authentication is not possible in steps 18, 20, and 22, an error message is output (step S20).
24).

Next, when selling a product, that is,
POS for sales of goods brought by customers to POS register
The case where data is determined by the register and transmitted to the customer's mobile phone will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, after the sales data is determined, the store displays on the POS register screen whether or not data has been received from the mobile phone before the sales (step S3).
1). The screen is displayed only when data is received before sales. For a new customer, a new customer is selected from a menu and transmitted to the mobile phone. Next, it is determined whether or not pre-sales data has been received (step S32).
If the data has been received, a data transmission screen is displayed (step S33), and it is determined whether or not to transmit the data (step S34). If it is determined that the data is to be transmitted, the data is transmitted to the mobile phone. (Step S35). The data to be transmitted includes accumulated points, used points,
Point data such as points this time, and product sales history such as customer code, customer PIN, store (company) code, visit date, purchased product name, quantity, amount, total receivable amount, payment category, discount amount, etc. It is data about. In addition,
If a negative determination is made in steps S32 and S34, the process returns to the sales screen (step S36).

On the other hand, the customer's mobile phone is normally in a state of waiting for data reception (step S37). When the data is transmitted from the POS register, the data is received (step S38). After the data reception is completed (step S39), it is determined whether or not the reception is normal (step S40).
The code is collated (step S41), and it is determined whether or not the collation can be authenticated (step S42). If the collation can be performed, the customer code and the personal identification number of the customer are collated (step S43). Further, it is determined whether or not this collation can be authenticated (step S44). If the customer can be authenticated, the other data is updated and held (step S4).
5), it is determined whether or not this succeeded (step S4)
6) Return to the first screen if successful (step S4)
7). Note that steps S40, S42, S44, S
If the determination in 46 is negative, an error message is output (step S48).

Although the contents of the present invention have been described based on one embodiment, the present invention is not necessarily limited to such an embodiment, and various structures may be used without departing from the scope of the claims. It goes without saying that changes are possible. For example, transmission and reception between the mobile phone and the POS register is not limited to infrared rays, and can be performed using the Internet or a dedicated cable. Furthermore, this combination, that is, a POS register and a mobile phone are connected with a dedicated cable, and data is transferred from the mobile phone to an external server via the Internet,
It is also possible to edit this data on the server and then feed it back to the mobile phone.

[0023]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, it has the following effects on the store (company) side and the customer side.

First, according to the present invention, since point management can be performed using a mobile phone, it is not necessary for a shop to create and distribute a customer card, and the time and cost required for this can be reduced. . In addition, since a machine for giving points to the card and a reader for the card are not required, a large amount of equipment cost for this can be reduced.

On the other hand, it is not necessary for the customer to carry a large number of point cards for each store at all times, and since there is no need to store and manage such cards, there is an advantage that it becomes very easy.

Further, the store can easily and instantly notify the customer of his / her mobile phone by e-mail, using the customer's mobile phone number, to inform the customer of the advertisement of the new product or a bargain sale. It is not necessary to create and send a direct mail or a printed material such as a flyer to the customer, and there is an advantage that customer management becomes easy.

In addition, since the latest point data and purchase history data of a product are recorded on the mobile phone for the customer, there is an advantage that it is not necessary to perform complicated money management using a conventional household account book.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart for explaining a basic flow of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for exchanging point data according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart in the case of selling a product according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. An application program relating to sales data of merchandise to each customer of the store in a POS register of the store, and downloading the application program to a storage unit of a mobile phone of the customer to purchase the merchandise of the customer. Store it as data,
A transaction data management system, wherein exchange and management of the transaction data are performed via a POS register of the store and a mobile phone of the customer. 2. The merchandise sales data management system according to claim 1, wherein the sales data of the merchandise is sales points and sales histories of the merchandise. 3. The commodity sales data according to claim 1, wherein the exchange of the commodity sales data is performed via at least one of infrared rays, the Internet, and a dedicated cable. Management system. 4. The merchandise sales data management system according to claim 1, wherein the contents of the management related to the sales data of the merchandise are money management of the purchased merchandise based on the customer's mobile phone. .