KR19990058417A - How to sell goods on vending machines - Google Patents

Abstract

The product sales method of the vending machine according to the present invention is the total sales amount according to the type and quantity of goods to be purchased after the customer selects 'sale without change' when the state of change of the vending machine is unable to discharge change If the same amount of money and the input of money is configured to perform the sale of goods.

Therefore, even if there is no change in the vending machine according to the method of selling the product according to the present invention, the user can select and purchase a product according to the change state of his / her change, thereby satisfying the user's desire to purchase the product and selling the product. As a result, the profitability of the vending machine operator can be improved.

Description

How to sell goods on vending machines

The present invention relates to a merchandise selling method of a vending machine, and more particularly, to a merchandise selling method of a vending machine in which the merchandise can be selectively sold according to a customer's choice even when there is no change in the vending machine.

In general, a vending machine has a plurality of products in the main body, and when a selection signal of the product is input from an external user, the selected product can be discharged and provided to the user. Coffee, tea, and cans including canned coffee And it is a device that can sell a variety of products, including cigarettes.

The vending machine is equipped with a coin identifier for identifying the type and quantity of coins introduced from the user, and a controller for controlling the overall operation of the vending machine based on the information provided from the coin identifier. On the other hand, in recent years, for the convenience of users, an increasing number of vending machines equipped with a banknote identifier so that the banknotes can be used without changing coins, and these banknote identifiers are expensive and become optional by the operator's order. is average. In addition, a vending machine equipped with a quantity selection unit has been spread so that a user can select the quantity of the same product.

Meanwhile, the merchandise selling method of the conventional automatic vending machine, when a user inputs an amount into a bill identifier and a coin identifier, selects a product, when the input amount is more than the selling amount of the selected product, the selected product is discharged and the change is simultaneously discharged. It becomes tall. However, if the change held in the vending machine is less than the amount of money that the user can put in one time, for example, 1000 won minus the minimum selling price of the product that can be sold, the change of the change is indicated and the sale of the product is stopped.

In other words, even if the user wants to purchase one product of 500 won and one product of 600 won with the money of 1100 won, the sale of the product is impossible if the amount less than 500 won remains as change. Therefore, the conventional merchandise sales method of the vending machine has a problem that can not be purchased even if the customer wants to buy as much as the amount of money put into the bill after putting the bills. In addition, the operator of the vending machine has a problem that the product sales yield is reduced until the change is replenished because it is impossible to sell the product if there is no change.

Therefore, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, the object of the present invention is to provide a product sales method of the vending machine to be able to selectively sell the product according to the customer purchase form even if the vending machine lacks change. will be.

In order to achieve this object, a product selling method of a vending machine according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: (a) determining whether the change is held by determining whether the change is held in the vending machine; (B) if it is determined that there is no change, as a result of the step (a), receiving input from the user on whether to perform the sale without change; (C) if it is determined in step (b) that the selection signal of the sale without change is input from the user, calculating a total sales amount by inputting an amount according to the type of the product to be purchased and the quantity of the product from the user; (D) receiving money from the user corresponding to the total sales amount calculated in step (c); (E) if the money input is detected in the step (d), calculating a sum of the amount of money input and determining whether it is equal to the total sales amount; (F) if the input amount and the total sales amount coincide with each other as a result of the determination of step (e), selling the product, and if not, stopping the product sale.

In addition, the step (c) comprises the steps of: (a) receiving an amount of goods corresponding to the input amount after receiving the input amount according to the type of goods to be purchased from the user; (B) calculating a selling amount based on the amount according to the product type and the quantity of the product input in step (a); (C) deciding whether or not to input the summing key in order to add up the sales amount calculated in the step (b) to the total sales amount and to determine whether there are more products to be continuously purchased; (D) If it is determined that the summing key is input as a result of the determination of step (c), the step (a) or less is repeated, and if it is determined that the summing key is not input, the confirmation key is used to determine the end of the product selection. Determining whether there is an input; (ㅁ) If the determination result of the step (d) is input, it is characterized in that the step (d) or less.

On the other hand, the product sales method of the vending machine according to another embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of (a) determining whether there is change by determining the state of change of the vending machine; (iv) if it is determined that there is no change as a result of the determination of step (a), receiving from the user whether or not to perform the sale without change; (c) if it is determined in step (iii) that the selection signal of the sale without change is input from the user, inputting money corresponding to the total sales amount according to the type and quantity of goods to be purchased from the user; (d) when the input of money is detected in step (c), calculating a sum of the amount of money input and receiving an amount and a quantity according to the type of goods to be purchased from the user; (e) calculating a total selling amount according to the type and quantity of goods input in step (d); (iv) comparing the input amount calculated in step (d) with the total sales amount calculated in step (e), and if the input amount and the total sales amount are identical, the product is sold; And stopping the sale of the product.

1 is a control block diagram showing a configuration of a vending machine to which the present invention is applicable;

Figure 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a product selection unit of the vending machine applicable to the present invention,

3 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a product selection method of a vending machine according to the present invention.

*** Explanation of symbols for main parts of drawing ***

10: control unit, 20: power supply unit,

30: Money identification, 31: Coin Mecca,

32: bank identification unit, 40: product selection unit,

41: amount selector, 42: quantity selector,

43: summing key, 44: reset key,

45: OK key, 46: product sales environment selection switch,

50: sensor part, 60: load driving part,

70: load, 80: display.

Hereinafter will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings the configuration and effect of the product sales method of the vending machine according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1 is a control block diagram showing a configuration of a vending machine to which the present invention is applicable. As shown in FIG. 1, a vending machine to which the present invention is applicable includes a control unit 10 for controlling the overall operation of the vending machine system, and a direct current and alternating current required for various electric and electronic components of the vending machine by processing a commercial AC power supply. A power supply unit 20 for generating a voltage, a coin mecha unit 31 for identifying the face of the coin input and providing the information to the control unit 10, and a bank note discriminating unit 32 for determining the quantity and number of the banknotes to be inserted. Money identification unit 30 consisting of, a product selection unit 40 for receiving the amount of sales and the quantity of goods according to the desired product type from the user, the sensor unit for providing the necessary information for safe and smooth control of the vending machine ( 50), various loads 70 including a motor and a solenoid for dispensing and mixing raw materials (in the case of a beverage vending machine), and the control of the control unit 10; It consists of a load drive part 60 which controls copper, and the display part 80 which displays the present operation state.

At this time, the load 70 and the load driver 60 is a product selling means for delivering the product to the external user, the control unit 10 is a control function, operation function, failure diagnosis function, sales value determination of each terminal unit It is equipped with various functions such as function, communication function, test sales function, function setting function, self recovery function, time control function and memory function.

Figure 2 is a block diagram showing an example of the product selection unit of the vending machine according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the product selector 40 of the vending machine according to the present invention includes an amount selector 41 for selecting a selling amount according to the type of the product desired to be purchased from the user, and a purchase quantity of the product. The quantity selection section 42 to be selected, the product sales environment selection switch 46 for selecting the product sales in the absence of change and the normal product sales environment in the case of change, the amount selection unit 41 and Confirmation key 45 for receiving the user's confirmation signal for the product purchase content input through the quantity selection unit 42 and the reset key 44 for receiving the reset or not, the amount selection unit 41 and the quantity selection A summing key 43 or the like for adding the sales amount based on the type and quantity of the goods input through the unit 42 to the total amount is provided.

Reference numeral 32a, which is not described, is a banknote inlet for receiving a bill, and 31a represents a coinlet for receiving a coin from a user.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a product selling method of a vending machine according to the present invention. As shown in Figure 3, the product sales method of the vending machine according to the present invention, first, the current state of change of the vending machine is a minimum selling price of goods (for example, 350 won) from the minimum bill unit amount (for example 1000 won) If the price is less than (650 won), the display will show 'no change'.

At this time, the customer will be able to change the total amount of money (2,300 won, 2, 500 won, 1, 600 won, total of 2,300 won worth) according to the change in his / her change (e.g. If it is determined that the performance condition of 'sale without change' is satisfied, the product sale environment selection switch 46 provided in the product selector 40 of the vending machine is changed to 'sale without change' in step S10. Let's go. At this time, the control unit 10 determines the signal input from the product sales environment selection switch 46 to determine whether to perform 'sales without change'. In this case, if it is determined that 'sales without change' is selected, the process proceeds to step S12, in which the amount of sales according to the type of goods to be purchased from the customer through the amount selection unit 41, that is, the selection signal of the 350 won product In step S14, two selection signals, which are quantities of goods, are received through the quantity selection unit 42.

At this time, in step S16, the sales amount 700 won is calculated based on the amount of the goods and the quantity of the goods input in the steps S12 and S14, and the calculated sales amount 700 won is calculated in step S18. Is displayed through the display unit 80.

Meanwhile, in step S20, the sales amount calculated in step S16 is added to the total sales amount, and in step S22, if there is a product to be purchased continuously, the sales amount for the corresponding product is added to the total sales amount. It is determined whether a sum key 43 has been selected from the customer to sum. When the selection signal of the summing key 43 is input as a result of the determination, it is determined that the customer wants to purchase more products, and repeatedly performs the step S12 or less to calculate the total sales amount. That is, since the customer wants to purchase two more 500 won goods and one 600 won goods, the above-mentioned steps (S12) are repeatedly performed to add the first calculated 700 won + 1000 won + 600 won, and the total sales amount is 2300. Will be calculated.

On the other hand, when all the products to be selected are selected, the summing key 43 is not selected, and the confirmation key (45) to receive the confirmation whether the total sales amount calculated by the type and quantity of the product selected in step (S24) It is determined whether the selection signal of) is input. If it is determined in step S24 that the confirmation key 45 is input, the process proceeds to step S26 to receive the total sales amount according to the merchandise sales from the user through the banknote inlet 32a and the coin inlet 31a. do. In addition, in step S28, whether the amount of money is input by the driving of the sensor 50 is checked. If the amount of money is input, in step S30, the amount of money is added after checking the amount of money.

In the next step S32, it is compared whether the input amount in the step S26 and the total sales amount calculated in the step S30 match. At this time, in step S34, when the two amounts of the comparison result of step S32 coincide with each other, the flow proceeds to step S36 to allow normal product sales. If the amounts do not coincide with each other, the flow goes to step S40. Proceed to stop the sale of goods for the change of discharge change is not possible and the display unit 80 to display the stop of goods sales.

When the completion of the sale without change, the control unit 10 checks the change state of the change of holding money according to the input coins, and if the normal sale is possible, deletes the change change message displayed on the display unit 80 and performs normal sale in step S38. It will indicate whether it is possible. Therefore, after confirming whether or not the normal sale is displayed on the display unit 80, the customer switches the product sales environment selection switch 46 to normal sale so that a subsequent user can purchase the product.

Meanwhile, in the exemplary embodiment of the merchandise selling method of the above-mentioned vending machine, after selecting a product, the amount is input and afterwards the product is sold, but in another embodiment which is not described, according to the type and quantity of the product to be purchased from the customer After receiving the amount of money input first, and then select the type and quantity of goods can be configured to be able to sell the product only if the amount of money input and the amount calculated according to the type and quantity of the selected product match. This is because the main feature of the product sales method of the automatic vending machine according to the present invention is that the product can be sold if the amount of money equal to the sales amount of the product to be purchased by the customer in the absence of change It can be assumed that the order of selection of the products can be changed for convenience.

The term 'step' used in the foregoing detailed description may not be semantically identical to the term 'step' which will be used in the following claims. In addition, the merchandise selling method of the vending machine according to the present invention can be implemented in various modifications within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention without being limited to the above-described embodiment.

As described above, the merchandise selling method of the vending machine according to the present invention is the type of goods to be purchased after the customer selects 'sale without change' when the state of change of the vending machine is unable to discharge change; If an amount equal to the sales amount according to the quantity is input, the product can be sold.

Therefore, even if there is no change in the vending machine according to the method of selling the product according to the present invention, the user can select and purchase a product according to the change state of his / her change, thereby satisfying the user's desire to purchase the product and selling the product. As a result, the profitability of the vending machine operator can be improved.

Claims (3)

(A) determining whether there is change money by determining the state of change of the vending machine; (B) if it is determined that there is no change, as a result of the step (a), receiving input from the user on whether to perform the sale without change; (C) if it is determined in step (b) that the selection signal of the sale without change is input from the user, calculating a total sales amount by inputting an amount according to the type of the product to be purchased and the quantity of the product from the user; (D) receiving money from the user corresponding to the total sales amount calculated in step (c); (E) if the money input is detected in the step (d), calculating a sum of the amount of money input and determining whether it is equal to the total sales amount; (F) The product selling method of the vending machine comprising the step of performing a product sale if the input amount and the total sales amount is the same as a result of the determination of step (e). The method of claim 1, wherein the step (c) comprises: (a) receiving an amount of goods corresponding to the input amount after receiving an input amount corresponding to the type of product to be purchased from the user; (B) calculating a selling amount based on the amount according to the product type and the quantity of the product input in step (a); (C) deciding whether or not to input the summing key in order to add up the sales amount calculated in the step (b) to the total sales amount and to determine whether there are more products to be continuously purchased; (D) If it is determined that the summing key is input as a result of the determination of step (c), the step (a) or less is repeated, and if it is determined that the summing key is not input, the confirmation key is used to determine the end of the product selection. Determining whether there is an input; (ㅁ) If the determination result of the step (d) is input, the product sales method of the vending machine, characterized in that the step (d) or less. (a) determining whether there is change by determining the state of change of the vending machine; (b) if it is determined that there is no change as a result of the determination of step (a), receiving from the user whether to perform the sale without change; (c) receiving the money corresponding to the total sales amount according to the type and quantity of goods to be purchased from the user when it is determined in step (b) that the selection signal of the sale without change is input from the user; (d) when the input of money is detected in step (c), calculating a sum of the amount of money input and receiving an amount and a quantity according to the type of goods to be purchased from the user; (e) calculating a total selling amount according to the type and quantity of goods input in step (d); (f) comparing the input amount calculated in step (d) with the total amount of sales calculated in step (e), and if the input amount and the total amount of sale coincide, the product is sold; A product selling method of a vending machine comprising the step of stopping the sale of goods.