JP2002215953A - Settlement method in auction system using network, auction system, computer readable recording medium recording auction program and auction program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an auction system using a network very convenient to a user. SOLUTION: Contract sum of money contained in successful bid information on successful bid made in a desired period of time is summed up for every successful bidder, the total of contract is reported to the successful bidder, and when the notice to the effect that payment is performed by the successful bidder is received, an exhibitor is informed of the payment, and the amount of money of a successful bid is sent to the exhibitor after at least the delivery of the commodity from the exhibitor to the successful bidder, whereby it will be sufficient for the successful bidder to perform one payment procedure to a plurality of successful bids.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an auction system for performing an auction using a network.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of auction system, when product information is received from an exhibitor via a network, the product information can be browsed by another user, and a user who wishes to bid on the product is used. Bid information including a bid price is received from a bidder (bidder) for a predetermined period. And
The bidder with the highest bid price is determined as the winning bidder, and a transaction is made between the seller and the winning bidder based on the bid price. In a transaction between an exhibitor and a successful bidder, the successful bidder often transfers the successful bid amount to a financial account of the exhibitor. At this time, the successful bidder pays a commission to the financial institution.

[0003]

However, in the conventional auction system, the successful bidder transfers the successful bid amount to the exhibitor's financial account each time a successful bid is made. Requires a large fee to be paid to the financial institution, and requires a number of complicated transfer procedures. In particular, if the successful bid price is low, the commission accounts for a large proportion of the total expenditure of the successful bidder, and the advantage of purchasing at a low price by using an auction cannot be enjoyed. As a result, there has been a problem that the willingness to participate in the auction of low-priced products in particular decreases, and it is impossible to expect an increase in the number of participants in the auction.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide an auction system using a network that is highly convenient for users.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, successful bid information including information on exhibitors and successful bidders and information on a successful bid price is stored in a storage means, and is stored in the storage means. Among the successful bid information, the successful bid amount included in the successful bid information that has been awarded within a predetermined period is totaled for each successful bidder, and the total successful bid amount is notified to the successful bidder, and the successful bidder is notified of the payment of the total successful bid amount. Upon receipt of the payment notification, the seller is notified of the receipt of the payment, and the seller is notified at least after the goods are delivered from the seller to the successful bidder. To send the successful bid price to the buyer.

According to the present invention, when one successful bidder makes a successful bid for a plurality of items within a predetermined period, the total of the successful bid price that has been awarded within the period is notified to the successful bidder every time the period elapses. Is done. Then, when the notification of the payment of the total successful bid price by the successful bidder in response to the notification is received, each seller related to the successful bid for which the payment has been made is notified that the payment has been made. Then, at least after the product is delivered from the seller who received the notification to the successful bidder, the successful bid price is remitted to the seller. As described above, the successful bidder can perform the deposit procedure once even when a large number of successful bids are made within a predetermined period, so that the convenience is high and there is no need to pay a large commission. Therefore, an increase in the number of participants in the auction can be expected.

[0007] As an example of a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the auction system proposes a system in which a notification that a successful bidder has deposited the total successful bid amount in a predetermined financial account is received from a financial institution.

According to the present invention, it is possible to reliably grasp that the successful bidder has deposited the total successful bid amount into a predetermined financial account of a financial institution.

Further, the auction system proposes that the auction system receives a notification from the exhibitor that the delivery of the goods is completed, and remits a successful bid price to the exhibitor upon receiving the notice. I do.

[0010] Further, the auction system receives a notification that the delivery of the goods is completed from a deliverer who delivers the goods from the seller to the successful bidder. Remittance is proposed.

[0011] Further, the auction system proposes a system in which a notification that a product has arrived from a successful bidder is received, and when the notification is received, the successful bid price is remitted to the exhibitor.

[0012] According to these inventions, it is possible to reliably grasp that the goods have been delivered from at least the seller to the successful bidder.

[0013]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS (First Embodiment) An auction system according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an auction system according to the first embodiment, FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of an exhibition information table, FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a user table, and FIG. FIG.

As shown in FIG. 1, the auction system includes a seller terminal 100 used by a seller, a bidder terminal 200 used by a bidder, and an auction server 3.
00, a settlement server 400 that performs settlement processing, a delivery management server 500 that manages the delivery of goods, and a network 600 that connects these.

The exhibitor terminal 100 and the bidder terminal 200
Has communication control units 101 and 201 which are interfaces with the network 600, and user interface units 102 and 202 which input and output various information.

The auction server 300 includes a communication control unit 301 as an interface with the network 600.
And an auction processing unit 302 that accepts bids from bidders based on exhibition information from sellers and determines the highest bidder from among the bidders, and counts the winning bids pertaining to successful bids that have been awarded within a predetermined period for each successful bidder And a transaction processing unit 303 for transmitting billing information including the total successful bid price to the bidder terminal 200, and a transaction management unit 3 for managing transactions between the exhibitor and the successful bidder.
04 and an auction database 305 that stores various data related to the auction. The auction database 305 includes an exhibition information table 305a for storing information about an exhibition as shown in FIG.
And a billing information table 305c for storing information on users who use the auction system as shown in FIG. ing. Regarding the configuration and operation of this auction server 300,
This will be described in detail in the operation description of the auction system described later.

The settlement server 400 includes a network 600
A communication control unit 401 serving as an interface with the payment processing unit 4 for processing payment between the exhibitor and the successful bidder
02. The settlement server 400 is operated by a financial institution and can notify the auction server 300 of payment to a predetermined financial account via the network 600. In addition, the settlement server 400
Transmits money to a predetermined financial account in response to a money transfer instruction from the auction server 300.

The delivery management server 500 is operated by a delivery company, and includes a communication control unit 501 as an interface with the network 600 and a delivery management unit 502 for managing delivery of packages by delivery means such as trucks. ing. The delivery management server 500 can notify the auction server 300 via the network 600 that the delivery of the package has been completed.

The network 600 includes the terminals 100 and 2
00 and each of the servers 300 and 400 are mutually connected, and the form is not limited. In the present embodiment, the Internet is used as network 600.

Next, the operation of the auction system will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 is a diagram for explaining the overall flow of the auction system, FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the auction system, and FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the auction system at the time of settlement and transaction coordination.

Here, each user of the auction system accesses the auction server 300 in advance, performs user registration, and obtains a user ID (FIGS. 5 to 5).
It is omitted in FIG. 7). Specifically, users such as exhibitors and bidders transmit a user registration request to the auction server 300 using the terminal 100 or 200.
Auction processing unit 302 of auction server 300
Responds to this registration request by giving the user a user ID
And the information of the user such as name and contact information together with the user ID is stored in the auction database 30.
5 in the user table 305b. Here, in the user table 305b, information on the financial account used by the user for settlement and the total date are registered. The counting date indicates a time reference for counting the consideration to be paid for the exhibit when the user makes a successful bid for the exhibit. For example, in the case of “every 15th,” the consideration to be paid for an item that has been awarded in a month from the previous month 16 to the current month 15 is totaled.

The seller 1 who wants to exhibit at the auction
In the step 00a, first, exhibition information such as an exhibit name is transmitted to the auction server 300 using the exhibitor terminal 100 (step S1).

The auction processing unit 302 of the auction server 300 generates an exhibition ID every time it accepts exhibition information such as an exhibit name transmitted from the exhibitor terminal 100 and a user ID given to the exhibitor in advance. Information 3 in the auction database 305
05a (step S2). The exhibition period in the exhibition information table 305a in FIG. 2 may be set to a predetermined period automatically at the time of data registration, or may be set by receiving an exhibition period from the exhibitor terminal 100.

Next, the auction processing section 302 extracts, from among the exhibition information stored in the exhibition information table 305a, information whose current date and time is within the exhibition period, presents the extracted information to the user, and Starts accepting bids from the company (step S3). Specifically, the user can view the exhibition information using a Web page or the like.

Next, the user (bidder) 200a who browses the exhibition information placed in the browsing state in step S3 and desires to bid on the exhibit, sends the bidding information to the auction server 300. Send (Step S
4). Here, this bid information includes at least bidder 2
00a includes the user ID and the bid price.

Next, when the auction processing unit 302 receives the bid information transmitted from the bidder terminal 200,
If the bid price is higher than the bid price (initial value is null or zero) stored in the exhibition information table 305a, the user ID of the bidder in the exhibition information table 305a
And the bid price is updated with the user ID and the bid price of the received bid information (steps S5 and S6). The reception of the user information from the bidder terminal 200 is performed within the exhibition period stored in the exhibition information table 305a (step S7). Therefore, since a new bid is not accepted after the elapse of the exhibition period, the bidder having the user ID of the bidder stored in the exhibition information table 305a at this time becomes the successful bidder, and the bid price becomes the successful bid price. .

Next, the seller 100a and the successful bidder (bidder) 200a are notified that the auction for the exhibit has ended and the successful bidder has been determined (step S).
8). Next, the exhibition information table 305 related to the exhibit
Based on a, the billing information on the exhibit is registered in the billing information table 305c (step S9).

On the other hand, the auction server 300 periodically executes a process as shown in FIG. That is, the tally processing unit 303 of the auction server 300 refers to the tally date in the user table 305b for each user and extracts a user (successful bidder) whose processing time corresponds to the tally date (step S11).

Next, the tallying unit 303 searches the billing information table 305c using the user ID of the user, and extracts billing information relating to the user. Then, the successful bid prices included in each billing information are totaled to obtain a total successful bid price (step S12). Here, the totaling range is, in principle, billing information relating to a successful bid after the date and time of the last totaling. In addition, even if the payment result is out of the totaling range, the data for which the payment result of the billing information table 305c is not “completed” is also totaled.

Next, the transaction management unit 304 of the auction server 300 transmits billing information including the totaled successful bid price to the user (successful bidder) 200a (step S1).
3). Here, the billing information includes at least information on a predetermined financial account to be paid by the user, in addition to the aggregated successful bid price.

When the successful bidder (bidder) 200a deposits the successful bid price into a predetermined financial institution in accordance with the received billing information (step S14), the settlement server 400 of the financial institution 400a notifies the payment server 400 of the payment. 300 (step S15 in FIG. 3).

Transaction management unit 3 of auction server 300
04 confirms the payment from the successful bidder 200a based on the notification received from the settlement server 400, and updates the payment result column of the billing information table 305c to “completed” for all the billing information related to the payment (step S16). Then, the transaction management unit 304 refers to the billing information table 305c and the exhibiting information table 305a to search for the exhibitor of the exhibit for all the billing information related to the payment (step S17). On the other hand, the fact that the successful bidder 200a has been paid is notified (step S18). Further, the transaction management unit 304 sends the successful bidder 2 from each exhibitor 100a to the delivery management server 500 of the delivery company 500a.
Then, an instruction to deliver the exhibit to 00a is notified (step S19).

Next, the exhibitor 100a delivers the exhibit using the delivery company 500a that has received the notification (step S20). Then, the transaction management unit 304 of the auction server 300 sets the delivery management server 5 of the delivery company 500a.
From 00, a notice of the completion of the delivery of the exhibit is received (step S21 in FIG. 5), and the completion of the delivery is confirmed by this notification, and the reception result in the billing information table 305c is updated to "completed" (step S22).

Next, when the transaction management unit 304 of the auction server 300 confirms the completion of the delivery of the exhibit, the transaction management unit 304 issues an instruction to the financial institution 400a to remit the successful bid price to the financial account of the exhibitor 100a relating to the exhibit. It transmits to settlement server 400 (Step S23). The financial institution 400a that has received the instruction remits the winning bid to the designated financial account.

As described above, in the auction system according to the present embodiment, when one successful bidder makes a successful bid for a plurality of items within a predetermined period, the total amount of the successful bids made during the period every time the period elapses Is notified to the winning bidder, so that the winning bidder can
You only need to make one deposit. In other words, the successful bidder does not have to perform the payment procedure for each successful bid, so it is highly convenient and does not need to pay a large commission. Therefore, it can be expected that the willingness to participate in the auction system increases and the number of participants increases. In particular, when the market price of the exhibit is relatively low, the commission accounts for a large percentage of the amount paid by the successful bidder, which is more suitable for the successful bidder than the conventional auction system.

In the auction system according to this embodiment, the payment of the successful bidder is transferred to the auction server 300.
Is confirmed, and after the confirmation, the exhibitor sends the exhibit, so that there is an advantage that the seller can conduct a transaction with peace of mind. As a result, an increase in the number of participants in the auction system can be expected.

Although one embodiment of the present invention has been described above, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, in the above-described embodiment, as means for confirming in the auction server 300 that an exhibit has been delivered,
Although this is performed by receiving notification from the delivery company, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, as shown in FIG. 8, the delivery company 500a notifies the exhibitor that the delivery by the delivery company 500a has been completed (Step S).
21a) After that, the seller 100a may notify the auction server 300 of the completion of the delivery (step S21b). Further, as shown in FIG. 9, the successful bidder 200a receiving the exhibit may notify the auction server 300 that the exhibit has been received (step S21c).

(Second Embodiment) An auction system according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
This will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 10 is a diagram for explaining the overall flow in the auction system according to the second embodiment, FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a billing information table, and FIG.
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the operation of the auction system.

The difference between the auction system according to the present embodiment and the auction system according to the first embodiment is in the method of delivering an exhibit after the total successful bid price has been paid by the highest bidder. Specifically, in the auction system according to the first embodiment, the successful bidder has paid the total successful bid amount for a plurality of successful bids at a time, but the exhibit related to each successful bid was sent individually. On the other hand, in the auction system according to the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 10, a collection place 700 is prepared in advance, and each exhibit is once collected at the collection place 700 for a plurality of successful bids for one successful bidder. , After which they are sent to the successful bidder 200a collectively. Since other configurations and operations are the same as those of the first embodiment, only the differences will be described here.

The auction server 300 includes a billing information table 305d as shown in FIG. 11 instead of the billing information table 305c described above. This billing information table 305d corresponds to the billing information table 305 described above.
The difference from c is that each billing information has
It has a collection result item for storing whether or not the collection to 00 has been completed.

Next, the operation of the auction system according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. Here, it is assumed that the payment of the total successful bid amount to the financial institution 400a by the bidder (successful bidder) 200a has been completed, that the confirmation has been completed in the auction server 300, and that the notification to the exhibitor 100a has been completed. . That is, it is assumed that the processing has been completed up to step S18 in FIG. 7 in the first embodiment.

First, the transaction management unit 304 of the auction server 300 sends the delivery management server 50 of the delivery company 500a.
0, an instruction is sent from each exhibitor 100a to deliver the goods to the collection point 700 (step S31). The exhibitor 100a delivers the exhibit using the delivery company 500a that has received the notification (step S32). And
The transaction management unit 304 of the auction server 300 receives the notification of the completion of the collection of the exhibit to the collection point 700 from the delivery management server 500 of the delivery company 500a (step S3).
3), upon confirming the completion of the collection at the collection point 700 by this notification, the collection result in the billing information table 305d is updated to "done" (step S34).

Next, when the transaction management unit 304 of the auction server 300 confirms that the collection of the exhibit has been completed, the transaction management unit 304 issues an instruction to the financial institution 400a to remit the winning bid to the financial account of the exhibitor 100a relating to the exhibit. It transmits to settlement server 400 (Step S35). The financial institution 400a that has received the instruction remits the winning bid to the designated financial account.

Next, the transaction management unit 304 refers to the billing information table 305d, and determines whether or not the exhibit has been collected at the collection point 700 for all the successful bids related to the received total successful bid price (see FIG. 4). Step S36). Then, when the collection of all the exhibits is completed, the delivery company 5
An instruction to collectively deliver these items from the collection point 700 to the successful bidder 200a is sent to the delivery management server 500 at 00a (step S37).

The delivery company 500a that has received the notification collectively delivers the exhibit from the collection point 700 to the successful bidder 200a (step S38 in FIG. 10). Auction server 30
When the transaction management unit 304 of No. 0 receives the notification of the completion of the delivery from the delivery management server 500 of the delivery company 500a (step S39), it updates the reception result of the billing information table 305d to “done” (step S40).

As described above, in the auction system according to the present embodiment, when one successful bidder makes a successful bid for a plurality of items within a predetermined period, as in the first embodiment, the plurality of items are awarded. Only one payment needs to be made. Then, a plurality of articles corresponding to the deposit are once collected at a collection point and then delivered collectively to the successful bidder. Therefore, even if the successful bidder makes a successful bid for a plurality of exhibits, both the payment and the receipt of the exhibit can be performed in a single procedure, which is highly convenient. Other functions and effects are the same as those of the first embodiment.

Although one embodiment of the present invention has been described, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, in the above-described embodiment, as means for confirming in the auction server 300 that an exhibit has been delivered,
Although the notification is performed by receiving the notification from the delivery company 500a, the present invention is not limited to this, and the notification may be received from the seller 100a or the like as described above in the first embodiment. .

In the present embodiment, each exhibitor 100
a, when the collection from the collection point 700 to the collection point 700 is confirmed, the financial institution 400a is notified of the instruction to deposit the financial account of the exhibitor 100a.
The payment instruction may be notified when the delivery of each exhibit to a is confirmed. In this case, the collection point 700
As a means for confirming the delivery of each item to the successful bidder 200a, a notification may be received from the delivery company 500a or the successful bidder 200a.

Further, in the first and second embodiments, all successful bids within a predetermined period are counted, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, only the successful bids within a predetermined period related to an item selected by a bidder or an exhibitor in advance may be counted. In addition, only the successful bids for which the successful bid amount is equal to or less than the predetermined amount or equal to or more than the predetermined amount may be counted.

[0050]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention,
Even if a large number of successful bidders make a successful bid within a predetermined period, the successful bidder can perform the depositing procedure once, so that it is highly convenient and does not need to pay a large commission. Therefore, an increase in the number of participants in the auction can be expected.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an auction system according to a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a view showing an example of an exhibition information table according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a view showing an example of a user table according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a view showing an example of a billing information table according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a view for explaining the overall flow in the auction system according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 6 is a view for explaining the operation of the auction system according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 7 is a view for explaining the operation of the auction system during settlement and transaction coordination according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 8 is a view for explaining the overall flow in an auction system according to another example of the first embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a view for explaining the overall flow in an auction system according to another example of the first embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a view for explaining the overall flow in the auction system according to the second embodiment;

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of a billing information table according to the second embodiment;

FIG. 12 is a view for explaining the operation of the auction system according to the second embodiment;

[Explanation of symbols]

100: seller terminal, 200: bidder terminal, 300: auction server, 302: auction processing unit, 30
3 ... Aggregating processing unit, 304 ... Transaction management unit, 305 ... Auction database, 305a ... Exhibition information table, 3
05b: user table, 305c: billing information table, 400: settlement server, 500: delivery management server, 7
00 ... pickup place

Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁷ Identification symbol FI Theme coat II (reference) G06F 17/60 334 G06F 17/60 334 424 424 424 426 426

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A means for receiving product listing information from a seller via a network, a means for receiving bid information from a bidder via a network, and a bidder transmitting the highest bid amount among the received bid information. Means for determining as a successful bidder, wherein the auction system stores successful bid information including information on exhibitors and successful bidders and information on a successful bid price in a storage means, and in the storage means Among the stored successful bid information, the successful bid amount included in the successful bid information that has been awarded within a predetermined period is totaled for each successful bidder, and the total successful bid amount is notified to the successful bidder. When the notification is received and the payment notification is received, each seller related to the successful bid for which the payment has been made is notified that the payment has been made. Settlement method in the auction system using a network, characterized in that remit the amount of money for a successful bid for the said output product's after at least the goods have been delivered to the highest bidder from the exhibitor. 2. The settlement in the auction system using a network according to claim 1, wherein the auction system receives a notification from the financial institution that the successful bidder has deposited the total successful bid amount in a predetermined financial account. Method. 3. The auction system according to claim 1, wherein the auction system receives a notification from the seller that the delivery of the product is completed, and upon receiving the notification, sends the successful bid price to the seller. A settlement method in an auction system using the described network. 4. The auction system receives a notification that the delivery of the goods has been completed from a deliverer who delivers the goods from the seller to the successful bidder, and, upon receiving the notification, notifies the seller of the winning bid. 2. A settlement method in an auction system using a network according to claim 1, wherein 5. The auction system according to claim 1, wherein the auction system receives a notification from the successful bidder that the commodity has arrived, and remits a successful bid price to the exhibitor upon receiving the notification. A settlement method in an auction system using a network. 6. A means for receiving listing information of a product from a seller via a network, a means for receiving bid information from a bidder via a network, and a bidder transmitting a highest bid amount among the received bid information. Storage means for storing information on the exhibitor and the successful bidder and information on the successful bid price in an auction system comprising means for determining a successful bidder; and a predetermined period of the successful bid information stored in the storage means Means for summarizing the amount of the successful bid included in the successful bid information within each successful bidder for each successful bidder, and notifying the successful bidder of the total successful bid amount; means for receiving notification of the receipt of the total successful bid amount by the successful bidder; Means for notifying each seller related to the successful bid for which the deposit was made that the deposit has been made, and at least a product Auction system using a network, characterized in that it was a means to remit the amount of money for a successful bid for the said output product who after being delivered from the seller to the highest bidder. 7. The system accepts product listing information from sellers via a network, receives bid information from bidders via a network, and determines the bidder who transmitted the highest bid amount among the received bid information as the winning bidder. Storing the successful bid information including the information of the exhibitor and the successful bidder and the information of the successful bid amount in the storage means in the auction system to be executed; and the successful bid information which has been awarded within a predetermined period among the successful bid information stored in the storage means. Totaling the successful bid price included in the highest bidder and notifying the total successful bid price to the successful bidder; accepting the successful bidder's notification of the payment of the total successful bid price; and A step of notifying each seller related to the successful bid for which the deposit has been made that the deposit has been made; and It said output product's computer-readable recording medium recording an auction program, characterized in that and a step of transfer of the highest bid against after being delivered to the bidders. 8. Receiving exhibition information of a product from a seller via a network, receiving bid information from a bidder via a network,
Storing in the storage means successful bid information including information on the exhibitor and the successful bidder and information on the successful bid price in an auction system for determining a bidder who transmitted the highest bid amount among the received bid information as a successful bidder; Summing up the winning bid included in the winning bid information within a predetermined period among the winning bid information stored in the storage means for each successful bidder, and notifying the successful bidder of the total successful bid price; and Receiving a notification of the payment of the winning bid amount; and, upon receiving the payment notification, notifying each seller relating to the successful bid for which the payment has been made that the payment has been made; and Remitting the successful bid price to the seller after delivery from the seller to the successful bidder.