JP2003030405A - System and server for selling, method thereof, program code, and storage medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a ticket selling agency to efficiently sell tickets to a ticket selling store while securing required business activity time even though the number of a salesman's visiting times per store is drastically reduced more than the current condition. SOLUTION: The number of tickets is transmitted to a server (S302), the server discriminates the type of each ticket from received mail (S353), and in the case of being equal to or lower than a gold card, and the number of tickets requested from the ticket selling store or data of tickets, the number of which is adjusted are attached to transmission mail and transmitted to a PC (S360 and S362). Meanwhile, in the case of a platinum credit card, information about the tickets is transmitted to a portable terminal, and mail written with the final number of tickets to be sold is received from the portable terminal (S355). The PC receives tickets data (S303) and prints the tickets (S304).

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sales system for selling products to a store, a sales server and its method, a program code, and a storage medium.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a ticket sales agency or a sales person who sells a ticket visits a ticket sales shop, hands over a ticket that the sales person has and a sales shop requests, and creates a delivery note by hand. I am passing it. or,
The salesman confirms the remaining amount of tickets since the last visit,
Calculate the sales amount. After receiving the amount minus the sales commission, he creates a receipt by hand and hands it to the dealer. In addition, the number of tickets deposited at a store or the number of tickets sold is entered in the sales management ledger each time.

[0003]

[Problems to be solved by the invention] Currently, via the Internet,
In many cases, customers purchase tickets directly from ticket distributors and ticket sales sites. However, in consideration of cases where customers who do not have a connection to the Internet purchase tickets, or when limited tickets are sold on the Internet and access is expected to be confused, it is also necessary to sell at physical stores. . In addition, the number of tickets deposited is determined by the salesperson after talking to each salesperson and the salesperson, so face-to-face sales activities are necessary, which is one of the reasons for increasing the necessity of the actual store. Become.

However, at the actual store, as described above, the salesman creates the receipt and the delivery note by handwriting, so it is necessary to visit each ticket sales store. As a result, the number of shops handled by each sales person is small, and efficiency is poor.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems. For example, even if the number of visits by a salesperson per store is significantly reduced from the current state while securing a necessary time for sales activities, for example, a ticket. The purpose of this is to provide a mechanism whereby the seller of can sell tickets to a ticket store efficiently.

[0006]

In order to achieve the object of the present invention, for example, the sales server of the present invention has the following configuration.

[0007] That is, a sales server that sells products to a store, stores means for allocating the product to the store and information about the product, and stores the noticed store from the first external device. And a receiving unit that receives information about the product, including the number or quantity of the products to be purchased, and when selling the product specified by the information received by the receiving unit to the noted store, The determination means for determining whether or not to sell the product based on an instruction from the second external device that determines the allocation to the retail store of interest, and the data of the product to be sold based on the determination result by the determination means are described above. And a transmitting means for transmitting to the first external device.

[0008] The transmitting means further transmits, to the second external device, information regarding the product to be sold to the noted store, and the receiving means further allocates the determined allocation of the product to the second external device. Received from an external device.

[0009] The transmitting means further transmits information about new products to the first external device.

[0010] The transmitting means further transmits information relating to the billing of the product to the first external device.

In order to achieve the object of the present invention, for example, the sales system of the present invention has the following configuration.

[0012] That is, a sales system comprising a terminal of a store, a sales server for selling products to the store, and a portable terminal, wherein the terminal purchases products for the sales server. Information about the product, including the number or quantity of the products, and when the data of the product is transmitted from the sales server, the data is received, and the sales server allocates the product to the store and Storage means for storing information about products, receiving means for receiving information about the products, including the number or quantity of products purchased by the shop of interest from the terminal, and the receiving means for the shop of interest. When selling the product specified by the information received by the seller, the product is sold based on an instruction from the mobile terminal that determines the allocation of the product to the noted store. And a transmitting means for transmitting to the terminal the data of the product to be sold based on the determination result by the determining means, the transmitting means further to the mobile terminal, The information about the product to be sold is transmitted to the target retailer, the receiving unit further receives the determined allocation of the product from the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal transmits the target sales transmitted from the sales server. The information on the product to be sold to the store is received, and the determined allocation of the product to the target store is transmitted to the sales server.

[0013]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The present invention will now be described in detail according to preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.

[First Embodiment] FIG. 1 shows the basic configuration of a sales system in this embodiment. 10 in the figure
Reference numeral 1 denotes a PC installed in a ticket store, which requests a predetermined number of tickets from a ticket sales source and creates a number of tickets authenticated by the ticket sales source.

The PC 101 has the structure shown in FIG.

Reference numeral 201 denotes a CPU as a processing unit, which is a RAM
The program and data stored in the ROM 202 and the ROM 203 are used to execute various processes described below, and the PC 10
1 Control the whole.

Reference numeral 202 denotes a RAM as a memory, which has an area for temporarily storing programs and data loaded from a hard disk 206 or a CD-ROM drive, and a work area used when the CPU 201 executes each process. Also prepare.

Reference numeral 203 denotes a ROM as a memory, which is the PC 1
01 stores a program (such as a boot program) for controlling the whole and data. It also stores character codes.

A LAN adapter 204 is an interface for connecting to a LAN network or the like.

Reference numeral 205 denotes an input unit, which is composed of a pointing device such as a keyboard and a mouse.
Various instructions can be input to C101.

A hard disk 206 can store programs corresponding to the flow chart shown in FIG. 3 and various programs and data.
It is loaded into M202.

A CD-ROM drive 207 reads programs and data from a CD-ROM as a storage medium and transfers the read programs and data to the RAM 202 or hard disk. The present embodiment is not limited to the CD-ROM drive,
In addition to this, a drive capable of similarly reading programs and data from another storage medium such as a floppy (registered trademark) disk may be used.

A video adapter 208 is an interface for connecting the screen display device 107 and the like.

Reference numeral 200 is a system bus for connecting the above-mentioned units.

Reference numeral 103 denotes a printing device composed of a general printer or the like, which prints the number of tickets authenticated by the ticket seller.

Reference numeral 102 denotes the above-mentioned PC 101 and printing device 10.
It is a cable that connects the two with the standard such as RS-232C.

Reference numeral 104 denotes a mobile terminal composed of a mobile phone, a PDA, a notebook computer, etc., which has the same structure as that shown in FIG. Further, a program corresponding to the portable terminal of the flowchart shown in FIG. 3 is stored in the memory or the hard disk, and the program is stored in the C
It is executed by the PU and is always carried by the sales person who sells the ticket, and communicates with the ticket seller, which will be described later.

Reference numeral 105 denotes a distributor server, which has the same configuration as that shown in FIG. 2 and stores a program corresponding to the portable terminal of the flowchart shown in FIG. 3 in a memory or a hard disk, and the CPU executes the program. Then, it receives a request for a predetermined number of tickets from the PC 101, and operates according to the requested number and type of tickets (details will be described later).

Reference numeral 107 denotes a screen display device composed of a CRT, a liquid crystal screen or the like, which can display various display screens related to ticket sales.

Reference numeral 106 denotes a cable connecting the server 105 and the screen display device.

Reference numeral 100 denotes the above-mentioned PC 101 and portable terminal 10.
4. A network to which the server 105 can connect,
Including the Internet etc.

Ticket sales using the sales system of the present embodiment having the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. Incidentally, the respective devices (PC 101, server 105, mobile terminal 10 shown in FIG.
The program according to the processing of 4) is stored in the internal memory (RAM, ROM, or hard disk) of each device and read by the CPU of the processing unit of each device,
To be executed.

Before executing the processing according to this flow chart, it is assumed that a ticket newly received by the seller is registered in the server 105 in advance. In addition, newly arrived tickets are classified into the four types described below by the staff of the ticket seller, and are similarly registered as the data of each ticket.

1. 1. Unlimited number of tickets within the credit limit of general ticket stores. Partially limited ticket (in addition to the credit limit to retailers, there is a limit on the sales period and the total number of tickets, but each retailer can freely purchase within that limit) 3. Gold ticket (Although there is an initial quota for each store, additional tickets can be ordered within the fixed number limit for each store. Sales person's approval for orders over the number of additional orders Is required) 4. Platinum ticket (a salesperson allocates the number of tickets for each store in principle, and the salesperson must approve the change in the number of allocations) First, the sale of new tickets from the server 105 is sold. A mail notifying the store (new ticket mail) is transmitted to the PC 101 (step S35).
1). In addition to this, this mail also describes the number of tickets that can be limited to this ticket store. FIG. 4 shows an example of this mail.

The PC 101 receives this e-mail (step S301), and the staff of the ticket dealer who saw this e-mail sends an e-mail describing the number of tickets to be ordered to the server 105 (step S30).
2). In addition, since the server 105 recognizes the number of each ticket type described in this email,
It is preferable that it is created in a predetermined format.

However, the method of ordering the ticket by the ticket store is not limited to this. In addition, the server 105 publishes the home page of the reception for ticket sales on the network 100, and the PC 101 accesses this home page. Then, the number of tickets for each type may be entered on this home page to place an order. Also, the types of tickets that can be sold, the presence / absence of restrictions, and the number of tickets may be posted on this website.

When a ticket is ordered on the home page, the address of this home page is described in the margin of the mail shown in FIG. 4 (for example, the margin below the mail in FIG. 4).

The server 105 receives the ticket order mail transmitted from the PC 101 (step S35).
2) The type of each ordered ticket is determined (step S353). If the ordered ticket is a gold card or less (in the above, the cards 1, 2, and 3), the process proceeds to step S359, and the number of ordered gold card or less (individual type) tickets is Then, it is determined whether or not the ticket sales source is less than or equal to the limit number (allocation) set in advance for this ticket store (step S359). This determination process is performed for all tickets under the gold card, that is, for all tickets 1, 2, and 3. If the number of tickets is equal to or less than the limit, the ticket data requested by the ticket store is attached to the e-mail and sent to the PC 101 (step S360). The ticket data is data for printing the ticket, and its contents are, for example, character and picture data for printing on the ticket, seat designation data, serial number data printed on each ticket, and the like. However, the present invention is not limited to this. Further, the data of this ticket may be embedded in the transmitted mail by embedding a digital watermark.

On the other hand, in the case where the number of tickets is equal to or more than the limit in step S359, the staff of the ticket dealer adjusts the number of tickets and attaches the adjusted number of ticket data to the transmission mail to the PC 101. It is transmitted (step S362). In addition to this, the mobile terminal 104
It is also possible to send an e-mail requesting the adjustment instruction to the sales person, have the sales person make the adjustment, and receive the adjustment result again.

Regarding the limited number of sheets for a ticket store, the minimum number of sheets to be sold by one store + the number of sheets for which the sales record file is searched for and proportionally distributed based on the past sales record = the initial number of copies. In other words, the server 105 stores the sales performance data of each ticket store, and based on this data, the ticket seller can set a limited number of tickets for each ticket store.

Then, the salesperson corrects the initial assigned number and sets the final assigned number (limited number).

On the other hand, if the ticket is a platinum card ticket in step S353, the process proceeds to step S354.
In order to obtain approval from the sales person who sells the ticket, an approval mail in which information about the ticket (type of ticket, number of tickets, etc.) is written is transmitted to the mobile terminal 104 (step S354). The mobile terminal 104 receives this mail (step S391), the salesperson refers to the received mail to determine the number of tickets to be finally sold, and returns a mail stating that fact to the server 105 (step S392). ).

The server 105 receives this mail from the portable terminal 104 (step S355), and determines whether or not all the tickets requested by the ticket store have been approved (step S356). In other words, it is determined from the above-mentioned information described in this email whether or not all the tickets requested by the ticket shop can be sold.
Specifically, it responds whether or not to accept the order in consideration of the sales record of the ticket shop and the remaining number of tickets.

In any case, the mail with the data of the tickets of the number authenticated by the salesperson is transmitted to the PC 101 (steps S357 and S361). However, if the ticket sale is not approved at all by the ticket store, in step S361, an email stating that is displayed on the PC 101, although not shown in FIG.
Will be sent to.

In the PC 101, steps S357 and S3
In steps 61, S360, and S362, the ticket data attached to the mail transmitted in at least one step is received (step S303), and the printing apparatus 10
3 to print the ticket (step S304).
This step is canceled if the ticket data is not attached to the email.

In the PC 101, a program for converting ticket print data into printable data in advance and outputting the print data to the printing apparatus 103 is the hard disk 206 or RA.
It is stored in M202. Then, it is read and executed by the CPU 201. When the ticket data is embedded in the mail in the form of a digital watermark, a program for extracting the ticket data as the digital watermark is also stored and executed.

Further, the server 105 sends to the PC 101 an e-mail (a mail created by the staff who sells the ticket) stating an invoice (ticket sales details and invoice amount) according to the ticket sold to the ticket shop. It transmits to (step S358). However, this step is not limited to being executed each time the ticket shop purchases a ticket. In other words, the mail in which the above-mentioned bill is written may be sent to the PC 101 once a month.

As described above, the sales system and method according to the present embodiment automatically calculate the number of tickets to be allocated according to the past sales record, and the sales person may correct the initial number of tickets allocated. Therefore, the work of determining the number of allocated sheets can be greatly saved.

Further, since the mail in which the allocated number of sheets for each ticket sales shop is automatically reflected is automatically transmitted, the notification work to the ticket sales shop is automated.

For an order for a ticket with an allocation limit, when the order is received, it is checked whether the allocation limit is exceeded, and the salesman is notified of the ticket with an allocation limit. The burden is greatly reduced.

Furthermore, the reply mail to the ticket store is sent with the text of the sales approval number of tickets classified by ticket type and the ticket data as attached data attached, so that the sending of ticket data is automated. It

[Second Embodiment] In the first embodiment, a ticket is used as the content sold by the sales system, but the present invention is not limited to this, and is applied to a system for providing general mail-order sales. It is clear that you can do it.

[Other Embodiments] The object of the present invention is to supply a storage medium (or recording medium) recording a program code of software for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments to a system or apparatus, Computer of system or device (or CPU or MPU)
Needless to say, can also be achieved by reading and executing the program code stored in the storage medium. In this case, the program code itself read from the storage medium realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments, and the storage medium storing the program code constitutes the present invention. Further, by executing the program code read by the computer, not only the functions of the above-described embodiment are realized, but also an operating system (OS) running on the computer is executed based on the instruction of the program code. It goes without saying that a case where some or all of the actual processing is performed and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing is also included.

Furthermore, after the program code read from the storage medium is written in the memory provided in the function expansion card inserted in the computer or the function expansion unit connected to the computer, based on the instruction of the program code, , The CPU provided in the function expansion card or the function expansion unit performs some or all of the actual processing,
It goes without saying that the processing includes the case where the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized.

When the present invention is applied to the above storage medium, the storage medium stores the program code corresponding to the above-described flowchart (shown in FIG. 9).

Further, the object of the present invention is to distribute the program code of the software that realizes the functions of the above-described embodiment via the network, thereby storing the hard disk or memory of the system or apparatus or the C or the like.
It is stored in a storage medium such as D-RW or CD-R, and the computer (or CPU or MP) of the system or device.
It is needless to say that U) is achieved by reading and executing the program code stored in the storage means or the storage medium.

[0057]

[Effect of the Invention] While securing the time for necessary business activities, 1
Even if the number of sales person visits per store is drastically reduced compared to the current situation, the ticket seller can efficiently sell the ticket to the ticket store.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a selling system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a PC 101.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of processing performed by the sales system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a new ticket mail.

Claims (21)

[Claims] 1. A sales server for selling a product to a store, a storage unit for storing a product allocation to the store, and information about the product, and a first external device to be a store of interest. A receiving unit that receives information about the product, including the number or quantity of the products to be purchased, and, when selling the product specified by the information received by the receiving unit to the retail store of interest, The determination means for determining whether or not to sell the product based on an instruction from the second external device that determines the allocation to the retail store of interest, and the data of the product to be sold based on the result of the determination by the determination means. A selling server, comprising: a transmitting unit that transmits to a first external device. 2. The transmitting means further transmits, to the second external device, information regarding a product to be sold to the noted store, and the receiving means further allocates the determined allocation of the product. The sales server according to claim 1, wherein the sales server receives the second external device. 3. The sales server according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting unit further transmits information regarding a newly arrived product to the first external device. 4. The sales server according to claim 3, wherein the information about the newly arrived product includes allocation of the product for each store. 5. The sales server according to claim 1, wherein the transmitting unit further transmits information regarding a product bill to the first external device. 6. The product allocation to the stores stored in the storage means is proportionally distributed based on a preset minimum allocation and the past sales record of the stores. The sales server according to any one of claims 1 to 5, which is characterized. 7. The determining means determines whether to sell the product based on an instruction from a second external device according to the rank of the product included in the information received by the receiving means. The sales server according to any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that. 8. By processing the data of the product,
The sales server according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the product is data that can be generated. 9. The sales server according to claim 1, wherein the product includes a ticket. 10. A sales system comprising a terminal of a store, a sales server for selling products to the store, and a mobile terminal, wherein the terminal is a product purchased for the sales server. Of information about the product, including the number or amount of the product, and when the data of the product is transmitted from the sales server, the data is received, and the sales server assigns the product to the store and Storage means for storing information about a product; receiving means for receiving information about the product, including the number or quantity of products purchased by the noted store, from the terminal; When selling the product specified by the information received by the seller, the product is sold based on an instruction from the mobile terminal that determines the allocation of the product to the noted store. Determination means for determining whether or not, and a transmission means for transmitting the data of the product to be sold to the terminal based on the determination result by the determination means, the transmission means further to the mobile terminal, The information about the product to be sold to the noted store is transmitted, the receiving unit further receives the determined allocation of the product from the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal receives the focused sale transmitted from the sales server. A sales system, which receives information on a product to be sold to a store, and transmits the determined allocation of the product to the noted store to the sales server. 11. A selling method for selling a product to a retail store, wherein allocation of the product to the retail store and information about the product are stored in a storage means, and attention is given from a first external device. A receiving step of receiving information about the product including the number or quantity of products purchased by the store, and selling the product specified by the information received in the receiving step to the noted store, the product Determination step of determining whether or not to sell the product based on an instruction from a second external device that determines the allocation to the noted store, and data of the product to be sold based on the determination result of the determination step. And a transmitting step of transmitting to the first external device. 12. The transmitting step further transmits, to the second external device, information regarding a product to be sold to the noted store, and the receiving step further includes the determined allocation of the product. The selling method according to claim 11, wherein the selling is performed from a second external device. 13. The selling method according to claim 11, wherein in the transmitting step, information regarding a newly arrived product is further transmitted to the first external device. 14. The selling method according to claim 13, wherein the information about the newly arrived product includes allocation of the product for each store. 15. The selling method according to claim 11, wherein in the transmitting step, further information on billing of the product is transmitted to the first external device. 16. The product allocation to the stores stored in the storage means is proportionally distributed based on a minimum allocation established in advance and past sales records of the stores. 16. The method according to claim 11, which is characterized in that
The method of selling according to any one of 1. 17. In the determining step, it is determined whether to sell the product based on an instruction from a second external device according to the rank of the product included in the information received in the receiving process. The selling method according to any one of claims 11 to 16, wherein: 18. The selling method according to claim 11, wherein the product data is data that can be generated by processing the product. 19. The selling method according to claim 11, wherein the product includes a ticket. 20. A program code for executing the sales method according to claim 11 on a computer. 21. A computer-readable storage medium storing the program code according to claim 20.