JP2006318126A - Electronic shopping mall system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic shopping mall system for enabling each purchaser to purchase even merchandise whose minimum volume of sales or less is demanded when the total of a plurality of purchasers becomes the minimum volume of sales or more. <P>SOLUTION: This shopping mall server is provided with a merchandise information database in which merchandise information including the minimum volume of sales which can be sold is stored for each merchandise and a merchandise combination management means for managing the combination of merchandise to be sold. Furthermore, in this electronic shopping mall system, a merchandise combination management means stores the combination of order articles and each order quantity for each purchaser in an order article combination storage means according to order information, and totals the order quantity for each merchandise based on the order information, and stores it in an order quantity storage means, and discriminates whether or not the total order quantity of each merchandise has respectively become the corresponding minimum volume of sales or more, and decides that the order of the purchaser has been established when it is discriminated that each total order quantity has become the corresponding minimum volume of sales or more for all the order articles of each purchaser based on the discrimination result. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic shopping mall system that is a commodity buying and selling system in a virtual shopping mall constructed on the Internet.

  Conventionally, when shopping at a virtual shopping mall on the Internet, a buyer accesses a shopping mall server from his / her terminal, receives a product and information necessary for the purchase, and based on the information, a desired product One or more can be selected and purchased together (for example, refer to Patent Document 1).

JP 2002-183163 A

Patent Document 1 is an example in which a desired product is easily selected, but it is normal that a product whose minimum sales amount is determined together with other conventional examples cannot be purchased below the minimum sales amount. there were.
For example, even if there is a case where it is desired to purchase small quantities of various products depending on the item of the product, it is not possible to purchase a product that is desired to be less than the minimum sales amount.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and the purpose of the present invention is to purchase a product that each buyer desires to be less than the minimum sales amount if the sum of a plurality of buyers exceeds the minimum sales amount. Is to provide an electronic shopping mall system.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention described in claim 1 is that a buyer accesses from a purchaser terminal a virtual shopping mall constructed on the Internet where a plurality of virtual stores present and sell products together with necessary information. In the electronic shopping mall system in which a plurality of types of products can be selected and an order can be purchased, the shopping mall server that constructs the virtual shopping mall on the Internet via the WWW server is provided by a mall manager terminal. A product information database that is managed and stores searchable predetermined product information of products sold by each virtual store; product information in the product information database; and items sold based on order information from the plurality of purchaser terminals Product combination management means for managing combinations, and the product information data The minimum sales volume that can be sold for each product is stored in the product as product information, and the product combination management means orders the combination of the ordered products and each order quantity for each buyer according to the order information. In addition to storing in the product combination storage means, the order quantity for each product is summed based on the order information and stored in the order quantity storage means, and the total order quantity for each product stored in the order quantity storage means corresponds respectively. And determining whether or not the minimum sales amount is greater than or equal to the minimum sales amount, and based on the determination result, for each of the purchaser's order items stored in the order item combination storage means, each total order amount corresponds to the minimum sales amount respectively. An electronic shopping mall system that determines that an order has been established for an order of a purchaser determined to be greater than or equal to the quantity is provided.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the electronic shopping mall system according to the first aspect, the product combination management unit includes a remaining stock amount storage unit that stores a remaining stock amount for each product, and the remaining stock amount storage unit. It is possible to determine that an order has been completed only for a purchaser order within the range of the remaining inventory amount stored in.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the electronic shopping mall system according to the first or second aspect, the merchandise combination management means includes a desired delivery date storage means for storing a delivery date desired by the purchaser for the ordered item. Further, it is characterized in that it is determined that the order of the buyer whose order has not been established within a predetermined number of days before the desired delivery date stored in the desired delivery date storage means is not fulfilled.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the electronic shopping mall system according to any one of the first to third aspects, the shopping mall server includes a transaction processing means, and the transaction processing means is the buyer terminal. When the order information is input to the product combination management means, and the determination result of the order establishment by the product combination management means is received, a transaction processing procedure such as settlement is performed with the buyer terminal.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the electronic shopping mall system according to the fourth aspect, the shopping mall server includes a product management means, and the product management means receives the processing result of the buying and selling processing means and the store terminal. Necessary product information is input, and the content of the product information database is updated.

According to the electronic shopping mall system according to claim 1, the product combination management unit determines that the total order quantity of all the order items of each buyer is equal to or greater than the corresponding minimum sales quantity. Because it is determined that the purchaser's order has been completed, even if the purchaser wishes to purchase less than the minimum sales amount, it can be purchased if the total of multiple purchasers exceeds the minimum sales amount. This increases convenience of purchaser's choice and is convenient.
It is possible to purchase a combination of products from different shopkeepers and reduce transportation costs.

  According to the electronic shopping mall system of claim 2, since it is determined that only the order of the purchaser within the range of the remaining inventory quantity is established, the order received after the remaining inventory quantity is not established. It has become.

  According to the electronic shopping mall system according to claim 3, since it is determined that the order of the purchaser whose order has not been established within a predetermined number of days before the desired delivery date is not fulfilled, the desired delivery date can be strictly observed. it can.

  According to the electronic shopping mall system of the fourth aspect, a buyer and a seller can use the buyer terminal to carry out a buying and selling procedure such as settlement with a buyer whose order has been established by the buying and selling processing means.

  According to the electronic shopping mall system of claim 5, the merchandise management means inputs the processing result of the buying and selling processing means and the merchandise information from the store terminal, and updates the contents of the merchandise information database. The product information database can be kept up to date with the latest product information.

Hereinafter, an embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an electronic shopping mall system 1 according to the present embodiment, in which a shopping mall server 10 managed by the mall manager terminal 2 constructs a virtual shopping mall on the Internet.
The shopping mall server 10 can be accessed from each of the plurality of store opening terminals 3 and the plurality of purchaser terminals 4, and can communicate with the Internet via the WWW server 11.

  The virtual shopping mall constructed by the shopping mall server 10 presents products sold by the virtual store corresponding to each store opener along with necessary information to the purchaser terminal 4 and can be bought and sold on the Internet.

The shopping mall server 10 includes a product information database 12 that stores predetermined product information of products sold by each virtual store in a searchable manner.
The stored product information includes product item data, product image data, product feature data, store opening data, minimum sales volume data, maximum order volume data, inventory volume data, and the like.

  The virtual shopping mall constructed by the shopping mall server 10 handles food items, and the product information database 12 stores food items divided into various items, including items such as rice, food ingredients, and drinks. There are dessert items such as cakes and pudding.

Further, the shopping mall server 10 includes product combination management means 20.
The product combination management means 20 includes an order product combination storage means 21 for storing and storing a combination of order items for each buyer and each order quantity, an order quantity storage means 22 for storing and storing an order quantity for each product, Based on order information from a plurality of buyers, comprising a remaining inventory quantity storage means 23 for storing and storing the remaining inventory quantity of goods, and a desired delivery date storage means 24 for storing and storing the desired delivery date of the ordered item for each buyer. Manage combinations of products for sale.

The purchaser terminal 4 accesses the WWW server 11 of the shopping mall server 10, and the ordered order information is processed by the buying and selling processing means 25 and input to the product combination management means 20.
The product combination management means 20 stores the order combination for each purchaser and each order quantity in the order combination combination storage means 21 based on the order information input from the buying and selling processing means 25, and determines the order quantity for each product. The total order quantity is stored in the order quantity storage means 22, the remaining inventory quantity that can be sold is retrieved from the product information database 12, stored in the remaining inventory quantity storage means 23, and desired delivery that is one of the order information The date is stored in the desired delivery date storage means 24.

  Further, the product combination management means 20 sums up each product stored in the order quantity storage means 22, and determines whether or not the total order quantity is equal to or greater than the minimum sales quantity retrieved from the corresponding product information database 12. Based on the result of the determination, the order of the purchaser determined that the total order quantity for each of the purchaser orders stored in the order combination storage means 21 is equal to or greater than the corresponding minimum sales quantity. It is determined that the order has been established.

  On the other hand, the shopping mall server 10 includes product management means 13. The product management means 13 accesses the WWW server 11 of the shopping mall server 10 from the store terminal 3 and inputs the new merchandise information and the sale processing. The changed product information accompanying the order establishment from the means 25 is read, and the contents of the product information database 12 are updated and managed.

  Further, the shopping mall server 10 is managed by the mall manager terminal 2, and the merchandise management means 13 also stores information such as addition or deletion of a new store opening, which is input from the mall manager terminal 2, by the merchandise information database. 12 is stored.

  A processing procedure between the shopping mall server 10 and the purchaser terminal 4 in the electronic shopping mall system 1 as described above will be described with reference to the sequence diagram of FIG.

First, when a purchaser accesses the shopping mall server 10 from the purchaser terminal 4 (step B1), the shopping mall server 10 transmits the mall top image data of the virtual shopping mall to the purchaser terminal 4 (step M1).
The mall top screen is displayed on the display of the buyer terminal 4 (step B2).

On the mall top screen, there is a place for selecting an item of merchandise, and an item to be purchased is selected from the food items (step B3).
When the item is selected, the selected item data is transmitted to the shopping mall server 10 (step B4).

  The shopping mall server 10 searches the product information database 12 from the received selected item data, extracts the product information of all products of the item (step M2), and obtains the image data and required product information of the selected item product. It transmits to the buyer terminal 4 (step M3).

The purchaser terminal 4 displays a list of product images of the selected items and an order screen including required product information for each product on the display (step B5).
FIG. 3 shows an example of the order screen.
This is a case where dessert is selected as an item, and an image of the product such as cake or pudding, the remaining stock quantity, the current order quantity, the minimum sales quantity for each product is displayed, and the buyer who wants to know more detailed product information There is an input field for the link and order quantity, and an input field for the desired delivery date.
There is also an item that allows selection of a set menu in which several displayed products are selected and combined one by one.

The minimum number of sales is the minimum number that can be sold by the shopkeeper. If it is a whole cake, the shopkeeper sells one whole cake. For example, if it is cut into six pieces, six pieces are sold together. This means that 6 pieces of cut cake will be the minimum sales.
You can also decide the minimum number of items you want to sell together.
As for the current order number, the total number of orders of a plurality of buyers is displayed in real time.

  The purchaser selects a favorite product (here, a favorite dessert) while viewing the list of products on the display of the purchaser terminal 4, and inputs the number of orders within the remaining inventory (step B6).

By the way, the item called cake is applied with a multi-item small-quantity purchase method that can be purchased even if it is less than the minimum number of sales, and a description to that effect is displayed on the screen.
That is, it is possible to order the selected product even if the number is less than the minimum sales number.
However, a purchase cannot be made unless the total number of orders from other buyers exceeds the minimum sales number.

As described above, the product of the item to which the multi-variety and small-quantity purchase method is applied is suitable for a purchaser who wants to purchase a small amount of products of many types and try each.
For this reason, a set menu in which various varieties are combined in advance is prepared as a “trial set” and can be selected.
Note that the maximum order quantity may be limited because it is a multi-variety small quantity purchase method.

  While viewing the order screen as described above, the purchaser selects a product, enters the number of orders, and enters items such as the desired delivery date (step B6), and determines whether the number of orders is less than the remaining inventory number. (Step B7) If the number of orders exceeds the remaining inventory quantity, the order quantity is corrected (Step B8), the quantity is reduced below the remaining inventory quantity, and the "Add to shopping cart" button is clicked until the order is completed. (Step B9), returning to Step B6, another product can be selected and ordered.

When the order is completed (step B9), the order information is transmitted to the shopping mall server 10 (step B10).
In the shopping mall server 10, the orders of a plurality of buyers for each ordered product are totaled (step M4), and the minimum sales amount for the ordered product is retrieved from the product information database 12 (step M5). It is determined whether or not the total order quantity is equal to or greater than the minimum sales quantity (step M6).

  When the total order quantity is less than the minimum sales quantity, the process jumps to Step M7, waiting image data is transmitted to the buyer terminal 4, and the display of the buyer terminal 4 is in a waiting state until the total order quantity reaches the minimum sales quantity. Is displayed on the waiting screen informing that there is (step B11).

  When the shopping mall server 10 transmits the waiting image data to the buyer terminal 4 (step M7), the shopping mall server 10 determines whether or not a day five days before the delivery date desired by the buyer has passed (step M8). The process returns to step M4.

  If the total order quantity does not reach the minimum sales quantity by 5 days before the delivery date, the process proceeds to step M9, where the image data of the unsuccessful order is transmitted to the purchaser terminal 4, and the unsuccessful order process is performed. An order failure screen informing that the order has not been established is displayed on the display of the customer terminal 4 (step B11).

  When it is determined in step M6 that the total order quantity is equal to or greater than the minimum sales quantity, the process proceeds to step M10, and the determination that the total order quantity is equal to or greater than the minimum sales quantity for all of the selected products of the buyer is completed. The process returns to step M4 until it is determined that the total order quantity is equal to or greater than the minimum sales quantity for all.

When it is determined that the total order quantity is equal to or greater than the minimum sales quantity for all of the items selected by the purchaser (step M10), the process returns to step M11 and the image data indicating the order is transmitted to the buyer terminal 4. Then, an order establishment process is performed.
At the purchaser terminal 4, an order establishment screen is displayed on the display informing that the order has been established (step B11).
Thereafter, the order information of the ordered item is confirmed, and the transaction processing for the purchase of the item starts.

On the other hand, the processing procedure between the shopping mall server 10 and the store terminal 3 in the electronic shopping mall system 1 will be described with reference to the sequence diagram of FIG.
When the shopkeeper accesses the shopping mall server 10 from the shopkeeper terminal 3 (step S21), the shopping mall server 10 searches the product information database 12 based on the shopkeeper and retrieves the product information of the shopkeeper (step S21). M21) Next, the order status of the merchandise for the store is read (step M22), and image data for the store is transmitted to the store terminal 3 (step S22).
The store opening screen is displayed on the display of the store opening terminal 3 (step S22).

The store opening person can perform the update work on the store opening screen.
In other words, update data for increasing or decreasing the inventory quantity or the minimum sales volume for an existing product, adding a new product, or deleting an existing product is input (step S23).
This update data is transmitted to the shopping mall server 10 (step S24).

The shopping mall server 10 updates the contents of the product information database 12 according to the update data (step M24).
The updated product information is transmitted to the store terminal 3 (step M25), the product information updated in the store terminal 3 is displayed (step S25), and the seller can check the update result.
The product information in the product information database 12 is updated with the approval of the mall manager.

  The product information in the product information database 12 that is sequentially updated in this way is always kept up-to-date, and under this product information, the purchaser accesses the shopping mall server 10 through the purchaser terminal 4 and selects the item. Select and order the goods.

When the selected item is applied with the high-mix low-volume purchase method, the purchaser updates the displayed image of each product, the remaining inventory amount, and the real-time on the order screen displayed on the display of the purchaser terminal 4 While looking at the current order quantity and the minimum sales quantity, select the products you like and enter the order quantity within the remaining inventory quantity without worrying about the minimum sales quantity.
Therefore, it is possible to purchase a variety of products in small quantities, which increases convenience of purchaser's choice and is convenient.

The products displayed on the order screen are exhibitions by different store vendors, and products of different store vendors can be purchased in combination.
There may be a case where a plurality of the same store sellers exhibit.

The purchaser can check the current order quantity that changes in real time when placing an order, so that the order quantity that he orders will be added to the current order quantity and will exceed the minimum sales quantity, or the order quantity will be It is possible to know how close the minimum sales amount is, and therefore it is possible to estimate to some extent when the order is placed.
If the total order quantity is equal to or greater than the minimum sales quantity due to the addition of the order quantity for all the products to be ordered, it is understood that the order is immediately established.

When an order is established for a certain buyer and the settlement process is completed, the mall manager orders each ordered product from each corresponding store.
Then, the mall manager wraps the products delivered from each store opening in combination and sends them to the buyer.
Accordingly, since the products exhibited by a plurality of shopkeepers are shipped together, the transportation cost is reduced.

  According to the present electronic shopping mall system 1, since it is determined that the order of the buyer who has passed the date five days before the desired delivery date is not fulfilled, the desired delivery date must be strictly observed for the buyer whose order has been established. Can do.

  For buyers who are waiting because the total order quantity of the ordered products is less than the minimum sales volume, the total sales volume of all the ordered products is the minimum sales volume at least 5 days before the desired delivery date. When an order is completed as above, or when the order is not completed because the total order quantity of one of the ordered products is less than the minimum sales quantity even after 5 days of the desired delivery date, This is notified to the buyer by e-mail, but it may be notified by telephone or postcard.

  In the above embodiment, the shopping mall server 10 handles groceries, but the present invention can also be applied to other products.

It is a schematic block diagram of the electronic shopping mall system which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. It is a sequence diagram which shows the process sequence between the shopping mall server and buyer terminal in the same electronic shopping mall system. It is a figure which shows an example of the order screen of the buyer terminal in the same electronic shopping mall system. It is a sequence diagram which shows the process sequence between the shopping mall server in the same electronic shopping mall system, and a shopkeeper terminal.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Electronic shopping mall system, 2 ... Mall manager terminal, 3 ... Store terminal, 4 ... Purchaser terminal,
10 ... Shopping mall server, 11 ... WWW server, 12 ... Product information database, 13 ... Product management means,
20 ... Commodity combination management means, 21 ... Order combination storage means, 22 ... Order quantity storage means, 23 ... Remaining stock quantity storage means, 24 ... Desired delivery date storage means, 25 ... Sale processing means.

Claims (5)

Purchase from a buyer's terminal to a virtual shopping mall built on the Internet where multiple virtual stores present and sell products together with necessary information, select multiple types of products, and purchase products for sale In the electronic shopping mall system that can
A shopping mall server that constructs the virtual shopping mall on the Internet via a WWW server,
Managed by the mall administrator terminal,
A product information database for storing predetermined product information of products sold by each virtual store in a searchable manner;
Product combination management means for managing a combination of products to be sold based on product information in the product information database and order information from the plurality of buyer terminals,
In the product information database, the minimum sales amount that can be sold for each product is stored as product information,
The product combination management means includes:
According to the order information, a combination of order items and each order quantity for each buyer are stored in the order combination storage means, and the order quantities for each product are totaled and stored in the order quantity storage means based on the order information. And
It is determined whether or not the total order quantity for each product stored in the order quantity storage means is equal to or more than the corresponding minimum sales quantity,
Based on the determination result, for the purchaser's order that is determined that the total order quantity is equal to or greater than the corresponding minimum sales quantity for all the purchaser's order items stored in the order item combination storage means An electronic shopping mall system characterized by determining that an order has been established. The product combination management means
A remaining inventory storage means for storing the remaining inventory for each product;
2. The electronic shopping mall system according to claim 1, wherein it is possible to determine that only an order of a purchaser within a range of the remaining inventory amount stored in the remaining inventory amount storage means is an order. The product combination management means
A desired delivery date storage means for storing a delivery date desired by the purchaser for the ordered product is provided.
3. An order failure is determined for an order of a buyer who has not been placed within a predetermined number of days before the desired delivery date stored in the desired delivery date storage means. The electronic shopping mall system described. The shopping mall server is
Equipped with transaction processing means,
The buying and selling processing means inputs order information from the purchaser terminal to the product combination management means, and upon receiving a determination result of order establishment by the product combination management means, the buying and selling processing procedure such as settlement is performed with the purchaser terminal. The electronic shopping mall system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the electronic shopping mall system is performed between the two. The shopping mall server is
Product management means,
5. The electronic shopping mall system according to claim 4, wherein the merchandise management means inputs a processing result of the buying and selling processing means and required merchandise information from a store terminal, and updates the contents of the merchandise information database. .

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