JPH09326084A - Article sales registration data processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the cost and make the handling easy by deciding whether a credit slip is printed on a receipt printer or credit dedicated printer according to the kind of the credit card read by a card reader, and thus printing and issuing the slip. SOLUTION: The receipt printer 14 which prints data on a receipt form and the credit dedicated printer 2 which prints the data on a credit standardized slip form are provided. A card reader controller 25 inputs the data of the credit card read by the card reader 13, decides which of the receipt printer 14 and credit dedicated printer 2 is used to print the credit slip, and prints and issues the credit slip. Consequently, a process for printing and issuing the credit slip by using the receipt form or a process for printing and issuing the slip by using the credit standardized slip form can automatically be selected according to the kind of the credit.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a product sales registration data processing device such as an electronic cash register, a POS (Point Of Sales) terminal or the like having a function of processing payment of a product price by credit.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional commodity sales registration data processing device of this type, a credit slip is printed and issued by a so-called CAT (Credit Authorizer), which is a dedicated credit printer for printing data on a unified credit slip sheet.
There is a method of using a printer and a method of using a receipt printer that prints data on receipt paper.

FIG. 6 is a print example of a credit slip printed and issued using a CAT printer, and FIG. 7 is a print example of a credit slip printed and issued using a receipt printer. As shown in the figure, in the case of using a CAT printer, a unified credit slip sheet provided with columns for printing necessary items (card issuing company name, member number, handling date, expiration date, slip number, credit amount, etc.) in advance. Edit and print the credit voucher data for the relevant transaction so that it will be entered in each column. On the other hand, when a receipt printer is used, the credit slip data is edited to fit within the width of the receipt paper and printed on the receipt paper together with the corresponding item name.

Incidentally, the receipt printer is built in the commodity sales registration data processing device, and the CAT printer is externally attached as necessary. When the CAT printer is connected, the credit slip is printed and issued using the CAT printer, and when it is not connected, the credit slip is printed and issued using the receipt printer.

By the way, whether to adopt the credit slip using the credit unified slip paper or the credit slip using the receipt paper is determined by the contract between the credit company and the store, but at present, it is small. Many large-scale stores use a credit slip that uses a unified credit slip. However, it is cheaper to use the receipt paper and the operator can handle it more easily.For example, the owner developer collectively contracts with the credit company and collects the credit processing that occurred at each tenant store on the host computer. Credit vouchers using receipt paper have come to be accepted in processing shopping centers and the like.

[0006] However, some tenant stores of the shopping center may have a contract with a credit company different from the credit company contracted by the developer by themselves, and in this contract, a credit unified slip form is used to make a credit slip. If it is issued, in the tenant store, an authentication terminal dedicated to credit is installed separately from the product sales registration data processing device. And the customer who uses the credit card of the credit company with which the developer has contracted performs credit processing using the product sales registration data processing device, and the customer who uses the credit card of the credit company with which the shop has contracted is a credit-only customer. Either the credit terminal must be used to deal with the problem or all credits must be processed using the credit terminal. Such a problem occurs even in an independent store, for example, when a contract is made with a plurality of credit companies, but some of the credit companies do not accept a credit slip using a receipt sheet.

[0007]

As described above, when a credit company that accepts a credit voucher using receipt paper and a credit company that does not accept it are mixed, conventional credit-only authentication is provided separately from the product sales registration data processing device. Since it was necessary to install a terminal and use a unified credit form slip, which costs more than receipt paper, not only equipment costs but also expenses increase, and product sales registration data processing depends on the type of credit card used by the customer. There is a problem in that handling is inconvenient because the device and the authentication terminal dedicated to credit must be used properly.

The present invention has been made under such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to perform credit processing for printing and issuing a credit slip using receipt paper and credit for printing and issuing using a credit unified slip paper. An object of the present invention is to provide a merchandise sales registration data processing device capable of automatically selecting processing depending on the type of credit card used.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has a card reader for reading card data of a credit card, processes payment of a product registered for sale by a product registration means by the credit card, and prints a credit slip. In the product sales registration data processing device for issuing, a receipt printer that prints data on receipt paper and a dedicated credit printer that prints data on unified credit slip paper are provided as means for printing and issuing credit slips. Then, depending on the type of the credit card read by the card reader, it is determined whether the credit slip is printed and issued by the receipt printer or the credit dedicated printer, and the printer on the side determined as a result is operated and the credit slip is printed and issued. It is something that is done.

As one of the means, in addition to the receipt printer and the credit-dedicated printer, it is possible to specify whether the receipt printer or the credit-dedicated printer is used as the print output destination of the credit slip for each card identification data for identifying the type of credit card. The credit card table that stores the output destination designation information and the credit card table that is searched with the card identification data in the card data of the credit card read by the card reader are searched for the printer specified by the corresponding output destination designation information. It is provided with a slip print output destination determining means for determining a print output destination, and a slip issuing control means for printing and issuing a credit slip by operating the printer determined by this determining means. Depending on the type of Printing issued by Topurinta or CA
It is automatically determined whether or not the T printer should print and issue, and the printer on the side determined as a result operates to issue and print the credit slip.

[0011]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In this embodiment, P used at a store in which a credit company that accepts a credit voucher using receipt paper and a credit company that does not
A case where the present invention is applied to an OS terminal will be described.

FIG. 1 is an external view of such a POS terminal, which has a structure in which a CAT printer 2 is detachably attached to a POS terminal main body 1 by a communication cable 3. Further, the POS terminal body 1 is connected to a POS controller (not shown) via a transmission line 4, and performs data communication with the host computer of each credit company via this POS controller.

The POS terminal main body 1 is provided with a keyboard 11, a display 12, and a card reader 13 for reading card data of a credit card on the front surface of the main body. In addition, a receipt / journal printer that prints data on receipt paper and journal paper inside the main body (hereinafter, R
A RJ printer 14 is provided for displaying receipt paper printed by the RJ printer 14.
The journal paper is ejected from the receipt issuing port 15 formed on the rear side, and the journal paper is wound inside the main body after printing. As the RJ printer 14, for example, a line thermal printer capable of high-speed printing is used.

As shown in FIG. 3, the keyboard 11 includes a numeral key K1 for inputting numerical data, a plurality of department keys K2 preset with department codes for classifying each product, and a subtotal key K3. Deposit / cash total key K4, lump sum payment, revolving payment, bonus lump sum payment, installment payment,
Payment declaration key K5, clear key K6, multiplication key K7, for entering various credit payment methods for bonus combined payment
This is a POS terminal dedicated keyboard having a credit processing function provided with various keys such as a credit key K8, a cancel key K9, an entry key K10, and an execution key K11. Incidentally, the deposit / cash total key K4 functions as a closing key that declares the end of product registration for cash transactions, and the credit key K8 functions as a closing key that declares the end of product registration for credits. Further, the execution key K11 functions as a key for inquiring the host computer of the credit company for credit approval in the credit processing.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the outline of the control circuit in the POS terminal body 1.
The S terminal body 1 is a CPU (Centra) as a main control unit.
l Procesing Unit) 16 is installed. The above C
A ROM (Read Only Memory) 17 in which fixed data such as a program executed by the PU 16 is stored in advance, and a RAM (Random memory) that forms a storage area for various variable data.
Access Memoly) 18 and.

Further, the POS terminal body 1 has a clock circuit 19 for measuring the date and time, and a communication interface 2 for controlling data communication performed through the transmission line 4.
0, a printer interface 21 for transmitting and receiving data to and from a CAT printer 2 connected via the communication cable 3, a keyboard controller 22 for taking in a key signal from the keyboard 11, and a drive for the display unit 12 are controlled. A display controller 23 for displaying characters and the like corresponding to the display data, a printer controller 24 for controlling the drive of the RJ printer 14 and printing characters and the like corresponding to the print data on receipt paper and journal paper,
Also, various signal input / output units such as a card reader controller 25 for controlling the drive of the card reader 13 to take in the data of the credit card read by the card reader 13 are mounted. Then, the CPU 16 and the ROM 1
7, RAM 18, clock circuit 19 and various signal input / output unit 2
0 to 25 are connected by a bus line 26 such as an address bus and a data bus to form a control circuit of the POS terminal body 1.

Now, the R of the POS terminal body 1
The AM 18 includes, for example, a department totalizer that aggregates and stores the sales data of each registered product for each department code, a transaction buffer that stores and stores the department code, the number of sales, the sales amount, etc. of the product registered as a transaction. In addition to a work area for temporarily storing input data and flags, a credit card table 40 shown in FIG. 4 is formed. The credit card table 40 is a table in which a credit company name and a print output destination flag F that specifies a print output destination of a credit slip are set in advance for each company code of a credit company that issues various credit cards. Here, the print output destination flag F is set to "0" when the RJ printer 14 is designated as the print output destination of the credit slip, and is set to "1" when the CAT printer 2 is designated. Further, the company code is recorded in advance on the credit card together with the membership number for identifying the card owner, and functions as card identification data for identifying the credit card.

However, the POS terminal body 1
When the numerical data is input by the numerical key K1 and then the multiplication key K7, the CPU 16 stores the numerical data in the work area as a multiplier and sets the multiplier flag. When numerical data is input by the numerical key K1 and then the department key K2 is input, it is determined whether or not the multiplier flag is set. If it is set, the multiplier flag is reset, the multiplier is used as the sales point, and the sales point is multiplied by numerical data to calculate the sales amount. On the other hand, when it is reset, "1" is set as the number of sales points and the numerical data is set as the sales amount. After that, the number of sales and the amount of sales are stored in the transaction buffer together with the department code preset in the input department key K2, and the sales data of the registered merchandise is registered by performing the addition process for each department code in the department totalizer.

Thus, when the subtotal key K3 is input after the sales registration of the product purchased by one customer, the CPU 16 adds up the sales amounts of the respective products accumulated and stored in the transaction buffer to be 1
The total amount of transaction is calculated and displayed on the display unit 12.

After that, when the credit key K8 is entered as a closing key for declaring the end of registration of one transaction, the CPU
16 executes the credit key processing shown in the flowchart of FIG. That is, in ST (step) 1, the card reader 13 waits for the card data of the credit card to be read. Then, if the card data such as the company code of the credit card and the member number is taken in through the card reader controller 25, this card data is temporarily stored in the work area 18 as ST2.

Next, at ST3, the process waits until the payment method is selected and input by the payment declaration key K5. And if any of the payment declaration keys K5 is operated,
At ST4, the payment category data corresponding to the operationally entered payment declaration key K5 is stored in the work area.

Next, in ST5, the execution key K11 is waited for input. When the execution key K11 is operated and input, the credit approval inquiry message including the card data and the payment category data in the work area is edited in ST6. Then, this inquiry message is transmitted from the communication interface 20 to the host computer of the corresponding credit company via the POS controller to make an inquiry for credit approval.

As a result, if the credit approval response is received in ST7, the credit card table 40 is entered with the company code in the card data in ST8.
To check the print output destination flag F corresponding to the company code (slip print output destination determining means).

Here, when the print output destination flag F is "1", since the CAT printer 2 is designated as the print output destination of the credit slip, in ST9 the card data and payment category data in the work area and Based on the registered product data and the like in the transaction buffer, the credit slip data suitable for the unified credit slip paper is edited. Then, if the credit slip data is sent to the CAT printer 2 through the printer interface 21 in ST10 and a credit slip is printed out as a unified credit slip paper as shown in FIG. 6 (slip issuing control means), This credit key processing ends.

On the other hand, as a result of searching the credit card table 40 in ST8, when the print output destination flag F corresponding to the company code is "0", the RJ printer 14 is designated as the print output destination of the credit slip. Therefore, in ST11, the credit slip data suitable for the receipt paper and the journal paper is edited based on the card data and payment classification data in the work area, the registered product data in the transaction buffer, and the like. Then, in ST12, if the credit slip data is sent to the RJ printer 14 via the printer controller 14 to be printed on the journal paper, and the credit slip on the receipt paper as shown in FIG. Issue control means), and the credit key process is terminated. As a result of the credit approval inquiry, if the approval response cannot be received, the transaction is canceled.

The POS having the above-mentioned structure according to the present embodiment
In the store using the terminal, the credit card table 40 is set in advance with the company code of the credit card usable in the store, the company name, and the corresponding data of the print output destination flag F. In this case, the print output destination flag F corresponding to the company code of the credit company that recognizes the credit slip using the receipt paper is "0", and the print output destination flag F corresponding to the company code of the credit company that does not recognize is "1". And

In this state, the operator of the POS terminal registers the sales data of the customer-purchased merchandise, and when the merchandise registration is completed, asks the customer how to pay the merchandise price. And
When the customer offers to pay by credit, the credit key K8 is pressed and the card data of the credit card deposited by the customer is read by the card reader 13.
When the customer's desired credit payment method is input from the payment declaration key K5, the execution key K11 is pressed.

Then, the credit approval inquiry message is edited, and this inquiry message is transmitted to the host computer of the credit company, which is the issuer of the credit card, and the credit approval inquiry is performed. As a result, if there is a permission response, the credit card table 40
Is searched. Then, the print output destination flag F corresponding to the company code in the card data of the credit card concerned.
If "1" is set, the CAT printer 2 automatically prints and issues a credit slip in the form of a unified credit slip paper. On the other hand, when the print output destination flag F is “0”, the RJ printer 14 automatically prints and issues a credit slip using receipt paper.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the RJ printer 14 that prints data on receipt paper and journal paper is used as the print issuing means of the credit slip.
And a CAT that prints data on the credit unified slip paper
A printer 2 is provided. And the card reader 13
According to the company code that identifies the type of credit card read in step 1, it is determined whether the credit slip is printed or issued by the receipt printer 14 or the CAT printer 2, and the printer on the side determined as a result is operated to open the credit slip. I will print it out.

Therefore, it is automatically determined whether the credit slip is printed or issued by the receipt printer 14 or the CAT printer 2 according to the type of the credit card, and the printer on the relevant side operates to issue the credit slip. Therefore, the credit processing for printing and issuing the credit slip using the receipt paper and the credit processing for printing and issuing the credit slip using the unified credit slip paper can be automatically selected depending on the type of the credit card used.

As a result, even when a credit company that accepts a credit slip using receipt paper and a credit company that does not accept it are mixed, P having a credit processing function is provided.
Since it is no longer necessary to install an authentication terminal for credits separately from the OS terminal, the equipment cost can be reduced. In addition, since it is not necessary to use the unified credit form slip for a credit company that accepts a credit form using a receipt form, it is possible to reduce the amount of use of the unified credit form paper, which is more expensive than the receipt form, and to reduce the cost.

Further, it is not necessary for the operator to decide whether to use the POS terminal or the authentication terminal dedicated to credit depending on the type of credit card used by the customer, so that the handling is simple and the processing efficiency is improved. Can be planned.

Further, according to the present embodiment, the print output destination flag F for designating whether the print output destination of the credit slip is the receipt printer 14 or the CAT printer 2 for each company code for identifying the type of credit card. The credit card table 40 for storing the information is provided, the credit card table 40 is searched by the company code in the card data of the credit card read by the card reader 12, and the printer designated by the corresponding print output destination flag F is printed on the credit slip. The output destination is determined, and the determined printer is operated to print out the credit slip.

Therefore, even if a credit company, which has not accepted the credit slip using the receipt paper until now, has been approved by the change of the contract with the credit company, the company code of the credit company on the credit card table 40. Since it is only necessary to re-change the print output destination flag F corresponding to, there is an advantage that it can be easily dealt with without changing the program.

The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned one embodiment. For example, in the above-mentioned one embodiment, the company code is used as the card identification data for identifying the type of credit card. However, even if the same credit company, the type of credit card (for example, a card dedicated to a store and a card common to each store are used). ), The print output destination may be different, and in this case, a card type code that specifies the type of credit card is used.

The receipt printer that prints data on receipt paper is not limited to the RJ printer 14, and may be a receipt printer that prints data only on receipt paper. In addition, it goes without saying that various modifications such as the print format of the credit slip can be implemented without departing from the scope of the present invention.

[0037]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, a credit process for printing and issuing a credit voucher using receipt paper and a credit process for printing and issuing a credit voucher using a unified credit slip paper are used. It is possible to provide a product sales registration data processing device that can be automatically selected according to the type of card and can reduce costs and simplify handling.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view of a POS terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a control circuit configuration of the POS terminal.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing a keyboard of a POS terminal body.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of a credit card table formed in a RAM of a POS terminal body.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing credit key processing executed by the CPU of the POS terminal body.

FIG. 6 is an example of a credit slip printed and issued by a CAT printer.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a credit slip printed and issued by an RJ printer.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... POS terminal body 2 ... CAT printer (printer for credit) 14 ... RJ printer (receipt printer) 16 ... CPU 17 ... ROM 18 ... RAM 40 ... Credit card table

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A commodity sales registration data processing device having a card reader for reading card data of a credit card, processing payment of a commodity registered for sale by commodity registration means by the credit card, and printing and issuing a credit slip. In the above, as a printing and issuing means for the credit slip, a receipt printer for printing data on a receipt paper and a dedicated credit printer for printing data on the credit unified slip paper are provided, and depending on the type of the credit card read by the card reader, It is characterized in that whether the credit slip is printed or issued by the receipt printer or the credit dedicated printer is determined, and the printer on the side determined as a result is operated to print or issue the credit slip. Product sales registration data processing device . 2. A product sales registration data processing device having a card reader for reading card data of a credit card, processing payment of a product registered for sale by a product registration means by the credit card, and printing and issuing a credit slip. In a receipt printer that prints data on receipt paper,
A credit-only printer that prints data on the credit unified slip paper, and an output that specifies whether the receipt output printer or the credit-dedicated printer is used as the print output destination of the credit slip for each card identification data that identifies the type of the credit card The credit card table storing the designation information and the printer specified by the corresponding output destination designation information by searching the credit card table with the card identification data in the card data of the credit card read by the card reader Product sales registration characterized by comprising a slip print output destination determining means for determining the print output destination of the slip, and a slip issuing control means for operating the printer determined by this determining means to print and issue the credit slip. Data processing device.