KR100626307B1 - Method for mediating transactions at a reduced price using a cyber salesman - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is a first step in which the agent server 10 receives a product price, a discount benefit and the additional costs acquired in the other shopping mall from the registered cyber sales staff and stores it in the transaction database 20, A second step of the agent server 10 brokering the online transaction with the discount price applying the discount benefit from the product price and subtracting the additional cost, and when the online transaction is completed, the agent server 10 A third step of notifying the terminal of the cyber sales clerk and the terminal of the buyer; a fourth step in which the agent server 10 receives an input of the completion of the deposit indicating that the buyer has made a deposit; Contents that an employee delivers a product by purchasing a product in the other shopping mall using the person designated by the buyer as a product recipient. A fifth step in which the agent server 10 notifies the terminal of the cyber sales clerk a product delivery instruction to be sent to the terminal; A sixth step of receiving) and a seventh step of calculating, by the agent server 10, the amount to be paid to the cyber sales staff, and performing an online payment. Provide mediation method.

Description

METHOD FOR MEDIATING TRANSACTIONS AT A REDUCED PRICE USING A CYBER SALESMAN}

1 is a system configuration diagram constituting a shopping agent of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a diagram illustrating the correlation between the subjects in the shopping brokerage of the present invention.

3A and 4B are flowcharts illustrating one embodiment of the shopping brokerage of FIG. 2, and FIGS. 3A and 3B are flowcharts of merchandise sales of a cyber salesperson, and FIGS. 4A and 4B are flowcharts of a purchaser's products.

5A is a main screen of the shopping agent of FIG. 2, FIG. 5B is a screen in which the cyber sales staff of FIG. 2 registers a sale product, and FIG. 5C is a screen in which a buyer of FIG. 2 registers a purchase product.

   The present invention relates to a shopping brokerage method, and more specifically, provides a general buyer with the opportunity to purchase the lowest price in the true sense, and contributes to the job creation by utilizing the idle workforce having the shopping know-how as the cyber sales staff and the shopping mall market. The present invention relates to a price discount shopping brokering method using cyber sales staff that can contribute to activation.

Online shopping malls are rapidly expanding, replacing a large portion of the traditional offline market. Accordingly, recently, a so-called price comparison site that compares product prices provided by these shopping malls and provides the buyer with the lowest price information has been in the spotlight.

These price comparison sites compare prices of products sold in numerous online shopping malls in order of price and provide them to general purchasers' terminals, thereby providing an opportunity for purchasing cheap products. For example, Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2000-0006626 (name of the invention: "method for determining the lowest selling price in an internet shopping mall") and Korean Patent Publication No. 2002-0002650 (name of the invention: "Comparison of individual final purchase price for Internet shopping) Systems and methods ").

However, since the lowest price suggested by these systems is based on the normal price presented by each shopping mall, it cannot be regarded as a true lowest price, and therefore has a limitation that its effectiveness is not large. This means that the purchase can be made at a much lower price than the lowest price suggested by the price comparison site. In fact, buyers who have some shopping know-how or are interested in shopping tend not to buy the above price, but tend to purchase products at cheaper discount prices using various discount benefits.

Each shopping mall hosts a variety of events to attract customers. In particular, larger shopping malls favored by general buyers tend to be self-customizing by granting various discount benefits.

For example, a number of types of discount coupons, such as a new subscription discount coupon, a first purchase discount coupon, a birthday coupon, an anniversary coupon, a four-bank company coupon, a discount coupon paid to a card customer, and the like. In addition, investing some time and effort with attention can easily yield significant discounts.

For example, discount coupon books are regularly provided to members who subscribe to large shopping malls and subscribe to newsletters on a regular basis. The discount coupon book contains dozens of discount coupons. Furthermore, some shopping malls offer regular discount coupons. For example, Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2002-0039582 (name of the invention: "a product purchase system and method using a network-based real-time shopping mall discount coupon").

However, most discount coupons have a limited use period, and thus cannot be used after a predetermined period has elapsed. Therefore, it is important to use it at the right time. In addition, discount coupons are mostly available only for a specific product, so the actual discount coupons are not often used to purchase products.

Another example of a discount is the amount of money earned by individuals using various cards. Reserves are usually semi-permanent, so there is no limit to the period of use. However, this usage is also not high because it can only be used to purchase goods in a specific shopping mall.

As such, discounts provided by various shopping malls are overflowing, but most of them are actually dead. Therefore, a method for contributing to the market activation is requested by appropriately utilizing various discount benefits provided.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, the object or advantages of the present invention can be seen in four aspects.

First, from the buyer's point of view, the present invention enables the purchase of the lowest price product in the true sense. As described above, the conventional price comparison site simply compares and sorts the prices posted in each shopping mall and provides them as shopping information to general buyers. However, since these prices provided by various shopping malls are normal prices, not discounted prices, they cannot actually be seen as the lowest price.

Therefore, in the present invention, by comparing and sorting the discounted price applied to the normal price posted in the shopping mall and providing it to the general buyer as shopping information, it is possible to substantially purchase the lowest price.

Secondly, in terms of cyber sales staff, the present invention can contribute to job creation. Those who have their own shopping know-how in accordance with the knowledge age provide the opportunity to use or sell them, and the effect of employment by financially rewarding those who invest a certain amount of time and effort to obtain various discount benefits. To give birth. Depending on their efforts, the cyber sales staff may earn significant income as a full-time cyber version of Magic One, but not even that, but may earn a certain amount of extra income. Anyone can participate without special skills and expect profits without initial investment.

Third, in view of the market or the shopping mall, the present invention contributes to the activation of the internet shopping industry and allows the shopping mall with low reliability to be naturally removed from the market.

Since online shopping is not guaranteed convenience due to its characteristics, the online shopping is often made depending on the reliability of the shopping mall without directly looking at the product, and thus, the contention after the product purchase frequently occurs. However, since it is difficult for ordinary buyers to identify reliable shopping malls and not shopping malls, it is difficult to block unhealthy shopping malls from entering the market. On the contrary, the cyber sales staff can remove the unhealthy shopping mall from the market by acting as a product purchase in the shopping mall whose reliability is verified through the shopping know-how and accumulated purchasing experience. Therefore, the health of the market can be achieved. This avoids the purchase practice in which only a large shopping mall is preferred because there is no proper criterion in the prior art, and it is also possible to obtain an effect of increasing the use of a small but healthy shopping mall.

Fourthly, from the aspect of the shopping agent company of the present invention, the present invention proposes a new e-commerce profit model, and consequently expects the sales activities of the cyber sales staff to facilitate the recognition of the shopping agent company without direct company advertisement. To make it rise.                         

In other words, the increasing awareness of shopping agent companies is directly related to the sales performance of cyber sales staff. Conventional online shopping malls employ only a small number of sales staff, whereas in the present invention, a large number of people who voluntarily participate as cyber sales staff can expect a promotional effect by them. In particular, you can get help from acquaintances in the process of collecting discounts, the ripple effect will be great. For example, when a cyber salesperson transfers a discount coupon given to a friend and uses it for sale, promotion of the shopping agent company may be naturally performed during the transfer process.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention brokers the price discount shopping using a shopping agent system having an agent server, a transaction database and a cyber sales staff database for storing information of registered cyber sales staff, the agent The first step of the server receives the product price, the discount benefits and the additional costs obtained by the registered cyber sales staff in the other shopping mall, and stores them in the transaction database, the agent server, the agent price, A second step of brokering an online transaction at a discount price applying the discount benefit and subtracting the incidental cost; and a third of notifying the terminal of the cyber sales employee and the purchaser's terminal when the online transaction is completed. Step, that the buyer has made a deposit In step 4, the agent server receives the input of the deposit completion, and the cyber sales staff delivers the product by purchasing the product at the other shopping mall using the person designated by the buyer as the product recipient. A fifth step of instructing the agent server to inform the terminal of the cyber sales clerk an instruction, a sixth step of receiving, by the agent server, an input of completion of delivery in which the product recipient has received the goods; An agent server provides a price discount shopping brokering method using a cyber sales staff, comprising a seventh step of calculating an amount to be paid to the cyber sales staff and making an online payment.

The discount benefits include discount coupons, reserves or miles. Discount coupons, reserves, and miles, as well as discount benefits can be called various names depending on the nominee, so there is no need to be tied to the name. For example, there may be various names indicating discount benefits such as bonus points, bonus scores, and earned coupons.

The incidental cost includes sales commission. Sales fees include commissions for shopping agents, as well as for cyber salespeople. However, the fee of the shopping agent is not included in the discounted price, but may be configured to be billed separately to the buyer. For example, it is known that "a fee of 10,000 won is charged separately in addition to the above price."

The fifth step of delivery confirmation may be made by a method of directly confirming whether or not a product is received by a buyer, but may also be confirmed in connection with another shopping mall or a delivery company that sold the product.

When the amount of the fifth step is calculated, the calculated amount is paid to the cyber sales staff. It is also possible to pay by visiting a bank window directly, but it is automatically transferred to the account of the cyber sales staff registered in advance through internet banking. It is desirable to.

In the above price discount shopping brokering method, the online transaction of the second stage may include all possible online transaction forms. For example, if the discount price is arranged in order of lowest price and the buyer indicates the purchase intention at the lowest price, all possible transaction types such as auction, joint purchase, etc. may be included.

In other words, the characteristics of the present invention is that the cyber sales staff obtains or discounts the transaction at a discount price applied with the discount benefits, which can be incorporated into all possible individual transaction types. Although one form of transaction will be illustrated through the accompanying drawings, this is merely an example.

Four examples are illustrated below.

Firstly, the second step includes: sorting the discounted prices at the buyer's request and displaying the discounted prices on the terminal of the buyer; And receiving a purchase intention of purchasing a product at any one of the discount prices from the buyer. Here, it is common for a buyer to purchase at the lowest price among the discounted prices, but depending on the purchaser, the buyer may purchase at a discount price corresponding to their preferred shopping mall.

For example, if a cyber salesperson A enters a discounted price of 500,000 won and cyber salesperson B 510,000 for a specific product, the shopping agent displays the sales conditions on the buyer's terminal in the lowest order at the buyer's request. When the buyer enters a willingness to purchase in the sales condition of the cyber salesperson A, a transaction is established between the buyer and the cyber salesperson A.

Secondly, the second step may include receiving a desired purchase price from the buyer; And in response to the purchase intention of the buyer may be made to receive a product sales intention from the cyber sales staff.

For example, if a buyer enters a purchase price of 500,000 won for a buyer and 510,000 won for a buyer, the shopping agent displays the discounted prices on the terminal of the cyber sales staff in the lowest order at the request of the cyber sales staff. If the cyber salesperson enters the intention to sell in the purchase condition of buyer b, a transaction is established between the cyber sales staff and buyer b.

Thirdly, the second step may be configured to auction the corresponding product so that the transaction is made at the highest price among the prices offered by the buyer.

Fourthly, the second step may be configured to receive a product purchase intention from the buyer and auction the corresponding product so that a transaction is made at the lowest discounted price among the discounted prices.

Here, the buyer's intention to purchase a product includes a desired price of purchase so that the cyber sales staff can enter the auction only if there is a sale intention below the price, and the transaction can be automatically closed at the lowest price among the participating sales conditions. On the contrary, if the purchase intention price is not specified in the purchaser's intention to purchase the product, and the buyer finally has a final intention to purchase after the auction proceeds, the transaction may be closed.

Shopping agent companies can reward them based on the performance of the cyber sales staff, which can inspire sales and provide employment opportunities to offline employees.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail.

1 is a system configuration diagram constituting a shopping agent of the present invention.

As shown, the shopping agent of FIG. 1 includes an agent server 10, a cyber salesperson database 30, a buyer database 40, and a transaction database 20.

The cyber sales staff database 30 stores IDs, passwords, and personal details of cyber sales staff. The buyer database 40 stores the ID, password, personal information, etc. of the buyer registered as a member. The transaction database 20 stores transaction conditions such as a discount price suggested by the cyber sales staff and a desired purchase price suggested by the buyer, and stores the fact together with related information when the transaction is closed.

When the cyber sales staff and the buyer log in, authentication is performed using the login data stored in the cyber sales staff database 30 and the buyer database 40.

Thereafter, the transaction terms presented by the cyber sales staff and the buyer are input and stored in the transaction database 20.

Thereafter, when the transaction is closed, the cyber sales staff and the buyer are notified of the closing of the transaction using the personal information stored in the cyber sales staff database 30 and the buyer database 40. If the transaction is made by one of the parties, the party may not need a separate notice of transaction, but in this case, it is preferable to notify the transaction of completion by e-mail or mobile phone registered for the purpose of transaction confirmation. Do.

Then, when the buyer's deposit and product delivery is confirmed, the payment is made to the account of the cyber sales staff registered in the cyber sales staff database 30.

Fig. 2 is a diagram illustrating the correlation between the subjects in the shopping brokerage of the present invention.

First, the shopping agent receives registration from cyber sales staff and buyers. In this process, a person with a credit problem may not be able to register.

Once registered, the cyber sales staff can act as a sales staff in the virtual space, and the buyer can purchase the product at a lower discount price.

Look specifically.

The cyber sales staff collects discount coupons, reserves, and mileage discounts from other shopping malls that offer discounts. The cyber sales staff applies the discount benefits they have acquired to the price of goods sold in other shopping malls, and deals with the buyer through the brokerage of the shopping agent at the discount price plus sales fees.

For example, if the normal price sold at another shopping mall is 1 million won and has a 10% discount coupon, it is sold at a discounted price of 950,000 won plus a sales fee of 50,000 won.

The shopping agent receives the discounted price from the buyer when the transaction is closed, and notifies the cyber sales staff of the deposit confirmation when the payment is confirmed.

After that, the cyber sales staff purchases the merchandise in another shopping mall at a price of 900,000 won with discount benefits. At this time, the purchaser makes a delivery request to the other shopping mall to deliver the goods to a person designated in advance as the goods recipient.

When the delivery confirmation is confirmed, the shopping agent calculates and pays the amount to be paid to the cyber sales staff. For example, the shopping agent pays the cyber sales staff 940,000 won, which includes the product purchase cost of 900,000 won and the cyber sales staff of 40,000 won. 10,000 won will be paid as a shopping agent's fee.

Figures 3a to 4b is a flow chart showing an embodiment of the shopping intermediary of Figure 2, Figures 3a and 3b is a flow chart in which the cyber sales staff is a sales activity, Figures 4a and 4b is a flow chart in which the buyer purchases goods to be. 3A and 3B are continuous views, and FIGS. 4A and 4B are also continuous views.

3A and 3B, the sales activities of the cyber sales staff will be described. First, a user who wants to act as a cyber salesperson or a cyber salesperson accesses a shopping agent through the Internet and logs in as a cyber salesperson. After the pre-registration process, the cyber sales staff with ID and password goes to the next step. However, a user who has not gone through the registration process submits a resume and waits for approval of the shopping agent. Once approved as a cyber salesperson, the next step is also to proceed.

Next, check whether the cyber sales staff has a discount. Although this step may be omitted, it is preferable to go through this step in order to prevent the malicious activity from selling at the same or higher price than the other shopping malls. If you answer falsely without having a discount at this stage, you will be able to cancel the registration of the cyber sales staff and apply sanctions later.

Next, select whether to register the sale product. If the sale product registration is selected, the screen moves to the screen for registering the sale product of FIG. 5B, and if the sale product registration is not selected, the user moves to the purchase window.

Here, the purchase window refers to a window in which the purchase conditions of the buyers are displayed, and the sale window described later refers to a window in which the sales conditions of the cyber sales staff are displayed. Although not shown, the purchase window has a configuration similar to the purchase product registration screen of FIG. 5C, and the sale window has a screen configuration similar to the sale product registration screen of FIG. 5B.

When the screen for registering a sale product is moved, the sale product is registered at a discount price. If a sales window for the same sales product has already been opened by another cyber sales staff, the sales window will be registered in the form of seller addition, otherwise a new sales window will be created. Although not shown in Figures 3a and 3b, when registering a sale product, cyber sales staff to register not only the discount price, but also whether the sale product is an auction product or an immediate purchase product.

The sales window is provided with a price sorting function so that the discounted price is sorted in the lowest order according to the buyer's request and displayed on the buyer's terminal.

Next, if there is an indication of the purchaser's intention to buy the product, it immediately leads to a transaction.

However, in the case of auction products, it is subject to the auction conditions. For example, if a cyber salesperson has designated a minimum bid of 950,000 won, and buyer a has expressed his intention to purchase 950,000 won and buyer b of 960,000 won within the auction period, it will lead to a deal with buyer b at the same time as the auction period. do.

According to an embodiment, the purchase condition presented by the buyer may be configured to be automatically registered in the purchase window as well as the auction sale window. This is because, in most cases, the buyer is not interested in who the other cyber sales staff is, as long as the purchase conditions presented by the buyer are satisfied. In this case, when a transaction registered in one window is closed, the purchase intention mark registered in the other window is automatically deleted.

On the other hand, if the cyber sales staff chooses not to register the sales product, the search for the purchased product is moved to the purchase window for the product.

If the purchased product is an immediate purchase product, when the cyber salesman expresses his intention to sell, it immediately leads to a transaction.

However, in the case of auction products, it is subject to the auction conditions. For example, if the buyer specifies 960,000 won as the highest winning bid price and the cyber salesperson A expresses the intention to sell the cyber salesperson B for 950,000 won within the auction period, the cyber salesperson A indicates the sale price with buyer B at the same time as the auction period. It will follow.

Depending on the embodiment, the sales conditions presented by the cyber sales staff may be configured to be automatically registered in the sales window as well as the auction purchase window. This is because the cyber sales clerk is often not interested in who the other buyer is, as long as the sales conditions presented by him are satisfied. In this case, when a transaction registered in one window is closed, the purchase intention mark registered in the other window is automatically deleted.

When the deal is closed, the cyber sales staff and buyers are notified of the deal. Then, when the buyer deposits the discounted price, the buyer is notified of this.

Thereafter, the cyber sales staff accesses the other shopping mall and purchases the product by using the person designated by the buyer as the product recipient. The designation of the recipient of the goods can be made either before or after the transaction is concluded, but it will be easier to have the buyer enter the terms of the transaction or to indicate the intention to purchase.

After that, it checks whether the goods are delivered to the buyer, and when the delivery is confirmed, the cyber sales staff is paid.

Referring to Figures 4a and 4b looks at the purchase process of the buyer. First, a buyer or a person who wants to purchase a product accesses a shopping agent through the Internet and logs in as a purchase member. After completing the registration process, the buyer with the ID and password goes to the next step. However, a user who has not gone through the registration process goes through a membership registration process. According to an embodiment, an embodiment may be configured to allow a non-member purchase and purchase a product without login. However, even in this case, it is desirable to restrict the use of certain functions such as participating in an auction.

Next, select whether to register the purchased product. If the purchase product registration is selected, the screen moves to the screen for registering the purchase product of FIG. 5C. If the purchase product registration is not selected, the product moves to the sales window.

Next, when the purchase product registration screen is moved, the purchased product is registered at the desired price to be purchased. If a purchase window has already been opened for the same purchase product by another buyer, the purchase window will be registered in the form of a buyer addition, otherwise a new purchase window is created. When registering a purchased product, the buyer may register not only the desired price of purchase but also whether the purchased product is going to be auctioned or purchased immediately.

The purchase window is provided with a price sorting function so that the discounted price is sorted in order of the highest price according to the request of the cyber sales staff, and displayed on the terminal of the cyber sales staff.

Next, if there is a sales intention indication of the cyber sales staff, if the product is immediately purchased, it will immediately lead to a transaction. However, in the case of auction products, it is subject to the auction conditions.

On the other hand, if the buyer chooses not to register the purchase product, it is moved to the sale window for the corresponding product to search for the sale product.

If the sale product is an immediate sale product, if the buyer indicates his intention to buy, it immediately leads to a transaction. However, in the case of auction products, it is subject to the auction conditions.

After the transaction is closed, the procedure is similar to that of Fig. 3b.

5A is a main screen of the shopping agent of FIG. 2, FIG. 5B is a screen in which the cyber sales staff of FIG. 2 registers a sale product, and FIG. 5C is a screen in which a buyer of FIG. 2 registers a purchase product.

As shown in the figure, when registering a sale product, the shopping mall name and the sales fee amount are input and provided to the buyer as shopping information, which shopping mall is sold at what price, and how much is the sales fee. Awareness can be made transparent to increase the confidence of the shopping agent.

According to the above configuration, the present invention can provide a general buyer with the opportunity to purchase the lowest price of the true meaning, and utilize the idle workforce having the shopping know-how as a cyber sales employee to contribute to job creation and contribute to the activation of the shopping mall market. do. In addition, there is a secondary advantage that can expect the advertising effect of the shopping agent through the unspecified number of cyber sales staff even without a separate advertisement.

Claims (6)

Intermediate price discount shopping using a shopping agent system having an agent server, a transaction database, and a cyber sales staff database for storing information of registered cyber sales staff, A first step of receiving, by the agent server, a product price sold in another shopping mall, a discount benefit and an additional cost obtained from the registered cyber sales staff in the transaction database, A second step in which the agent server brokers an online transaction at a discount price applying the discount benefit from the product price and subtracting the incidental cost; A third step of notifying the terminal of the cyber sales clerk and the terminal of the buyer when the online transaction is completed, the agent server; A fourth step of receiving, by the agent server, an input of deposit completion indicating that the buyer has made a deposit; The agent server instructs the cyber sales clerk to deliver the product to the merchandise recipient by purchasing the merchandise in the other shopping mall using the person designated by the buyer as the merchandise recipient. The fifth step of notifying A sixth step of receiving, by the agent server, an input of completion of delivery in which the goods recipient has received the goods; and And a seventh step of calculating, by the agent server, the amount to be paid to the cyber sales staff and making an online payment. The method of claim 1, wherein the discount benefit is a discount coupon, a reserve or mileage. The method of claim 1, wherein the additional cost includes a sales commission. The method of any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the second step, Displaying the discount prices in the order of prices at the buyer's terminal according to the buyer's request; And A price discount shopping intermediation method using a cyber sales staff comprising the step of receiving a product purchase intention at any one of the discount prices arranged from the buyer. The method of any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the second step, A price discount shopping relay method using a cyber sales staff characterized by auctioning the product so that the transaction is made at the highest price among the prices suggested by the buyer. The method of any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the second step, Receiving a purchase intention of the product from the buyer and auctioning the corresponding product so that the transaction is performed at the lowest discount price among the discount prices.

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