CN105303690B - Cash register system and its transaction control method - Google Patents

Description

Cash register system and its transaction control method

technical field

The present invention relates to a cash register system and a transaction control method thereof capable of reducing cash shortage or surplus at the time of settlement and shortening transaction processing time with each customer.

Background technique

Recently, in stores such as supermarkets and convenience stores, due to stricter customer management and cash management, money handling machines are installed as automatic change machines. This currency processing machine is usually connected to a host device such as a POS (Point Of Sales) cash register, and performs deposit and withdrawal processing of money such as coins or banknotes in accordance with instructions from the host device.

Here, the transaction processing of the cash register system composed of the POS cash register device and the currency processing machine includes pre-processing of incoming money and pre-processing of change. In the incoming preprocessing, when the purchase amount is determined, the following processing is carried out, that is, the advance payment is collected from the customer and put into the money processing machine, and the automatically counted amount and the purchase amount are paid out as change. difference. On the other hand, in the change preprocessing, when the purchase amount is determined, a down payment is received from the customer, the cashier inputs the amount of the down payment, and the difference between the input down payment amount and the purchase amount is paid out as change. And give the change money to the customer, then put the advance payment into the currency processing machine, and automatically count the amount of the advance payment.

In the pre-processing of the incoming money, the difference between the amount of the advance payment and the purchase amount automatically counted by the money processing machine as change can be accurately calculated. However, since the automatic statistical processing of the advance payment takes time, Therefore, the transaction processing time with the customer becomes longer. On the other hand, in the change preprocessing, the money processing machine does not automatically count the amount of advance payment, but pays out the difference between the amount of advance payment entered by the cashier and the purchase amount as change. Therefore, the transaction processing with customers can be shortened. However, since the prepayment amount is the amount entered by the cashier, errors in the manual entry of the prepayment sometimes occur.

In addition, in Patent Document 1, during the pre-processing of change, every time a transaction process with a customer is performed, it is necessary to check whether the input prepayment amount is consistent with the prepayment amount automatically calculated by the money handling machine. .

prior art literature

patent documents

Patent Document 1: Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2007-66185

Contents of the invention

The technical problem to be solved by the invention

However, in the above-mentioned existing change pre-processing or incoming money pre-processing, the automatic statistical processing is carried out by the currency processing machine in a transaction process for a customer. Therefore, when there are many customers, the automatic statistical processing time This will result in longer transaction processing time with each customer. In the automatic counting process performed by this money handling machine, the motor driving time for taking in money and the money identification processing time are spent.

In particular, it is desired to shorten the processing time for one transaction in a store or the like where customers of small-value transactions are concentrated. On the other hand, it is also necessary to reduce the shortage or excess of cash at the time of settlement.

The present invention was developed in view of the above-mentioned problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a cash register system and a transaction control method thereof that can reduce cash shortage or surplus at the time of settlement and shorten transaction processing time with each customer.

Technical solutions adopted to solve technical problems

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems and achieve the object, the cash register system according to the present invention has a money handling machine and a host device connected to the money handling machine, and the money handling machine takes in received money and allocates and stores it in a storage. , and according to the payment instruction from the host device, the storage currency equivalent to the change is paid out from the storage warehouse. , which is used to manually input the advance payment amount; the deposit and withdrawal control unit calculates the difference between the input advance payment amount manually input through the input unit and the purchase amount of the customer, that is, change, and outputs it to the money processing machine the payment instruction; an input prepayment amount storage unit for storing the input prepayment amount; a verification instruction control unit for instructing a verification start time to make the money handling machine into a payment-in-approved state; and The verification control unit, after receiving the instruction of the verification start time from the verification instruction control unit, causes the money handling machine to collect the temporarily stored prepayment and count the amount, and perform the statistics of the statistical prepayment amount and Check whether the total value of the input prepayment amount up to now is consistent.

In addition, the cash register system according to the present invention is characterized in that, in the above invention, the host device includes a collation instruction input unit for inputting an instruction of the collation start time, and the collation instruction control unit receives the collation instruction from the collation instruction. The input unit inputs an instruction of a collation start time to cause the collation control unit to perform collation processing.

In addition, the cash register system according to the present invention is characterized in that, in the above invention, when the total value of the input prepayment amount so far exceeds a predetermined value, the verification instruction control unit outputs the specified value to the verification control unit. The check start time.

In addition, in the cash register system according to the present invention, in the above invention, the collation instruction control unit outputs the collation start time to the collation control unit at a predetermined time or every elapse of a predetermined time.

In addition, the cash register system according to the present invention is characterized in that in the above invention, the verification instruction control unit permits the instruction of the verification start time after a series of transaction processing for customers, wherein the transaction processing for customers is Refers to: A series of processes from product registration of purchased products to change payment without performing advance payment income and quantity statistics.

In addition, the cash register system according to the present invention is characterized in that, in the above invention, the collation instruction control unit displays or outputs a permission status of the instruction at the collation start time.

Moreover, the cash register system which concerns on this invention is characterized in that in the said invention, the said temporary storage part is the coin insertion opening and the banknote insertion opening of the said money handling machine. It is characterized by the above-mentioned.

In addition, the cash register system according to the present invention is characterized in that, in the above invention, the collation control unit is provided in the money handling machine, and the collation control unit of the money handling machine receives the The verification process is performed after the total value of the prepaid amount is input, and the verification result is notified to the upper device.

In addition, the cash register system according to the present invention is characterized in that, in the above invention, when the calculated prepayment amount value does not match the total value of the prepayment amount value so far, the verification control unit sends the The processing content of the check processing is saved.

In addition, the cash register system according to the present invention is characterized in that in the above invention, the cash register system includes an output unit, and the collation control unit outputs the result of collation processing to the output unit.

In addition, in the transaction control method of the cash register system according to the present invention, the cash register system has a money handling machine and a host device connected to the money handling machine, and the money handling machine takes in the received money and allocates and stores it in the storage. storage, and according to the payment instruction from the host device, pay out the stored currency equivalent to the change from the storage pool, the transaction control method of the cash register system is characterized in that the host device changes the currency processing machine to After the withdrawal state, the prepayment is temporarily saved, and the manually input input prepayment amount is saved, and the difference between the input prepayment amount and the purchase amount is made to be paid by the money processing machine as change, and the money processing machine is transferred from After the upper device receives the instruction of the check start time, it makes the money processing machine change to the state of payment permission, thereby taking in the temporarily saved advance payment and counting the amount, and notifying the statistics of the statistical advance payment amount The above-mentioned high-level device, the high-level device checks whether the statistical prepayment amount is consistent with the total value of the input prepayment amount so far.

In addition, in the transaction control method of the cash register system according to the present invention, the cash register system has a money handling machine and a host device connected to the money handling machine, and the money handling machine takes in the received money and allocates and stores it in the storage. storage, and according to the payment instruction from the host device, pay out the stored currency equivalent to the change from the storage pool, the transaction control method of the cash register system is characterized in that the host device changes the currency processing machine to After the withdrawal state, the prepayment is temporarily saved, and the manually input input prepayment amount is saved, and the difference between the input prepayment amount and the purchase amount is made to be paid by the money processing machine as change, and the money processing machine is transferred from After the upper-level device receives the instruction of the check start time, it makes the money processing machine into the state of payment permission, so as to collect the temporarily saved prepayment and count the amount, and, after receiving the payment up to now from the upper-level device After the total value of the input prepayment amount so far, check whether the statistical prepayment amount is consistent with the total value of the input prepayment amount so far, and notify the upper device of the verification result .

In addition, the transaction control method of the cash register system according to the present invention is characterized in that in the above invention, the instruction of the verification start time is instructed from the verification instruction input unit of the host device.

In addition, the transaction control method of the cash register system according to the present invention is characterized in that, in the above invention, when the total value of the input prepaid amount so far exceeds a predetermined value, the check start time is instructed.

In addition, the transaction control method of the cash register system according to the present invention is characterized in that, in the above invention, the advance payment is temporarily stored in the coin slot and the banknote slot of the money handling machine.

Invention effect

According to the present invention, the temporary storage part temporarily saves the customer's prepayment, manually inputs the prepayment amount from the input part, and the input prepayment amount storage part saves the input prepayment amount, and the deposit and withdrawal control part calculates the amount manually entered by the input part. The difference between the input prepayment amount and the customer's purchase amount is the change, and a payment instruction is output to the money handling machine, and the verification instruction control unit instructs the verification start time to make the money handling machine into the money payment permission state, and checks. After the control section receives the instruction of the check start time from the check instruction control section, it causes the money handling machine to collect the temporarily saved advance payment and calculate the amount, and to compare the calculated advance payment amount with the amount up to now. Check whether the total value of the input prepayment amount is consistent. That is, in the present invention, since the deposit processing of prepayment is not included in the transaction processing for customers, the transaction processing time with each customer can be shortened, and since the verification processing is performed at an appropriate verification start time, it is possible to Reduce cash insufficiency or excess at settlement.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view showing the overall configuration of a cash register system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the money handling machine shown in Fig. 1 .

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating the operation of a coin storage unit of the money handling machine shown in Fig. 2 .

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram for explaining the operation of the banknote storage unit of the money handling machine shown in Fig. 2 .

Fig. 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a control system of the cash register system shown in Fig. 1 .

Fig. 6 is a sequence diagram showing the transaction control processing procedure of the cash register system shown in Fig. 1 .

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of an input/output screen of the input/output unit shown in FIG. 1 .

Detailed ways

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

(Structure of cash register system)

1 to 4 are diagrams showing a cash register system according to an embodiment of the present invention and money handling machines constituting the cash register system. The cash register system exemplified here is composed of a money handling machine 1 used as an automatic change machine in stores such as supermarkets and convenience stores, and a POS cash register 2 as a host device connected to the money handling machine 1 . As shown in FIG. 1 , the POS cash register 2 is disposed on the top of the money handling machine 1 , and the money handling machine 1 and the POS cash register 2 are connected via a communication line N.

The currency handling machine 1 is provided with a coin input port 11 , a coin discharge port 12 , a coin return port 16 , a banknote input port 21 and a banknote discharge port 22 at the front end of a cube-shaped device body. In addition, the money handling machine 1 has a coin storage unit 10 and a banknote storage unit 20 as shown in FIG. 2 . On the other hand, in the POS cash register 2 , an input/output unit 3 is provided on a flat-shaped cash register control unit 4 , and the input/output unit 3 is realized by a touch panel. In addition, a barcode reader 5 is connected to the cash register control unit 4 . In addition, the input/output unit 3 may have a structure in which the input unit and the output unit are separated from each other.

(Operation of coin storage unit)

The coin slot 11 is an opening for taking inserted coins into the device main body, and is formed on the top surface of the front end of the device main body. The coin slot 11 functions as a temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the advance payment from the customer. For the coin inserted into the coin slot 11, after receiving the payment permission command from the POS cash register 2 side and detecting it by the input detection sensor not shown in the figure, as shown in FIG. The money transfer mechanism 13c carries out the transfer. The coin discriminating sensor 14 that is arranged in the payment transfer mechanism 13c judges the authenticity and currency type of the coin. When the transferred coins are genuine coins, the coins are held in the escrow storage 15g. On the other hand, when the conveyed coin is a counterfeit coin, the coin is returned to the receiving tray 17 through the coin discharge port 12 . In addition, when a return instruction is received from the POS register 2 side, the coins held in the temporary storage 15g are returned to the coin return port 16 .

Then, when it is judged to match in the collation process described later, the coins held in the escrow storage 15g are conveyed by the allocation conveyance mechanism 13a. On the other hand, when it is judged to be inconsistent in the matching process, the inconsistent information including the occurrence time and content of the inconsistent is stored in the memory, and then the coins retained in the escrow 15g are transported by the distribution transport mechanism 13a. The coins conveyed by the distribution conveyance mechanism 13a are stored in the coin storage 15 according to the denominations. In addition, it may be configured such that the inserted coins are directly stored in the coin storage 15 instead of being stored in the escrow 15g regardless of whether the collation process is consistent or inconsistent. In this embodiment, a 1-yen coin storage 15a, a 50-yen coin storage 15b, a 5-yen coin storage 15c, a 100-yen coin storage 15d, and a 10-yen coin storage are provided inside the main body of the device. The box 15e and the 500-yen coin storage box 15f respectively store the inserted coins according to the denominations. In addition, the escrow storage 15g also functions as a settlement storage for temporarily emptying the coins stored in each of the coin storages 15a to 15f and recounting the storage quantities of each of the coin storages 15a to 15f. The coin discharge port 12 is an opening for discharging the coins output from each coin storage 15 through the payment conveying mechanism 13b to the outside of the device main body according to the payment instruction from the POS cash register 2 side, and is formed on the front side of the device main body. .

(Operation of the banknote storage unit)

The banknote input port 21 is an opening for taking the inserted banknotes into the inside of the device main body, and is formed on the front upper part of the device main body. The banknote input port 21 functions as a temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the customer's advance payment. For the banknotes inserted into the banknote input port 21, after receiving the payment permission command from the POS cash register 2 side, and after being detected by the input detection sensor not shown in the figure, as shown in FIG. The banknote conveyance mechanism 23 conveys. The authenticity and currency type of the conveyed banknotes are judged by the banknote discriminating sensor 24 . When the transported banknotes are genuine, the banknotes are kept in the escrow 26 according to the denomination, and the escrow 26 is divided into the upstream side of the 1000-yen banknote storage 25b in the banknote storage 25 or mixed banknotes. The upstream side part of the storage chamber 25c is comprised. On the other hand, when the conveyed banknote is not genuine, or when a return instruction is received from the POS register 2 side, the banknote is returned to the banknote discharge port 22 .

Then, when it is judged that they match in the collation process, the banknotes retained in the escrow 26 are stored in the 1,000-yen banknote storage 25b or the mixed banknote storage 25c. On the other hand, when it is judged to be inconsistent in the collation process, the inconsistency information including the occurrence time and content of the inconsistency is stored in the memory, and then the banknotes retained in the escrow 26 are stored in the 1000 yen banknote storage 25b Or in the mixed banknote storage 25c. In addition, banknotes other than the 1,000-yen banknote are stored in the mixed banknote storage 25c. For example, 10,000-yen bills and 5,000-yen bills are stored mixedly. In addition, the settlement warehouse 25a temporarily stores the banknotes stored in the 1,000-yen banknote storage 25b and the mixed banknote storage 25c and temporarily stores them when the storage quantities of each banknote storage 25b and 25c are counted again. The banknote discharge port 22 is an opening for discharging the banknotes output from the banknote storages 25b, 25c to the outside of the device main body according to the payment instruction from the POS cash register 2 side, and is formed on the front of the device main body.

Moreover, as shown in FIG. 1, the operation display part 30 is provided in the front upper right part of the money handling machine 1. As shown in FIG. The operation display unit 30 has a display unit 30a and an operation unit 30b. The display unit 30a has: a seven-segment LED display for displaying the storage status of each currency, an LCD display for displaying information on the storage status of the currency and other necessary information in text, and a display for displaying or outputting audio. Informational help lights. In addition, the above-mentioned information may also be output in the form of audio. In particular, when the amount of currency stored in the coin storage unit 10 and the banknote storage unit 20 is greater than or less than a preset predetermined amount, the display unit 30a displays or outputs the information in the form of audio.

In addition, the operation part 30b is used for an operator to input various commands, and is comprised, for example by a plurality of key switches. For example, the operation unit 30b has: a help switch for displaying or outputting in audio form the information indicated by the lighting of the help lamp; A supplementary switch for supplementary actions, a setting switch for setting whether to allow the above-mentioned actions to be performed, and an execution switch for performing the above-mentioned actions.

(Control system of cashier system)

Fig. 5 is a block diagram showing a control system of the above-mentioned cash register system. As shown in FIG. 5 , the cash register system connects the money processing machine 1 and the POS cash register device 2 through a communication line N. In the POS register 2 , a barcode reader 5 , an input/output unit 3 , and a memory 6 are connected to the register control unit 4 .

The cash register control part 4 has the deposit and withdrawal control part 4a, the collation instruction control part 4b, and the collation control part 4c. When the cash button 3c of the input/output unit 3 is pressed, the deposit/disbursement control unit 4a outputs to the money handling machine 1 a withdrawal command for instructing it to pay out change. In addition, when the collective money transfer button 3d of the input/output unit 3 is pressed, the money transfer control unit 4a outputs a money transfer permission command to the money handling machine 1 at the time of start of verification from the verification instruction control unit 4b. The checking control part 4c makes the money processing machine 1 take in the advance payment temporarily stored and count the amount, and notify the statistical advance payment amount that has been counted, and carry out the comparison between the statistical advance payment amount and the input advance payment amount that has been manually input so far. Check whether the total value is consistent. In addition, the cashier control unit 4 registers the amount of one or more commodities read by the barcode reader 5, and calculates the purchase amount by pressing the subtotal button 3a of the input/output unit 3, and displays the purchase amount. In the input and output section 3. Also, when the advance payment input button 3b of the input/output unit 3 is pressed, the cash register control unit 4 stores the input advance payment amount manually input from the input/output unit 3 in the memory 6 as the input advance payment amount 6a. Here, the advance payment input button 3b functions as a verification instruction input unit. In addition, the statistical prepaid amount 6b notified from the money handling machine 1 and the collation result of the collation control unit 4c are stored in the memory 6 as collation information 6c. In addition, the input prepayment amount 6a, the statistical prepayment amount 6b, and the verification information 6c also include attribute information such as time information and cashier's ID information, respectively.

In the money handling machine 1 , the control unit 40 is connected to the coin storage unit 10 , the banknote storage unit 20 , the operation display unit 30 , and the memory 50 .

When the control unit 40 receives an instruction via the operation display unit 30, when it receives a detection signal from the coin discriminating sensor 14 and the banknote discriminating sensor 24, and then when receiving various instructions from the host device, that is, the POS cash register 2, Display control of the operation display unit 30 , drive control of the coin transport mechanisms 13 a , 13 b , and 13 c , and drive control of the banknote transport mechanism 23 are performed using programs or initial data in the memory 50 . The control part 40 has the deposit and withdrawal control part 40a.

When money is inserted after receiving the input permission instruction from the POS cash register 2, the deposit and withdrawal control unit 40a performs the payment processing of currency according to the deposit permission instruction. In addition, when receiving the payment instruction from the POS cash register 2, The withdrawal instruction performs withdrawal processing of currency. In addition, the deposit and withdrawal control unit 40a also sequentially stores the contents of the executed deposit and withdrawal processing in the memory 50 as deposit and withdrawal information during execution of the deposit and withdrawal processing described above.

(Transaction control processing of the cashier system)

Fig. 6 is a sequence diagram showing transaction control processing of the cash register system. As shown in FIG. 6, first, in the POS register 2, the deposit and withdrawal control unit 4a outputs a deposit and withdrawal mode command to the money handling machine 1 (step S101). This payout mode command is a command that instructs the money handling machine 1 to perform only payout processing and prohibits it from performing payout processing. Then, the POS cash register 2 performs transaction processing S1 for the customer.

In the customer transaction process S1 (steps S102 to S108, S201), first, one or more commodities read by the barcode reader 5 are registered, and the amount thereof is stored (step S102). Then, it is judged whether or not the subtotal button 3a shown in FIG. 7 is pressed (step S103). When the subtotal button 3a is not pressed ("No" in step S103), the process proceeds to step S102, and the registration of the product is continued and its amount is saved. On the other hand, when the subtotal button 3a is pressed ("Yes" in step S103), the purchase amount that is the sum of the registered commodity amounts is calculated, and as shown in FIG. The purchase amount is displayed in (step S104).

Then, when the customer pays the cashier more than the purchase amount in advance, the cashier inputs the amount of advance payment from the amount input unit E2 of the input/output unit 3 . In addition, the amount input unit E2 is realized by virtual numeric keys or the like. The POS cash register 2 receives the manually input advance payment amount, and stores it in the memory 6 as the input advance payment amount 6a, and as shown in Figure 7, displays the input advance payment amount 6a in the advance payment area Eb of the input and output section (step S105). In addition, the input of the prepayment amount 6a is determined by pressing the prepayment input button 3b.

Then, the POS register 2 judges whether or not the cash button 3c has been pressed (step S106). When the cash button 3c is not pressed ("No" in step S106), this judgment is repeated, and when the cash button 3c is pressed ("Yes" in step S106), change is calculated (step S107). The change is calculated by subtracting the purchase amount from the input prepaid amount 6a. As shown in FIG. 7 , the calculation result of the change is displayed in the change area Ec of the input/output unit 3 .

Then, the POS register 2 outputs to the money handling machine 1 a disbursement command for making the money handling machine 1 pay out the change corresponding to the calculation result of the change (step S108).

On the other hand, the money processing machine 1 that receives the payment instruction executes the payment processing of paying out change according to the payment instruction (step S201), and sends a payment completion notification to the POS cash register 2 when completing the payment of change. Thereby, the above-mentioned one transaction process S1 for a customer ends. That is, the cashier hands the change paid out from the money handling machine 1 together with the cash receipt outputted from the POS cash register 2 to the customer, thereby completing the customer-to-customer transaction process S1 for one customer. Then, the cashier can carry out the customer-to-customer transaction processing S1 for the next customer. In this pair-customer transaction processing S1, since the deposit processing to the money handling machine 1 is not included, the transaction processing time for one customer can be shortened.

Then, the collation instruction control part 4b of the POS register 2 judges whether or not the collective payment button 3d shown in FIG. 7 is pressed (step S109). The summary deposit button 3d is a button for instructing the check start time, which refers to the start of the checking process of the statistical advance payment amount of the temporarily saved advance payment and the total value of the input advance payment amount up to now. time. However, during the transaction process S1 for the customer, the verification instruction control unit 4b does not allow pressing the consolidated payment button 3d to instruct the verification start time, and does not accept it. Therefore, it is preferable that the verification instruction control unit 4b does not display the collective payment button 3d or lowers the brightness of the collective payment button 3d to display it during the transaction process S1 with the customer. Alternatively, the collation instruction control unit 4b may display a message that the collective payment cannot be made in the information display area E1 of the input and output unit 3 during the transaction process S1 to the customer. In addition, one or more input prepayment amounts are displayed on the input/output unit 3 . For example, in the area Ed shown in FIG. 7, one or more input prepayment amounts 6a up to now are displayed as a deposit reserve transaction.

Then, when the collective payment button 3d is not pressed ("No" in step S109), the POS cash register 2 transfers to step S102, and performs the above-mentioned transaction processing S1 for customers. On the other hand, when the collective payment button 3d is pressed (YES in step S109), the collation instruction control unit 4b outputs a payment permission command to the money handling machine 1 (step S110).

The money handling machine 1 having received the payout permission command takes in money (advance payment) temporarily stored in the coin slot 11 and the banknote slot 21 which are temporary storage parts, and performs automatic counting processing (step S202). Then, the money processing machine 1 notifies the POS cash register 2 side of the statistical advance payment amount 6b (step S203).

Then, the collation control section 4c calculates the total value of the input prepayment amount 6a so far, and checks the total value of the notified statistical prepayment amount 6b and the input prepayment amount 6a so far (step S111 ). Furthermore, the collation control unit 4c displays the collation result in, for example, the information display area E1 of the input/output unit 3, stores it in the memory 6 as collation information 6c, and notifies the money handling machine 1 of the collation result (step S112).

Then, the POS cash register 2 transfers to step S101, and performs the above-mentioned transaction processing S1 for customers.

On the other hand, the money handling machine 1 which received the verification result notification judges whether the verification result matches (step S204). When the checking result is consistent ("Yes" in step S204), carry out the allocation processing (step S206) that the currency that remains in the temporary storage 15g, 26 is stored in the money storage 15a～15f and the banknote storage 25b, 25c ), and then transfer to step S201, waiting for the payment instruction. On the other hand, when the collation results do not match ("No" in step S204), after performing the saving process of saving the notified collation result in the memory 50 (step S205), the allocation process of step S206 is performed, and then Transfer to step S201, and wait for the payment instruction.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, since the deposit processing is not included in the customer transaction processing S1, the transaction processing time for one customer can be shortened, and since the prepayment amount 6b is calculated and the input prepayment amount up to now The checking process of the total value of the amount 6a can reduce the shortage or excess of cash at the time of settlement.

(Modification 1)

In the above-mentioned embodiment, in step S109, the instruction of the check start time is input by pressing the consolidated payment button 3d. However, in this modified example 1, step S109 is not performed, and the check instruction is performed instead. Whether the total value of the input prepayment amount 6a so far exceeds the specified value, and the time when it exceeds the specified value is processed as the check start time. In this case, the summary amount button 3 d is unnecessary, and it is preferable that the collation instruction control unit 4 b displays or outputs to the input/output unit 3 the permission status of the command at the collation start time.

(Modification 2)

In this modified example 2, instead of performing the process of step S109, the collation instructs the control unit 4b to process a predetermined time or elapse of a predetermined time as the collation start time. Moreover, it is preferable that the collation instruction control part 4b displays or outputs to the input/output part 3 the permission state of the instruction|indication of a collation start time.

(Modification 3)

In addition, the collation control part 4c of the POS cash register 2 may be provided in the control part 40 of the money handling machine 1, and the collation process may be performed in the money handling machine 1 side. That is, the processing of step S111 may be performed after the processing of step S203. In this case, the money handling machine 1 receives the total value of the incoming advance payment amount 6a from the POS register 2 side. In addition, the money handling machine 1 notifies the POS register 2 side of the collation result.

In addition, in the above-mentioned embodiments and modifications, when the collation results do not match, the fact is displayed on the input/output unit 3, but the present invention is not limited to this, and notification to the operation display unit 30 of the money handling machine 1 may be performed. Display or sound processing of alarm etc. Furthermore, the POS cash register device 2 may be configured to further notify the host device connected thereto of the inconsistency of the collation result and the content thereof. By carrying out notification processing such as the above-mentioned display, buzzing, notification, etc., it is possible to quickly perform processing when the collation results do not match.

In addition, in the above-mentioned embodiment and each modified example, the coin input port 11 and the banknote input port 21 are used as the temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the customer's advance payment. The advance payment temporarily stored in the escrow unit is inserted into the coin insertion slot 11 and the banknote insertion slot 21 when the verification process is performed.

Furthermore, the constituent elements of the above-described embodiments and modifications can be appropriately combined. (Symbol Description)

1 Money Handling Machine

2 POS cash register device

3 I/O section

3a Subtotal button

3b Prepayment input button

3c cash button

3d roll up money button

4 Cash register control department

4a, 40a Inward and outgoing money control department

4b Check Instruction Control Department

4c Check Control Department

5 barcode reader

6, 50 memory

6a Enter the prepayment amount

6b Statistics of advance payment amount

6c Check information

10 coin storage unit

11 Coin slot

12 Coin outlet

13a Distribution conveyor (coin conveyor)

13b Outgoing conveying mechanism (coin conveying mechanism)

13c Feeding conveying mechanism (coin conveying mechanism)

14 Coin Discrimination Sensor

15 coin storage

15a 1 yen coin storage box

15b 50 yen coin storage box

15c 5 yen coin storage box

15d 100 yen coin storage

15e 10 yen coin storage box

15f 500 yen coin storage box

15g, 26 temporarily reserved library

16 coin return port

17 receiving plate

20 Banknote storage unit

21 Banknote input port

22 Banknote Dispenser

23 Banknote conveying mechanism

24 Banknote identification sensor

25 banknote storage

25a Settlement Library

25b 1,000 yen banknote storage

25c Mixed Banknote Storage

30 Operation Display Section

30a Display

30b Operation Department

40 Control Department

E1 information display area

E2 Amount Input Section

Ea Purchase area

Eb prepaid area

Ec change area

Ed area

N communication line

S1 Transaction processing for customers

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A cash register system, which has a money handling machine and a host device connected with the money handling machine, and the money handling machine takes in the received currency and distributes and stores it in the storage, and according to the information from the money handling machine The storage currency equivalent to the change is paid out from the storage library according to the withdrawal instruction of the host device, The cash register system is characterized in that it has: Escrow Department, which is used to temporarily hold the customer's advance payment; input section, which is used to manually input the amount of advance payment; A deposit and withdrawal control unit that calculates change, which is the difference between the input advance payment amount manually input through the input unit and the purchase amount of the customer, and outputs the payment instruction to the money processing machine; an input prepayment amount storage unit for storing the input prepayment amount; a verification instruction control unit for instructing a verification start time for bringing the money handling machine into a payment-in-approved state; and The verification control unit, after receiving the instruction of the verification start time from the verification instruction control unit, causes the money handling machine to collect the temporarily stored prepayment and count the amount, and perform the statistics of the statistical prepayment amount and Check whether the total value of the input prepayment amount up to now is consistent. 2. The cash register system according to claim 1, wherein the host device is provided with a verification instruction input unit for inputting an instruction of the verification start time, The collation instruction control unit causes the collation control unit to perform a collation process by inputting a collation start time instruction from the collation instruction input unit. 3. The cash register system according to claim 1, wherein, when the total value of the input prepayment amount so far exceeds a predetermined value, the verification instruction control part outputs the verification control part to the verification control part. Check the start time. 4. The cash register system according to claim 1, wherein the collation instruction control unit outputs the collation start time to the collation control unit at a predetermined time or every elapse of a predetermined time. 5. The cash register system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the verification instruction control unit permits the instruction of the verification start time after a series of customer transaction processing, wherein the Transaction processing for customers refers to a series of processing from product registration of purchased products to change payment without performing advance payment receipt and quantity statistics. 6 . The cash register system according to claim 5 , wherein the verification instruction control unit displays and outputs the permission state of the instruction of the verification start time. 6 . 7. The cash register system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the temporary storage unit is a coin input port and a banknote input port of the money handling machine. 8. The cash register system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the verification control unit is arranged in the currency processing machine, The collation control unit of the money handling machine performs the collation process after receiving the total value of the input prepaid amount from the high-level device, and notifies the high-level device of a collation result. 9. The cash register system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that, when the calculated prepayment value is inconsistent with the total value of the prepayment value so far, the checking The control unit stores the processing contents of the collation processing. 10. The cash register system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the cash register system is provided with an output unit, The collation control section outputs a result of collation processing to the output section. 11. A transaction control method for a cash register system, wherein the cash register system has a money handling machine and a host device connected to the money handling machine, and the money handling machine takes in the received currency and distributes and stores it in storage, and according to the payment instruction from the host device, the storage currency equivalent to the change is paid out from the storage, The transaction control method of the cash register system is characterized in that, The host device temporarily saves the advance payment after making the money handling machine change to the withdrawal state, and saves the manually input input advance payment amount, and makes the money handling machine disburse the input advance payment amount and the purchase amount the difference as change, After the money handling machine receives the instruction of the check start time from the host device, it makes the money handling machine change to the payment permission state, thereby taking in the temporarily saved prepayment and counting the amount, and counting it out Inform the host device of the statistical advance payment amount, The host device checks whether the statistical prepayment amount is consistent with the total value of the input prepayment amount so far. 12. A transaction control method for a cash register system, wherein the cash register system has a money handling machine and a host device connected to the money handling machine, and the money handling machine takes in the received currency and distributes and stores it in storage, and according to the payment instruction from the host device, the storage currency equivalent to the change is paid out from the storage, The transaction control method of the cash register system is characterized in that, The host device temporarily saves the advance payment after making the money handling machine change to the withdrawal state, and saves the manually input input advance payment amount, and makes the money handling machine disburse the input advance payment amount and the purchase amount the difference as change, After the money handling machine receives the instruction of the check start time from the host device, the money handling machine changes into the payment permission state, thereby taking in the temporarily saved prepayment and counting the amount, and, after receiving the payment from the After the upper device receives the total value of the input prepayment amount so far, it checks whether the statistical prepayment amount is consistent with the total value of the input prepayment amount so far, and sends the The verification result is notified to the upper device. 13. The transaction control method of the cash register system according to claim 11 or 12, wherein the instruction of the verification start time is performed based on an instruction from a verification instruction input unit of a host device. 14. The transaction control method of the cash register system according to claim 11 or 12, characterized in that when the total value of the input prepayment amount so far exceeds a predetermined value, the check start time is indicated. 15. The transaction control method of the cash register system according to claim 11 or 12, wherein the advance payment is temporarily stored in the coin input port and the banknote input port of the money handling machine.