JP2001076117A - Advantageous card - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an advantageous card with which the consumption trend of a credit card holder at cash payment can be grasped in order to accurately grasp the consumption trend of the credit card holder including cash payment and card payment. SOLUTION: A title 2 being advantageous information at cash payment, the display 3 of day of issue, the name display 4 of a use object store and store display 5 for optical reading which is displayed by a bar code are displayed as well as the display 6 of a member number for optical reading which is displayed by a bar code being the holder specified information of a credit card on the surface of this advantageous card 1, a bar code reader reads the display 6 of the member number for optical reading at cash payment, and the read member number is connected to sales information to be subjected to sales processing.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a privilege card used at the time of cash payment, which can process sales data when cash payment is made without using a credit card as sales data of a credit card owner.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As shown in FIG. 4, a conventional general credit card 20 records data identifying a card holder such as a membership number as magnetic data on a magnetic stripe 21 on the back side. . Only when the credit card holder presents the credit card 20 and settles the payment, the magnetic data recorded on the magnetic stripe 21 is read out, and the sales data is transferred to the credit card owner's sales. It can be processed as data.

[0003]

For this reason, conventionally, even when a customer has a card and pays in cash, the sales data is processed as the sales data of the credit card holder. I couldn't. Therefore, conventionally, since the consumption trend at the time of cash payment could not be grasped, there was an inconvenience that the consumption trend of the credit card holder including the cash payment and the card payment could not be accurately grasped.

The present invention solves such a conventional inconvenience and grasps the consumption trend at the time of cash payment by the credit card holder, thereby obtaining the consumption trend of the credit card holder including cash payment and card payment. It is an object of the present invention to provide a privilege card which can be accurately grasped and used at the time of cash payment.

[0005]

In order to achieve this object, a privilege card according to the first aspect of the present invention displays a credit card owner identification information in an optically readable manner, and displays the credit card owner information at the time of cash payment. This is to optically read the owner identification information.

[0006] Similarly, in order to achieve the above object, the privilege card according to the second aspect of the present invention displays the credit card owner identification information in an optically readable manner and also displays privilege information at the time of cash payment, for example, A display indicating that a discount is provided, or a discount amount or a discount rate is displayed, and the owner identification information is optically read at the time of cash payment.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to FIGS. Here, FIG. 1 is a plan view of a privilege card, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a system for issuing a privilege card, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a system for processing sales information at the time of cash payment.

As shown in FIG. 1, a privilege card 1 is made of paper and has a title 2 "Cash Discount Card" on one side,
The issue date display 3, the store name display 4 to be used, the store display 5 for optical reading that displays the store name to be used as a bar code, and the member number of the credit card held by the cash payer The optical reading member number display 6 indicated by the code is printed. Here, the title 2
Is the privilege information at the time of cash payment, and the optical reading member number display 6 is the credit card owner identification information.

Next, a method for issuing the privilege card 1 will be described with reference to FIG. First, the magnetic data of the credit card (see FIG. 4) possessed by the applicant for cash payment is read by the magnetic card reader 10 and the read membership number data is stored in the storage unit of the control device 11. Next, data of each character of the “cash discount card”, title, date of issue, and name of the store to be used, which are the title 2, are input from the keyboard 12.

The input data input from the keyboard 12, the member number data for optical reading obtained by converting the member number data stored in the storage unit of the control device 11 into a bar code, the input target store name data Is converted into a barcode, and the optically-read shop data is printed on a card base material by an appropriate printer 13 such as a pressure-sensitive printer, and a title 2, an issue date display 3, and a target shop name indication 4 And a privilege card 1 displaying an optical reading store display 5 and an optical reading member number display 6.

Next, a sales data processing method using the privilege card 1 will be described with reference to FIG. When the credit card holder presented the privilege card 1 when paying cash, the bar code reader 14 optically read the store display 5 for optical reading and the member number display 6 for optical reading of the privilege card 1. In addition, the POS register 15 performs POS processing for cash sales in the same manner as usual. Then, these data are transferred to the host computer 16.
And link the credit card holder with the sales data and record it.

By integrating this sales record with the sales record when a separately recorded credit card is used, it is possible to grasp the consumption trend of the credit card holder.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment. For example, specific discount information such as “10% discount” may be printed together with title 2. The content of the privilege is not limited to the discount, but may be an addition of the number of points as in a so-called point card. Furthermore, without displaying the privilege information on privilege card 1,
It can be separately displayed and distributed on a flyer, displayed on a bulletin board in a store, or notified using other appropriate advertising means. Further, the credit card owner specifying information may be any information as long as it can be specified other than the member number, and the optically readable display is not limited to the bar code display.

[0014]

As described above, according to the privilege card of the first aspect of the present invention, the owner identification information of the credit card is displayed optically readable, and the owner identification information is optically read at the time of cash payment. By using this award card, the credit card holder's consumption trends at the time of cash payment can be grasped, and the credit card holder's consumption trends including cash payment and card payment can be accurately grasped. It has the effect that it can be done.

According to the privilege card of claim 2 of the present invention, the credit card owner identification information is displayed optically readable and the privilege information at the time of cash payment is displayed. Motivation to use the card can be assured, and this reward card can be used to understand the trends in consumption of credit card holders when paying cash, so that credit card including cash payment and card payment The effect is that the consumption trend of the owner can be accurately grasped.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a privilege card.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a system for issuing a privilege card.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a system for processing sales information at the time of cash payment.

FIG. 4 is a plan view showing the back side of a general credit card.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Privilege card 2 Title 3 Date of issuance display 4 Target store name display 5 Store display for optical reading 6 Member number display for optical reading

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A privilege card, wherein owner information of a credit card is displayed optically readable, and the owner identification information is optically read at the time of cash payment. 2. A privilege card which displays owner identification information of a credit card, displays privilege information at the time of cash payment, and optically reads the owner identification information at the time of cash payment.