JP2002032563A - Electronic housekeeping book system including purchasing price information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic housekeeping book system which can fetch the sales details electronic data on a store and put them into an expenses data column of the electronic household book software via a server and also can instantaneously search for the actual purchasing price of a specific type of commodity/service. SOLUTION: This membership system that inputs the sales data to the housekeeping hook software includes a means which adds the user codes to the sales data on plural stores, a means which sends electrically the sales data having user codes to a server, a means which rereads the transmitted sales data in the member code of every user and stores these member codes in the server as the expenses data on the members and a means which fetches the stored member expenses data and puts them into the housekeeping book service on the Web of each member or the housekeeping book software of each household. In such a constitution, the members can access the sales data.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to the input or capture of electronic data into a household account book using the Internet, and in particular, by transmitting sales detail data with a user code from a store of purchased goods to a member-only server. The present invention relates to a system for accessing from a terminal of each member's home and taking in as expenditure data into software of a household account book.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A household account book is created by mobilizing receipts, withdrawal memos, and other memories as daily work in each household, and managing daily expenditures by recording daily income and expenditures. It is necessary work to do. With the widespread use of computers, it is sufficiently possible to create a household account electronically and store it as magnetic information for use. Various systems and software have been developed for creating a household account using a computer. In addition, since this electronic data can be used for tax returns, it is becoming an important task to convert the household account into electronic data.

[0003] In preparing a household account book using these computers, it is necessary for each user to input an expenditure column by himself. Since the minimum data is to grasp the total expenditure, only the total expenditure is entered when creating an electronic household account book in a simple manner. At present, the type and quantity of goods (goods or services) are not entered up to that point in daily work even though there are input items for electronic data. When you actually create a household account book,
This is completed by inputting the details of the goods / services purchased at each store and the amount of payment based on the receipt left at hand. However, there is a complexity that can only be input to the total payment amount based on the receipt at hand. Therefore, in extreme terms, the system for creating a household account book using the Internet is a complicated system in which the type and unit price of purchased items cannot be entered in detail each time, and therefore, it is easy to create a detailed household account book. There were drawbacks that could not be done.

On the other hand, it is common sense today that details of the type and quantity of goods (goods / services) are displayed on receipts, and in each store, data is input in detail as sales management. Often, the receipts received by the customer also detail the details. The data entered is data read from a bar code or the like attached to the product, and its main purpose was to calculate the total payment amount, which is the total price of the purchased product of the customer. However, this data is also used as sales management data, merchandise management, and customer management data at the store side.

[0005] From another viewpoint, there is a great need to search for discount information on the Internet. It is a content that is likely to be easily realized in the modern age of computers, but in reality, the question is who will input a large amount of sales price information that changes every day. The biggest bottleneck here is that it is extremely difficult to enter discount information that changes every day, and there is a possibility that department stores and supermarkets will be able to provide information in line with each other. I had to say it was a thin concept. Further, comparing and displaying the price information of the same product in the vicinity is also an example. Displaying the existence and location of a store such as a supermarket that is actually sold at such a price is also considered to be an important factor, and prompt and reliable provision of information has been demanded.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a system which avoids the troublesome input of the type (unit price) and quantity of goods / services in conventional electronic household account book software using a computer. To provide an electronic household account book system capable of completing a household account book on the Web or at each household by taking in the expenditure data section of the book electronic sales data held by the store that issued the receipt through a server. is there. It is also an object of the system to provide purchase price information that allows members or non-members to instantly search for the actual purchase price of a particular type of product / service.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, an electronic household account book system including purchase price information according to the present invention inputs sales data as purchase price information to household account book software using a computer. A membership system in which means for assigning an arbitrary user code to sales statement electronic data (receipt) issued by a payee or a store, etc., and a sales statement electronic data with an arbitrary user code attached to a server Means for transmitting the electronic sales data with an arbitrary user code transmitted thereto to a member code for each user and storing the data as membership expenditure data on the server; and Access from home terminal by ID and password and import into household account book service of each member or household account book software of each household It is a configuration consisting of a stage.

[0008] Further, the means for storing in the server reads a plurality of user codes arbitrarily assigned by a plurality of payees or stores into a specific single member code, and converts the sales statement electronic data to the member's membership data. It is a structure that collectively accumulates on the server for each member code as expenditure data, and attaches a member code instead of an arbitrary user code to the payee or shop etc. A configuration for storing the data is also conceivable. In addition, the accumulated sales statement electronic data, with the customer code hidden,
The structure is such that members of the electronic household account book system can access as purchase (sales) price information for each purchased product / service item. Further, it is also possible to transmit the information as purchase (sales) price information for each product / service item to anyone who wishes other than a member of the electronic household account book system.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An electronic household account book system including purchase price information according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to an embodiment shown in the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a process of storing electronic data in a server of an electronic household account book system including purchase price information according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a process of importing the stored electronic data to a home terminal. It is. FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of taking in the stored electronic data by a mobile phone, and FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram showing the entire flow. The electronic household account book system 10 including the purchase price information according to the present invention includes a user code adding unit 20 and a transmitting unit 30 for sending to a server.
, Expenditure data storage means 40, and means 50 for importing into household account book software.

[0010] The electronic household account book system 10 is a membership system, and can only be used by members. The member can access the server using his / her terminal 52 identifier (ID) and password, and take in expenditure data such as various goods / services purchased by himself or the price of the ticket into the electronic household account book. Using a user card issued by a payee or a store as a key, the user stores the data he or she has purchased on a server using the Internet, and provides a household account book service on the Web and household account book software on a personal computer at home. Take in.

The user code adding means 20 is a means for adding an arbitrary user code to the digitized sales statement electronic data (receipt) 1 issued by the payee or the store. As the user code 22, there may be a specific number 22a unique to each store already assigned to each customer at a store or a department store. When a purchase is made using a credit card or the like 22b, a customer number of each credit company is added to the sales statement electronic data. User code 22 attached to sales statement electronic data
Can be freely selected and attached by each store, whether it is a customer number conventionally used, a card number of a credit company owned by a purchaser, or a membership card 22c of each department store. It may be a number. Furthermore, the ID number 22d owned by the customer can be added as the customer number.

Various numbers are assigned to each store as a registration code for specifying a member who is a purchaser as a separate user code 22 for each store. The user registers in advance the number assigned by each store and the number designated by the user in the server in advance, and can read or convert a user code or number different for each store to its own member code 42 in the corresponding server. register. User (customer) code, credit number, user portable CD card with bar code attached to each store, member ID number, user I
Various registration numbers such as a C card, various membership cards, and the like can be used, and barcode information can also be used to identify the individual. All the electronic data as purchase information to which information such as a number and a bar code is attached is assigned the same member code for server storage as described later.

The means 30 for transmitting data to the server is means for automatically transmitting the same information as the sales (purchase) slip or the receipt (receipt) handed to the customer from the terminal to the server designated by the member. And so on. Some stores use a function that only automatically adds up cash registers (registers).
In many cases, it is a small computer device that works together. Therefore, it is possible to automatically transmit the purchase data of the member to the server designated by the member via the Internet. For stores that are slow to automate,
It is also possible to request that the purchase information be automatically changed to a terminal device that can transmit the information to the server via the Internet, or to distribute a register having an Internet communication function to each store. Even if the terminal is a register device that is not directly connected to the server, it is possible to use another computer device to transmit electric power to the server.

The expenditure data storage means 40 is composed of a large-capacity storage medium, in which sales statement electronic data, which is sales information (member's purchase information) transmitted from stores, convenience stores, supermarkets, etc., is registered in advance. A member code and a corresponding user code are searched for, and the user code searched in the server is replaced or converted into a member code 42 for each user, or the member code 42 is separately attached and stored as member expenditure data. . Spend data includes dates,
The required items are the member code, the details of the purchased product or service, the unit price or service charge, and the name of the payee store. In order to promote the use of purchasing (sales) information, which will be described later, from the store that is the payee, the location, schematic diagram, telephone number, F
It is desirable to add information such as an ax number, a homepage, an E-mail address, and the like.

By registering as many user codes as possible in the association table 44 by the member in advance, it is possible to collectively replace or convert the sales statement electronic data and integrate them under the member code. In the matching table 44, under the member code, the customer card number of each department store, the user service card number of each supermarket, the number of each credit card, other ID numbers, and in the future, the identity of voice prints, fingerprints, etc. It is possible to register all means that can be specified.

The means 50 for taking in the household account book service or the household account book software on the Web connects to the server 40 from the home terminal 52 using the Internet, and acquires the purchase information of each member stored in the server. Web as electronic data
The data is taken into the household account book service 54 above or the electronic household account book 54 in the terminal 52 of each household. At this time, in order to exclude a possibility that a person other than the member accesses the expenditure data of the member, it is conceivable to confirm the person using the ID and the password. If you can improve the effect of identifying yourself,
Means other than the ID and the password may be used. It is also possible to use the mobile phone 53 to fetch data, search for data described later, and the like.

[0017] As an incidental service, a member accumulates the results of his or her shopping in a server and uses it as household account information. It is possible to participate in a service system that receives supply of a purchase price of a specific product / service purchased by another person at the same time as providing. This system is a system capable of knowing the purchase price of a specific product / service purchased by another person as a counter-benefit, provided that the self-information is provided. By using this accompanying system, it becomes possible to obtain and use the anonymous purchase information of other members instantly. The anonymous purchase information of another person has high utility value as a consumer (user), and can be evaluated as bargain information depending on the use method. In addition, a specific product / service can be used as the average selling price in the market in the surrounding area and the discount information of the lowest price store.

Further, as a service for a person 60 other than the member, the purchase information of the server accumulated by the member for the household account book software can be used as sales information of another store. By instantly renting the right to use this sales information to others, it is possible to increase the income, apply it to a member's Internet access fee, or return it as a usage fee for transmitting information from each store via the Internet. Of course, the input purchase information is not used as mere purchase price information, so that the purchase information is not disclosed to anyone other than the member. However, it is used to disassemble and use as reference data of the price of a specific product / service, and it is strictly protected so that basic data for creating a household account book is not disclosed to others. .

On the other hand, in a user 60 other than a member such as a store,
Since the selling price information of the other stores can be accurately obtained as the purchase price information, the shopping trend in the corresponding area can be grasped, the price setting can be referred to, and the setting of the price becomes easy. Since the actual selling price is instantly stored in the server, it can be used as price information for each product / service. In addition, it is possible to obtain the actual sales price of a specific product / service of an adjacent store as sales information in the area, and a fair competition order can be formed.

The electronic data stored as purchase information is
It can also be provided to companies (manufacturers), dealers and even other users for a fee. A member or a person permitted to access information can search for the lowest price of a specific product / service based on the purchase (sales) information of another person, and can determine the location information of a store or the current position using GPS, etc. By cross-searching with, it is also possible to search for the cheapest dealer in the neighborhood. At the same time, it is also possible to search whether or not there is a store that sells a specific product / service corresponding to the surrounding area by limiting the area.

[0021]

According to the electronic household account book system including the purchase price information according to the present invention described in detail above, 1. The sales information issued by the store is used as the purchase information of the member, and the store is used as the purchase price information. Is stored in a server using a computer, and the stored information of the server can be taken from a home terminal and input to household account book software, so that an accurate household account book is completed very easily and instantly. 2. A user code assigned to each store can be freely used for each store, and a credit card number can be used. Since a plurality of user codes are read or converted into a specific member code in the server, there is an advantage that work is not troublesome.

3. Even when there is no user code, the sales statement electronic data can be freely transmitted to the server by attaching a member's own code, and the member code can be attached and stored for each member code. It is. 4. Since the member can use the purchase information of another member instantly, the purchase information of another member can be used as bargain information. 5. Other than the member, the purchase information of the server accumulated for the member's household account book software can be used as sales information. Since the sales are instantaneously stored in the server, it can be used as price information for each product / service. Also,
It becomes possible to obtain the actual sales price of a specific product / service by limiting the area as the sales information of the area.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a process of storing electronic data in a server of an electronic household account book system including purchase price information according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a process in which stored electronic data is taken into a home terminal.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of capturing stored electronic data with a mobile phone.

FIG. 4 is a conceptual diagram showing the overall flow of an electronic household account book system including purchase price information according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Electronic sales data (receipt) 10 Electronic household account book system including purchase price information 20 User code adding means 22 User code 30 Transmission means to server 40 Expenditure data storage means 42 Membership code 50 Import means to household account software 52 Home terminal 53 Mobile phone 54 Household account book

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A membership system for inputting sales data as purchase price information into household account book software using a computer, wherein electronic data (receipt) of sales details issued by a payee or a store or the like is added. A means for attaching a user code, a means for electronically transmitting sales statement electronic data with an arbitrary user code to a server, and replacing the electronic statement of sales electronic data with an arbitrary user code with a member code for each user Means for accumulating member expenditure data in a server by accessing the member's expenditure data from a home terminal using an ID and a password and taking in the member's household account book service or each household's account book software. Electronic household account book system including purchase price information characterized by comprising 2. The means for storing in the server reads a plurality of user codes arbitrarily assigned by a plurality of payees or dealers into a specific single member code, and converts the sales statement electronic data into a member code. 2. The electronic household account book system including purchase price information according to claim 1, wherein the expenditure data of each member code is collectively stored in a server for each member code. 3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the means for storing in the server adds a member code to a payee or a store instead of an arbitrary user code, and stores the sales statement electronic data in the server as member expenditure data. 2. An electronic household account book system including purchase price information according to claim 1. 4. The stored sales statement electronic data includes:
2. An electronic household account book system including purchase price information according to claim 1, wherein a member of the electronic household account book system can access as purchase (sales) price information for each purchased product / service item with the customer code hidden. 5. An electronic household account book system including purchase price information for transmitting sales data as purchase price information to household account book software via a server, wherein the sales statement electronic data stored in the server is converted to a member code. An electronic household account book system including purchase price information, wherein the electronic money is transmitted as purchase (sales) price information for each product / service item to an applicant other than a member in a state.