JP2002063397A - Method and system for mediation in ordering - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method for mediation in ordering which enable a store to provide articles and services even without credit information on respective users and are easy for the users to use. SOLUTION: A managing computer 21 receives order information on an article from an employee terminal 10 through an intranet N. The managing computer 21 calculates a providing price through a discount information recording part 24 and compares the providing price of the article with salary information recorded in a salary information recording part 27 to judge whether the order is acceptable. When so, the managing computer 21 gives the identifier of a mediator to the order information and sends them to the store. Consequently, the store receives the order and delivers the article. The price of the article is recorded as a salary deduction in the salary information recording part 27 and collected.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to mediation of an order from a user to an item provider using a network such as the Internet, and to a method and system for efficiently mediating an order from a user. is there.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Transactions using the Internet have become popular, and various services using the Internet have been implemented. One such service is a virtual shopping mall. In such a virtual shopping mall, an administrator of the virtual shopping mall site, which is an intermediary, mediates transactions between the user and the store. The user
By accessing the virtual shopping mall site,
It is possible to browse and order the provided products and services, and the store that has opened the Internet mall can provide the product information and receive an order.

As described above, by using the virtual shopping mall site, a user can order the provision of a product or service without going to a store. In addition, it is possible for the store to provide products and services to users who do not visit the store.

[0004]

By the way, in the above-mentioned virtual shopping mall site, since each store and the user make a transaction independently, each store has to carry out the transaction by trusting the user. Therefore, when the user goes bankrupt, the store cannot recover the price of the provided goods and services, and may suffer damage. Also,
It is possible to make a credit card payment, but in that case the credit card company will suffer damage. Therefore, both the store and the credit company need to pay close attention to the credit information of each user. In addition, since each store and each user conduct transactions individually, the advantage of price discount (volume discount) due to a large order cannot be enjoyed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to enable a store to provide goods and services with confidence even when there is no credit information of each user, and An object of the present invention is to provide a user-friendly one.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the invention according to claim 1 is an order mediation method for mediating an order of an item from a user to an item provider by using a network. A first step of receiving item order information from a user, a second step of calculating a provision price of the item, and a third step of assigning an intermediary identifier to the order information and transmitting the order information to the item provider. The gist of the present invention is to include a step and a fourth step in which the intermediary pays the item provider to the item provider based on the provided price.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the order intermediation method according to the first aspect, the first step further includes a step of transmitting information on an item provided by an item provider to a user. The gist is to receive order information of an item from a user based on the information.

[0008] The invention described in claim 3 is the invention according to claim 2 or 3.
In the order intermediary method described in Item 2, the second step further includes a step of calculating based on attribute information of the item.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the order intermediary system according to the third aspect, the attribute information of the item is a discount rate or a discount price with respect to a price set by the item provider. I do.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the order intermediation method according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, the third step compares the provided price with the attribute information of the user, and determines whether or not the provided price can be provided. Is determined, and only the order information determined to be available is transmitted to the item provider.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the order intermediation method according to the fifth aspect, the attribute information of the user includes:
The point is that salary information of the user is included. According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the order intermediation method according to the sixth aspect, the fourth step is to record the offered price from the salary of the user as salary deduction information of the user. .

[0012] The invention according to claim 8 is an order mediation system that is connected to a user terminal via a network and mediates an item order from a user to an item provider, and details of an item associated with an item identifier. Item information recording means for recording information, provided price information recording means for recording information on the mediator price separately from the provider price of the item provider for the item, and an item order received from the user terminal. And a billing information storage unit for recording the billing information calculated based on the information on the intermediary price in association with the identifier of the user.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, in the order mediation system of the eighth aspect, the item information recording means records the electronic file created by the item provider in association with the item identifier. Make a summary.

According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, in the order mediation system according to the eighth or ninth aspect, the provided price information recording means records a discount rate or a discounted price for the price set by the item provider. The gist is that you have done it.

The invention according to claim 11 is the invention according to claims 8 to 1.
0, wherein the network is an intranet or an extranet.

The invention according to claim 12 is the invention according to claims 8 to 1.
In the order intermediary system according to any one of the first to third aspects, the accounting information recording unit may record salary information of a user, and the accounting information may be salary deduction information.

(Operation) According to the first aspect of the present invention,
The order information from the user is transmitted to the item provider together with the mediator identifier, and the price is paid by the mediator. Therefore, the item provider does not need to manage the credit information for each user, and can make a transaction. In addition, since the intermediary puts together the user's orders and places the order with the intermediary identifier, he can enjoy the benefits of volume discount.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the information on the item provided by the item provider is transmitted to the user, and the order information of the item is received from the user based on the information. Therefore, the mediator can receive the order information while providing the user with the item information.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the provision price of the item is calculated based on the attribute information of the item, so that the mediator determines the provision price of the goods and services separately from the price set by the item provider. Can be set.

According to the invention described in claim 4 or 10,
Since the discount rate or discount price for the price set by the item provider is recorded in the offer price information recording means, the item offer price can be calculated.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the provision of the item is determined based on the attribute information of the user, so that the mediator can surely collect the provision price of the item. According to the invention described in claim 6, since the attribute information of the user includes the salary information, the intermediary can accurately grasp the user's ability to pay for the price.

According to the invention described in claim 7, the provision price of the item is deducted from the user's salary. Therefore, the mediator can surely collect the provision price of the item, and the user can receive the provision of goods and services without performing the procedure for payment.

According to the invention described in claim 8, since the provision price information recording means is provided separately from the item information recording means, the agent sets the provision price of the item to the user separately from the price of the item provider. it can.

According to the ninth aspect of the present invention, the electronic file created by the item provider is recorded in the item information recording means in association with the item identifier. In addition, the provision price set by the mediator can be provided to the user.

According to the eleventh aspect of the present invention, since the intranet or the extranet is used as the network, the user is under the control of the intermediary, and the item provider can trade without investigating the creditworthiness of the user. it can.

According to the twelfth aspect of the present invention, since the salary information of the user is recorded in the billing information recording section, and the billing information is the salary deduction information, the mediator can surely inform the user. Can be charged.

[0027]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. In this embodiment,
An order brokerage method and system provided by a company as a broker as one of benefits services for employees as users will be described. Employees can purchase goods and receive services by payroll deduction using the order mediation method and system.

As shown in FIG. 1, as shown in FIG.
Comprises a management computer 21 for managing an intranet N as a network. The management computer 21 mediates the order from the employee to the store as the item provider. Therefore, the management computer 21 is connected to the employee terminal 10 via the intranet N, and further connected to the store server 15 via the Internet I. Here, the intranet is a network constructed for company employees, and the employee terminals 10 are managed by a management computer 21.

The management computer 21 includes a product information recording unit 22 as an item information storage unit, a web page recording unit 23, a discount information recording unit 24 as a provided price information recording unit, an order information recording unit 25, and a delivery information recording unit. 26, and a pay information recording unit 27 as charging information storage means are connected to each other.

As shown in FIG. 2, the product information recording unit 22 records detailed information 220 on products and services provided to employees in the welfare service. In this embodiment, a mirror site of a website related to goods and services provided by a store (a site that directly captures an electronic file provided from another site via a network) is used. As information, a product specification and a price set by the store (a store price as a provider price) are set. For example, a product file 221 in a hypertext format in which details of the product are described is recorded in association with the product name “PC A”.
Product name "PC B", "Modem C", "Printer D"
Similarly, the product files 222 to 224 created by the store are recorded. In this case,
If information on a link outside the intranet N for ordering is incorporated in the product file created by the store, remove the link and set so that the information sent by the employee does not go outside the intranet N. It has been reworked.

In the web page recording section 23, a company internal web page as an intermediary electronic file is stored in a hypertext format file. The in-house web page contains in-house information such as new information and schedules or benefits guides that the manager should disseminate to employees. Further, on the web page, a banner advertisement of a product or service provided to an employee in the welfare service is posted. The banner advertisement incorporates an anchor tag (a control symbol embedded in an electronic file for linking to another electronic file), and the detailed information of the product recorded in the product information recording unit 22 is displayed. Linked.

As shown in FIG. 3, in the discount information recording section 24, information 240 on the offer price for employees is recorded for each product as information on the mediator price. In the present embodiment, for “PC A” to “Printer D”,
A discount rate for the store price is recorded. As shown in FIG. 4, the order information recording unit 25 stores
The order information 250 received from 0 is recorded. In the present embodiment, an employee number, a product name, and an order date are recorded in association with each other for an order from each employee.

As shown in FIG. 5, in the delivery information recording section 26, delivery information 260 about completed delivery of ordered products is recorded. In this embodiment, an employee number, a product name, and a delivery date are recorded in association with each other for each completed delivery.

As shown in FIG. 6, the salary information recording unit 27 stores salary information 270 of each employee as user attribute information.
Is recorded. In this embodiment, the salary column 2
71 and a salary deduction column 272 are provided. Salary column 2
The difference between the salary amount recorded in the salary amount 71 and the salary deduction amount recorded in the salary deduction column 272 is the amount to be paid, and this amount is used as the usage limit for merchandise purchase by salary deduction. Further, the delivery price of the product recorded in the delivery information recording unit 26 after the completion of the delivery of the product is recorded as a salary deduction amount.

The employee terminal 10 has a browser. The browser is an application program for viewing a web page, and a user selects an advertisement for a product using the browser. The browser sends a request for a web page identified by the URL of the selected product to the management computer 21.

Next, the operation of the system configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG. 7 or FIG. First, N
The employee of the employee number X of the corporation starts up a browser on the employee terminal 10. In this case, the employee terminal 10 is automatically connected to the administrator's management computer 21 via the intranet N. The employee terminal 10 is the management computer 2
1 and at the same time as requesting transmission of an internal web page. In that case, the browser
An employee number for identifying the employee terminal 10 is transmitted to the management computer 21 to request transmission of a web page for the company (S1-1).

Next, the management computer 21 transmits the in-house web page recorded in the web page recording section 23 to the employee terminal 10 (S1-2). The display screen 90 shown in FIG. 9 is output to the display device of the employee terminal 10 that has received the in-house web page (S1-3). On the display screen 90, a “new arrival information” column 91 and a “today's schedule” column 92 are displayed as new arrival information. Further display screen 9
In "0", the "new arrival information" column 91 and "today's schedule"
Along with the column 92, a banner advertisement 93 of a product provided for the employee is displayed. In the present embodiment, four banner advertisements relating to “PC A”, “PC B”, “Printer C”, and “Modem D” are set as banner advertisements.

Next, the employee of employee number X requests detailed information of the banner advertisement for the product of interest. In this case, by clicking the banner advertisement of interest, a detailed request for the product is transmitted to the management computer 21 via the intranet N (S1-4). here,
It is assumed that an employee of employee number X requests detailed information on “PC A”. The management computer 21 that has received the detail request extracts the discount information recorded in the discount information recording unit 24 for the product for which the detail request has been made (S
1-5). In the present embodiment, “20% discount” is recorded in the information 240 of the discount information recording unit 24 as the discount information of “PC A”.

Further, detailed information on the product for which a detailed request is made is extracted from the product information recording unit 22 (S1--).
6). In the present embodiment, the product file 221 is extracted. Then, the information is transmitted to the employee terminal 10 via the intranet N together with the discount information (S1-7).

The display screen of FIG. 10 is displayed on the display device of the employee terminal 10 which has received the detailed information (S1--).
8). On the display screen 100, product specifications, shop prices, etc.
A product file 221 having the same content as the web page of the product provided by the store and a discount rate 101 for employees are displayed. Further, an order button 102 for making an order is displayed on the display screen 100.

Next, when the employee of the employee number X decides to purchase the product, the order button 102 is clicked. In this case, the order information is transmitted to the management computer 21 via the intranet N (S1-9). In the present embodiment, the employee number X and the product name “PC A” are transmitted to the management computer 21 as order information.

As shown in FIG. 8, the management computer 21 that has received the order information calculates the offer price from the store price and the discount information of this product (S2-1). In the present embodiment, since the store price is reduced by 20% from 150,000 yen, the provided price of the personal computer A is 120,000 yen. Next, the salary amount and the salary deduction amount of the employee with the employee number X are extracted from the salary information recording unit 27, and the usage limit (payment amount) is calculated from the difference.
It is checked whether the offer price of this product does not exceed the usage limit (S2-2). If the usage limit has been exceeded ("No" in step (S2-2)), the order is rejected, and the fact is transmitted to the employee terminal 10. And
When the usage limit has not been exceeded (step (S2-2))
In “Yes”, the order is accepted, and the order information is recorded in the order information recording unit 25 (S2-3). In the present embodiment, the employee of employee number X has already been deducted from salary, and the limit of use is 150,000 yen, which is the difference between salary and salary deduction, and the provided price (120,000 yen) is the limit of use. Therefore, the order information is recorded in the order information recording unit 25.

Next, a company name ("N Co., Ltd.") as a company identifier is added to the order information from the employee and transmitted to the store server 15 via the Internet I (S2-
4). The store that has received this order confirms the company identifier (“N Corporation”) and the product name (“PC A”), and sends out the product PC A. Further, the store server 15 transmits the delivery information to the management computer 21 via the Internet I (S2-5). The management computer 21 receiving the delivery information sets the delivery information recording unit 26
Is recorded together with the product name and the date of delivery (S2-6).

Next, the management computer 21 records the provided price in the salary deduction column 272 of the employee's salary information recording section 27 for the merchandise on which the delivery information is recorded (S2-).
7). As a result, the offered price is deducted from the employee's salary.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, the following effects can be obtained. In the above embodiment, the product information recording unit 22 records the detailed information of the product provided by the store, and the discount information recording unit 24 records the information on the offer price of the mediator. For this reason, the company can set the offer price separately from the store price.

In the above embodiment, the product information recording unit 2
In step 2, the electronic file of the product provided by the store is recorded as it is. Therefore, the company can provide the product information to the employees without creating an electronic file for explaining the details of the product.

In the above embodiment, the discount information recording unit 2
In 4, information on the offer price of the company is recorded for each product. For this reason, the company can set a different discount price for each product.

In the above embodiment, the employee and the company are connected by the intranet N, and the employee terminal 10 is under the management of the management computer 21. Therefore, the company can reliably make a transaction without investigating the creditworthiness of the user. It is possible to

In the above embodiment, since the store and the order information are transmitted to the store together with the company identifier, the store can check the credit by the company identifier, and the store checks the credit of each employee who is the orderer. It is possible to trade without fail.

In the above embodiment, since the store is transmitted with the order information and the identifier of the company, the company can receive a volume discount from the store and return the profit to the employees.

In the above embodiment, when the company receives an order from an employee, the company collates the salary information with the offer price,
If the offer price is less than the usage limit (payment amount), it is determined that the offer is possible. Therefore, the company can surely collect the price of the product.

In the above embodiment, the company deducts the product price from the employee salary. For this reason, the employee can purchase the product without performing complicated procedures such as transfer for payment and instructions for debiting a bank account.

In the above embodiment, the delivery information recording unit 2
Since the product supply status is recorded in 6, the company can charge the employee based on this information. The above embodiment may be changed to the following modes.

In the above embodiment, the item is a product, but the item is not limited to a product, and may be a service as long as money is provided as a consideration. -In the above embodiment, the advertisement of the product was performed by the banner advertisement embedded in the company's internal web page.
The advertisement of the product may be performed by paper, such as in-house circulation.
In this case, the address (URL) of the order mediation system 20 in which the detailed information of the product is stored is posted in the in-house circulation. Thereby, guidance information of the welfare service can be provided by various methods, for example, without going through an in-house web page.

In the above embodiment, the mirror site is provided in the order mediation system 20, but the web page of the product may be directly taken in. In this case, in order for the employee to receive the discount, the order button set by the store is disabled so that the order cannot be made directly to the store, and the employee is instructed to click the order button 102 set by the company. Thereby, the capacity of the product information recording unit 22 can be reduced.

In the above embodiment, the discount information recording unit 2
4, the discount rate is recorded for each product, but the discount rate may be uniformly discounted for all products. In this case, the discount information recording unit 24 records only the discount rate. Thereby, the recording capacity of the discount information recording unit 24 can be reduced.

In the above embodiment, the discount information recording unit 2
Although the discount rate is recorded in 4, the discount rate may be used. In this case, it records like "10,000 yen discount" for every product.
In this case, the offer price is obtained by subtracting the discount price from the shop price. This facilitates calculation of the discount price. The discounted price may be directly recorded. Thereby, the load on the management computer 21 for calculating the provided price is reduced. Further, the discount rate, the discount amount, and the offer price may be mixed. This allows companies to provide a variety of services to their employees.

In the above embodiment, the salary information 270 is used as the attribute information of the employee to determine whether or not the product can be provided. The number of purchases of the product may be recorded as employee attribute information, and a further discount may be provided in accordance with the number of purchases. In that case, the re-discount rate for each order is recorded in the discount information recording unit 24. Then, when there is a detail request, the number of orders of the employee is extracted, and based on the number, the re-discount rate recorded in the discount information recording unit 24 and the discount rate for each product are calculated again and presented to the employee. In this case, in addition to the number of product purchases as employee attribute information, a salary amount, an address, and the like, the discount rate may be changed according to any one or a combination of a plurality of these attributes. This makes it possible to provide goods and services according to the attributes of the employees.

In the above embodiment, it is determined whether or not the product can be provided by comparing the provided price of the product with the amount of salary payment.
If the purchase of the product can be made by installment payment, the benefit limit of the benefit related to the salary amount may be set separately and compared with the benefit limit. In this case, for example, the installment payment limit is recorded in the salary information recording unit 27. This makes it possible for an employee to purchase a product by installment payment. Also, when a purchase of a product can be paid as a bonus, information related to the bonus amount may be recorded in the salary information recording unit 27 and collated with the information.

In the above embodiment, the order information is transferred to the store server 15, but the employee information may be deleted and transmitted to the store server 15. In this case, the product is delivered to the company, and the company delivers the product to the employees based on the order information recording unit 25. As a result, employee information is not leaked to the store, and the privacy of the employee can be maintained more reliably.

In the above embodiment, the management computer 21 is a management computer of an in-house network.
It may be a member computer web page management computer. In this case, the member notifies the company of the bank account information or the member deposits money in advance with the company. In this case, the management computer 21 determines whether or not products and services can be provided based on the account balance and the deposit balance based on the bank account information. As a result, the same service can be provided in a shopping mall site on the Internet.

In the above embodiment, a personal computer is used as the employee terminal 10, but a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone may be used. In this case, the information amount of the detailed information 220 is reduced to a predetermined amount and provided.

In the above embodiment, the employee terminal 10 and the management computer 21 are connected via the intranet N, but an extranet (wide area network) may be used. Here, the extranet is a combination of a plurality of intranets owned by related companies, and each employee terminal 10 connected to each intranet is connected to the management computer 2.
1 means what is managed. As a result, products and services can be provided as benefits for different related businesses.

In the above embodiment, the recording units 22 to 27 are set in the order mediation system 20, but the product information recording unit 22 and the salary information recording unit 27 may be set in another place. For example, the merchandise information recording unit 22 can be set in the store server 15 or the salary information recording unit 27 can be set in the employee information management server. Thereby, the capacity of the order mediation system 20 can be reduced.

Next, technical ideas other than those described in the embodiments and the claims which can be understood from the other examples will be described below together with their effects. (1) The order intermediation method, wherein the second step further includes a step of calculating based on attribute information of the user.

As a result, the discount rate can be changed based on the attribute of the user, and various services can be provided according to the attribute.

[0067]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention,
The user can receive the item through the mediator, and the item provider can provide the item by trusting the mediator. Further, the intermediary can collect the user's orders and place an order with the item provider, so that a transaction can be performed under advantageous conditions. In addition, since billing can be performed based on salary information, the payment can be reliably collected.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of data recorded in a product information recording unit.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of data recorded in a discount information recording unit.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of data recorded in an order information recording unit.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of data recorded in a delivery information recording unit.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of data recorded in a pay information recording unit.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a procedure according to the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a procedure according to the present embodiment.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of a display screen of an employee terminal.

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of a display screen of an employee terminal.

[Explanation of symbols]

10: Employee terminal as user terminal, 20: Order mediation system, 22: Product information recording unit as item information recording means, 24: Discount information recording unit as offered price information storage means, 27: Charge information recording means Payroll information recording unit, N: Intranet as a network.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Yoshinori Komatsu 1-9-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo NTT Communicationware Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Yasuhiro Nakai Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 1-9-1-1 NTT Communications Wear Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Shinji Takizawa 1-9-1-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo Inside NTT Communications Wear Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Naonari Shimanuki 5-37-18, Kamikitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo Japan Electronic Development Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Isamu Horie 5-37-18 Kamikitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo Japan Electronic Development Co., Ltd. (72) Invention Person Masafumi Yamashita 5-37-18 Kamikitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo Japan Electronic Development Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 5B049 BB11 CC00 CC10 FF01 GG02

Claims (12)

[Claims] 1. An order mediation method for mediating an item order from a user to an item provider using a network, comprising: a first step of receiving item order information from a user; A second step of calculating; a third step of adding an intermediary identifier to the order information and transmitting the order information to the item provider; and a fourth step in which the intermediary pays the item provider to the item provider based on the provided price. And an order brokering method. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first step further includes transmitting information on the item provided by the item provider to the user, and receiving order information of the item from the user based on the information. 2. The order intermediation method according to claim 1, wherein 3. The order intermediation method according to claim 2, wherein the second step further comprises a step of calculating based on attribute information of the item. 4. The order mediation system according to claim 3, wherein the attribute information of the item is a discount rate or a discount price for a price set by the item provider. 5. The third step further comprises the step of comparing the provided price with the attribute information of the user to determine whether or not to provide, and transmitting only the order information determined to be available to the item provider. The order intermediation method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein: 6. The order intermediation method according to claim 5, wherein the attribute information of the user includes salary information of the user. 7. The order intermediation method according to claim 6, wherein in the fourth step, the offered price is recorded as salary deduction information of the user from salary of the user. 8. An order mediation system connected to a user terminal via a network and mediating an item order from a user to an item provider, wherein the item information recording records detailed information of an item associated with an item identifier. Means, provided price information recording means for recording information on the mediator price separately from the provider price of the item provider, and information on the mediator price when an item order is received from a user terminal. The billing information calculated based on
An order mediation system comprising: a billing information storage unit that records the information in association with the user identifier. 9. The order mediation system according to claim 8, wherein the item information recording means records an electronic file created by an item provider in association with an item identifier. 10. The order intermediation system according to claim 8, wherein the offer price information recording means records a discount rate or a discount price for a price set by the item provider. 11. The system according to claim 8, wherein the network is an intranet or an extranet.
An order intermediary system according to any one of claims 10 to 10. 12. The order mediation system according to claim 8, wherein salary information of a user is recorded in the accounting information recording unit, and the accounting information is salary deduction information.