JP2002157480A - Electronic commerce system, electronic commerce method, electronic commerce device and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic commerce system capable of sufficiently coping with even a plurality of or a lot of merchandise and simplifying the exhibition conditions of merchandise on exhibition and the information presentation of a purchase desiring person. SOLUTION: This system is provided with a means 11 for receiving exhibition merchandise on a virtual merchandise shelf where a plurality of the merchandise can be exhibited, a means 13 for providing the merchandise information of the exhibition merchandise exhibited on the merchandise shelf through a network to a client, a means 14 for defining a set discount rate at set time t as α, evenly discounting the merchandise inside one merchandise shelf successively to a longest set limit T and updating a price to be provided for the client and a means 15 for receiving the purchase desire of the exhibition merchandise inside the merchandise shelf from the client through the network.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an invention in which a seller of a product or service (collectively referred to as a product in the present specification) provides its product information online to a client via a network, and the client selects a product. It relates to an electronic commerce system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art There have been the following systems for electronic commerce (online shopping) on a conventional network (for example, the Internet). (1) A method in which an exhibitor of a product presents the price of the product online via a homepage on the Internet or the like, and a purchaser accesses the Internet and selects and purchases the product. (2) The seller of the product puts the product on the network through the auction server, and the buyers submit the bid price by presenting the desired price, and the server gives the highest bidder during the predetermined successful bid period. Method to determine the winning bid for

[0003]

The method of the above (1) is as follows.
In principle, the seller submits a fixed price. Therefore, it is difficult to respond to the request of an unspecified number of purchase applicants who want to purchase if the offered price becomes a little lower.

In the above method (2), a purchaser squeezes a desired price for each exhibited product and determines the highest price. Therefore, it is difficult to conclude a commercial transaction with a large number of purchasers at a time for a plurality of types of products.

[0005] In particular, when the exhibitor of a product is a company and a business dealing with a plurality of types or a large amount of products, for example, when it is desired to dispose of a large amount of inventory at once, both of the above methods (1) and (2) are suitable. Was not.

[0006] In addition, electronic commerce generally uses information and numbers (including prices) on a computer screen as criteria for decision making, and the method (2) requires detailed operations and a predetermined system intervention time. Furthermore, it is difficult to participate without understanding the electronic commerce system (2) itself to some extent.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems. When a seller of a product or a purchaser of a product deals with a plurality of types or a large number of products, for example, a large inventory is required. An electronic commerce system that can sufficiently cope with cases where it is desired to dispose of all at once.

It is another object of the present invention to make the presentation conditions of a product seller as simple and clear as possible, to provide an electronic commerce system that is easy for a purchaser to understand, and to reduce trouble in commercial transactions.

[0009]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an exhibition product receiving means for receiving an exhibition product on a virtual product shelf on which a plurality of products can be exhibited, and a client for transmitting product information of the exhibition product exhibited on the product shelf. The product information providing means to be provided to the customer, and the price of the product in the one product shelf, which is set to α at the set time t, is sequentially reduced to the set expiration date T uniformly, and the price to be provided to the client is updated. Product information updating means, an electronic commerce device including a purchase request receiving means for receiving a purchase request for a product on the product shelf from a client, and receiving product information of the product put on the product shelf from the electronic commerce device, An e-commerce system including a client that sends a request to purchase an item for sale in the merchandise shelf and a network that connects the e-commerce device and the client It is a non.

[0010] According to a second aspect of the present invention, a step of receiving a commodity for sale on a virtual commodity shelf on which a plurality of commodities can be placed, and providing the commodity information of the commodity for sale put on the commodity shelf to a client via a network. And the set discount rate at the set time t is α
The e-commerce method comprises a step of updating the price to be provided to the client by sequentially discounting the price to the set time limit T at the longest, and a step of receiving from the client via the network the desire to purchase the exhibited product in the product shelf. .

[0013] According to a third aspect of the present invention, at least one virtual merchandise shelf on which a plurality of merchandise can be exhibited is prepared, and the exhibited merchandise accepting means for accepting the exhibited merchandise from the merchandise seller is provided. A product information providing means for providing product information of the product to the client via the network, and a product in one of the product shelves so that the set discount rate becomes α _n to α _{n + 1} after the lapse of the set time t _n. The price of the product information provided by the product information providing means is set at the longest and the set period T
An electronic commerce device comprising: a product information updating unit that updates the product information to a customer; and a purchase request receiving unit that receives, from a client, a purchase request for a product on the product shelf via a network. However, n = 0, 1, 2, ...
0% ≧ α _n (%)> α _{n + 1} (%)> 100%

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a step of receiving a product for sale on a virtual product shelf on which a plurality of products can be exhibited, and providing the product information of the product for sale on the product shelf to a client via a network. And the set discount rate at the set time t is α
An e-commerce method comprising a step of updating the price to be provided to the client by sequentially discounting the price to the set time limit T at the longest, and a step of receiving from the client via the network a request to purchase the exhibited product in the product shelf. It is a computer-readable recording medium on which a program to be executed by a computer is recorded.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiment. According to the electronic commerce system of the present invention, when a seller of a product provides the product information to a client online through a network, the e-commerce system gradually increases the set time t (t0, t1, t2,...). Electronic commerce equipment (computer)
According to the discount rate α (α 0, α 1, α 2,...) Set above, the discount is automatically determined and the price is determined.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an electronic commerce system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, an e-commerce device 100 is a device connected to a client 30 via a network 20, and is typically an e-commerce server connected to the Internet. The e-commerce device 100 includes an exhibition product receiving unit 11, a setting condition storage unit 12, a product information providing unit 13, a product information updating unit 14, and a purchase request receiving unit 15. The client 30 is a device capable of receiving product information via the network 20 and transmitting a purchase request, for example, an information communication device such as a personal computer and a mobile phone.

The exhibited product accepting means 11 is a means for accepting information on a product exhibited by a product exhibitor. The exhibited commodity receiving means 11 prepares at least one virtual commodity shelf capable of accepting a plurality of commodities, and the commodity exhibitor exhibits the commodity on the commodity shelf. The sellers of the merchandise can be placed on the e-commerce apparatus 100 by accessing the e-commerce apparatus 100 via the network 20 or selling the e-commerce apparatus 100 online. And the like.

The setting condition storage unit 12 is a means for storing setting conditions for uniformly discounting products exhibited on one product shelf. The setting conditions include a set time t (t
0, t1, t2,...), Set value discount rate α (α0, α1, α
2,...) And the longest set time limit T.

The product information providing means 13 is a means for providing the product information of the products (A, B, C, D, E, F,...) Exhibited on the product shelf to the client 30 via the network 20.

FIG. 2 is an example of a screen displaying the product information provided by the product information providing means 13 to the client. Apparel products (A, B, C, D, E,
It is a display example of merchandise information of F, G, H, I). here,
As the product information, for example, a photo, item name, size, color, and price of each product are displayed. In the present invention, the price information is essential product information.

The merchandise information updating means 14 is means for updating merchandise information provided by the merchandise information providing means 13 based on the set conditions stored in the set condition storage section 12. Specifically, each product (A, B, C, D, E,
F,...) Is changed to α _n % after the set time t _n has elapsed.
From α to _{n + 1} %, and the price of the product information provided by the product information providing means is set at the longest in the set period T.
Update to. Here, n = 0, 1, 2,..., 0%
≧ α _n > α _{n + 1} > 100%.

The purchase request receiving means 15 is a means for receiving, from the client 30 via the network 20, a purchase request for a product exhibited on a product shelf.

(Operation of Embodiment) Next, the operation of the electronic commerce system according to the embodiment will be described. First, the merchandise seller inputs information on the merchandise to be exhibited through the exhibited merchandise receiving means 11 to the electronic commerce device 100. At this time, the exhibited product accepting means 11 prepares at least one virtual product shelf capable of accepting a plurality of products, so that the product exhibitor exhibits the product on one of the product shelves.

The information on the products put on the product shelf is provided to the client 30 via the network 20 by the product information providing means 13. For example, as shown in the screen example shown in FIG. 2, the client 30 photographs the apparel products (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I) exhibited on the product shelf,
You can get information on item name, size, color and price.

Here, each product shelf is provided with a setting condition for uniformly discounting the products put on the product shelf, and the setting condition is stored in the setting condition storage unit 12. For example, FIG. 3A shows setting conditions of the product shelf 10. The setting conditions are as follows: the products (A, B, C, D, E, F,...) Exhibited on the product shelf 10 are set at the set time t.
Each time (t0, t1, t2, t3,...) Elapses, the discount is gradually reduced in accordance with the set price reduction rate α (α0, α1, α2, α3,...), And the above discount is executed until the set time limit T. It is to do.

FIG. 3B shows the price information (a yen, b) of the products (A, B, C, D, E, F,...) Exhibited on the product shelf 10.
, C, d, e, f,...) Over time. First, in the stage 1, the price of each product is reduced by α0 = 0%, that is, the product (A, B,
..., C, D, E, F, ... (a circle, b circle, c circle, d circle, e
Circle, f circle, ...). In stage 2,
In the next time t1, the price of each product is provided as a discount rate α1%, that is, a1 ｛= a × (100−α1) / 100｝ yen,. In stage 3, during the next t2 time, the price of each product is reduced by α2%, that is, a2 ｛= a × (100
-Α2) / 100｝ yen, ... When the stock of the products C and D is exhausted at this stage, the display of sold out is shown as the product information. In stage 4, the next t
3 hours, the price of each product is reduced by α3%, ie, a3
｛= A × (100−α3) / 100｝ yen,... The above stage is continued until a set time limit T.

(Embodiment) FIG. 4 shows an embodiment of the electronic commerce system of the present invention. Here, FIG.
A setting condition of 0A is shown. The setting time t is reduced in steps of one day, the setting discount rate α is reduced step by step at 10% a day, and a setting term (T) is set to 7 days.

FIG. 4B shows the temporal transition of the price information of the products (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H,...) Exhibited on the product shelf 10A. First, the first stage is a stage where the face is shown on the first day, and each product is provided at 100% of the exhibition price. The second stage is 2
This is the day stage, where the price of each product is
Provide in%. The third stage is a third day stage, in which the price of each product is provided at 80% of the exhibition price. At this time, if the products C and D are sold out, the product information is cut in subsequent stages. In this way, the above stage is continued up to the set period of seven days. The final stage, the seventh stage, provides information on products (products at 40% of the exhibition price) that have been discounted to a discount rate of 60%.

FIG. 5 shows an example of a screen provided to the client, showing a display example of a group of merchandise shelves under the same setting conditions. Here, the setting time is set in units of one day,
Product shelves 10A, 10B, 10C, 10D, 10E, with a set discount rate of 10% per day and a set deadline of 7 days.
It is a list display example in which groups of 10F and 10G are grouped together. Here, the clients are the product shelves 10A, 10B, 1
By selecting any one of 0C, 10D, 10E, 10F, and 10G, the user can go to a desired product shelf and see desired product information (see FIG. 2). For example,
When the product shelf 10B is selected, there are products A2, B2, C2, and D having a stage price of 90%, which is a stage on the second day.
, E2, F2, G2, H2,..., And the client can select a desired product by looking at the information.

As described above, according to the embodiment of the present invention, the seller of a product puts the product on a virtual product shelf, thereby setting conditions (set time t, set discount α, A commercial transaction can be automatically performed within the desired selling price according to the set period T). Therefore, the burden (labor and cost) required for exhibiting a product can be significantly reduced as compared with the conventional electronic commerce system.

Further, the seller of the product can place the product on the product shelf after understanding the set conditions (set time t, set discount α, set time T), so that the time of the product transaction can be reduced. You can set a price schedule. For example, the product exhibitor sets the setting conditions as follows: [setting time: 1 day, setting discount rate: 10% OFF per day, setting time: 7
Days], the lowest price is 60% OFF for a maximum of seven days, and a planned product can be exhibited.

Also, the purchaser does not need to take a successive purchase request procedure as in the conventional auction procedure, the product price is automatically reduced, and the client automatically approaches the client's desired price and obtains a specific price. Is presented, so that a simple and clear commercial transaction can be performed.

Note that popular products are expected to sell out early, and unpopular products remain unsold even in the final stage.
You will leave the stage without commerce. Collecting and analyzing such data is also considered to be beneficial to the product seller (company).

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention, a case where a seller of a product or a purchaser of a product handles a plurality of types or a large amount of products, for example, a case where he wants to dispose of a large amount of inventory at once. However, it is possible to sufficiently cope with the situation.

Further, by simplifying the presentation conditions of the merchandise seller as much as possible and providing an e-commerce system which is easy for the purchaser to understand, troubles in commercial transactions can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an electronic commerce system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an example of a screen displaying product information provided to a client by a product information providing unit according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a setting condition of the product shelf 10 and a temporal transition of price information of a product put on the product shelf 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a setting condition of a product shelf 10A and a temporal transition of price information of a product put on the product shelf 10A according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a display example of a group of product shelves under the same setting conditions according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

11 exhibition goods reception means, 12 setting condition reception unit, 13
Product information providing means, 14 Product information updating means, 15
Purchase request receiving means, 20 networks, 30 clients, 100 e-commerce devices.

Claims (4)

[Claims] An article receiving means for accepting an article for sale on a virtual article shelf on which a plurality of articles can be exhibited, an article information providing means for providing article information of an article for sale on the article shelf to a client, Product information updating means for sequentially discounting the products in the product shelf at the set time t and setting the discount rate at α to the set time limit T uniformly and updating the price to be provided to the client; An electronic commerce device having a purchase request receiving means for receiving a purchase request from a client; and receiving product information of the products put on the product shelf from the electronic commerce device, and requesting a purchase of the product in the product shelf. An e-commerce system comprising: a transmitting client; and a network connecting the e-commerce device and the client. 2. A step of receiving a product for sale on a virtual product shelf on which a plurality of products can be placed, and a step of providing product information of the product for sale put on the product shelf to a client via a network. Updating the price to be offered to the client by uniformly discounting the products in the product shelf at the set time t until the set time limit T is α, and purchasing the exhibited products in the product shelf. An e-commerce method comprising receiving a request from a client via a network. 3. At least one virtual merchandise shelf on which a plurality of merchandise can be exhibited is prepared, and merchandise receiving means for accepting merchandise from a merchandise seller is provided. Merchandise information providing means to be provided to the client via the network; and merchandise in the one merchandise shelf is uniformly discounted so that the set discount rate changes from α _n to α _{n + 1} after the elapse of the set time t _n. A product information updating means for updating the price of the product information provided by the product information providing means at the longest until a set time limit T, and a purchase request receiving means for receiving a purchase request for a product on the product shelf from a client via a network. An electronic commerce device characterized by the following. ｛Where n = 0,
1, 2,..., 0% ≧ α _n (%)> α _{n + 1} (%)> 10
0%. 4. A step of receiving a product for sale on a virtual product shelf on which a plurality of products can be placed, and a step of providing product information of the product for sale put on the product shelf to a client via a network. Updating the price to be offered to the client by uniformly discounting the products in the product shelf at the set time t until the set time limit T is α, and purchasing the exhibited products in the product shelf. Receiving a request from a client via a network. The computer-readable recording medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute an electronic commerce method.