JP2002203285A - Pos system and consumption article information providing method therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a purchaser easily select and purchase consumption articles with respect to a product. SOLUTION: A sales file 151 storing information obtained at the time of sales and a parts file 152 storing information on the consumption articles with respect to the product are accumulated in a POS terminal controller 1. When the consumption articles are purchased later, information on the consumption articles with respect to the product from the files 151 and 152 is supplied to the purchaser. Thus, the purchaser can easily learn precise information on the consumption articles and the purchase of the consumption articles is promoted without an error by permitting the purchase to go to the sales store.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a POS system for accumulating purchase data for each customer and a method for providing consumables information of the POS system. The present invention relates to a POS system and a method for providing consumables information of the POS system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, a POS system includes a plurality of terminals used for a transaction in which a purchaser purchases a product, and a plurality of terminals connected to the terminal to process the purchase results and inventory management of the plurality of terminals. And a POS terminal control device for performing the following. On the other hand, a purchaser who has purchased a product such as a specific device, for example, a printer of a certain manufacturer,
It is necessary to purchase consumables corresponding to the purchased product (called products), for example, printer ink, paper, and other consumables that can be used in the purchased printer.

Conventionally, when purchasing a consumable item, a purchaser of the product writes down any consumable item and a model number of the consumable item from a consumable item list described in an instruction manual or a consumable item catalog of the purchased product. The memo was brought to a store to purchase consumables based on the memo.

[0004]

However, in recent products, there are many types of various consumables, and a plurality of consumables exist for one product. In addition, various types of these consumables are available at retail stores, and there are many similar consumables. For example, even with printers manufactured by the same manufacturer, there are many ink cartridges that are suitable for the series and model depending on the shape / ink type / color / capacity and other factors. However, there is a problem in that it is necessary to go to a store before purchasing the model number or the like accurately and purchase it, which is troublesome and requires accuracy.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to eliminate the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art, and to reduce the labor and accuracy required by a purchaser by providing information from a store to encourage the purchase of consumables without errors. It is an object of the present invention to provide a POS system and a method for providing consumables information of the POS system.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a method for controlling at least one terminal device using a POS.
In a POS system that is connected to a terminal control device and manages purchase item data obtained in accordance with a transaction by the terminal device, the POS terminal control device includes a purchaser number for identifying a purchaser and a product purchased by the purchaser. Storage means for storing a sales file that stores the purchased product data in association with the purchased product data and a parts file that stores the purchased product results of the consumables corresponding to the purchased product, and the purchaser data is input to the terminal device. The first feature is to display data of products and consumables purchased by a purchaser in the past on a terminal device with reference to the sales file and the parts file.
In the method for providing consumables information of an OS system, a POS terminal control device stores a sales file storing a purchaser number for identifying a purchaser and purchase data of a product purchased by the purchaser in association with each other; And a storage unit for storing a parts file for storing the results of purchase of consumables corresponding to the above, when the purchaser purchases the product and / or consumables,
When the purchase data of the product and / or the consumables and the purchaser number of the product and / or the consumables are stored in the sales file and the parts file, and then when the purchaser data is input to the terminal device, the sales file and the A second feature is that data of products and consumables purchased by the purchaser in the past is displayed on the terminal device with reference to the component file.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, an embodiment of a POS system and a method for providing consumables information of a POS system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an overall schematic diagram of a POS system according to the present embodiment, FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining the contents of a sales file in FIG.
FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the contents of the parts file in FIG. 1, FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining the contents of the purchase record file in FIG. 1, and FIG. 5 is a diagram when the purchaser first purchases the product. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure, FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a processing flow when a purchaser purchases consumables, and FIG. 7 is a diagram showing another example of a processing flow when a purchaser purchases consumables. It is.

[0008] The POS system according to the present embodiment is shown in FIG.
As shown in the figure, a plurality of Ps for inputting transaction with the purchaser, data of the purchased product, etc. when purchasing the product.
It comprises an OS terminal device 2 (2a, 2b) and a POS terminal control device 1 connected to the plurality of POS terminal devices 2 via a communication line 3.

[0009] The POS terminal control device 1 includes the POS terminal
A communication control unit 11 that communicates with the terminal device 2 via the communication line 3; a central processing unit (CPU) 12 that performs calculations, searches, various controls, and the like; and a RAM 1 that forms a work area
3 and R in which the processing program of the CPU 12 is stored.
An OM 14 and a storage means (magnetic disk device) 15 as an auxiliary storage device. The storage means 15 includes a sales file 151 for storing data of purchased products and the like for each purchaser described later, and a sales file 151 for each purchaser. File 152 that stores data such as consumables and optional items corresponding to the product
And a purchase record file 153 storing data of purchased products for each purchaser, and a purchaser number / name / address /
Buyer file 15 for storing personal data such as telephone numbers
4 are stored.

The POS terminal device 2 includes an optical reading mechanism such as a bar code reader, a keyboard for inputting numbers, characters, symbols, etc., an operation means for performing an operation on a given numerical value, The display device includes a display for displaying numerical values and the like, a printing unit for printing a sales statement and a receipt, and communication means for exchanging data with the POS terminal control device 1 (none of them is shown).

As shown in FIG. 2, the sales file 151 includes a purchaser number 20 individually assigned to identify a purchaser, a product name 21 purchased by the purchaser,
The model number 22, the purchase date 23 which is the date of purchase,
It is configured as a table including each column of the maker name 24 which is the manufacturer of the product.

As shown in FIG. 3, the parts file 152 is used to store a list of consumables and optional items prepared for each product. It is configured as a table including each column of a consumable item name 33 and a general specification 34 of the consumable item.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4, the purchase record file 153 includes a purchaser number area 40 including information such as a purchaser number, a name, a telephone number, and the like, and the goods (products and consumables) purchased by the purchaser in the past. Others) An actual result is composed of an area of purchased product information 41 having columns of a manufacturer name 24, a purchased product name 21, its model number 22, and a purchase date 23, and stores all the products purchased by the corresponding purchaser in the past. Have been.

Next, a method for providing consumables information in the POS system configured as described above will be described.

First, in the POS system, when a purchaser purchases a new product, as shown in FIG. 5, the POS terminal device 2 performs transaction of the purchased product and sale of the product including input of purchaser information ( Step 501), the data of the purchaser number 20, the product name 21, the model number 22, and the purchase date 23 entered after this are sent to the POS terminal controller 1 via the communication line 3.
(Step 502). P who received this
The OS terminal control device 1 stores the information in the sales file 15
1 and the purchase record file 153, respectively. When the purchaser is new, the information such as the name / address is stored in the purchaser file 154.

Next, FIG. 6 shows an operation when the purchaser purchases the consumable item without knowing the exact name or model number of the consumable item.
This will be described with reference to FIG.

Next, when the purchaser returns to the purchase store and tries to purchase consumables, the purchaser number 20 of the purchaser is input to the POS terminal device 2 so that the purchaser number 20 Transferred to terminal controller 1 (step 6
01). The input of the purchaser number may be performed by a store operator, or may be performed by the purchaser operating a POS terminal device prepared for the customer prepared in the store in advance.

The POS terminal control device 1 having received the purchaser number 20 via the communication line 3
Using the as a key, the sales file 151 is searched, and a purchase management process of acquiring the product name 21, product model number 22, purchase date 23, and manufacturer name 24 of the previously purchased product is executed (step 602).

The details of this processing are as shown in FIG.
The S terminal control device 1 controls the purchaser number 2
The sales file 151 is searched using 0 as a key, and (1) purchased product 21 and (2) purchased product model number 22 and (3)
The purchase date 23 is acquired (step 70), and the parts file 152 is searched using the searched product model number 22 as a key, and the consumables and optional goods etc. corresponding to the product are searched.
(1) Consumable part number 32, (2) Consumable part name 33, (3) General specifications 3
4 is obtained (step 71) and returned to the requested POS terminal device 2 (step 72).

Next, the POS terminal device 2 receives the (1) product model number 2 received from the POS terminal control device 1 as shown in FIG.
2, (2) product name 21, a plurality of (3) consumables model number 31, (4) consumables name 32, (5) product purchase date 23, (6) general specifications 39 of consumables corresponding to this product, ( 7) The last purchase date 23 is displayed on the display, and the purchaser is prompted to make a selection. The items displayed on this display unit display only consumables that can be used for products such as devices already purchased by the purchaser,
Since the outline of the consumable is also displayed, any consumable can be selected as needed. The price may be included in the display item.

Thus, the POS system and the information providing method according to the present embodiment can easily purchase necessary consumables and the like even if the purchaser does not know the model name of the consumables.

In the above-described embodiment, an example has been described in which the purchaser displays all the consumables corresponding to the purchased product on the POS terminal device. However, the present invention provides, for example, an ink cartridge or a paper sheet when the product is a printer. Consumables or the like of the specified type may be selectively displayed by designating whether or not the consumables have been purchased by the purchaser.

In the method of preferentially displaying the consumables which have already been purchased, the POS terminal control device 1 refers to the above-mentioned purchase results file 153 (FIG. 4), and displays the consumables which have been used on the candidate list. By displaying at the position, it can be easily performed.

In the above-described embodiment, a printer is described as an example of a product. For example, when the product is a floppy (registered trademark) disk drive, the corresponding consumable is 2D / 2DD / 2HD or the like. When a floppy disk (storage medium) or a product with a different storage capacity is used as a scanner, it may be an optional item such as an automatic document feeder, etc., including various consumables and optional items used in other devices (products). It is a thing.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention, a POS candidate for a consumable or the like corresponding to a product already purchased by a purchaser is determined.
By searching the terminal control device and displaying it as a candidate to the purchaser at the POS terminal device, the trouble and accuracy of the purchaser can be reduced by providing information from the store and the purchase of error-free consumables can be promoted. it can.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a view for explaining the contents of a sales file in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a view for explaining the contents of a component file in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a view for explaining the contents of a purchase record file in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure when a purchaser first purchases a product according to the embodiment;

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a processing flow when a purchaser purchases consumables according to the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a processing flow when a purchaser purchases consumables according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

1. POS terminal control device, 2. POS terminal, 3.
Communication line, 11 Communication control unit, 12 Central processing unit (CPU), 13 Storage device (RAM), 14 Fixed storage device (ROM), 15 Disk device, 151
... Sales file, 152 ... Parts file.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. At least one terminal device has a POS
In a POS system that is connected to a terminal control device and manages purchase item data obtained in accordance with a transaction by the terminal device, the POS terminal control device includes a purchaser number for identifying a purchaser and a product purchased by the purchaser. Stores a sales file that stores the purchased product data in association with each other, a parts file that stores consumables corresponding to the purchased product, and a purchase results file that stores the results of purchased products and consumables for each purchaser. When the purchaser data is input to the terminal device, the sales file, the parts file and the purchase result file are referred to, and the data of the consumables corresponding to the product purchased by the purchaser in the past and / or A POS system for displaying a list of consumables on a terminal device. 2. At least one terminal device has a POS
A method for providing consumables information of a POS system connected to a terminal control device and managing purchased item data obtained in accordance with a transaction by the terminal device, wherein the POS terminal control device identifies a purchaser. And a sales file that stores purchase data of products purchased by the purchaser in association with each other, a parts file that stores consumables corresponding to the purchased product, and a record of purchased products and consumables for each purchaser. When the purchaser purchases a product and / or consumable, the purchase data of the product and / or consumable and the purchaser number of the purchaser of the product and / or consumable are provided. Stored in the sales file and purchase results file, and then when the buyer data is input to the terminal device, the sales file, the parts file and the purchase results file are referred to, and the past Consumables information providing method of the POS system, characterized in that the purchaser to view the list of products associated consumables data and or product corresponding consumables purchased the terminal device.