JP2002230365A - Electronic commerce management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a person who do not have technical knowledge to easily open an electronic mall. SOLUTION: The starter of the electronic mall 12 accesses a log-in picture that a market server 13 provides, and then copies and pastes texts, image data, and image links related to articles in an article group detailed picture that the server 13 provides on a page that the starter will open to generate his or her article sales page. A 'shopping cart' given to the ID of the starter is also copied and pasted on the article sales page. The starter sets selling prices at his or her electronic mall by referring to the wholesale prices and maximum and minimum retail prices of the articles in an article DB 1 on the server. When a user decides to purchase an article in the article sale page at the electronic mall, the session of a client device 11 is switched to the server and article ordering is carried out with the server.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to an electronic commerce management system on a network such as the Internet and an intranet. More specifically, the present invention is intended to enable a store owner of an electronic mall on a network to post and sell products only by copying and pasting image information, text information, and link information of the products. E-commerce management system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In an electronic commerce system on the Internet, an electronic shop or mall prepares a virtual "shopping basket" or "shopping cart" on a web page, and a user who accesses the web page downloads a product. Generally, a method of allowing a user to specify a product desired to be purchased by virtually putting the product in a shopping basket is proposed. In the case where a plurality of merchandise providers have electronic stores in one electronic mall and each electronic store adopts a different payment method arbitrarily selected, the electronic store must be aware of the different payment methods. It is necessary to prepare a different shopping cart for each electronic store.

[0003] However, it is complicated for an electronic mall to prepare a shopping cart for each product provider, and the user puts the purchased product into a shopping cart corresponding to the product provider and makes a payment. This must be complicated for the user. In order to eliminate such complexity, a common settlement method is adopted for all products handled in the same electronic mall, whereby the user puts all the products in the electronic mall into one shopping basket. A method that allows the user to do this has also been proposed.

[0004] In the above-mentioned conventional electronic commerce system, the procedure for purchasing a product by a user can be roughly classified into the following three patterns. In this specification, the “electronic mall” means an electronic shop on a network that sells products of a plurality of product providers having different settlement methods and / or product delivery methods. -Pattern 1 (when the electronic mall is composed of an electronic store made up of products of a single product provider) (1) Enter the electronic mall. (2) Select a product and put it in the shopping basket. (3) Settle in the electronic mall. Pattern 2 (when the electronic mall includes a plurality of electronic stores with different settlement methods) (1) Enter the electronic mall. (2) Enter the electronic store. (3) Select a product and put it in the shopping basket. (4) Perform payment at the electronic store. (5) Enter another electronic store and repeat (3) and (4). Pattern 3 (when the electronic mall includes a plurality of electronic stores with the same settlement method) (1) Enter the electronic mall. (2) Enter the electronic store. (3) Select a product and put it in the shopping basket common to the electronic mall. (4) Enter another electronic store and repeat (3). (5) Settlement in the electronic mall.

[0005]

In the above-described conventional electronic commerce system, a company or an individual who wants to sell a product on the Internet purchases various software and operates an electronic mall by himself / herself. By participating in an electronic mall hosted by an application service company and opening an electronic store, merchandise can be sold. However, this requires a certain amount of Internet-related expertise and funds such as capital investment funds for opening a mall. Further, since the purchase of goods and the settlement of the price are performed based on the own business base, the types of products that can be sold can be performed only within the business base range.

[0006] Therefore, it is extremely difficult for an ordinary person who does not have sufficient Internet expertise or a business base for selling products to open an electronic mall or participate in an electronic mall as an electronic store. Difficult and risky. Also, from the user's point of view, it is extremely dangerous to provide personal information to an electronic mall or an electronic store where the management base is not reliable in order to purchase a product. The present invention has been made in view of such problems of the conventional example, and an object of the present invention is to make it possible to easily open an electronic mall even if the expertise of the Internet is insufficient. . It is another object of the present invention to prevent a user's personal information provided in electronic commerce from leaking.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, in an electronic commerce management system for managing electronic commerce on a network according to the present invention, a plurality of merchandise provided by a plurality of product providers are provided. First storage means for electronically storing merchandise information, each of which is at least one of image data and text data of the merchandise, and electronically storing identification information of the mall owner. Means for electronically presenting merchandise information stored in the first storage means to an electronic mall establishment person whose identification information is stored in the second storage means. In addition, the electronic mall establishment means comprises product information presenting means for presenting product information so that the creator of the electronic mall can copy and paste the product into a product sales page which is his / her web page. It is characterized.

[0008] In the electronic commerce management system described above, the merchandise information presenting means further includes, when the electronic mall establisher copies and pastes the merchandise information to his / her own merchandise sales page on the merchandise information presenting means, a second information is added to the merchandise information. Means for adding the identification information of the electronic mall establishment person stored in the storage means, or the identification information of the electronic mall establishment person stored in the second storage means for the electronic mall establishment person It is preferable to include means for providing image data or text data for executing a command or link for starting a shopping cart to which the electronic mall establishment person can copy and paste.

Further, the electronic commerce management system described above further adds identification information of an electronic mall establisher to a user who browses a product sales page of the electronic mall and decides to purchase a product posted on the page. Means for providing a received product order page, and means for performing order processing based on the content of the product order page. The product information providing means further copies product information to its own product sales page. It is preferable that a link to the product order page is provided to the paced electronic mall establishment person so that the link can be copied and pasted. Further preferably, the electronic commerce management system includes means for reading identification information of an electronic mall establishment person from a plurality of product orders and calculating a sales commission for each electronic mall. The merchandise information stored in the first storage means includes the wholesale price of each merchandise and the standard, highest, and lowest retail prices. Price can be set.

[0010]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an electronic commerce management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The system includes a product database (DB) 1 and an electronic mall D.
B2, a member (user) DB 3, a product information presentation unit 4, a product information processing unit 5, a product information storage unit 6, and an order processing unit 7.

The product DB 1 stores product information from a plurality of product providers and information on product providers, as shown in FIG. The product information includes a product number, a wholesale price, a standard retail price, a highest retail price, a lowest retail price, a detailed description, and a product image (not shown). The product provider information includes information on the settlement method designated by each product provider, the product supplier notification destination (product shipping data notification destination), and the like. The products stored and sold in the product DB1 are not limited to tangible items, but may include any tradeable items such as intangible items such as software and services.

As shown in FIG. 3, the electronic mall DB2 includes an ID number, a password, and the like for identifying a person who opens or opens an electronic mall (electronic mall establisher).
The identification information such as the account number for settlement of the sales commission and the homepage URL is stored. In the present invention, a store on a network is referred to as an “electronic mall” because products of a plurality of product providers having different settlement methods and product delivery methods can be sold. As shown in FIG. 4, the member DB 3 stores personal information such as the name, address, e-mail address, standard payment method (credit card number, etc.), and standard delivery destination of the user registered as a product purchase member. Is stored.

On the screen provided by the presenting unit, the product information presenting unit 4 allows the creator of the electronic mall to select a product desired to be sold at his own electronic mall from a plurality of products registered in the product DB1. Then, the image data and / or text data of the product is used to copy and paste the product data into its own product sales page constituting the electronic mall. In addition,
At this time, the ID number of the electronic mall establishment person is read from the electronic mall DB2, and the ID number is added to the product. Also, instead of adding the ID number of the electronic mall establisher to the product, the product information presenting unit 4 provides the electronic mall establisher with a shopping cart activation command or link to which the ID number of the electronic mall establisher has been added. Image data or text data to be performed may be provided so that the mall owner can copy and paste.

The product information presentation section 4 also provides the user with a web page for receiving a product order. In addition, the product order page is a product sales page provided by the mall owner, the user accesses and browses the product, as a result,
When deciding to purchase a product and performing settlement, the session is switched from the product sales page of the electronic mall to the product order page of the product information presentation unit 4 and presented to the user. The merchandise information presentation unit 4 presents link information for switching sessions in this way to an electronic mall establishment person so that copy and paste can be performed.

When the session of the user terminal is switched from the product sales page provided by the electronic mall to the product order page provided by the product information presenting unit 4, the product information processing unit 5 stores each product placed in the shopping cart. , And the ID number of the electronic mall establishment person added to the product or the shopping cart.
The product information storage unit 6 stores the product order information processed by the product information processing unit 5. The merchandise order information stored in the merchandise information storage unit 6 includes a merchandise number, a merchandise provider, an ID number of an electronic mall that has sold the merchandise (that is, an ID number of an electronic mall establisher), and a settlement designated by the merchandise provider. Method,
Contains the notification destination of the product delivery data.

The order processing unit 7 refers to the member DB 3 and interactively communicates with the user via a product order page to execute a product order process. When the user designates the payment with a credit card on the product ordering web page, the credit card information stored in the member DB 3 is read, or the user inputs the card number. At this time, it is determined whether or not the payment method specified by the product provider matches the payment method stored in the product information storage unit 6. If not, a payment method specified by the product provider is proposed. I do. If they match, credit card credit processing is performed. If credit processing is not performed normally, another payment method is selected.

When the settlement method is determined, the order processing unit 7
Performs processing to allow the user to specify the delivery destination of the product.
At this time, a standard delivery destination set in advance by the user is displayed with reference to the member DB 3, and the user is allowed to change the delivery destination for each product as needed.

In this way, the order processing unit 7 obtains the product delivery destination information, and notifies the product provider of the product delivery request together with the product information stored in the product information storage unit 6. At this time, a notification is sent to the product provider notification destination read from the product DB 1 and stored in the product information storage unit 6. Further, the order processing unit 7 stores the sales result contents in the electronic mall DB2 in association with the electronic mall. And
The sales commission is calculated for each electronic mall based on the sales results.

FIG. 5 shows a server-client system when performing an electronic commerce using the electronic commerce management system according to the present invention. The server-client
The system includes a client device 11, which is a PC terminal on the user side, an electronic mall server 12, a market server 13 that executes the functions of the management system shown in FIG. 1, and a network 14. The network 14 is configured as the Internet or an intranet, and enables communication using an Internet standard protocol such as HTTP or SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). According to the standard protocol, the client device 1
One Internet browser 11a, the cyber mall server 12, and the market server 13 communicate with each other. The market server 13 stores the product DB shown in FIG.
1, an electronic mall DB2, and a member DB3.

The client device 11 has a function of an Internet browser 11a also called a WWW browser or a web browser. The cyber mall server 12 distributes the web page of the mall owner to the client device 11. The web page of the mall owner is composed of a page unique to the mall owner and a product sales page including image data and / or text data to which the ID number of the mall is established. As described with reference to FIG. 1, the information on the product sale page includes information on the product selected and pasted from the product DB 1 of the market server 13 by the mall owner. The market server 13 is an HTTP server 1
3a and a database server 13b. H
The TTP server 13a accesses the database server 13b using a database access object.

The merchandise information presenting section 4, merchandise information processing section 5, and order receiving processing section 7 of the electronic commerce management system shown in FIG.
The Internet connection of the client device 11 shown in FIG.
It is configured as a function of the browser 11a, the HTTP server 12a of the cyber mall server 12, and the HTTP server 13a of the market server 13. The product DB 1, the electronic mall DB 2, and the member DB 3 of FIG. 1 are constructed on the database server 13 b of the market server device 13. The product information storage unit 6 is constructed on the database server 13b of the market server 13 or an appropriate memory.

The processing at the time of merchandise registration by the e-commerce creator in the e-commerce management system shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. This will be described with reference to the schematic diagram of the monitor screen shown in FIG.

The electronic mall establisher accesses the login screen shown in FIG. 6A provided by the market server 13 via the network 14 and inputs the ID and password of the electronic mall establisher. market·
The server 13 refers to the cyber mall DB2, authenticates the input ID and password, and causes the activated mall search engine to recognize the ID of the mall owner. When the authentication is completed,
The merchandise search screen shown in FIG. 6B is provided, and when the mall operator selects a merchandise category, for example, “Men” on the screen, the “Men” shown in FIG.
Is provided. When the creator of the electronic mall selects a product, for example, “sweater” from the product list screen, a product detail screen shown in FIG. 6D appears. If the creator of the electronic mall decides to post the product by looking at the product detail screen, text data related to the product,
Copy the image data and the image link, and paste them on the editing screen of the web page you set up.

Thus, the product sales page shown in FIG. 6E is created. At this time, the ID number of the mall owner is automatically added in correspondence with the product. Also,
As described above, instead of adding the ID number of the electronic mall establisher to the product, the electronic mall establisher copies and pastes the “shopping cart” presented by the market server 13 to the product sales page. The ID number of the establisher may be added to the shopping cart. If the mall owner wants to sell another product, he can edit his own product sales page in the same way as above to create multiple pages for selling products from multiple product providers. it can. As described with reference to FIG. 2, the product DB1 stores the wholesale price of the product, and the standard, highest, and lowest retail prices. A wholesale price and a retail price are also presented to the mall owner, and the establisher sets a selling price in his or her mall with reference to these prices. In addition, the set selling price is changed as needed.

Next, the case where the user purchases a product on the web page of the mall owner will be described with reference to the schematic diagram of the monitor screen shown to the user shown in FIG. I do. The user is the client device 11
The user browses the merchandise sales page shown in FIG. 7A regarding electronic commerce on the HTTP server 12a of the cyber mall server 12 by the Internet browser 11a. When the user clicks the “Details” button on the product browsing page, the product details screen shown in FIG. 7B is presented to the user's client device 11. When the user selects the “Go to shopping cart” button to purchase a product and puts the product in the shopping cart, FIG.
The screen shown in (c) is displayed. Then, by selecting the “Continue Shopping” button, the user can return to the previous page or enter another page from the page, and add another product to the shopping cart. One shopping cart is assigned to one user, and products of a plurality of product providers can be put in the same shopping cart.

When the user puts a product in the shopping cart and clicks a “clearing” button on the screen shown in FIG. 7C, the session of the client device 11 is changed from the cyber mall server 12 to the market server 1.
3 and the market server 13 presents the product order page screen shown in FIG. Switching of sessions, ie, the mall server 1
Switching from the product sale page 2 to the product order page of the market server 13 is performed by a link copied and pasted when the cyber mall establishment person creates the product sale page. When the session switches,
The merchandise information processing unit 5 stores the ID number of the electronic mall establisher attached to the shopping cart or the ID of the electronic mall establisher assigned to the product put in the shopping cart.
While reading the number, the product DB based on the product number
The product information is read from the product information storage unit 1 and stored in the product information storage unit 6.

Next, the user enters the market server 1
3. On the product order page provided by 3, the delivery destination and the settlement method of the product in the shopping cart are determined. Regarding the delivery destination of the product, the order receiving unit 7 first presents the standard delivery destination stored in the member DB 3 to the user, but the user may specify a delivery destination different from the standard. it can.
Regarding the settlement, when the user selects the settlement by the credit card, the order processing unit 7 allows the user to input the card information and performs the credit processing of the card. as a result,
When the credit is normally given, the procedure of the order for the goods is completed, and the screen shown in FIG. 7E is presented to the user. As a result, the user can check the details of the purchase of the product on the screen. For more information on product purchases,
The user may be notified by e-mail. The product information processing unit 5 also subtracts the stock of the product stored in the product DB1 by the number of purchases.

Then, the order processing unit 7 notifies the product delivery data notification destination of the ordered product stored in the product information storage unit 6 of a delivery request for the product. The actual contents of the electronic commerce are stored in the electronic mall DB2 for each electronic mall, and the sales commission for each electronic mall is cumulatively calculated based thereon. Sales commissions are settled periodically. In addition, the creator of the electronic mall uses the market server 1
The user can check his / her sales status and commission on the screen shown in FIG. The market server 13 creates data on the order status and sales status of the product for each product provider, and provides the data to the product provider.

In the server-client system shown in FIG.
Although the TTP server 13a and the database server 13b are configured, these servers may be separated.

[0030]

[Effect of the Invention] As described above, the mall owner has
Copy image data and text data of a product stored in advance in a product database in the electronic commerce management system according to the present invention to a web page established by the user.
By simply pasting, you can edit the product sales page. Therefore, even if the necessary business base and knowledge are not sufficient, an electronic mall can be easily opened. Also,
The user does not need to present personal information such as his / her credit card number to each electronic mall establishment person, so that security is improved. Further, even if a plurality of product providers are present in one electronic mall at the same time, the user can use one shopping cart to purchase the product without being aware of the difference between the product providers. Does not require complicated operations.

Furthermore, since there is no need to unify the settlement methods, the merchandise provider can expand the merchandise sales channel without considering the credit status of the mall owner. In addition, e-mall establishment and product provider,
The information provided by the electronic commerce management system makes it possible to easily grasp the order status and sales status of products. Therefore, the system of the present invention is an extremely effective tool for the user, the mall owner, and the product provider.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an electronic commerce management system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram for illustrating data stored in a product database shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating data stored in the cyber mall database shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram for illustrating data stored in a member database shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing an e-commerce network including the e-commerce management system of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram exemplifying a monitor screen presented by an electronic mall establishment person from the electronic commerce management system of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory view exemplifying a monitor screen presented by a user from an electronic mall and the electronic commerce management system of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of a fee list provided to the electronic mall by the electronic commerce management system of the present invention.

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An electronic commerce management system for managing electronic commerce on a network, comprising: merchandise information relating to a plurality of merchandise provided by a plurality of merchandise providers, each of which is image data and text data of the merchandise. A first storage means for electronically storing product information comprising at least one of the following: a second storage means for electronically storing identification information of an electronic mall establisher; and a first storage means. A means for electronically presenting product information to an electronic mall establisher whose identification information is stored in the second storage means, wherein the electronic mall establisher transmits the product information to his or her own web page, a product sales page. A management system comprising: product information presenting means for presenting product information so that copy and paste can be performed. 2. The management system according to claim 1, wherein
The merchandise information presenting means further includes, when the electronic mall creator copies and pastes the merchandise information on his or her merchandise sales page on the merchandise information presenting means, stores the electronic mall creator stored in the second storage means in the merchandise information. A management system, comprising: means for adding identification information. 3. The management system according to claim 1, wherein
The merchandise information presenting means is further provided with an image data or text for executing a command or link for starting a shopping cart with the identification information of the mall owner stored in the second storage means. A management system comprising means for providing data so that the mall owner can copy and paste the data. 4. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the management system further browses a merchandise sales page of the electronic mall and determines a purchase of the merchandise posted on the page. A merchandise order page providing means for providing a merchandise order page to which the identification information of the electronic mall establishment is added; and a means for performing an order receiving process based on the contents of the merchandise order page. The merchandise information providing means further comprises: A management system characterized in that a link to a product order page is provided so that it can be copied and pasted to an electronic mall establisher who has copied and paced product information on his or her product sales page. . 5. The management system according to claim 1, further comprising means for reading identification information of an electronic mall establishment person from a plurality of product orders and calculating a sales commission for each electronic mall. Management system characterized by the fact that: 6. The management system according to claim 1, wherein the merchandise information stored in the first storage means includes a wholesale price of each merchandise and a standard, highest and lowest retail price. A management system comprising: an electronic mall establishment person, who can set a selling price within a retail price range.