JP2002259757A - Selling price presenting service system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To present an accurate charges-included price in consideration of a charges system based on a sales figure, for a plurality of items of merchandise. SOLUTION: A price presenting server 10, when receiving a request for price comparison from a user computer 14, acquires a selling price at each dealing store from a price database 18 and acquires shipping cost system data on each dealing store from a shipping cost database 20, for the merchandise about which the request is made. The shipping cost system data specify a shipping cost according to a sales figure (total sales, the number of sales or the like), and the shipping cost is determined according to the selling price total, the number of items or the like of the merchandise concerned, and to the shipping cost system data. The sum of the selling price total of the merchandise concerned and the shipping cost is presented as a shipping-cost-included price to the user computer 14.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sales price presentation service system for presenting a sales price of a product at each store via a network such as the Internet.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a Web site has been operated on the Internet for comparing and displaying sales prices of stores of various genres. For example, on the web site “Price.com” (http://www.kakaku.com/), if you specify the product name (model number) for various products such as personal computers, audio / video related equipment, golf equipment, etc. Are displayed in ascending order of price for each store. In addition, the website “AddALL.
com "(http://www.addall.com/) is a site that provides a service for comparing and presenting selling prices for books. If you specify a book name, the selling price, shipping cost, and shipping cost of each store for that book Prices are displayed in ascending order of the shipping price. Users can use such a price comparison site without actually visiting a store.
In the case of Internet sales, the sales prices at each store can be compared without accessing the sales site, which is very convenient for finding a cheap store.

[0003]

[0005] By the way, when a product is purchased through internet sales or mail order, a shipping fee for delivery of the product is charged. And when purchasing multiple products from the same store, it is common to adopt a shipping system in which the larger the total purchase amount or the number of purchase points, the lower the shipping cost compared to the total shipping cost for each product It is. In addition, many stores adopt a shipping system in which shipping is free when the total purchase price or the like exceeds a certain level.
In contrast, “AddALL.com” compares the price including the postage, but only displays the postage included price for each book. That is, when purchasing a plurality of books from the same store, a shipping fee is not presented in consideration of a shipping system of the store.

[0004] In addition, in the case where the postage becomes free when the purchase price exceeds a certain value, it is extremely convenient for the user if it is indicated how much more purchase should be made and the postage becomes free. In other words, in the situation where the shipping price is charged at the current purchase price, but if you purchase a little more, the shipping fee will be free if the additional purchase is made, or the shipping fee price will hardly increase, or on the contrary the shipping fee will be included It is possible that the price will be lower. In such a case, if the amount of money up to free shipping is presented, the user can easily determine whether or not to purchase additionally.
However, as described above, "AddALL.com"
Does not take into account the shipping system when purchasing multiple books, so such services are not available.

[0005] Further, in the above "price.com", the main unit sales price is only displayed for comparison, while "Add.
ALL. "com", the prices including the postage are only displayed in ascending order of the stores. However, there are cases where the user wants to determine whether to go directly to a store to purchase or to purchase by mail order or online sales. For example,
Suppose that a user living in a local area has a business trip to Tokyo two weeks in advance, and waits for that business trip to purchase the desired product in Tokyo, or to buy it by mail order or online sales now even if shipping is charged. This is the case when it is desired to make a decision. In such a case, if only one of the main unit selling price and the postage included price can be compared, it is difficult to determine whether to go to a store or to purchase by mail order or online sales.

[0006] The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and is a sales method capable of presenting an accurate price including various expenses for each store in consideration of various costs according to the sales volume at each store. A first object is to provide a price presentation service system.

Further, according to the present invention, when various costs are free if the total sales or the number of sales are equal to or more than a predetermined value, a sales price capable of presenting the amount or the number until the various costs become free. A second object is to provide a presentation service system.

It is a third object of the present invention to provide a selling price presentation service system capable of presenting both a main unit selling price and a price including a fee for each store.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention described in claim 1 is constituted by a server computer connected to a communication network, and provides a user terminal having access to each store. This is a sales price presentation service system that presents the sales price of goods at the store. It refers to a price database that records the sales prices of various goods at each store, and sells various costs related to product delivery or payment. From the means to refer to the various expenses database in which various expenses system data prescribed according to the quantity is recorded for each store, and from the user terminal that has accessed,
Means for receiving a request for price comparison of the product, referring to the price database, means for acquiring the selling price of the target product at each sales store that sells the target product of the received price comparison request, Means for acquiring various cost system data of each sales store with reference to various cost databases, and for each sales store, the acquired sales price, the acquired various cost system data, Display processing means for displaying the price including various costs calculated based on the sales quantity on the user terminal that has accessed the apparatus.

[0010] In this case, as described in claim 2, the display processing means calculates the various expenses at each of the sales stores based on the acquired various cost system data and the sales quantity at the sales stores. Means for calculating the sum of the acquired selling price and the determined costs for each of the sales outlets as a price including various costs; and It may include means for generating a price display screen for displaying the price including the cost, and means for transmitting the generated price display screen to the user terminal that has accessed.

Alternatively, as set forth in claim 3, the display processing means determines the various expenses at each of the sales stores based on the acquired various cost system data and the sales volume at the sales stores. Processing, calculating the total of the obtained sales prices for each of the sales stores, and calculating the sum of the total of the obtained sales prices and the determined costs for each of the sales stores as a price including various costs. Means for transmitting a computer program for executing at least one of the processes to be performed to the accessing user terminal.

Also, as described in claim 4, claim 1
4. The sales price presentation service system according to claim 1, wherein the sales quantity is a quantity corresponding to at least one of a total sales price, a sales quantity, a total size of the sales product, or a total weight of the sales product. It is good also as being.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the selling price presentation service system according to the first aspect, the display processing means includes a step of:
If the selling price or the number of sales is equal to or more than a predetermined value, the costs are determined so that the costs are free, and the total or the number of the obtained sales prices for the target product is the predetermined value. If the number does not reach, the amount or the number until the various costs become free are displayed on the user terminal.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a selling computer which comprises a server computer connected to a communication network, and presents a selling price of a product at each store to a user terminal accessing the same. A service system that includes a means for referring to a price database in which sales prices of various products at each store are recorded, and various cost systems in which various cost system data defining costs related to product delivery or fee payment are recorded for each store. Means for referring to the cost database, means for receiving a request for price comparison of the product from the accessing user terminal, and reference to the price database, at each sales store which sells the target product of the received price comparison request. Means for acquiring the selling price of each of the stores, and referring to the various costs database to obtain various cost system data of each sales store. A means for calculating various costs for the target product at each of the sales outlets based on the obtained various cost system data; a total of the obtained sales prices for each of the sales outlets; and Means for calculating the sum of the calculated expenses as prices including expenses, means for generating a price display screen for displaying the acquired sales price and the calculated prices including expenses for each of the sales outlets, Means for transmitting the compared display screen to the accessing user terminal.

The invention according to claim 7 is a sales price presentation service system constituted by a server computer connected to a communication network and presenting a sales price of a product to an accessing user terminal. Means for referring to a price database in which sales prices of various commodities at a predetermined store are recorded, and various cost system data for prescribing various costs related to product delivery or payment for the predetermined store are recorded. Means for referring to various expense databases, means for receiving a request for price comparison of a product from the user terminal that has accessed, and reference to the price database, at the predetermined store of the target product of the received price comparison request. Means for acquiring the selling price of the shop, and referring to the expenses database, the expenses system data of the predetermined store. Acquisition means and the acquired expenses calculation data, the expenses are determined so that the expenses are free if the selling price or the sales quantity is a predetermined value or more, and the object of the price comparison request Display processing means for displaying, when the acquired selling price or the number of products for a certain product does not reach the predetermined value, the amount or the number until the various costs become free on the accessing user terminal; And the following.

[0016]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a price presentation server 10 is constituted by a server computer connected to the Internet 12, and a user computer 14 accessed through the Internet 12.
Function as a web server for The price presentation server 10 is connected to databases such as a member database 16, a price database 18, a shipping fee database 20, and a product database 22.

The member database 16 records data of each member who has registered as a member in the present system. Specifically, for each member, a member ID, a password, and personal information such as an address and name are recorded. As described above, in the present embodiment, the membership system is adopted, but as described later, if the user is required to input an address at the time of access, the member database 16 can be omitted.

FIG. 2 shows an example of the data contents recorded in the price database 18. As shown in FIG. 2, the price database 18 records the selling price of each product in association with the maker, product name, model number, etc. of the product sold at the store. However, the data configuration of the price database 18 is not limited to this, and for example, the sales price at each store may be recorded for each product. in short,
What is necessary is that the sales prices at each store can be referred to for various commodities.

FIG. 3 shows an example of data contents recorded in the shipping fee database 20. As shown in FIG. 3, the postage database 20 records a postage system for determining a postage when mail order or online sales are performed at each store. The shipping system data is based on the total amount (the shipping fee according to the total purchase price), the total number basis (the shipping fee according to the purchased number), the total weight basis (the shipping fee according to the total weight of the purchased product), Data indicating the shipping standard such as the size standard (the shipping cost according to the total size of the purchased product is applied) and the details of the specific shipping system (total, total number, total weight, etc.) And data representing the postage determined by the region). In the example shown in FIG. 3, the shipping fee determination standard is the total amount standard, and the shipping fee according to the total selling price is defined.

The commodity database 22 records data relating to the packing dimensions and weight of various commodities. When the postage is calculated on the basis of the above-mentioned total weight and total dimensions, these data are referred to. .

Hereinafter, the contents of the processing performed in the system of the present embodiment will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of processing executed by the price presentation server 10 when the user computer 14 accesses the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 4, when an access is made from the user computer 14, first, at step 10
0 is executed.

In step 100, an authentication screen for inputting a user ID and a password is transmitted to the user computer 14. In the following step 102, referring to the member database 16, authentication is performed to determine whether the user ID and password input and transmitted on the authentication screen are valid. As a result, if the user ID and the password are not valid, the process of step 100 is executed again.
Is performed.

At step 104, a search screen for performing a product search is transmitted to the user computer 14. On this search screen, the user can search for a product whose sales price is desired to be compared at each store by keyword search or genre search.

In step 106, a product search is performed with reference to the product database based on the genre or keyword input on the search screen, and a search result display screen displaying the search results is transmitted to the user computer 14. . FIG. 5 shows an example of a search result display screen when a genre search is performed in the genre “desktop personal computer”, for example. As shown in the figure, on the search result display screen, the product names and model numbers of the searched products are displayed in a list, for example, classified by manufacturer, and a check box and a number for inputting a check box and the number corresponding to each product name. An input field is provided. The search result display screen is provided with operation buttons such as an “add to cart” button and a “cart display” button.

When the "add to cart" button is clicked on the search result display screen, in step 108, a product with a check mark in the check box is added to the cart. Here, the cart means a list that holds products to be price-compared for each store. In the screen of FIG. 5, a check mark is added to the product “XSG-100 made by Company S”, and when the “Add to Cart” button is clicked, this product is added to the cart.

In the search result display screen, "cart display"
When the button is clicked, an in-cart item list screen displaying a list of items in the cart is generated in step 110 and transmitted to the user computer 14. FIG.
5 shows an example of a product list screen in a cart. As shown in FIG.
The product list screen in the cart displays a list of product genre, manufacturer name, product name or model number, and quantity in the cart,
Includes a "Compare Prices" button. This "price comparison"
When the button is clicked, a process for comparing the selling prices of the products in the cart is executed after step 112.

First, in step 112, referring to the price database 16, a store that sells all the products in the cart is extracted, and the selling price of each product in the cart at each sales store is acquired.

In step 114, the shipping system data of each sales store is acquired with reference to the shipping system database 18.

In step 116, the product database 2
With reference to 2, data on the weight and dimensions of each product in the cart is obtained.

In step 118, the postage system data obtained in step 114 above for each sales store,
Based on the address included in the user's personal information, the shipping fee for the product in the cart is determined. At that time, if the shipping system of the sales store is based on the total weight or the total size, the weight / size data acquired in step 116 is used.

For example, FIG.
When the “home appliance store” is a sales store and the products in the cart are as shown in FIG. 6, “Desktop personal computer XSG-100 manufactured by S company” and “LAN board LAN-P100 manufactured by I company” at “A home appliance store” , And the selling price of the “M company video capture board VCAP-S100”. The total sales price of these three products is, for example, 19
Assuming that the price is 5,000 yen and the user's address is Fukuoka (Kyushu), the shipping system data shown in FIG. 2,000 yen.

In step 120, the total selling price of the merchandise in the cart and the total postage including the postage determined in step 118 are calculated for each sales store.

In step 122, if the shipping system of the selling store is set so that free shipping will be provided if the total selling price (or the number of products) is equal to or greater than a certain value, the amount (or the number of products) at which free shipping is performed ) Is calculated (or the number). In the above example, as shown in FIG.
Free shipping on orders over 00,000 yen, total sales 19
Because it is 5,000, the amount up to free shipping is 5,000
00 yen (= 200,000 yen-195,000 yen) is calculated.

In step 124, a price comparison display screen for comparing prices for each store is generated and transmitted to the user computer 14. FIG. 7 shows an example of the price comparison display screen. As shown in FIG. 7, on the price comparison display screen, the sales stores are sorted and displayed for each of the total sales price and the total shipping cost.
The total amount including the postage and the amount or number up to the free postage calculated in step 122 are displayed.

In this price comparison display screen, by setting a link to a page for applying for a product purchase to the store in the display of each store name, the desired store name is clicked and the cart is displayed. It may be possible to place an order to purchase a product.

In the above description, when the "price comparison" button is clicked on the in-cart item list screen, the price comparison processing of step 112 and thereafter is executed. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The above price comparison process may be performed when the product list screen is generated, and the result may be included in the cart product list screen and displayed.

As described above, according to the system of the present embodiment, each of the selling price of the product and the price including the postage is compared and displayed between the stores. That is, since the user can compare the main unit price and the postage-included price at the same time, it is easy to determine whether to directly visit the store and purchase a product, or to purchase by mail order or online sales.
Also, when purchasing a plurality of products, a shipping fee is determined in consideration of a shipping fee calculation system at each store. For this reason, the user can compare each store based on the correct shipping-inclusive price for a plurality of products. As described above, according to the present embodiment, a price comparison service that is highly convenient for the user can be provided.

In the above-described embodiment, the price including the postage at each store is presented. Alternatively, a price including the cost related to the payment (hereinafter referred to as a payment fee) may be presented. That is, a database in which data relating to the payment fee of each store is recorded is provided, and the user can specify a payment method on the in-cart product display screen illustrated in FIG. The payment fee is obtained by referring to the database, and the price including various fees including the payment fee as well as the shipping fee is calculated. In the same way as described for shipping fee, if the commission system is such that the payment fee is free if the total sales or the number sold is more than a certain amount, the amount or quantity until the free fee is displayed You may do so.

In the above embodiment, the price comparison service is provided to the registered members in advance, and the address of the user is acquired by referring to the member database 16. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and when a user accesses, a price comparison service is provided to a general user by first requesting an input of an address (prefecture name). It may be.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where the present invention is configured as a site dedicated to selling price comparison service has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this. The present invention is also applicable to a case where a comparison service of sales prices is provided. In addition, on the sales site operated by each store itself,
For the PR that the price including postage is lower than other stores, a comparison service of the price including postage may be provided. Further, with regard to the display of the amount or the number of items up to the free shipping, it is a useful customer service to perform only the display of the own store.

In the above embodiment, the price comparison is performed on the assumption that all the products put in the cart are purchased from the same store. However, for example, for certain products A and B in the cart, if the product A is sold at a special price at the store X and the product B is specially sold at the store Y, the products A and B are separately It can happen that it is cheaper to buy at a store. In such a case, in order to provide the optimal (that is, the lowest) price including the postage, the price including the postage is calculated for various combinations of the stores in which the products in the cart are included, and the lowest price is calculated in the order of the lowest price. The combination of sales stores may be displayed.

Further, in the above embodiment, the postage is determined,
It is assumed that the price presentation server 10 performs all calculation processes such as calculation of the postage-included price, calculation of the amount or the number of pieces up to free shipping, and transmits the calculation result to the user computer 14. However, the present invention is not limited to this. A program (for example, a JAVA (registered trademark) program) for performing at least a part of these calculations may be transmitted to the user computer 14 and the calculations may be performed in the user computer 14 by this program. That is, for example,
Data representing the shipping system, sales quantity, and selling price of each store, and a program for calculating the price including shipping based on the data are transmitted to the user computer, and the calculation of the price including shipping is performed in the user computer 14. It may be performed.

Further, in the above embodiment, the cart method is used on the premise of comparing the prices of a plurality of commodities. However, when comparing the main unit price and the price including postage for a single item, the cart is used. Instead, the price at each store may be displayed immediately just by selecting a product.

[0044]

According to the first to fourth aspects of the present invention, even for a plurality of products, it is possible to present an accurate price including various expenses to the user terminal for each store.
According to the invention as set forth in claim 5, further, when various costs are free if the total sales amount or the number of sales is equal to or more than a predetermined value, the amount or the number up to the free costs can be presented to the user terminal. it can.

According to the invention described in claim 6, both the selling price of the merchandise body and the price including various costs can be presented to the user terminal for each store.

According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, when various costs are free if the total sales amount or the number of sales is equal to or more than a predetermined value, the amount or the number up to the free costs is presented to the user terminal. can do.

[Brief description of the drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of data content recorded in a price database.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of data contents recorded in a shipping fee database.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of processing executed by a price presentation server when an access is made from a user computer.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a search result display screen.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of an in-cart item list screen.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a price comparison display screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Price Presentation Server 12 Internet 14 User Computer 18 Price Database 20 Shipping Database

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A sales price presentation service system configured by a server computer connected to a communication network and presenting a selling price of a product at each store to a user terminal that has accessed, comprising: A means of referring to the price database in which the sales prices at the stores are recorded, and the various cost databases in which various cost system data that defines various costs related to product delivery or payment according to the sales volume are recorded for each store Means for receiving a request for price comparison of a product from a user terminal that has accessed it; and a reference to the price database, wherein the target at each sales store that sells a target product of the received price comparison request. Means for acquiring the selling price of the product; and referring to the various expenses database, various expenses system data of each of the sales stores. Means for obtaining, for each of the sales stores, the obtained sales price, the obtained various costs system data, and the price including various costs calculated based on the sales volume at the sales store, the access has been performed. And display processing means for displaying on a user terminal. 2. The selling price presentation service system according to claim 1, wherein the display processing means calculates the expenses at each of the sales stores, the acquired various cost system data, and a sales quantity at the sales stores. Means for determining based on and, for each of the sales stores, means for calculating the sum of the obtained sales price and the determined various costs as a price including various costs, and A system comprising: means for generating a price display screen for displaying calculated prices including various costs; and means for transmitting the generated price display screen to the user terminal that has accessed the system. 3. The selling price presentation service system according to claim 1, wherein the display processing means converts the various costs at each of the sales stores into the acquired various cost system data and the sales quantity at the sales stores. Based on the processing to determine based on, the processing of calculating the total of the acquired sales prices for each of the sales stores, and, for each of the sales stores, the sum of the total of the obtained sales prices and the determined expenses is various expenses A system comprising means for transmitting a computer program for executing at least one of the processes for calculating as an inclusive price to the user terminal that has accessed the system. 4. The sales quantity according to claim 1, wherein the sales quantity is a quantity corresponding to at least one of a total sales price, a sales quantity, a total size of the sales product, and a total weight of the sales product. The selling price presentation service system according to any one of the above. 5. The selling price presentation service system according to claim 1, wherein the display processing means is free of various expenses if the acquired various expenses system data is equal to or more than a predetermined price or sales quantity. If the total cost or the number of products obtained for the target product does not reach the predetermined value, the costs or the amount until the costs become free. Is displayed on the user terminal. 6. A sales price presentation service system configured by a server computer connected to a communication network and presenting a selling price of a product at each store to a user terminal that has accessed, comprising: A means for referring to a price database in which sales prices at stores are recorded, and a means for referring to expenses databases in which various cost system data defining costs related to product delivery or payment of fees are recorded for each store. Means for receiving, from the user terminal, a request for price comparison of a product, referring to a price database, means for acquiring a selling price at each sales store that sells the product targeted for the received price comparison request, Means for acquiring various expense system data of each sales store with reference to various expense databases, and the acquired various expense systems Means for calculating various costs for the target product at each of the sales outlets based on the data; and for each of the sales outlets, the total of the acquired sales price and the calculated various costs are calculated as various costs. Means for calculating the price including the acquired sales price and the calculated various prices including the expenses for each of the sales stores; and accessing the generated comparison display screen. Means for transmitting to a user terminal. 7. A sales price presentation service system configured by a server computer connected to a communication network and presenting a sales price of a product to an accessing user terminal, wherein a sales price of a variety of products at a predetermined store is provided. Means for referring to a price database in which sales prices are recorded; means for referring to various expenses databases in which various expenses system data defining various expenses relating to the delivery of goods or payment of charges are recorded for the predetermined store; Means for receiving a price comparison request for a product from the user terminal that has performed the processing, referring to a price database and obtaining a selling price of the target product of the received price comparison request at the predetermined store; Means for acquiring the various expenses system data of the predetermined store with reference to various expenses databases, The various cost calculation data defines the various costs so that the various costs are free if the sales price or the number of sales is equal to or more than a predetermined value, and the acquired price of the product that is the target of the price comparison request is obtained. When the selling price or the number of products does not reach the predetermined value, display processing means for displaying the amount or the number until the various costs are free on the user terminal that has accessed, characterized by comprising: System to do.