JP2002297890A - Household economy management support system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a household economy management support system capable of providing accurate sales detail data and contributing to the reduction of operating time by a consumer. SOLUTION: A POS terminal 15 extracts the mail address of a user from a user ID, and transmits the sales detail data and mail address of the user to a data gathering server 19. The data gathering server 19 stores the sales detail data of the user for every received mail address, generates an electronic mail for prompting the connection to a URL addresses different for each user, and transmits the generated electronic mail to the mail address of a consumer terminal 13. When a request for connection from the consumer terminal 13 to the URL address controlled by the server is received, the mail address corresponding to the URL address is read, the sales detail data corresponding to the extracted mail address is read, and business form data are generated from the sales detail data and transmitted to the consumer terminal 13.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a household management support system, and more particularly, to a household management support system capable of providing sales detail data created in a POS terminal to a consumer terminal and creating a form.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a consumer manages his / her household, he / she takes a receipt issued by a retailer back to his / her home, records the purchase contents printed on the receipt in a household account book, and uses a personal computer to execute household account book software. The software was started and input was performed.

In particular, when using household account book software,
It is necessary for the consumer to perform an input operation while classifying purchase contents by item and confirming that the date, item, amount, and the like are correct.

[0004]

However, in the case of performing an input operation using household account book software, if the purchase content of the receipt increases, the operation time becomes longer, and even if it is confirmed that there is no input error, an erroneous input is performed. Could not be found.

[0005] In addition, when a consumer loses a receipt or an unfilled receipt accumulates, there is a case where the household account book software is started and the input operation is abandoned. There was a problem that household management using account book software could not be continued.

[0006] The present invention has been made in view of the above,
The purpose is to provide the sales details data created at the POS terminal to the consumer terminal and create a form, thereby providing accurate sales details data and contributing to a reduction in operation time by consumers. It is an object of the present invention to provide a household management support system capable of performing the above.

[0007]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a POS terminal provided at a retail store, which inputs consumer's sales statement data, transmits the sales statement data by connecting to a communication network, and receives from the POS terminal via the communication network. The sales information data is accumulated, a message prompting the download of the sales details data is transmitted to the consumer terminal, and the form data is generated from the sales details data in response to the connection request from the consumer terminal, and the form data is consumed. And a data accumulation server that transmits the data to the user terminal.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a POS terminal provided at a retail store for inputting sales statement data, and communicates with the POS terminal to store data for sales management. A household management support system comprising a data storage server, wherein the POS terminal
ID input means for inputting D, e-mail address extracting means for extracting a pre-registered e-mail address of the customer from the customer ID, transmission means for transmitting the sales statement data and e-mail address of the customer to the data accumulation server, Wherein the data accumulation server comprises: receiving means for receiving customer's sales statement data and a mail address from the POS terminal; storage means for storing customer's sales statement data for each of the e-mail addresses; Different UR
E-mail generation means for generating an e-mail for prompting connection to the L address, address storage means for storing the correspondence between the e-mail address and the URL address, and transmitting the generated e-mail to the e-mail address of the consumer terminal Transmission means and URL managed by the server from the consumer terminal
When a request for connection to the address is received, a mail address extracting means for reading a mail address corresponding to the URL address from the address storage means, and sales statement data corresponding to the extracted mail address are read from the storage means, The gist of the present invention is to include a generation unit that generates form data from sales statement data, and a transmission unit that transmits the form data to the consumer terminal.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the invention according to claim 3 is provided in a retail store, and converts sales statement data of a consumer into an attached file of a predetermined data format that can be referred to at a consumer terminal. A POS terminal that sends an e-mail with an attached file to a consumer's e-mail address; receives the e-mail, starts household account software, refers to the attached file, and displays a form including sales statement data. And a consumer terminal.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a POS terminal provided at a retail store for storing sales details data of a consumer on a portable card, and a sales specification from the portable card. A consumer terminal that reads data, starts household account book software, and displays a form including sales statement data.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(First Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a household management support system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, a communication network 11
Has a consumer terminal 13 composed of a personal computer.
And a communication terminal 17 that transmits the sales statement data output from the POS terminal 15 to the data accumulation server 19, and stores the sales statement data output from the communication terminal 17 and consumes a message prompting the download of the sales statement data. A data accumulation server 19 for transmitting data to the user terminal 13 is connected.

More specifically, the consumer terminal 13 is a personal computer provided on the consumer side capable of browsing a WWW site of the communication network 11, starts WWW browser software, displays a browser screen, and displays the browser screen. The user specifies the URL address of the data accumulation server 19 from the screen and connects to the data accumulation server 19 via the communication network 11.

A plurality of POS terminals 15 are provided in a retail store, and a card reader 23 which reads a customer ID recorded on a card 21 carried by a consumer by magnetism or the like.
And a barcode reader 25 for reading the item, name, and selling price of the product from a barcode attached to the product, a keyboard 27 having a number key, an adjustment key, an item key, and a receipt printing key; It controls a display 29 that displays the contents input from the keyboard 27 and the amount of the charge, a printer 33 that prints the item, name of the product, the selling price, the total amount, and the like on the receipt 31, and controls each unit provided in the POS terminal 15. It comprises a control unit 35 and a LAN communication processing unit 37 for communicating with the communication terminal 17 via the LAN.

The communication terminal 17 is provided in an office of a retail store. The communication terminal 17 communicates with a plurality of POS terminals 15 via a LAN. Processing unit 43 for performing communication with the display, and a display 4 for displaying processing contents
5, a keyboard 47 for inputting operation contents, and a customer ID
And a control unit 51 for controlling each unit provided in the communication terminal 17.

The data accumulation server 19 is provided in a household management service company that provides a household management service, and performs communication processing for communicating via the communication network 11 with communication terminals 17 provided in a plurality of retail stores. Part 61
And a display 63 for displaying processing contents, a keyboard 65 for inputting operation contents, and a storage database 67 for storing sales statement data corresponding to customer mail addresses and customer mail addresses corresponding to dedicated URL addresses.
And a control unit 69 for controlling each unit provided in the data accumulation server 19.

The above-mentioned control units 35, 51, 69
A RAM (not shown) for storing control data, a ROM (not shown) for storing a control program, and a CPU (not shown) for controlling the system according to the control program
It is composed of

Further, in the present embodiment, the POS terminal 15 and the communication terminal 17 whose functions are shared by the retail store are used, but the communication functions and the customer database DB which are shared by the communication terminal 17 are used. You may comprise so that it may be provided in the POS terminal 15.

Next, referring to the sequence diagram shown in FIG. 2, the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, and the data contents shown in FIGS. 6 to 10, the operation of the household management support system in the first embodiment will be described. explain.

Now, it is assumed that a consumer visits a retail store, puts a plurality of products in a shopping cart, places these products on a table on which a POS terminal 15 is arranged, and requests an accounting process. Then, when the consumer passes the held card 21 to the cashier, the card is inserted into the insertion slot of the card reader 23.

First, in FIG. 3, in step S10, the POS terminal 15 stores the card 2 in the card reader 23.
Determine if there is one. Here, if there is a card 21, the process proceeds to step S20. Meanwhile, card 21
If not, the process returns to step S10, and the above-described processing is repeated.

In step S20, the consumer ID of the consumer is read from the card 21 by the card reader 23 and stored in the RAM provided in the control unit 35.

In step S30, the item, name, and selling price of each product are input from the barcode reader 25 or the keyboard 27, and the total price is displayed on the display 29 to prompt the consumer to make a payment. At this time, the control unit 35 collects sales statement data including an item, a product name, a selling price, and a total price of the product, and stores the collected data in the RAM. Then, the sales statement data is output to the printer 33 and the receipt 31 is printed. This receipt 31 is given to the consumer in exchange for the price from the cashier.

Then, in step S40, the control unit 35
Transmits the customer ID and the sales statement data of the consumer stored in the RAM to the communication terminal 17 via the LAN communication processing unit 37.
(T10).

Referring to FIG. 4, in step S110, the communication terminal 17 receives the consumer's customer ID and sales statement data transmitted from the POS terminal 15 via the LAN communication processing unit 41, and sends the data to the control unit 51. It is stored in the provided RAM.

In step S120, a customer mail address corresponding to the consumer's customer ID is read from the customer database DB 49 and converted.

In step S130, an e-mail including a customer e-mail address and sales statement data is generated, and an e-mail (T20) as shown in FIG. 6 is transmitted to the data accumulation server 19 via the communication network 11. FIG. 6A shows the date 2001/02/01.
FIG. 6A is an e-mail in which a customer e-mail address is added to the sales statement data of FIG.
02.

Referring to FIG. 5, in step S 210, the data accumulation server 19 receives the electronic mail (T 20) transmitted from the communication terminal 17 via the communication processing unit 61, and the RAM provided in the control unit 69. To memorize.

Then, in step S210, the control unit 6
No. 9 shapes the received data of the e-mail stored in the RAM, proceeds to step S230, and registers the shaping result in the accumulation database DB67. As a result, as shown in FIG. 7, the accumulation database DB67 accumulates data including the customer's mail address, date, store, item, product name, and price.

Then, in step S240, the control unit 6
9 generates a dedicated URL address that is different for each customer and prompts the consumer terminal 13 of the customer to download the form data. Then, in step S250, the control unit 69
Creates a conversion table indicating the correspondence between the URL address and the customer mail address, and stores the conversion table in the storage database D.
Accumulate in B. As a result, as shown in FIG. 8, a conversion table including a correspondence between the URL address and the customer's mail address is stored in the storage database DB67.

Note that this URL address is

[Equation 1] One domain name “www.yyy.co.jp” indicating the data accumulation server 19 on the communication network, such as URL: //www.yyy.co.jp/zzz, and the data accumulation server 19 "Zzz" which indicates a specific one of a plurality of addresses allocated in the address. Also,
"Zzz" is represented by three characters for simplicity of description, but in actual operation, for example, it is represented by using numbers or alphabets consisting of random numbers ranging from several tens to several hundreds, The access to other consumers is substantially reduced and restricted as much as possible, and unauthorized access to the storage database DB67 is restricted and prevented, and the security of the Web site is ensured.

Then, in step S255, as shown in FIG. 9, an e-mail for urging access to the dedicated URL address is generated. In step S260, this e-mail is transmitted to the e-mail address of the consumer. As a result, the electronic mail (T30) is stored in the mail server to which the consumer has contracted.

Turning now to FIG. 2, the power is turned on to the consumer terminal 13 provided in the consumer's home, the mailer software is activated to display the mailer screen, and further stored in the mail server. An e-mail (T30) is received. As a result, a message text is displayed on the mailer screen as shown in FIG.

Then, the mouse 22 is operated to move the cursor to the dedicated URL address 71 displayed on the message text on the mailer screen, and when the mouse 22 is clicked, a WW that can operate in cooperation with the mailer software is displayed.
w Browser starts, and from this browser screen, U
The connection request (T40) is output via the communication network 11 to the data accumulation server 19 specified by the RL address.

Referring to FIG. 5, in step S270, the data accumulation server 19 determines whether or not a connection request is received via the communication network 11.
If the connection request has been received, the process proceeds to step S280, and the received UR is referred to with reference to the conversion table shown in FIG.
It is converted to the customer's mail address corresponding to the L address.

Then, in step S290, the data accumulation server 19 extracts sales statement data corresponding to the mail address of the customer obtained in step S280, and
Read on AM.

In step S300, the sales date data read out on the RAM
Calculate the total value of the expenditure of 2/01 and the total value for each item,
Further, the total purchase amount is multiplied by an arbitrarily set coefficient value (for example, 0.01) to calculate purchase points on the day.

[0039]

## EQU2 ## Purchase point = total value of expenditure amount × coefficient value In step S310, as shown in FIG. 10A, the customer's e-mail address, date, total expenditure, and purchase points of the day are used. FIG. 10 shows the message text (a) for requesting the expanded display of the table according to the request.
As shown in (b), the form data including the total expenditure table 81 and the itemized statement table 83 shown in the message is created in the HTML format.

Then, in step S320, the data accumulation server 19 transmits the form data (T50) created in step S310 to the consumer terminal 19 via the communication network 11.

The browser screen of the consumer terminal 19 that has downloaded this form data (T50) is shown in FIG.
Is displayed as shown in FIG. Here, on the form screen, click areas 73, 75, and 77 are shaded, for example, and when the cursor is moved to click area 73 and clicked, as shown in FIG. The total expenditure table 81 is displayed, and when the cursor is moved to the click area 77 and clicked, an itemized statement table 83 is displayed.

As described above, in the POS terminal 15, the mail address of the customer registered in advance is extracted from the customer ID input from the card 21, and the sales details data and the mail address of the customer are transmitted to the data accumulation server 19. The data accumulation server 19 receives the customer's sales statement data and e-mail address from the POS terminal 15, stores the customer's sales statement data for each e-mail address, and stores a different URL assigned to each customer. An e-mail prompting connection to the address is generated, the correspondence between the e-mail address and the URL address is stored, and the generated e-mail is transmitted to the e-mail address of the consumer terminal 13. Here, when a connection request to the URL address managed by the server is received from the consumer terminal 13, a mail address corresponding to the URL address is read, and sales statement data corresponding to the extracted mail address is read. By generating the form data from the sales statement data and transmitting it to the consumer terminal 13, a form including accurate sales statement data can be provided to the consumer,
Since the itemized description can also be provided, it is possible to contribute to the reduction of the operation time by the consumer.

As a result, it is possible to secure the operation time for the input operation as in the related art, eliminate erroneous input, etc., and prevent the abandonment of the input operation and the inability to continue the household management.

(Second Embodiment) FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a configuration of a household management support system according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 11, the communication network 1
1 is a consumer terminal 1 composed of a personal computer.
3 and a communication terminal 17 that converts sales statement data output from the POS terminal 15 into a file in the CVS format and transmits the file to the consumer terminal 13. Note that, in the present embodiment, the overall configuration of the household management support system includes basically the same parts as those shown in FIG. 1, and the description of the parts described in the first embodiment will be omitted. Omitted.

Further, in the present embodiment, the POS terminal 15 and the communication terminal 17 assigned to the functions of the retail store are used, but the communication function and the customer database DB assigned to the communication terminal 17 are used. You may comprise so that it may be provided in the POS terminal 15.

Normally, the household account book software running on the consumer terminal 13 uses, for example, C
VS format files can be used.

Therefore, as a feature of the present embodiment, the sales statement data received from the POS terminal 15 is converted into a CVS format file which can be referred to by household account book software operable on the consumer terminal 13 and electronically converted. That is, the message is attached to an e-mail and transmitted to the consumer terminal 13.

Next, the sequence diagram shown in FIG.
The operation of the household management support system according to the second embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. 13 and the data contents shown in FIG.

In this embodiment, the POS terminal 15 operates according to the flowchart shown in FIG.
Since the operation has been described in the first embodiment, it is omitted here.

Referring to FIG. 13, in step S110,
The communication terminal 17 transmits the customer ID and the sales statement data of the consumer transmitted from the POS terminal 15 to the LAN communication processing unit 4.
1 and stored in a RAM provided in the control unit 51.

Then, in step S120, a customer mail address corresponding to the consumer's customer ID is read from the customer database DB 49 and converted.

In step S410, the sales statement data received from the POS terminal 15 is converted into a file in, for example, a CVS format which can be referenced by household account book software operable on the consumer terminal 13, as shown in FIG. Convert. Instead of the CVS format file, household account book software operable on the consumer terminal 13 may be converted to a file in another format that can be referred to.

Then, in step S420, the CVS format file converted in step S410 is attached to the electronic mail (T210) and transmitted to the customer mail address.

FIG. 14 shows the date 2001/02/02.
01 is data converted into a CVS format file.

Now, referring to FIG. 12, the power is turned on to the consumer terminal 13 provided in the consumer's house, the mailer software is activated to display the mailer screen, and the mailer screen is further stored in the mail server. An e-mail (T210) is received. As a result, on the mailer screen, a message saying "There is an attached file of sales statement data that can be referenced by the household account book software" and an icon of the attached file are displayed.

Then, when the mouse 22 is operated to move the cursor to the attached file displayed in a part different from the message text on the mailer screen and the mouse 22 is clicked, a save processing screen is displayed. Execute the attached file saving process and terminate the mailer software.

Then, on the consumer terminal 13, the household account book software is started, and the saved attached file (CVS format) is read from the operation screen, and the CV shown in FIG.
Display sales statement data in S format. Then, a form is created using the sales statement data by the household account book software.

As described above, the sales statement data of the consumer is converted into an attached file in a data format that can be referred to on the consumer terminal 13, and the electronic mail with the attached file is transmitted from the POS terminal 15 to the consumer's mail address. And the consumer terminal 13 receives this e-mail,
Start the household account book software, refer to the attached file,
Since the form including the sales statement data is displayed, the form including the accurate sales statement data can be provided to the consumer, which can contribute to the reduction of the operation time by the consumer.

As a result, it is possible to secure the operation time for the input operation as in the related art, eliminate erroneous input, and the like, and also prevent the abandonment of the input operation and the inability to continue household management.

In the present embodiment, the electronic mail including the attached file of the sales statement data is provided from the communication terminal 17 to the consumer terminal, but the sales statement data is directly sent to the electronic mail. It may be written. Further, instead of the e-mail, a facsimile message including sales statement data may be created and transmitted to a facsimile terminal provided at the consumer's house.

(Third Embodiment) FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a configuration of a household management support system according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 15, the household management support system comprises a personal computer, an IC card reader 115 connected thereto and a consumer terminal 103 located at a consumer's home, and an IC card driver 113 connected thereto. POS terminal 101 is provided.

The IC card driver 113 transmits the sales statement data received from the POS terminal 15 to the IC card 111.
This is a device for storing the information. On the other hand, the IC card reader 115
Is a device that reads out the sales statement data stored in the IC card 111 and outputs it to the consumer terminal 103.

In the present embodiment, the overall configuration of the household management support system includes basically the same parts as those shown in FIG. 1, and the parts described in the first embodiment are the same as those of the first embodiment. The description is omitted.

Next, the operation of the household management support system according to the third embodiment will be described with reference to the flowcharts shown in FIGS.

Now, it is assumed that a consumer visits a retail store, puts a plurality of products in a shopping cart, places these products on a table on which the POS terminal 101 is arranged, and requests an accounting process.

First, in step S510, the item, product name, and selling price of each product are input from the barcode reader 25 or the keyboard 27, and the total amount is displayed on the display 29 to prompt the consumer to make a payment. At this time, the control unit 35 collects sales statement data including an item, a product name, a selling price, and a total price of the product, and stores the data in the RAM. Then, the sales statement data is output to the printer 33 and the receipt 31 is printed. This receipt 31 is given to the consumer in exchange for the price from the cashier.

Here, when the consumer passes the held IC card 111 to the register, the IC card 11
1 is inserted into the insertion slot of the IC card driver 113.

In step S520, the POS terminal 101 stores the IC card 11 in the card driver 113.
Determine if there is one. Here, the IC card 11
If there is one, the process proceeds to step S530. On the other hand, I
If there is no C card 111, the process ends.

In step S530, the sales statement data stored in the RAM is output to the IC card driver 113 and stored in the IC card 111. As a result, IC
The card 111 stores sales statement data as shown in FIG. Then, the register person pulls out the IC card 111 from the insertion slot of the IC card driver 113 and delivers it to the consumer.

It is assumed that the consumer who has been given the IC card 111 from the cashier has brought the IC card 111 back to the consumer's home and turned on the power to the consumer terminal 13. Then, the IC card 111 is inserted into the insertion slot of the IC card reader 115.

Referring to FIG. 17, in step S610, I
It is determined whether or not there is an IC card 111 in the C card reader 115. If there is an IC card 111, the process proceeds to step S620. On the other hand, the IC card 11
If there is no 1, the process is terminated.

In step S620, the sales statement data stored in the IC card 111 is read via the IC card reader 115 and stored in the RAM. Then, in step S630, the sales statement data stored in the RAM is shaped and the shaping result is transferred to a storage area that can be referred to by the household account book software.

Then, in step S640, the household account book software is activated and a form is created with reference to the sales statement data stored in the storage area.

As described above, the sales details data of the consumer is stored in the portable IC card 111 at the POS terminal 101, and the IC card 1 is stored at the consumer terminal 103.
Since the sales statement data is read from 11 and the household account book software is activated to display the form including the sales statement data, the form including the accurate sales statement data can be provided to the consumer, and the operation time by the consumer can be reduced. Can be reduced.

As a result, it is possible to secure the operation time for the input operation as in the related art, eliminate erroneous input, and to prevent abandonment of the input operation and continuation of household management.

As described in the first to third embodiments, since a form including accurate sales statement data can be provided to a consumer, a retail store can provide a high value-added service to a consumer. Will be able to

[0079]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, POS is provided.
By transmitting the sales statement data created in the terminal to the data accumulation server, creating the form data in the data accumulation server, and providing the data to the consumer terminal, thereby providing a form including accurate sales statement data to the consumer. Since it is also possible to provide item-specific specifications, it is possible to contribute to a reduction in operation time by consumers. As a result, it is possible to secure the operation time for the input operation as in the related art, eliminate erroneous input, and the like, and also prevent the abandonment of the input operation and the inability to continue household management.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, P
In the OS terminal, the mail address of the customer registered in advance is extracted from the customer ID input from the card, and the sales statement data and the mail address of the customer are transmitted to the data accumulation server.
Receiving the customer's sales statement data and e-mail address from the POS terminal, storing the customer's sales statement data for each e-mail address, and generating an e-mail prompting connection to a different URL address assigned to each customer, The correspondence between the mail address and the URL address is stored, and the generated e-mail is transmitted to the mail address of the consumer terminal. Here, when a connection request to the URL address managed by the server is received from the consumer terminal, an e-mail address corresponding to the URL address is read, sales statement data corresponding to the extracted e-mail address is read, and sales are performed. By generating the form data from the statement data and transmitting it to the consumer terminal, a form including accurate sales statement data can be provided to the consumer, and an itemized statement can also be provided. Can reduce the operation time. As a result, it is possible to secure the operation time for the input operation as in the related art, eliminate erroneous input, and the like, and also prevent the abandonment of the input operation and the inability to continue household management.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the sales statement data of the consumer is converted into an attached file in a data format that can be referred to at the consumer terminal, and the electronic mail with the attached file is converted to the POS terminal. To the consumer's e-mail address, and the consumer terminal receives this e-mail, starts the household account book software, refers to the attached file, and displays a form consisting of sales statement data, so it is accurate. It is possible to provide a consumer with a form including detailed sales statement data, thereby contributing to a reduction in operation time by the consumer. As a result, it is possible to secure the operation time for the input operation as in the related art, eliminate erroneous input, and the like, and also prevent the abandonment of the input operation and the inability to continue household management.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, P
The consumer terminal stores the sales statement data of the consumer on a portable card at the OS terminal, reads the sales statement data from the card at the consumer terminal, starts the household account book software, and displays a form including the sales statement data. A form including accurate sales statement data can be provided to the consumer, which can contribute to a reduction in operation time by the consumer. As a result, it is possible to secure the operation time for the input operation as in the related art, eliminate erroneous input, and the like, and also prevent the abandonment of the input operation and the inability to continue household management.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a household management support system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sequence diagram illustrating an operation of the household management support system according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the POS terminal 15;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the communication terminal 17.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the data accumulation server 19;

FIGS. 6A and 6B are diagrams illustrating data of an e-mail transmitted from the data accumulation server 19 to the consumer terminal 13; FIGS.

FIG. 7 is an accumulation database 67 of the data accumulation server 19
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of stored data stored in the storage device.

FIG. 8 is a conversion table showing a correspondence between a URL address and a customer's mail address.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an e-mail transmitted from the data accumulation server 19 to the consumer terminal 13;

FIG. 10 shows a message text (a) displayed on the consumer terminal 13 and a total expenditure table 8 shown in the message text.
FIG. 9 is a diagram showing form data (b) including No. 1 and an itemized statement table 83.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a configuration of a household management support system according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a sequence diagram illustrating an operation of the household management support system according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the communication terminal 17.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing sales statement data in CVS format.

FIG. 15 is a sequence diagram illustrating an operation of the household management support system according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing the operation of the POS terminal 101.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the consumer terminal 103.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing sales statement data.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 Communication network 13,103 Consumer terminal 15,101 POS terminal 17 Communication terminal 19 Data accumulation server 21 Card 23 Card reader 25 Barcode reader 27,65 Keyboard 29 Display 33 Printer 35,51,69 Control part 37 LAN communication processing part 41 LAN communication processing unit 43, 61 communication processing unit 45, 63 display 47 keyboard 49 customer database 67 storage database 111 IC card 113 IC card driver 115 IC card reader

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A POS terminal provided at a retail store for inputting sales details data of a consumer, connecting to a communication network and transmitting the sales details data, and a sales received from the POS terminal via the communication network. The detailed data is stored, a message prompting the download of the sales detailed data is transmitted to the consumer terminal, and the form data is generated from the sales detailed data in response to the connection request from the consumer terminal. And a data accumulation server that transmits the data to the household management management system. 2. A household management support system provided at a retail store, comprising: a POS terminal for inputting sales statement data; and a data storage server for communicating with the POS terminal and storing data for sales management. The POS terminal comprises: an ID input unit for inputting a customer ID; an e-mail address extraction unit for extracting a pre-registered e-mail address of the customer from the customer ID; Transmission means for transmitting to the accumulation server, the data accumulation server comprising: reception means for receiving customer's sales statement data and mail address from the POS terminal; and storage for accumulating customer's sales statement data for each mail address. Means and an email generator for generating an email prompting connection to a different URL address assigned to each customer Means, address storage means for storing the correspondence between the mail address and the URL address, transmission means for transmitting the generated e-mail to the mail address of the consumer terminal, and URL address managed by the server from the consumer terminal When a connection request is received, a mail address extracting means for reading a mail address corresponding to the URL address from the address storage means, and sales statement data corresponding to the extracted mail address are read from the storage means, A household management support system comprising: generating means for generating form data from detailed data; and transmitting means for transmitting the form data to a consumer terminal. 3. A consumer's sales statement data, which is provided at a retail store, is converted into an attached file in a predetermined data format that can be referred to at a consumer terminal, and an e-mail to which the attached file is added is converted to a consumer's mail address. POS to send to
A household terminal that receives the e-mail, activates the household account book software, refers to the attached file, and displays a form including sales statement data. . 4. A POS terminal provided in a retail store and storing consumer's sales statement data on a portable card; and reading the sales statement data from the portable card,
A consumer terminal for activating software for a household account book and displaying a form including sales statement data.