JP2003022390A - Method of sales by subscription for merchandise, and system therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To promote sales through reservations, even for merchandises which has the tendency of falling in price. SOLUTION: Conditions for desired purchase are transmitted from customer side terminal equipment 1, connected to a server device 2 installed on a shop side via a network 3, to the server device 2, and a merchandise DB 26 is searched, on the basis of the conditions for desired purchase. As the search result, a subscription sales price within the desired delivery time period is presented, on the basis of reservation sales price information 26a, set by considering future fall in price at a shop and a reservation processing is established, on the basis of the price.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for selling products through a network, and particularly for products that tend to decrease in price, at an appropriate price in consideration of the actual selling price at a future desired delivery time. The present invention relates to a reservation sales method that enables reservations.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a method of selling a product via the Internet or the like, a home page is provided on a WWW (World Wide Web) server and the product price is displayed on the home page along with the product name. In this case, as a system that provides the purchase price as low as possible to the purchaser as the product price, for example, JP-A-09-3
Those described in Japanese Patent No. 30355 and Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-52050 are known. Here, the above-mentioned JP-A-0
Japanese Patent Publication No. 9-330355 describes a system for notifying when a special price is set for a product designated by a purchase applicant. Further, the above-mentioned JP 2001-520A
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 50 discloses a system for setting the selling price of a product according to the desired number of people to purchase.

[0003]

However, the selling price of, for example, a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a "personal computer") and related products is such that a new product is released in a substantially constant period. As shown in 10, there is a tendency for the price to drop from the time when a certain product is released to the time when a new product is released. FIG. 10 shows an example of the price transition of a product having such a price decrease tendency. As shown in this figure, the price is stable for a certain period immediately after the release indicated by T1, but the price is moderately adjusted in the subsequent period indicated by T2 due to the sale of the opposite product, and the subsequent period indicated by T3. The price may change while accelerating the rate of decline due to a decrease in demand, etc., and the price may drop during the subsequent period indicated by T4 due to inventory disposal due to the release of the next product.

As described above, although the selling prices of personal computers and personal computer-related products such as printers tend to decrease with the passage of time, the conventional system described above has such factors as price fluctuations. Did not consider. Therefore, there is a problem in that even if the prospective purchaser tries to make a pre-order for the desired product at a price and a delivery date that satisfy his or her desired purchase condition in consideration of the transition of price fluctuations in advance, there is a problem. On the other hand, for the seller,
By forecasting changes in sales volume due to future price fluctuations, we may formulate a sales strategy to secure planned sales.However, in the conventional system described above, reservation sales considering future price fluctuations are made. However, it is difficult to accurately predict the fluctuation in the sales volume. Further, when a company purchases a personal computer or the like as equipment, there is a difference between the price at the time of budget preparation and the price at the time of actual purchase (delivery), which causes inconvenience in accounting processing.

The present invention is intended to solve the above-mentioned problems, and by presenting a reservation sale price according to a future delivery time for a product having a price decrease, a more appropriate price according to a future delivery time can be obtained. The present invention provides a reservation sales method that enables the reservation sales of the above.

[0006]

A reservation selling method of the present invention is a store-side terminal device connected to a customer-side terminal device through a network, and is attached to the store-side terminal device, and at least product identification information. A method for preserving sales of a product via a network, comprising: a product database in which pre-sales price information set in advance according to delivery time is stored, wherein the store-side terminal device is the customer-side terminal. A step of receiving purchase request information including product identification information and a desired delivery time from the device, and searching the product database for product information including a reserved selling price of the product corresponding to the received purchase request information, and the customer side terminal device And a step of receiving a reservation application information based on the product information from the customer side terminal device and performing a reservation process based on the reservation sales price. Tsu is that a flop. Further, after the reservation process and before the delivery time, the store side terminal device compares the actual sale price input to the store side terminal device with the reserved sale price on which the reservation process is performed, As a result, when the actual selling price is lower than the reserved selling price, a step of notifying the customer who made the reservation application of the actual selling price, and a reservation content for the notification from the customer side terminal device A step of receiving the change application information and changing the reservation content at the actual selling price.

Further, the reservation sales system of the present invention includes a store-side terminal device connected to a customer-side terminal device through a network, and at least product identification information such as a product name attached to the store-side terminal device. A reservation sales system comprising a product database in which reservation sales price information preset according to the delivery time is stored, wherein the store side terminal device receives product identification information from the customer side terminal device and a desired delivery time. Means for receiving the purchase request information including a request, a means for searching the product database for the product information including the reserved sale price of the product corresponding to the received purchase request information, and the searched product information for returning to the customer side terminal device. And means for receiving reservation application information based on the product information from the customer side terminal device, and performing reservation processing based on the reserved selling price. Than it is. Further, the store side terminal device, after the reservation process, before the delivery time, means for comparing the actual sale price input to the store side terminal device and the reservation sale price subjected to the reservation process, and the result of the comparison. A means for notifying the customer side terminal device that made a reservation application of the actual sale price when the actual sale price is lower than the reserved sale price, and a reservation for the notification from the customer side terminal device Means for receiving content change application information and changing the reservation content at the actual selling price.

[0008]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention will be specifically described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the overall configuration of the reservation sales system according to the present embodiment. In this figure, 1 is a customer side terminal device for the customer to input desired purchase conditions and the like, and 2 is a server device for performing reservation processing based on the input from the customer side terminal device 1. According to the present invention, the server device 2 searches for a product to be handled in the store based on the desired purchase condition input by the customer side terminal device 1, and presents a reservation sale price at a desired delivery time in consideration of future price reduction. The reservation process is performed based on the price.

The customer side terminal device 1 has at least input means for inputting desired purchase conditions such as desired purchase products, and display means for displaying a product information display screen, and is a personal computer or a mobile phone. Any device such as a mobile terminal device such as a telephone that can effectively transmit and receive information to and from the server device 2 via the network 3 may be used.

Further, the server device 2 is provided on the side of a merchandise sales store and is for carrying out reservation processing in response to a request from a customer. The customer side terminal device 1 is used to input desired purchase conditions. Accordingly, the product search processing unit 21 that searches the product DB 26 including the reservation sale price information 26a, and the transition information generation processing unit 22 that generates a graph or the like as price transition information based on the information in the product DB 26 for the retrieved product. And a reservation processing unit 23 that makes a reservation for the searched product in response to a request from the customer side terminal device 1.
And a price comparison processing unit 2 that compares the reservation price with the actual sales price.
4 and a reservation change processing unit 25 for changing a reservation. Although not shown, this server device 2
In addition to the above, a CPU that controls each processing unit to execute various processes, a memory that stores programs and software necessary for the control and processes executed by the CPU, a mouse, a keyboard, an input operation using a touch panel, a display, and the like. An input / output unit that serves as an interface between the system and a user of the system, such as an output display to, and a transmission / reception unit for transmitting / receiving various information to / from the customer side terminal device 1 via the wireless or the network 3.

Further, the server device 2 has a product database (DB) 26 and a reservation information database (DB) 2
7 and 7. The product DB 26 stores information on products handled in stores. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, as data items, a product ID 201 for identifying a product handled in each store and a product name corresponding to the product ID. 202, a current price 203 as an actual selling price to be compared with the reservation price for the product, a reservation possible time 204 at the current price, the number 205 of reservations accepted by the present system, and a target number of reservations 206. The target reservation number 206 is set as a target value for sales by advance reservation at each store. Also, the product DB 26
The reservation sales price information 26a includes product prices 207 to 212 indicating the reservation sales price or the actual sales price at each delivery time set for each product. The product prices 207 to 212 show average prices for each fixed period from the start of the sale. In FIG. 2, an example in which prices are set every two months for products that are on sale from January Shows. The information stored as the product prices 207 to 212 means the actual selling price for the past period and the preset reservation selling price for the future period. Further, the reservation information DB 27 is for recording and managing reservation information, and as shown in FIG. 3, the transaction No. 301 of the established reservation and the customer ID 30.
2. The product ID 303 of the reserved product, the desired delivery time 304 of the reserved product, the reserved selling price 305 of the reserved product, and the like are provided.

In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the customer side terminal device 1 and the server device 2 are connected via a network 3 such as the Internet. Of course, if various kinds of information can be effectively transmitted / received, they may be connected to other networks or wirelessly.

The details of the processing of the reservation selling system according to the present embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS. Figure 4
4 is a flowchart showing a reservation process of the order reception and sales system 2 according to the present embodiment. In this embodiment,
First, when the customer connects to the server device 2 by the customer side terminal device 1, the server device 2 displays a condition input screen on the display means of the customer side terminal device 1 (S401).
As the condition input screen, for example, as shown in FIG. 5, a desired purchase product category / product name input field 501, a desired purchase time input field 502, and a desired price price input field 503.
Those having and are used. On such a condition input screen, the customer uses the input device of the customer side terminal device 1 to input the search condition in each of the input fields 501 to 503, and presses the search button 504 (S402). Upon receiving the input of the desired purchase condition, the server device 2 causes the product search processing unit 21 to search the product DB 26 (S403). In this case, the desired purchase price (“¥ 60,0”) is set as the reservation sale price for the delivery time (“July to August”) including the input desired purchase time (“7/1”).
00 ”) Search for products with the following prices.

As a result, if there is a corresponding product (S4
04), the server device 2 causes the display means to display a search result display screen displaying the corresponding product as the search result (S405). The products displayed at this time are displayed in the product DB 26 in descending order of achievement of the reservation target among the products corresponding to the input desired purchase conditions. This achievement is based on the target reservation number of 20
Judgment is made based on the ratio of 205 accepted reservations to 6.

As the search result display screen, for example, as shown in FIG. 6, a screen having a product name display column 601, a deliverable time display column 602, and a reservation sale price display column 603 is used. . The reserved sales price displayed in this case is the sales price entered by the customer at the desired purchase time, which is set in consideration of the tendency of price changes for the same type of product, and is set individually by each store in advance. hand,
It is registered in the product DB 26. At this time, if the detail button 604 is pressed, information such as the specifications of the product is displayed.

When the customer confirms the search result display screen displayed on the display means and wants to search for another product, he / she presses the re-search button 605 (S406). As a result, the server device 2 performs the search process again (S4).
03). Further, when the customer wants to confirm the past price transition of the product displayed on the search result display screen, he / she presses the price transition display button 606 (S40).
7). In response to this, the server device 2 causes the display unit to display the price transition display screen generated by the transition information generation processing unit 22 (S408). As the price transition display screen, for example, as shown in FIG.
A graph display of price transition information from the start of sale to the present, which is stored in B26, is used.

When the customer desires to make a reservation for the product displayed on the search result display screen, the customer presses the reservation button 607 (S409). As a result, the server device 2 causes the reservation processing unit 23 to perform reservation confirmation processing (S410). In the reservation confirmation process, the reservation content is stored in the reservation information DB 27 and the reservation acceptance number 205 in the product DB 26 is updated. Further, in the reservation confirmation process, the confirmation of the reservation process is notified to the customer by transmitting the reservation certification information to the customer side terminal device 1. In this case, payment processing such as credit card payment, Web money payment, and debit card payment may be performed before the reservation processing is finalized. On the other hand, if the cancel button 505 is pressed on the condition input screen shown in FIG. 5 and the condition input is not accepted (S402), or if the end button 608 is pressed on the search result display screen, the reservation is made. If not accepted (S409),
The processing by this system ends without reservation. As described above, the transaction regarding the reservation sale of the product is established between the store and the customer.

As described above, in the case of pre-sale of products, the pre-sale price in consideration of future price reduction is presented to the customer, and it is possible to make a reservation at the price. Also, the product can be provided at a more appropriate price according to the customer's desired delivery time. As a result, advance purchase by reservation can be promoted to the customer, and the dealer side can predict a change in the number of vehicles sold due to future price changes from the number of reservations. Further, for the company as a purchaser, the budget amount and the actual purchase amount can be matched. Further, since the price transition display screen is displayed on the customer side terminal device, it is possible to confirm the past price reduction situation for the product desired to be purchased, and based on this,
We can also anticipate price declines in the future.

In the above embodiment, the reservation sale is carried out at the reservation sale price which is set in consideration of the future price reduction, but in reality, as shown in FIG. 8, before the reserved delivery date, The actual sales price at the store may be less than the reserved sales price due to a drop in the wholesale price. In addition, a special price may be set only for a short period such as a special sale day at each store. FIG. 8 shows the transition between the reserved sale price and the actual sale price. The broken line in the figure shows the reserved sale price, and the solid line shows the actual sale price. Further, in the figure, the price indicated by A is the reserved sale price set at the time of reservation, and the price indicated by B is the actual sale price that has become less than the reserved sale price due to the price change after the reservation and before the scheduled delivery. The price indicated by C is the actual selling price that is less than the reserved selling price at the special price set by the special sale at the store.

As shown in this figure, the actual selling price indicated by B or C is lower than the reserved selling price indicated by A. Therefore, if the sale is performed based on the reservation sale price as it is, the reservation purchaser will be disadvantageously treated. Therefore, in such a case, for the pre-purchaser who can receive the goods at the delivery time corresponding to the price of B or C, based on the price shown at B or C and the delivery time corresponding thereto. It is possible to change the reservation. As a result, it is possible to prevent a person who purchased in advance by reservation from being treated disadvantageously in terms of price.
However, if this reservation change is made, the product will be delivered at the delivery time corresponding to the actual selling price, and hence it will not be possible to cope with the subsequent price reduction. Therefore, the reservation purchaser can arbitrarily change the reservation. As a result, if the reservation purchaser thinks that the price will further decrease, it is possible not to change the reservation.

The process of changing the reservation will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a reservation changing process of the reservation selling system 2 according to the present embodiment. In this case, first, at the store, the actual selling price of the handled product is considered in consideration of the purchase price and the like, and the product DB 2 in the server device 2
The current price 203 of No. 6 is entered using the input means (S901). At this time, the reservation changeable time limit of the current price 203 is set to the reservation possible time limit 20 of the product DB 26.
Enter as 4. When the actual sales price is input, the server device 2 searches the reservation information DB 28 for the handled product by the price comparison processing unit 24, and the reserved sales price 305 of the one already reserved, A process of comparing with the current price 203 is performed (S902). As a result, the reservation sale price 3 is higher than the current price 203.
If 05 is expensive (S903), the actual sales price information is notified to the customer who has made a reservation at the expensive reservation sales price 305 (S904), and whether or not to change the reservation at the current price 203. To inquire. This notification is
It includes a message including a transaction ID, a reserved product name, an actual selling price, a delivery time, and a reservation possible deadline, and is performed by sending an e-mail to the customer side terminal device or by telephone through an operator. Therefore, the server device 2 is provided with a not-shown actual sale price information notifying means for giving or sending a mail or giving an instruction to the operator.

In response to this notification, when the reservation change request is transmitted from the customer side terminal device 1 to the server device 2 within the reservation available period (S905), the reservation change processing unit 25 causes Reservation change processing is performed with the notified contents (S906), and the information in the reservation information DB 27 is updated based on the notified contents. On the other hand, the current price 2
If 03 is more expensive (S903), or if the reservation change request from the customer side terminal device 1 is not within the reservable period (S905), reservation change processing is not performed,
The original reservation contents will be continued. As described above, the reservation change process is performed between the store and the customer. When the reservation is changed during the reservation process, when the reservation change process is performed, a process of refunding the difference between the reserved selling price and the current price, providing service points, etc. should be performed. Becomes

As described above, according to the present embodiment, even if the actual selling price at the future delivery time is lower than the actual selling price when the reservation is made at the reserved selling price in consideration of the future price reduction. Since the reservation can be changed at the actual selling price, the purchaser will not be incurred a loss due to the reservation purchase. Therefore, it is possible to promote the advance purchase by reservation for the individual purchaser.

In the above embodiment, the condition is input again when there is no corresponding product as a result of the product search process (S404) (S404, S40).
2) Not limited to this, either the desired purchase period or the desired purchase price may be set as a priority condition for the search. For example, when the desired purchase time is set as the priority condition, the product with the lowest reservation sale price at the delivery time including the desired purchase time is displayed as the search result. Further, when the desired purchase price is set as the priority condition, a product whose price is equal to or lower than the desired purchase price is displayed as a search result at the closest delivery time to the desired purchase time.

[0025]

As described above, according to the present invention, in the method of pre-sale for a product having a price drop tendency, the customer is presented with a pre-sale price considering the price drop at the desired delivery time, and the product is reserved at the price. Since it is possible, it is possible to make a reservation sale at a more appropriate price to the customer according to the desired delivery time.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a product DB.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a reservation information DB.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a reservation process in the reservation sales method according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a desired purchase condition input screen.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a search result display screen.

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

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining the comparison of the transition between the reserved sale price and the actual sale price.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a reservation changing process in the reservation selling method according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of price transition of a product having a price decrease tendency.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Customer-side terminal device, 2 ... Server device, 21 ... Commodity search processing part, 22 ... Transition information generation processing part, 23 ... Reservation processing part, 24 ... Price comparison processing part, 25 ... Reservation change processing part, 2
6 ... Merchandise database (DB), 26a ... Reserved sales price information, 27 ... Reservation information database (DB), 3 ... Network.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A store-side terminal device connected to a customer-side terminal device via a network, and a reservation sale price that is attached to the store-side terminal device and is preset according to at least product identification information and delivery time. And a product database in which information is stored, and a method of performing a reservation sale of a product via a network, wherein the shop-side terminal device purchases product identification information and a desired delivery time from the customer-side terminal device. A step of receiving desired information, a step of retrieving product information including a reserved selling price of a product corresponding to the received purchase desired information from the product database, and returning the product information to the customer side terminal device; A method for preserving and selling a product, comprising the step of receiving reservation application information based on the product information and performing a reservation process based on the reservation selling price. 2. A step in which the shop side terminal device compares the actual sales price input to the shop side terminal device with the reservation sales price for which the reservation processing has been performed after the reservation process and before the delivery time. As a result of the comparison, when the actual selling price is lower than the reserved selling price, a step of notifying the customer who made the reservation application of the actual selling price, and the customer side terminal device responding to the notification. The method for preserving and selling a product according to claim 1, further comprising the step of receiving reservation application information for changing the reservation content and performing a process of changing the reservation content at the actual selling price. 3. A store-side terminal device connected to a customer-side terminal device via a network, attached to the store-side terminal device, and preset in accordance with at least product identification information such as a product name and delivery time. And a product database in which the reserved sales price information is stored, wherein the store side terminal device receives the purchase desire information including the product identification information and the desired delivery time from the customer side terminal device. Means, means for retrieving merchandise information including a reserved selling price of merchandise corresponding to the received purchase request information from the merchandise database, means for returning the retrieved merchandise information to the customer side terminal device, and the customer side terminal Reservation sales system for merchandise, comprising means for receiving reservation application information based on the merchandise information from a device and performing reservation processing based on the reservation sale price. Tem. 4. The means for the store-side terminal device to compare the actual sales price input to the store-side terminal device after the reservation processing and before the delivery date with the reservation sales price for which the reservation processing has been performed, As a result of the comparison, when the actual selling price is lower than the reserved selling price, a means for notifying the actual selling price to the customer side terminal device that has made the reservation application, and the customer side terminal device The reservation sales system for goods according to claim 3, further comprising: means for receiving reservation change request information for a notification and performing a reservation change process at the actual sale price.