JP2005165576A - Commodity settlement system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize reduction of settlement time and prevention of duplicate settlement in a POS system introduced to a mass sales store. <P>SOLUTION: A POS register has an information reception function for receiving commodity information from an IC chip through short range radio communication. A server, connected to the POS register, has a commodity information table for registering the unit cost information on a commodity, and a settlement flag for managing the settlement status thereof with a commodity code and a serial number transmitted from the POS register as keys. The POS register is provided with a settlement means for settling by totalizing expenses for commodities according to the unit cost information acquired from the server; a completion of settlement registration means which sets 'flag on' for the settlement flag of the commodity information table when the commodity information is acquired and registers the flag; and a duplicate settlement prevention means which makes a commodity for which 'flag on' is set for the settlement flag in the commodity information table not to be included in the settlement. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  In the POS system introduced in a mass retailer, the present invention acquires information about a purchased product by using a POS register that is a terminal device when the user pays for the price of the purchased product. It is related with the system which settles the price for goods based on.

  In a POS system installed in a mass retailer, a POS register that acquires product information registered in an IC chip for identifying a product when a user pays for the product purchased through short-range wireless communication There is a system that collects and settles the price for multiple products.

  In the following Patent Document 1, an IC chip in which product information is registered has an area for registering a settlement flag for managing the settlement state of the product. A settlement completion means for registering the settlement information in which the flag on is set in the settlement flag to the IC chip, and a double settlement in which the products whose flag on is set in the settlement flag of the settlement information of the IC chip are excluded from the settlement By providing the prevention means, it is possible to prevent an artificial settlement error such as double settlement of the same product price by the person in charge of operating the POS register.

JP 2003-132427 A

  In Patent Document 1, since the settlement flag for managing the settlement state of the product is managed in the area of the IC chip, an operation for registering the settlement flag in the IC chip occurs for each product, and the amount of the product purchased by the user is increased. Checkout time increases proportionally. Further, since the settlement flag is registered in the IC chip, there is a possibility that registration omission may occur, and in order to prevent this, it is necessary to check the settlement flag again for each registration, and the settlement time further increases. Further, the IC chip needs to have a registration function, and the POS register needs to have a setting function for the IC chip, which complicates the system configuration. In order to solve the above problems, in the present invention, a settlement flag for managing a settlement state of a product is settled in a server area connected to a POS register using a product code and a serial number of an IC chip as keys. The purpose is to provide a system.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention described in claim 1 is a POS system installed in a mass merchandiser. When the user pays for a product purchased, the POS register as the terminal device A system for acquiring information related to a product to be purchased and paying for a product price based on the acquired information, wherein the product code for identifying the product and a serial number for each product are registered at least in advance. And an IC chip having an information transmission function for transmitting the product information is detachably attached to the product packaging medium or the product, and the POS register receives the product information from the plurality of IC chips in a short distance. The server that is equipped with an information reception function that continuously receives via wireless communication and that is connected to the POS register must at least It comprises a no-bid information, an area for registering the payment information including a payment flag manages the settlement status of the product the product code and the serial number that is sent from the POS register as the key. The POS register is provided with a settlement unit that aggregates and settles the price of the product based on unit price information based on a plurality of product information acquired from the server. The settlement means, when the product information is acquired, is a settlement completion registration means for setting and registering flag-on in the settlement flag of the server; And a double payment prevention means.

  According to the purchase merchandise settlement system of the present invention, the mass merchant business operator does not need to register the settlement information in the IC chip for each merchandise for the user as compared with the prior art. It is possible to provide a service that reduces the checkout time and the checkout waiting time and double checkout prevention with a simple system configuration.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a system configuration of a purchased product settlement system 100 according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the purchased product checkout system 100 uses an IC chip 10 that is detachably attached to a packaging medium of the product or the product to specify the product, and information from the IC chip 10 is short-range wireless. The POS register 20 is received via the communication 1 and the server 30 is used to transmit / receive information about the POS register via the LAN 2.

  The IC chip 10 includes a product code 11 and a serial number 12. The product code 11 is for registering product information for specifying a product to be purchased by the user. The serial number 12 is a number uniquely assigned in the product code 11.

  The POS register 20 includes a settlement means 21 and a sales table 22. The sales table 22 is for registering sales information of products purchased by the user. In the sales information, information such as a search key part including a slip number and a product code, a store code belonging to the data part, a register number, a sales unit price, a sales quantity, a sales amount, a sales time, and the like are registered.

  The server 30 includes a product information table 31. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the product information table 31. As shown in FIG. 2, the product information table 31 includes a product code assigned for each product type, a serial number uniquely assigned in the product code, a unit price for each product code, and a serial number for each serial number. Consists of checkout flags. The settlement flag registers settlement information for managing the settlement state of the product purchased by the user. In the settlement flag of the product information table, ON is settled and OFF is not settled. The merchandise information table 31 refers to the settlement flag based on the merchandise code and serial number transmitted from the POS register 20, and when the settlement flag is OFF, the unit price information is transmitted to the settlement means 21 of the POS register 20 and the settlement flag is displayed. Update to ON. When the settlement flag is ON, the settlement completed information is transmitted to the settlement means 21 of the POS register 20.

  Next, the settlement means 21 of the POS register 20 having an information receiving function for continuously receiving product codes and serial numbers from a plurality of IC chips 10 via the short-range wireless communication 1 will be described. FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a processing procedure in the settlement means according to the present invention. The settlement means 21 totals and settles the product price of the product based on the unit price information and the settled information based on the plurality of product codes acquired from the product information table 31 of the server 30.

Hereinafter, the processing procedure of the settlement means 21 will be described in detail.
(1) The IC chip 10 transmits the product code and serial number to the POS register 20.
(2) In response to the settlement request signal from the POS register 20, the product code and serial number from the IC chip 10 are waited until they are received within a predetermined time. If the product code and serial number from the IC chip 10 are not received even after the predetermined time has elapsed, the process branches to (9).
(3) When the weight is released, the product code and serial number received by the POS register 20 are transmitted to the server 30.
(4) The server 30 searches the product information table 31 from the product code and serial number received from the POS register 20, and transmits the unit price information to the settlement means 21 of the POS register 20 when the settlement flag is OFF. Update the flag to ON. When the settlement flag is ON, the settlement completed information is transmitted to the settlement means 21 of the POS register 20.
(5) The settlement means 21 of the POS register 20 edits the sales information from the received product code, the acquired unit price information and the settled information, and integrates the sales amount.
(6) Update the sales table 22 from the edited sales information.
(7) The predetermined information set in the edited sales information is output to the display device and printer device included in the POS register 20.
(8) The process branches to the process (2) again.
(9) The sales amount accumulated in the processing of (5) is output to the display device and printer device provided in the POS register 20.

  As mentioned above, although the form of one Example of this invention was demonstrated in detail, this invention is not limited to this Embodiment. Various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

  Compared with the conventional system, the IC chip does not need to have a settlement flag registration function, and can be realized without waiting for the high-performance and low-price of the IC chip. Therefore, it may be widely used in the POS system.

It is a schematic diagram which shows the system configuration | structure of the purchased goods settlement system of this invention. It is a goods information table of the purchased goods settlement system of the present invention. It is a flowchart of the process in the adjustment means of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Short range wireless communication, 2 ... LAN, 10 ... IC chip, 11 ... Product code, 12 ... Serial number, 20 ... POS register, 21 ... Accumulation means, 22 ... Sales table, 30 ... Server, 31 ... Product information system , 100 ... Purchase product settlement system.

Claims (1)

In the POS system installed in a mass retailer, when the user pays for the product purchased, the POS register, which is the terminal device, acquires information about the purchased product, and the product is based on the acquired information. In the system for payment,
Product information in which at least a product code for identifying the product and a serial number for each product are registered in advance, and an IC chip having an information transmission function for transmitting the product information can be attached to and detached from the product packaging medium or the product. The POS register has an information receiving function for continuously receiving product information from the plurality of IC chips via short-range wireless communication, and a server connected to the POS register is at least A product information table for registering settlement information including unit price information including a sales unit price of a product and a settlement flag for managing a settlement state of the product using the product code and serial number transmitted from the POS register as a key, and the POS register Calculates the price of the product based on the unit price information based on the plurality of product information acquired from the server. A settlement means for calculating, and when the product information is acquired, the settlement means sets a flag-on to the settlement flag of the server and registers, and a flag-on is set to the settlement flag of the server. A product checkout system comprising: a double checkout means for excluding a product being checked out.

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