JP2010231732A - Private school operation support program using affiliate system, private school operation support method, and private school operation support system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mechanism for solving the problems of acquiring a lecturer and collecting contract money, which are held by private school type business. <P>SOLUTION: This private school operation support method for making an affiliate system including an address converting means for guiding to a merchandise sales site, an advertising/selling means, a charging and settling means and a reward paying means, function as a private school operation support system has the steps of: making the address converting means function as a means for guiding to an announcement site by performing address conversion of a URL of an access destination of a guiding link from the URL of the private school operation support system to the URL of the announcement site; making the advertising/selling means function as a means for collecting lecturer applicants and performing contract processing at the announcement site; and making the charging and settling means function as a means for performing charging and settlement processing about contract money with a lecturer who signs a contract and as a means for paying a referral fee to a lecturer introducer. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a support processing method for cram school management using an affiliate system, and more particularly to a method for contracting a lecturer in investment advisory and cram school management, and a method for acquiring a student member and charging monthly.

  First, terms relating to an investment advisory agency business according to the present invention will be described.

  “Investment advisory” refers to the work of providing advice to investors from a professional standpoint by means of oral, documentary, e-mail magazines, etc. regarding the value of securities and financial products based on investment advisory contracts and investment advisory contracts. When receiving compensation and giving investment advice, you must register for investment advice and agency. The above investment advisory services are those stipulated in Article 2, Paragraph 8, Item 11 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law.

  “Investment agency” refers to agency / intermediary services such as discretionary investment contracts made by investment managers and investment advisory contracts / investment advisory contracts made by investment advisors. Article 2-8 of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act This is the work specified in No.14.

  To perform the above investment advice and agency services, you must be registered with the Finance Bureau as an investment advisory and agency. In addition, registration of investment advisory / agency business is also required for investment advisory services such as paid membership system using the Internet or mail magazine. If you conduct business without receiving investment advisory or agency registration, you will be punished by imprisonment or fines (for imprisonment of up to 3 years or a fine of up to 3 million yen).

  In order to register as an investment advisory / agency business, both corporations and individual businesses can register. There is no difference between the two when applying, and registration is also possible when doing business alone. However, if registration is approved, business deposit (5 million yen) will be required.

  As a system for providing advice on asset management, for example, a system has been proposed in which transactions can be made while receiving advice on asset management, as a specialized advisor works at a window (see Patent Document 1). The system described in Patent Literature 1 generates a plurality of investment scenarios that are suitable and have different characteristics when user attribute information is input from a user terminal, and is based on the investment scenario selected by the user from among those investment scenarios. The operation advice data is returned to the user terminal, and an asset transaction is performed according to the response from the user terminal to the operation advice data.

  Next, conventional techniques related to the affiliate system according to the present invention will be described.

  As a system related to affiliate sales, for example, when a guide link affixed to a product introduction page introduced in an e-mail magazine or blog is clicked on the screen on the user terminal side, the guide link is displayed. It is known that the affiliate sales system of the link destination converts the access destination URL of the user terminal of the operation source from the own URL to the URL on the sales site side, and leads to the sales site of the product. (See Patent Document 2). In the system described in Patent Literature 2, when the purchase link is clicked on the screen of the user terminal when the link destination of the purchase link is made self and the product is purchased on the sales site side of the guide destination, Executes sales and billing processing of the product, stores billing information, and automatically calculates the amount of remuneration paid to the affiliate who introduced the product and the sales price paid to the seller of the product based on the billing information etc. The process of automatically transferring the payment date to the affiliator account and the seller account via the computer of the financial institution is executed.

  In addition, as an affiliate system having a linkage function with a payment system, a charging API that defines a data transmission / reception system related to charging / settlement of an affiliate service is provided between the affiliate sales system and the payment system. When the payment is withdrawn from the user (product purchaser) account according to immediate payment or credit payment, the affiliate sales system receives a payment completion notification including the payment information from the payment system and pays to the affiliate It is known that reward information including a reward amount is returned to the payment system, and the payment system side automatically transfers the balance obtained by subtracting the reward amount from the product price to the store site account (see Patent Document 3). ).

Japanese Patent No. 3247356 Japanese Patent No. 4224116 Japanese Patent No. 4129291

  By the way, nowadays, it is an era where anyone can earn money through online transactions if they have the know-how. People who have succeeded in investing using online transactions have the hope that they can make money from know-how by selling information on their success know-how or by providing investment advice on paid member sites and e-mail magazines. I started.

  However, as mentioned above, application for registration with the Treasury Department is required to provide advice, proxy, and agency for investments. The problem here is that a large business security deposit (5 million yen) is required for registration applications. Many people do not have the financial power to prepare this business security deposit, and if they give investment advice on paid member sites or e-mail magazines, it is illegal, so those who cannot apply for registration have know-how. Even if they are capable, investment advice / advice and agency / representative work are not possible.

  However, many of the people mentioned above, that is, those who have investment know-how and ability but have no financial power, are able to provide advice to investors from a professional standpoint by using paid member sites and e-mail magazines. A computer system that can be used automatically has not been realized. For example, the advice system described in Patent Document 1 exemplified in the background art can receive operation advice data based on the investment scenario selected by the user on the user terminal side, so that asset management advice can be obtained according to the user's preference. Also, as one means of asset management, there is an effect that it is possible to use net trade more easily than before. However, since the advice system is an automated system, it could not be applied as a system for utilizing people who have the know-how and ability of investment as described above but have no financial power.

  The “investment advice business” according to the present invention (hereinafter referred to as a cram school for the sake of simplification) is a member (hereinafter referred to as “instructor”) who contracts to receive investment advice from a leader who advises investment (hereinafter referred to as a lecturer). This is a mechanism for providing investment advice to members). This mechanism is very similar to that of a cram school, and instructors are often contract employees rather than regular employees.

  In the case of a cram school-type business, apart from the financial problems such as investment advisory (the problem that it is necessary to prepare a large amount of business security deposit when applying for registration), the following four fundamental problems ( I have assignment 1-4).

Problem 1. It is difficult to acquire excellent teachers. If the attending members do not gather, it will not become a business Issue 3. Monthly membership fee collection is difficult and not automatic. Participating member does not continue easily

  However, an effective mechanism for solving the above problems has not been realized.

  The present invention is made up of the circumstances as described above, and the object of the present invention is to solve the many problems that the above-mentioned cram school-type business has (the acquisition of excellent lecturers and the gathering members). It is to provide a mechanism for solving problems such as difficulties. Specifically, an object of the present invention is to provide a mechanism for solving the above-described problems by using functions of an existing affiliate system without constructing a new system from scratch.

The present invention relates to a cram school management support program and a cram school management support method using an affiliate system, and a cram school management support system,
Regarding the invention of the program, the above object of the present invention is to change the access destination URL from its own URL according to the click operation of the guide link affixed to the introduction page of the product introduced by the introducer on the mail magazine or website. Address conversion means for converting the address to the URL of the product sales site, advertisement / sales means for advertising and selling the product at the sales site, payment for the product sold at the sales site, and payment to the introducer A billing and settlement means for charging / settlement processing of affiliate rewards by a linkage process with the settlement system side, a school administration support program for causing an affiliate system to function as a school administration support system, the address conversion means The URL of the guidance management support system URL to the URL of the guidance link As a lecturer recruiting / contracting means for performing the recruitment and contract processing of instructor applicants on the notice site, functioning as a means for guiding to the notice site by converting the address to the URL of the notice site The accounting settlement means functioning as a lecturer contract fee collection means for executing a billing settlement process by a cooperative process with the settlement system for a contract fee with a lecturer who has concluded a contract by the contract process; and This is achieved by causing the billing settlement means to function as an introduction fee payment means for paying an introduction fee to the introducer of the lecturer.

  Further, the object of the present invention is to make the advertisement / sales means further function as a student member recruiting / contracting means for executing attending member recruiting and contract processing, and to make the billing settlement means a contract by the contract processing. Further functioning as a attending member contract money collecting means for executing a billing settlement process by a cooperation process with the settlement system side regarding the contracted fee of the attended student member, and attending the contract for which the contract by the contract process is concluded. This is achieved more effectively by further functioning as an introduction fee payment means for paying an introduction fee to a member introducer.

  Regarding the invention of the method, the above object of the present invention is to change the access destination URL from its own URL according to the click operation of the guide link affixed to the introduction page of the product introduced by the introducer on the mail magazine or website. Address conversion means for converting the address to the URL of the product sales site, advertisement / sales means for advertising and selling the product at the sales site, payment for the product sold at the sales site, and payment to the introducer A billing and settlement means for performing affiliate fee billing and settlement processing by cooperation processing with the settlement system side, a school administration support method for causing an affiliate system to function as a school administration support system, the address conversion means From the URL of the cram school management support system Functioning as a means for guiding to the notification site by converting the address to the URL of the URL, and the advertisement / sales means functioning as a lecturer recruitment / contract means for executing recruitment and contract processing of lecturer applicants at the notification site And a step of causing the billing settlement means to function as a lecturer contract payment collecting means for executing a billing settlement process by a cooperation process with the settlement system for a contract fee with a lecturer who has concluded a contract by the contract process; And causing the billing and settlement means to function as an introduction fee payment means for paying an introduction fee to the introducer of the instructor.

  Regarding the invention of the system, the above object of the present invention is to change the access destination URL from its own URL according to the click operation of the guide link affixed to the introduction page of the product introduced by the introducer on the mail magazine or website. Address conversion means for converting the address to the URL of the product sales site, advertisement / sales means for advertising and selling the product at the sales site, payment for the product sold at the sales site, and payment to the introducer A charge / settlement means for performing affiliate compensation billing / settlement processing by cooperation processing with the settlement system side, and a school administration support system using an affiliate system function, wherein the address conversion means is connected to the guidance link Access destination URL from the URL of the school administration support system to the URL of the announcement site The first information processing means that functions as a means for guiding to the notification site by replacing the advertisement / sales means as lecturer recruitment / contract means for executing recruitment and contract processing of lecturer applicants at the notification site The second information processing means for functioning, and the charging settlement means for performing the charging settlement processing by the cooperation processing with the settlement system side for the contract fee with the lecturer who has concluded the contract by the contract processing. And a third information processing unit that functions as a fourth information processing unit that causes the charging and settlement unit to function as an introduction fee payment unit that pays an introduction fee to the introducer of the lecturer. Is done.

  According to the present invention, each means included in the affiliate system is caused to function as a means for solving the problems of the school-type business. Therefore, it is possible to construct a cram school operation support system that can solve the problems of a cram school-type business at low cost without constructing a new system from scratch. In addition, since the affiliate's ability to announce advertisements can be demonstrated, it will be possible to easily acquire excellent lecturers and to collect monthly membership fees (contract fees with contract lecturers) through linkage processing with the payment system. Can be collected automatically. In addition, it is possible to automatically pay the instructor's introducer, and for example, if the introducer is an acquaintance, the instructor will not be able to quit without permission. It becomes possible to deter. Further, according to the inventions according to claims 2 to 3, the same effect can be obtained for the attending members.

It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the whole structure of the cram school management support system using the affiliate system which concerns on this invention. It is a block diagram which shows an example of a structure of the affiliate system which concerns on this invention. It is a schematic diagram for demonstrating the affiliate sales process in an affiliate system. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the acquisition process of the affiliate ID in an affiliate system. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the address conversion process in an affiliate system. It is a schematic diagram which shows the structure of the billing settlement system in an affiliate system. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the cooperation process of an affiliate system and a payment system. It is a schematic diagram which shows an example of the whole structure of the cram school management support system which concerns on this invention in contrast with the structure of the affiliate system of FIG. It is a flowchart for demonstrating contract processing with a lecturer.

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

  First, the term “school” in the present invention will be described. In the investment advisory business (hereinafter referred to as “cram school” for simplicity of explanation), members (hereinafter referred to as “participating members”) who have been contracted to receive investment advice by instructors who provide investment advice (hereinafter referred to as “instructors”) This is a mechanism for providing investment advice. This mechanism is very similar to that of a cram school, and instructors are often contract employees rather than regular employees.

  The embodiment described below is preferably applied to the above-mentioned “school (investment advisory)”, but the school subject to the school administration support system according to the present invention is not limited to the investment advisory. “Cram school” in the present invention is defined as a place where a lecturer provides education and advice in an organized manner, such as a preparatory school, a preparatory school or supplementary school, a language school such as an English conversation class, and a school that provides investment advice. To do. In addition, the place is not limited to a classroom, but includes a classroom (virtual community) on a network using the Internet and a place for education and advice using an e-mail magazine.

《Configuration of school management support system》
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of a cram school management support system using an affiliate system according to the present invention. The cram school management support system 50 according to the present invention is a computer system for supporting various operations required for cram school management using each means provided in the affiliate sales system 30. In a preferred embodiment, the cram school management support system 50 is a computer program (hereinafter referred to as “cram school”) that functions as each means of the affiliate sales system 30 as a cram school management support means 51A for executing various business processes necessary for cram school management. This is a computer system that implements an “operation support program”.

  As a hardware configuration, the cram school management support system 50 includes a server (hereinafter referred to as “cram school management support server”) 51 provided with the cram school management support means 51A, and a customer master DB (database) 52. .

  The work supported by the cram school management support server 51 is, for example, work such as acquisition of excellent lecturers, acquisition of attending members, collection of contract fees from instructors, collection of attendance fees from attending members, and the like. In the present embodiment, the cram school management support server 51 is also configured to automatically execute an introduction fee payment process for the instructor introducer and an introduction fee payment process for the lecturer introducer.

  In FIG. 1, a cram school management support server 51 is connected to each user terminal 3 and the payment system 40 through a network 6 such as the Internet so as to be able to communicate with each other. In this example, the user terminal 3 is a terminal of a lecturer applicant 3A, a terminal of a lecturer introducer 3B, a terminal of a student applicant 3C, and a student introducer terminal.

  The affiliate sales system 30 is a computer system that performs processing related to affiliate sales, and as a main means, a guide link pasted by an introducer on a page of a website such as an email magazine or a web log or a social networking site. In response to a click operation by the user, an “address conversion means 30a” that converts the URL of the access destination from the own URL (URL of the affiliate sales system 30) to the URL of the product sales site, and the above-mentioned sales site on the network "Advertisement / sales means 30b" for advertising and selling products at the virtual store, and billing / settlement processing of the fees for the products sold at the sales site and affiliate fees paid to affiliates (product introducers) Payment system 40 Carried out by the cooperative processing with and a "billing and settlement means 30c".

  The cram school management support system 50 according to the present invention is a computer system having the address conversion means 30a and the advertisement / sales means 30b described above. As a computer system having the above-described charging and settlement means 30c, a known affiliate system (hereinafter referred to as "second system") described in Patent Document 3 described in the background art is applied. ing. The affiliate sales system 30 in FIG. 1 is shown as a system including the above-described means 30a to 30c by fusing the first system and the second system.

  In the present embodiment, each means 51a-51e, which is a constituent element of the school administration support means 51A, is constructed using each means 30a-30c of the affiliate sales system 30. In other words, a school management support system 50 according to the present invention is realized by providing a school management support program that operates the means included in the affiliate sales system 30 as each means 51a-51e of the school management support means 51A. Yes.

  As a form of the system for operating the affiliate sales system 30 as the cram school management support means 51A in FIG. 1, for example, (1) by calling a subprogram of the affiliate sales system 30 from the main program of the school management support system 50 Forms to be realized, (2) Form in which a dedicated program in which the affiliate sales system 30 program is changed to support private school management is provided in the private school management support system 50, (3) The private school management support system 50 in the affiliate sales system 30 program (4) The affiliate sales system 30 and the school administration support system 50 are operated in cooperation with each other, but any form may be used.

  Hereinafter, before describing the configuration of the school administration support system according to the present invention in detail, a method for solving the problems of the present invention will be described first.

  In the present invention, the following means 1 to 4 described in the problem to be solved by the invention are solved by using the above-described means 30a-30c and the like provided in the existing affiliate sales system 30. Details of the configuration of the affiliate sales system 30 will be described later.

<Challenges in private school business>
Problem 1. It is difficult to acquire excellent teachers. If the attending members do not gather, it will not become a business Issue 3. Monthly membership fee collection is difficult and not automatic. Participating members do not continue easily <Method to solve the above issues>
The affiliate sales system 30 illustrated in FIG. 1 functions as (a) a first system for attracting excellent lecturers and attending members by advertising notice, and (b) affiliate sales to the customer. It functions as a second system for charging membership fees (instructor's contract fee, attending member's tuition fee) in cooperation with the system.

  In other words, the first system having the address conversion means 30a and the advertisement / sales means 30b described above functions as a function means (lecturer recruitment / contract means 51a in FIG. 1) for acquiring an excellent lecturer of the problem 1, and the problem. It also functions as a function means (collecting member recruiting / contracting means 51c in FIG. 1) for collecting the two attending members.

  The mechanism for advertising advertisements of products in the first system is a mechanism that can widely announce advertisements using the Internet, and is thus far more effective than a mechanism for advertising and recruiting with conventional newspapers and flyers. In the present embodiment, the product is regarded as a lecturer (and a student member), and the address conversion means 30a and the advertisement / sales means 30b of the affiliate sales system 30 are replaced with the lecturer recruitment / contract means of the cram school management support system 50. 51a and member recruiting / contracting means 51c.

  Specifically, in the present embodiment, the access destination URL is changed from its own URL to the product sales site according to the click operation of the guide link affixed to the introduction page of the product introduced by the introducer on the e-mail magazine or website. "Address conversion means 30a" that converts the address to the URL of the URL, and "advertisement / sales means 30b" that performs advertisement advertisement and sale processing of the product at the sales site, URL of the guidance management support system 50 as the access destination URL of the guide link "Instructor recruitment / contract means 51a" that guides to the announcement site by converting the address to the URL of the announcement site, and executes recruitment and contract processing of lecturer applicants at the notification site, and recruitment and contract processing of attending members By functioning as “participating member recruitment / contract means 51c”, the assignment 1 and the assignment 2 So that attain.

  Problem 3 is generally a means of paying with a cash bag or debiting a bank account, and it is difficult to say that the system is charged automatically. Although charging by credit payment is gradually increasing, it can be effectively realized by using a mechanism for charging in cooperation with a payment system having an affiliate function. In the present embodiment, the mechanism of the second system realizes a mechanism that allows the instructor (and attending members) of the cram school to continuously charge after attracting customers by demonstrating the advertising notification ability of the affiliate by the function of the first system. is doing.

  In the present embodiment, the affiliate sales system 30 is processed by regarding the product as an instructor (and a student member) and treating the product introducer as an instructor 3B (and a student introducer 3C). The charge settlement means 30c of the school is functioning as a lecturer contract fee collection means 51b, a student membership contract collection means 51d, and an introduction fee payment means (instructor or student introduction fee payment means) 51e of the cram school management support system 50. .

  By the way, in the judgment of whether or not the contract instructor (and students) will continue as a member, generally when there is no introducer, it is easy to decide to quit the member only by the judgment of the member, If it exists, for example, if the introducer is an acquaintance, it is difficult to quit the contract instructor (and student) without permission, so in most cases the member will continue unless there is a problem with continuation. It often happens.

  That is, the affiliate sales system 30 according to the present embodiment has a function that affects not only the ability to attract customers and the advertisement notification regarding the instantaneous sales, but also the continuation of the billing such as the continuous billing school that pays the membership fee every month. In the cram school management support system 50 according to the invention, the function is used as a means for continuing members in a cram school.

  Furthermore, an affiliate who is an introducer generates an affiliate reward only for the moment in sales for a moment, but the cram school management support system 50 according to the present invention includes a billing settlement means 30c provided in the affiliate sales system 30. By using it, the member can continue to receive the introduced affiliate rewards while continuing. Due to the effect of this influence, a considerable effect is exerted on the problem 4.

《Methods related to support processing for school administration》
Hereinafter, as methods related to the support processing of the cram school management in the cram school management support system 50 according to the present invention, the “method of contracting the lecturer”, “method of collecting the contract fee of the lecturer contract”, “method of acquiring the attending members”, and “ The method of collecting the contract fee for attending members will be explained in turn. These methods are methods in which the mechanism of the existing affiliate sales system 30 is applied to the school administration support system 50. The mechanism of the affiliate sales system 30 will be described later, and an application method will be described here.

<Lecturer Contract Method>
The method of contracting the instructor is just to think that the product that the affiliator announces in the blog or e-mail magazine is the “instructor contract”.

  That is, in the lecturer contract of this example, assuming that the lecturer applicant 3A purchases the right to become an instructor from a cram school, the product = lecturer applicant 3A, the merchant seller = the cram school company, the product sales establishment = The contract with the instructor applicant 3A is concluded, and the second system described above is fully functional.

  In addition, in the case of a cram school operated by the instructor applicant, the “cram school operator” mentioned here corresponds to the business operator of the cram school management support system. For example, in the case of investment advisory / agency business, the operator who operates the cram school management support system registers investment advisory / agency business, pays a business security deposit, concludes a contract with instructor applicant 3A, It becomes a form to support the administration of the cram school by the contract lecturer. On the other hand, if there is a cram school operator at a language school or the like, the cram school operator (or the cram school management support system operator who represents the cram school business operator) uses the cram school management support system 50 as a lecturer. Applicants are recruited and a contract is concluded between the cram school and the instructor applicant 3A.

  The processing flow in the affiliate sales system 30 will be described. The instructor applicant 3A is guided by a guidance link of a “product introduction page” such as a blog or an e-mail magazine notified by the affiliate, and a notification page (a store of the affiliate system described later). On the product screen of the site, clicking the purchase link from the “product list” jumps to the purchase page, and the contract is charged by being charged for the settlement.

  This billing process is performed by the billing settlement means 30c provided in the affiliate system (the above-mentioned second system: the affiliate sales system 30 in this example) having the function of cooperating with the settlement system. By adopting the execution form, the lecturer introducer 3B registered as an affiliate can receive an affiliate reward as an introduction reward from the lecturer applicant 3A.

<Monthly contract fee collection method for instructor contracts>
If a lecturer contract is concluded and you become a lecturer, the cram school can collect a monthly contract fee from the lecturer. This billing is a system in which a contract fee is collected on the same day every month, starting from the contract date. In the case of many similar membership fee collections, the membership fee is generally collected at the end of the month or at the beginning of the month, or on the specified closing date of the month. However, in the affiliate sales system 30 according to the present invention, the same date every month starting from the contract date. It is set as a mechanism to charge for. That is, for example, if the contract is made on the 5th of the month, the membership fee is collected on the 5th of the following month.

  This charging mechanism also stores the ID of the affiliator (instructor introducer 3B), and from the monthly fee collection, the instructor is identified by the “billing settlement means 30c of the second system having a linkage function with the settlement system”. It is assumed that an affiliate reward is generated for the introduced lecturer introducer 3B.

  By the way, if it is not an “affiliate system that has a linkage function with the payment system”, that is, a general online shopping system, the store has a credit payment account, and ASP (Affiliate Service Provider) collects money from the store. Because it has to be done (because it is not linked to the payment system), it is not possible to process the aggregation and payment of affiliate rewards smoothly.

<Method for acquiring attending members and collecting monthly contract fees for attending members>
All of these methods can also be realized by applying the mechanism of the existing affiliate sales system 30 to the school administration support system 50. In the case of attending members, the contract is concluded with product = applicant 3C, product sales establishment = applicant 3C, affiliator = student introducer 3D, and the content of the product is different. The method can be processed in exactly the same way as the method of collecting monthly contract fees for tutoring contracts.

  Membership fee information collected from attending members is stored in the charge DB in the customer master DB 52 in the cram school support system 50 and paid to the instructor based on information such as the charge information, system usage fee, presence / absence of an introducer, etc. Is determined and payment processing is executed with the card company computer via the payment system 40 based on the account information of the instructor. The specific explanation of the method for acquiring the student member and the method for collecting the monthly contract fee of the student member overlaps with the explanation of the instructor, and will be omitted.

  Below, the detail of the structure of the affiliate sales system 30 which concerns on this invention is demonstrated, and the structure of the cram school management support system 50 matched with the affiliate sales system 30 is demonstrated after that. The affiliate sales system 30 described below is a system in which the first system and the second system described above are merged. In the cram school management support system 50, each function means of the existing first system and the second system is provided. Is used. As a result, the school management support system 50 can be constructed at a low cost and various services effective for school management can be provided.

<< Configuration of Affiliate Sales System 30 >>
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of the affiliate system according to the present invention. The “affiliate system” referred to in the present invention refers to an ASP (Affiliate Service Provider) system in a narrow sense, but in a broad sense refers to the entire computer network system shown in FIG. To tell. Hereinafter, the ASP computer system is referred to as an “affiliate sales system” (or “ASP”), and the entire system is referred to as an “affiliate system”.

  The affiliate system according to the present invention is an EC (Electronic Commerce) site device (EC site computer, hereinafter referred to as “store site”) that sells merchandise (digital contents and articles) to be sold in a virtual store on a network such as an electronic shopping mall. 10), an affiliate site device 20 provided by the affiliate 2 (a computer for posting a blog, an e-mail magazine, a homepage, etc.), an affiliate sales system 30 for providing an affiliate service, and a computer of each card company And a payment system 40 that performs a payment process in the network, and these are connected to each other via a network such as the Internet. The term “affiliator” as used herein refers to a person (introducer) who earns a sales margin by introducing and selling a product issuer's product on his site.

  The communication terminals (3a, 3b) of the user (purchaser) 3 are information processing terminals equipped with a browser, such as personal computers (PCs), mobile phones, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), etc. An information processing apparatus can be used. The “purchaser” as used herein refers to a person who purchases the exhibited product.

  The affiliate sales system 30 is an information processing system that is operated and managed by an ASP (Affiliate Service Provider), and is a core computer that performs all information processing related to affiliate services, such as fee processing and payment processing in cooperation with the payment system. System. The affiliate sales system 30 includes a plurality of computers for realizing an affiliate program, such as a Web server, a database server, a mail server, and an operation management server, and a database 34.

  The main database 34 includes a product database for storing information on products to be exhibited on the store site 10 in association with a product ID and a category ID indicating the category of the product, and information on the affiliator 2 (name, address, electronic Affiliator information database, store (seller) that stores email addresses, payee accounts, product category IDs approved by advertisers for product categories, etc., in association with affiliate IDs (identifiers that identify the affiliates) ) Information (such as a transfer destination account for the sales price of the product) is stored in association with the store ID, and payment company information (API protocol with the payment system, etc.) is stored in association with the payment company ID. Payment company database, user (purchaser) 3 name, address, e-mail address, product purchase price Authentication information for the online payment, a buyer database to be stored in association with user information such as the card information to the user ID.

  As information on the purchaser 3, user information such as the name and address of the purchaser 3 is used in the purchaser information database in order to receive product shipment and service provision from the seller 1 (product provider) in the affiliate sales system 30. It is registered in.

  In the present embodiment, the affiliate sales system 30 is provided with an API (Application Program Interface) that defines a data transmission / reception system related to the accounting / settlement of the affiliate service as an application layer interface with the settlement system 40. The affiliate sales system 30 and the settlement system 40 are linked using the API (hereinafter referred to as “billing API”), and the sales price transfer process to the EC store and the payment process of the reward to the affiliate are automatically performed. I am doing so.

  Assume that the cooperation processing between the affiliate sales system 30 and the settlement system 40 using the accounting API will be described later. First, the basic processing of the affiliate sales system 30 according to the present invention will be described.

<< Basic Processing in Affiliate Sales System 30 >>
<< 1. Merchant information registration process >>
First, the seller information registration process will be described.
A seller who sells merchandise at the store site 10 accesses a Web server in the affiliate sales system 30 from a communication terminal such as a PC, and follows the guidance displayed on the registration screen of the seller. Enter name, address, phone number, password, bank account information, merchant ID, etc.) and send to Web server. The Web server registers in the database 34 (store DB) so as to be searchable by the store ID and the seller ID, and completes the seller information registration process. The main purpose of the registration of seller information here is to store seller information according to laws and regulations and store transfer information of sales.

<< 2. Affiliator information registration process >>
Next, information registration processing of the affiliator 2 will be described. The operation related to the information registration process is the same as that of the seller information registration process, and will be described below in a simplified manner.
The information registration screen displayed on the display unit of the communication terminal of the affiliate 2 includes the affiliate information (the name, address, telephone number, secret key (password), bank account information, affiliate ID, etc. of the affiliate 2). The web server receives the affiliate information and registers it in the database 34 (affiliator DB) so that it can be searched by the affiliate ID or the like. The affiliate ID is an introduction ID for sales.

<< 3. Product information registration process >>
Next, a registration process for information on products for sale by a store (seller) will be described.
The product information registration screen displayed on the display unit of the seller's communication terminal is provided with input fields such as product name, provided price, product description, URL of the seller page on the store site 10 and product photo. The seller 1 inputs information on a product desired to be sold on the screen. The Web server in the affiliate sales system 30 receives the product information, automatically assigns a product ID (in this example, a system-specific product number nnn), and identifies the product ID and the seller. Are registered in the database 34 (product DB) so as to be searchable by the seller ID of the customer.

<< 4. Affiliate link generation process >>
Next, a process for generating an affiliate link (hereinafter referred to as “guidance link”) that is guided to the Web page of the seller in the store site 10 will be described.

  First, the affiliator 2 that has registered the affiliator information described above accesses the affiliate sales system 30 from a communication terminal in order to introduce a product on its own site. After the affiliate sales system 30 authenticates the affiliate 2 by checking the login ID and password, the affiliate sales system 30 displays a product list screen 11 showing a list of products on the display unit of the communication terminal. The affiliator 2 guides the purchaser by selecting a favorite product from the product list 11a and pasting a guide link on his / her blog or mail magazine. In this embodiment, the unit that the advertiser permits the affiliate 2 to introduce the product is the category unit of the product, and when a new product belonging to the category is posted on the store site, the affiliate is A list of new products is automatically notified by e-mail from the sales system. For this reason, it is possible to select a favorite product from the list of new products notified by e-mail and paste a guide link to his / her blog or e-mail magazine.

  The guide link is an affiliate link provided by the affiliate sales system 30 and includes, for example, URL information obtained by adding the affiliate ID, the URL of the seller page, and the product ID as arguments to the URL of the affiliate sales system 30. For example, when the user 3 (applicant for purchase) clicks on the introduction product 21a with the guide link L1 on the web screen of the affiliate site 20 in FIG. 2, via the affiliate sales system 30 that is the first access destination, It moves to the URL of the seller page that is the link destination, and information on the product 11a corresponding to the product ID is displayed on the display unit of the communication terminal of the user 3. At that time, the affiliate sales system 30 extracts information on the product from the product database based on the product ID in the guide link L1, and also accesses the seller page of the access destination from the URL of the seller page in the guide link L1. Is recognized. Furthermore, the introducer of the product identifies the introducer (affiliator 2) of the product based on the affiliate ID in the guide link, and extracts information on the affiliate 2 from the affiliate information database.

<< 5. Guide process to seller page by address conversion >>
Next, the guidance process to the seller page will be described.
A feature of affiliate sales is to guide the user to the seller page once. By this guidance, it is possible to make up for the shortage of information in the case of listing on a normal shopping site, and to promote the purchase motivation.

  Therefore, when the guide link is clicked on the web page of the blog or mail magazine of the affiliate 2 (on the screen of the user 3's terminal), the affiliate sales system 30 acquires the URL of the seller page in the guide link. The address of the access destination is converted into the URL address of the seller page, and jumps to the seller page indicated by the URL.

<< 6. Purchase link to be set on the seller page >>
Next, the purchase link set in the seller page will be described.
In the affiliate sales system 30, the address is converted to the URL of the seller page using a guide link, so that it is guided to the seller page (the page on which the product 11 a on the product screen 11 in FIG. 2 is displayed). However, when the user is guided to the seller page, the sale cannot be established unless the user actually purchases it. Therefore, a purchase link (for example, a product ID is added to the URL of the affiliate sales system 30 as an argument to the seller page in advance) URL information) is set in advance. When the user 3 clicks the purchase link L2 on the seller page, the user 3 moves to the affiliate sales system 30, and the affiliate sales system 30 transmits the screen data of the purchase page 31a to the user terminal 11c. Displayed on the terminal display. When purchasing a product, the user 3 selects a payment mode (card payment, bank transfer payment, etc.), and inputs a user ID, a password, etc. on the screen 41 of the payment page 41a according to the payment mode. Click the purchase button to purchase the desired product. At that time, if the user information is registered in the purchaser database described above, it is not necessary to input card information or the like, and based on the account information corresponding to the payment mode selected by the user, the payment information is sent via the payment system 40. Payment processing is executed with a card company computer.

  In addition, since the affiliate ID of the introducer generally disappears via the seller page, in this embodiment, in response to the click operation of the guide link displayed on the screen of the user terminal. Thus, it is possible to save the information in which the product ID or the seller ID for identifying the seller and the affiliate ID are recorded in the information storage medium. By adopting this form, a method independent of the type of client terminal can be achieved. Alternatively, once the affiliate ID is saved in the cookie with the guidance link, and the purchase link is clicked, the affiliate ID is restored to restore the affiliate ID of the introducer, and the introduction specified by the affiliate ID It may be a method of generating an affiliate reward for a person.

<Outline of linkage processing with payment system>
Next, an outline of the cooperation process between the affiliate sales system 30 and the payment system 40 will be described.

  The affiliate system according to the present invention calls the above-mentioned charging API in the process of executing the charging / settlement processing for the product ordered by the user 3 at the store site 10, and the detailed data (between the settlement system 40 and the affiliate sales system 30 ( (Detailed data relating to payment processing and payment processing of product introduction fee) is exchanged, and the payment processing of the product price in the payment system 40 is linked with the charging processing and the payment processing of the reward in the affiliate sales system 30.

  In FIG. 2, the payment system 40 displays the payment information of the product price (the price of the product purchased by the user 3 at the store site 10) in accordance with the billing API protocol that stipulates the information exchange method with the affiliate sales system 30. Based on the affiliate link processing means (affiliate link processing unit 42) that executes the process of transmitting to the affiliate sales system 30 and the process of receiving reward information from the affiliate sales system 30, and the reward information received by the affiliate link processing unit 42 And a settlement processing means (settlement processing unit 43) for determining a product price to be transferred to the account of the exhibition store (seller) and executing a process of transferring the product price to the account of the exhibition store (seller). .

  On the other hand, the affiliate sales system 30 determines the process of receiving payment information from the payment system 40 and the affiliate reward (reward paid to the affiliate who introduced the product) based on the received payment information in accordance with the protocol of the billing API. And a payment cooperation processing means (payment cooperation processing unit 32) for executing processing for returning the reward information including the determined affiliate reward to the payment system 40, and the sales of the product based on the payment information. Compensation determining means (compensation determining unit 33) for executing processing to be determined according to the amount.

  The names of the respective means are given for convenience of explanation, and do not limit the software configuration or the processing order. A program and control data for causing a computer to execute a procedure for linking the above-described settlement processing and processing related to an affiliate service are stored in an external storage medium, and the computer in the affiliate system (affiliate sales system 30). , Stored in the storage means of the settlement system 40).

《Affiliate sales process using address translation》
Next, an affiliate sales process using address translation will be described.

  The affiliate sales system of the affiliate sales system 30 of the present invention is a link pasted on an e-mail magazine or the like, and a purchase link that is affixed to the website of the seller 1 by the address conversion means and pasted there. It is something to be purchased at.

  In the present embodiment, the affiliator 2 is added to the URL of the affiliate sales system 30 as link information (hereinafter referred to as “affiliate link” or “guidance link”) for guiding the link to the website of the seller 1. The ID for identification (hereinafter referred to as “affiliate ID”), the URL of the seller page (Web page of seller 1), and the product ID for identifying the product are referred to as arguments (“argument URL”). ) Is added (hereinafter referred to as “guidance link generation means”).

In the guide link generation means, for example, when the affiliate sales system 30 is on the web, the server domain name is “WWW.xyz.JP”, the affiliate ID is “abc”, and the seller page URL is “def.JP/ghi.html”. If the product ID is “nnn”, the following affili link is generated. In other words, the guide link generation means generates link information in which (a1) the affiliate ID, (a2) the URL of the seller page, and (a3) the product ID are added as arguments below the URL of the affiliate sales system 30. .

<An example of an affili link (link for guidance)>
http://www.xyz.jp/af.php?af=abc&url=def.jp/ghi.html&item=nnn

In this example, the code after “af =” is the affiliate ID of the introducer, the URL after “url =” is the URL of the seller page, and after “item =” Information is a product ID (unique number in the system).

  When guided by this affiliate link, the affiliate sales system 30 stores a cookie that records the product ID (or the ID of the seller 1) and the ID of the affiliate 2 on the communication terminal (3a, 3b) of the prospective purchaser. Set. In other words, in response to the click operation of the guide link on the screen by the purchaser 3, there is provided means for setting a cookie that records the product ID or the seller ID and the affiliate ID in the purchaser terminal. Accordingly, the cookie can hold the expiration date α days (for example, α = 30) as to who was the introducer of the product.

  Therefore, at this stage, if the prospective purchaser puts the URL address (URL address incorporating the affililink) into the “favorite list” of the browser, the prospective purchaser will later purchase the product (the product specified by the product ID). If the product is still within the expiration date of α days, it is fixed who the introducer (affiliator 2) of the product is.

As shown in the following example, a link with a product ID “nnn” (referred to as a “purchase link”) is set on the seller page so that the product is purchased by this mechanism.

<Example of purchase link>
www.xyz.jp/a.php?item=nnn

In this example, the item ID is behind “item =”. Here, the affiliate ID that is the introducer is not described. The reason is that the affiliate ID is stored and held by a cookie or a session, and the affiliate ID is restored and functions in a place invisible to the user.

《Affiliate sales process flow》
The above-described affiliate sales process flow is shown in FIG.

  Hereinafter, an operation example of the affiliate sales system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the schematic diagram of FIG. Note that the Web server 10A in FIG. 3 is a server of the store site 10 where the merchandise explanation page of the seller is installed, and the user terminal 1A is a communication terminal of the purchaser (general user). In addition, (P1) to (P5) in FIG. 3 indicate the flow of processing, and the arrows in FIG. 3 indicate the flow of information via the communication network. Hereinafter, the flow of the affiliate sales process will be described along the flow of (P1) to (P5).

(P1) Notification Mail The “notification mail” here refers to a sales promotion mail distributed to prospective customers in order for the affiliate 2 to announce, introduce and sell a product. In the affiliate sales system 30, an affiliate link is set in the text of the notification mail, and the purchase is guided. The affiliate link set here is the affiliate link shown as the first example or the second example described above, but is the first example in the example of FIG. That is, an affiliate link in a format in which (a1) the affiliate ID, (a2) the seller page URL, and (a3) the product ID is added to the end of the URL of the affiliate sales system 30 is set in the notice mail. Yes.

(P2) Holding Affili Link Information When the user clicks on an affili link (AFI link in FIG. 3) in the mail text (or on a web page such as a program) displayed on the screen of the user terminal 3A, the user terminal 3A If you set a cookie that records the product ID (or merchant ID) and affiliate ID in the URL, and then close the browser or turn off the computer, the cookie will expire (for example, 30 days from the setting date) ) Is set to reproduce this information.

(P3) Address Conversion When the affiliate link is clicked in P2, the affiliate sales system 30 guides to the website (store site) of the seller 1 by the address conversion means of the access URL. The URL address conversion processing by this address conversion means will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS.

<< Induction process to store site by address conversion >>
First, affiliate ID acquisition processing will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  The affiliate sales system 30 analyzes session information with the user terminal 3A to check whether an affiliate ID exists (step S11), and determines whether or not there is an affiliate ID (step S12). And when it determines with affiliate ID existing, affiliate ID is acquired from session information (step S13), and when it determines with affiliate ID not existing, the content of a cookie is read and affiliate ID is acquired from a cookie ( Step S14).

  The above logic is a logic for switching between a session and a cookie as a method of acquiring an affiliate ID when acquiring and inheriting an affiliate ID when shifting from an affiliate link to purchasing a product. For example, when a direct transition is made to purchase of a product without closing the browser from the affiliate link, a session can exist, so the affiliate ID is acquired from the session. In addition, for example, when the URL of the seller page is once entered in “Favorites” and the product is purchased later, the session is cut off because the personal computer is turned off or the browser is closed. No longer exists. In that case, the cookie set when the affiliate link is read is read, and the affiliate ID is acquired.

  Next, with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 5, the address conversion process when shifting from the affiliate link to the purchase of the product will be described.

  The affiliate sales system 30 first acquires the argument URL in the affiliate link (step S21), and determines whether or not the argument URL is empty (step S22). If it is determined that the argument URL is not empty, the URL of the seller page is acquired from the affiliate link (step S23). If it is determined that the argument URL is empty, the merchandise ID (or seller ID) of the affiliate link is acquired. The URL of the seller page stored in association with is acquired from the product information database 34c (step S24).

  Then, in response to the click operation of the affiliate link, the address conversion means converts the access destination URL of the user terminal 3A, which is the operation source, from the URL of the affiliate sales system 30 to the URL address of the seller page. To the site specified by the URL of the user page (jump). In the above affiliate link example, the URL is converted from "http://www.xyz.jp" to "def.jp/ghi.html", and the seller indicated by "def.jp/ghi.html" Move to the URL of the page. At that time, using the HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) redirect function (LOCATION instruction response), the setting of the page to be displayed instantaneously is set to the URL of the seller page (step S25).

(P4) Display of Merchant Page When the user moves (jumps) to the URL of the merchant page, the merchant page displayed and set by the address conversion (P3) is displayed on the display unit of the user terminal 3A. In the seller page, by displaying the product information corresponding to the product ID (the above-mentioned product description, product photo, etc.), the shortage of information is compensated compared to the case of listing on a normal shopping site, It can aim for the effect of driving purchase motivation. The user can purchase the product by clicking a purchase link on the seller page displayed on the display unit of the user terminal 3A.

(P5) Display of purchase page When the user clicks the purchase link on the seller page, the user moves to the affiliate sales system 30, and the affiliate sales system 30 transmits the screen data of the purchase page to the user terminal 3A. It is displayed on the display unit of the user terminal 3A. When purchasing a product, the user selects a payment mode (card payment, bank transfer payment, etc.) and purchases the desired product.
<< Cooperation with payment system >>
The flow of the process of the affiliate system according to the present invention including the cooperation process between the affiliate sales system and the settlement system according to the present invention in the configuration as described above will be described.

  Here, with reference to the schematic diagram illustrating the mechanism of the billing settlement method in FIG. 6 and the flowchart in FIG. 7, the mechanism until the reward is paid to the affiliator will be described. It should be noted that the description of the processing that has already been described or processing that is similar to the conventional processing is simplified or omitted.

  The store site 10 that has received the product order from the terminal of the user 3 transmits the product order information to the settlement system 40 of the settlement company, and requests settlement of the product price. The settlement system 40 that has accepted the settlement request performs a user authentication process with the computer of the card company 5 corresponding to the card number of the user 3 based on the order information, and then sends a completion notification (order reception completion notification) to the store. Send to site 10. The store site 10 that has received the completion notification from the payment system 40 displays a completion screen on the display unit of the user terminal and notifies the user 3 that the order acceptance of the product has been completed (steps S41 and S42 in FIG. 7). ).

  The settlement system 40 transmits the completion notification to the store site 10 and calls the billing API, and transmits a settlement completion notification including the settlement information of the product price to the affiliate sales system 30 (step S43 in FIG. 7, FIG. 6). P4).

  The affiliate sales system 30 that has received the payment completion notification by the billing API determines the affiliate reward according to the sales amount of the product based on the payment information included in the payment completion notification, and settles the reward information using the billing API. A reply is made to the system 40 (steps S31 to S33 in FIG. 7, P5 in FIG. 6).

  The payment system 40 that has received the reward information from the affiliate sales system 30 determines the sales amount of the product for the exhibiting store based on the received reward information, the payment information for the product price, and the setting information for the payment fee. Executes the process of paying the remaining amount after subtracting the affiliate fee and settlement fee (α% of sales, for example α = 0.5) to the specified account of the store (seller) registered in the store DB (Steps S44 and S45 in FIG. 7, P3 in FIG. 6), for the affiliate sales system 30, a process of transferring the affiliate reward to the account of the ASP merchant based on the reward information received from the affiliate sales system 30 (Step S46 in FIG. 7, P6 in FIG. 6), and a settlement completion notification is transmitted to the affiliate sales system 30 (FIG. 7). Step S47), the settlement processing for the product is terminated.

  The affiliate sales system 30 that has received the payment completion notification from the payment system 40, if the product sold is introduced by the affiliate 2, the amount of compensation obtained by subtracting the system usage fee from the amount of affiliate compensation is transferred to the affiliate A process of paying to Eita 2 is executed (P7 in FIG. 6). At that time, the product information is transmitted to the terminal of the affiliator 2 to notify that the introduced product has been sold (and that the account transfer has been completed), and the reward payment process is terminated (FIG. 7). Steps S34 and S35).

  The “affiliate reward” referred to here is the total amount of the system usage fee paid by the exhibiting store to the ASP 30 and the reward amount paid to the affiliate 2. In the present embodiment, the system usage fee of ASP 30 is β% of sales (for example, β = 4.5), and the reward amount for the affiliator 2 is for the product between the advertiser and the affiliator. The amount of reward set in advance (the amount of reward registered in the ASP database) is used. In addition, the system usage fee that the exhibiting store pays to the ASP vendor is free of the initial registration fee and monthly usage fee, and only the usage fee according to sales (β% of sales) as described above, We try to reduce the burden as much as possible.

  Note that the above-described billing API call (transmission completion notice transmission to the ASP) is a first processing form that is generated when a completion notice (order acceptance completion notice) is sent to the store site 10; immediate settlement or credit settlement. A second processing form that is generated when the product price is deducted from the user's account according to the third processing form that is generated when the cooling-off period (cancellable period) of the product has passed, There is a fourth processing form that is generated when the cooling-off period has elapsed and the return period for the merchandise has elapsed. In the present embodiment, the first processing form is used, but any processing form may be used, and when there are a plurality of settlement systems 40, the processing form may be set for each settlement company.

  As described above, in the conventional affiliate system, the invoice is received from the ASP company on the basis of the result of counting the sales regardless of the flow of purchase / settlement and sales transfer. By paying by transfer, the affiliate is paid as a source of remuneration, but in this system, the affiliate sales system (ASP) database is linked to the payment company's payment system completion notification. The remaining amount obtained by subtracting the amount of the affiliate fee from the settlement company is paid to the store, and the affiliate fee is paid to the affiliate by paying the ASP to the ASP. As a result, in the past, stores and ASPs had to bother to generate invoices, and it was necessary for the stores to confirm and transfer them. Since the remaining amount is transferred to the store after subtracting the reward, both the store and the ASP can eliminate any useless work.

  Also, in the traditional affiliate system, payments are not linked, so there are cases where the number of sales and the number of affiliates do not match, and payment cancellation and chargeback are not linked to payment, so it cannot be fully handled Although there was fate, in this system, it becomes possible to make sales and the number of affiliates completely coincide.

《System configuration using affiliate system as a school management support system》
FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration example of the entire system including the cram school management support system 50 according to the present invention in comparison with a configuration example of the affiliate system of FIG.

  As described above, the cram school management support system 50 is a system that allows each means of the affiliate sales system 30 to function as a cram school management support means 51A for executing various business processes necessary for cram school management. The explanation will be omitted or simplified for explanation. Here, what will be regarded as what the affiliate sales system 30 will be described is what the affiliate sales system 30 will operate as the cram school management support system 50. Also, the lecturer will be described here, and the explanation of the attending members will be omitted because basically “instructor” can be replaced with “participating member”.

  In the cram school management support system 50, the “product” in the affiliate sales system 30 in FIG. 2 is “instructor applicant”, and the “introduction product page 21a” in which the affiliate 2 introduces the product on a blog or the like (a product with a guide link L1). Information) is an instructor introduction page 121a for introducing instructor applicants (instructor information with a guide link L1 '), and the destination store "shop site 10" is a cram school for advertising announcements and contracts for instructor applicants. It becomes the “notification site 110” of the business. Further, the “product screen 11” displayed on the store site 10 is “instructor screen 111”, and the “product list 11a” including the product explanation page and purchase link L2 posted on the product screen 11 is posted on the instructor screen 111. The “instructor list 111a” including the detailed information of the instructor and the contract link L2 ′. The “purchase screen 21” is the “contract screen 131”, and the “purchase page 31a” that is the link destination of the purchase link L2 is the “contract page 131a” that is the link destination of the contract link L2 ′.

  Further, the “affiliate sales system 30” becomes the “school support system 130”, and the “settlement cooperation processing unit 32” and the “reward determination unit 33” in the affiliate sales system 30 respectively become “settlement cooperation processing unit 132” and “reward”. The determination unit 133 ". The contract / billing processing unit 132A in the cram school support system 130 is an information processing unit that executes a contract conclusion process between a cram school company and a lecturer applicant and a billing process for a lecturer who has concluded the contract. The above-mentioned means 51a-51e are comprised. Further, “database 34” becomes “database 134”. The database 134 of the cram school support system 130 includes, for example, an instructor DB that stores instructor information, a attending member DB that stores information on attending members, an affiliator DB in which introducers of instructor applicants are registered as affiliates, From the notification site DB that stores the information of the notification site, the charging DB that stores the charging information related to the membership fee (initial and monthly contract fees with the lecturer) collected every month, the payment company DB that stores the information of the payment company, etc. Composed.

《Outline of processing in cram school support system》
An outline of the flow until the contract fee is charged in the above configuration will be described.

  When the instructor applicant 3A clicks on the guidance link L1 ′ of the “instructor introduction page 121a” such as a blog or an e-mail magazine announced by the affiliate, the teacher's applicant 3A is guided to the announcement site 110 of the cram school operator, and the instructor applicant 3A terminal The instructor contract screen 111 is displayed on the screen. When the contract link L2 'in the contract list 111 is clicked, the contract page 131a is jumped to and the contract application screen 131 is displayed on the screen of the instructor applicant 3A terminal. When the instructor applicant 3A inputs necessary information and a contract is concluded with the private school business operator, the contract / charge processing unit 132A executes the charge processing, and the charge information is stored in the charge DB. At this time, in the present embodiment, the billing / settlement process is automatically executed on the same day every month, starting from the contract date.

《Flow of contract processing with lecturer in cram school support system》
Next, the contract processing with the lecturer will be described along the flow of the flowchart of FIG. In this case, the operator who operates the cram school management support system registers the investment advisory and agency business, pays the business deposit at that time, enters into a contract with the instructor applicant 3A, and the contract instructor A form that supports the administration of a cram school will be described as an example.

  A person who wants to give investment advice (lecturer applicant) first clicks the contract link L2 'from the user terminal 3a to access the cram school management support server 51, and on the lecturer application screen displayed on the display unit on the terminal 3a side. Then, application information (information on necessary documents) is input and an application as a contract lecturer is made (step S1). When the cram school management support server 51 receives the application request for the contract lecturer from the user terminal 3a, it generates the data of the lecturer master based on the application information (contract source data) and registers it in the customer database (step S2). On the side of the cram school support system 130, the application information of the instructor applicant registered in the instructor master is displayed on the management screen, and whether or not to make a contract as an instructor is determined based on the application information. If the registrant reviews (step S3) and decides to contract, an e-mail indicating that is transmitted to the user terminal 3a. At that time, the cram school management support server 51 uses the mail address of the lecturer applicant registered in the lecturer master as the destination, and sets the contract link (URL link to the cram school management support server) as the “settlement URL mail”. Are automatically generated and transmitted to the lecturer applicant (step S4).

  Upon receiving the settlement URL mail, the instructor applicant confirms the contents (contract conditions, etc.) posted in the settlement URL mail, and clicks “contract link” on the screen when it is determined that the contract is made (step S5). The cram school management support server 51 that has received the contract request from the user terminal 3a by the click operation automatically executes the initial settlement processing of the contract money with the contract lecturer (lecturer applicant) via the settlement server 40. (Step S6) The payment completion notification is received from the payment server 40, and the e-mail in which the instructor login URL (link to the issuer registration page) is set as the “settlement completion e-mail” to the user terminal 3a of the contract instructor (Step S7).

  When the lecturer applicant who has received the settlement completion mail clicks on the “lecturer login URL” on the screen of the user terminal 3a (step S8), the click operation leads to a dedicated issuer registration screen (Web page). (Step S9). When the registration operation as the issuer (instructor) is performed on the issuer registration screen displayed on the user terminal side 3a (step S10), the cram school management support server 51 receives the registration request, and issues the issuer ID ( Identifier) is generated, and issuer master data is generated based on the received registration information and instructor master data, and is registered in the customer database. At that time, the instructor information in the instructor master and the instructor information in the issue master are registered in association with the issuer ID, and a predetermined initial registration fee is charged by credit card settlement or the like, and the registration process is terminated (step S11). ).

  The above-described process in the cram school support system has been described by taking the lecturer applicant as an example, but the process of the membership contract with the applicant is also the same process.

《Other functions of the cram school support system》
In the cram school support system 50, on the condition that the applicant has been able to charge, the lecturer's paid member site or e-mail magazine (for example, advice on investment advisory cram on the network or advice information in the e-mail magazine) Distribution system) and online cram schools using virtual communities. In addition, the monthly membership fee is charged every month, and the next month can be used on the condition that the charging succeeds. Furthermore, for the instructor, the initial registration fee and the monthly membership fee can be freely set according to the ability and popularity of the instructor, such as the popularity and trust of the instructor desired by the customer. In addition, the instructor can set up multiple instruction / advice courses at several levels and ranks. In addition, in addition to the popularity and reliability of instructors, for example, in the case of investment advisory schools, for example, instructors are selected from instructors based on public information such as the accuracy and win rate of advice, and the instructor is set. You can select and use the desired course from several instruction courses.

  In the case of investment advice, it is done using a paid member site, a paid e-mail magazine (or RSS (Rich Site Summary), etc.). The paid member site records and saves the advisory content as an article in a blog format, and the paid email magazine records and saves it as a back number for mail delivery. Similarly, other methods such as RSS are stored and stored in the storage area of the cram school management support server, and all investment advice is reproduced and displayed in chronological order. The business report to be done is automatically created. In addition, in the case of an investment agent, in addition to fixing the initial registration fee and monthly membership fee, a rate of success% set for each instructor is generated. For example, in the case of a fixed fee, the initial registration fee is charged at the time of member registration, and the monthly fee is charged at the end of the month. The success fee is calculated at the end of the month and charged on the specified date of the following month.

2 Affiliator 3 User 3A Instructor applicant 3B Instructor introducer 3C Instructor applicant 3D Student introducer 4 Payment system 5 Card company 6 Network 1 Advertiser (store)
10 EC site (Store site: Web server on which the seller's page is posted)
11 Product Screen 11a Product List 11A Shopping Cart 20 Blog 21a Product Introduction Page (Product Information with Guidance Link)
30 Affiliate Sales System 30a Address Conversion Unit 30b Advertising / Sales Unit 30c Charge Settlement Unit 31 Purchase Screen 31a Purchase Page 32 Settlement Cooperation Processing Unit 33 Reward Determination Unit 34 Database Group 40 Settlement System 41 Settlement Screen 41a Settlement Page 42 Affiliate Link Processing Unit 43 Settlement processing section 50 Cram school management support system 51 Cram school management support server 51A Cram school management support means 51a Lecturer recruitment / contract means 51b Lecturer contract money collection means 51c Attendance member recruitment / contract means 51d Attendance member contract money collection means 51e Referral fee payment means 52 Customer master database

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Address conversion means for converting the access destination URL from its own URL to the URL of the product sales site in response to the click operation of the guide link affixed to the introduction page of the product introduced by the introducer on the e-mail magazine or website And an advertisement / sales means for advertising and selling products at the sales site, and a payment / payment process for the price of the products sold at the sales site and the affiliate fee to be paid to the introducer. A school administration support program for causing an affiliate system equipped with a billing settlement means to perform as a school administration support system,
The address converting means functions as a means for guiding the access destination URL of the guide link to the notification site by converting the URL of the cram school management support system to the URL of the notification site,
The advertisement / sales means functions as a lecturer recruitment / contract means for executing recruitment and contract processing of lecturer applicants at the notification site,
Making the billing settlement means function as a lecturer contract payment collecting means for executing a billing settlement process by a cooperation process with the settlement system for a contract fee with a tutor who has concluded a contract by the contract process;
A school administration support program using an affiliate system, wherein the charge settlement means functions as an introduction fee payment means for paying an introduction fee to the introducer of the lecturer.   2. The cram school management support program according to claim 1, wherein the advertising / sales means further functions as a student member recruiting / contracting means for executing student member recruiting and contract processing.   The billing settlement means is further caused to function as a student membership fee collection means for executing billing settlement processing by cooperation processing with the settlement system side regarding the contract fee of the student who has concluded the contract by the contract processing. The school administration support program according to claim 2.   4. The school administration support according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the charge settlement means further functions as an introduction fee payment means for paying an introduction fee to an introducer of a student who has signed a contract by the contract processing. program. Address conversion means for converting the access destination URL from its own URL to the URL of the product sales site in response to the click operation of the guide link affixed to the introduction page of the product introduced by the introducer on the e-mail magazine or website And an advertisement / sales means for advertising and selling products at the sales site, and a payment / payment process for the price of the products sold at the sales site and the affiliate fee to be paid to the introducer. A school administration support method for causing an affiliate system equipped with a billing settlement means to perform as a school administration support system,
Causing the address converting means to function as means for guiding the access destination URL of the guide link to the notification site by converting the URL of the cram school management support system to the URL of the notification site;
Making the advertisement / sales means function as a lecturer recruitment / contract means for executing recruitment and contract processing of lecturer applicants at the notification site;
Causing the billing settlement means to function as a lecturer contract payment collecting means for executing a billing settlement process through a cooperation process with the settlement system for a contract fee with a tutor who has concluded a contract by the contract process;
Causing the billing settlement means to function as an introduction fee payment means for paying an introduction fee to the introducer of the instructor;
A school administration support method using an affiliate system, characterized by including Address conversion means for converting the access destination URL from its own URL to the URL of the product sales site in response to the click operation of the guide link affixed to the introduction page of the product introduced by the introducer on the e-mail magazine or website And an advertisement / sales means for advertising and selling products at the sales site, and a payment / payment process for the price of the products sold at the sales site and the affiliate fee to be paid to the introducer. A school administration support system that uses the functions of an affiliate system with a billing and settlement means that performs cooperative processing,
First information processing means for causing the address conversion means to function as a means for guiding the access destination URL of the guide link to the notification site by converting the URL of the cram school management support system to the URL of the notification site;
Second information processing means for causing the advertisement / sales means to function as lecturer recruitment / contract means for executing recruitment and contract processing of lecturer applicants at the notification site;
A third information processing means for causing the charging settlement means to function as a lecturer contract money collecting means for executing a billing settlement process by a cooperation process with the settlement system for a contract fee with a lecturer who has concluded a contract by the contract processing; ,
Fourth information processing means for causing the billing settlement means to function as an introduction fee payment means for paying an introduction fee to the introducer of the lecturer;
Cram school management support system characterized by having

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