JP2013134572A - Pos device and receipt printing method of pos device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a POS device which is capable of printing desired merchandise on a receipt in such a style that it is easy to find it from printed merchandise, and is excellent in convenience for customers.SOLUTION: The POS device includes an input part 20, a control part 10, and a printing part 40. The control part 10 rearranges the merchandise purchase in one payment in a Japanese syllabary order of merchandise names, and includes information indicating the order in data for printing. The printing part 40 prints a settlement result on a receipt in the style of listing the merchandise in the Japanese syllabary order of the merchandise names.

Description

  The present invention stores information related to products purchased by customers or services used for a fee (hereinafter referred to as products or purchased products) as sales information, performs settlement for each accounting, and prints settlement results on a receipt. About.

  In general, this type of POS device prints a settlement result on a receipt in the form of listing a plurality of products in the order of product registration (acquisition and storage of information about purchased products).

  On the other hand, for example, Patent Document 1 discloses a POS device that prints on a receipt in a form in which products are listed in an order different from the order in which the products are registered. Patent Document 1 describes that printing is performed on a receipt in a form in which products are classified and listed for each of a plurality of departments such as foods, clothing, and daily goods sold in stores.

JP-A-4-24898

  According to the POS device as described above, when a customer purchases many products and the customer wants to check whether the specific product is correctly registered or the price of the product from the accounting receipt, the customer prints on the receipt. It took a long time to find the product among the many products that were made.

  In addition, when eating at a family restaurant at a group of several people and making payments within a group after one person pays, the more products (ordered items), the more printed on the receipt. It took time to find my order from among the orders.

  Further, according to the technique of Patent Document 1, since it is only classified into a department such as food and clothing, if there are a large number of products belonging to the department, eventually the product printed on the receipt It is still difficult to find a desired product from the inside.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a POS device that can be printed on a receipt in a form that makes it easy to find a desired product from among printed products, and that is highly convenient for customers. It is to be.

  According to the present invention, based on the information acquired by the input unit that reads the identification information attached to the product or receives information corresponding to the product name, unit price, and quantity by accepting manual input. The product name, unit price and quantity of the product are stored as sales information, and further, payment is made for each account based on the product name, unit price and quantity of the product, and at least the product name, unit price and quantity of the product and the total price are A control unit that generates a settlement result including print data, and a printing unit that prints the settlement result on a receipt in a form listing products in the print feed direction of the receipt based on the print data generated by the control unit; The control unit rearranges the products purchased in one accounting in the order of the alphabetical order of the product names, and includes information indicating the order in the print data. The printing unit, POS device is obtained, characterized in that for printing the payment result to the receipt by the appearance that lists items in alphabetical order of trade names.

  The control unit extracts, for each product purchased in one accounting, a heading character that is one of the 50-character line characters “A-Wa” corresponding to the first character of the product name. Information indicating characters is further included in the printing data, and the printing unit arranges the heading characters accompanying the products listed at the top of the products corresponding to the common heading characters in the product name. The settlement result may be printed on the receipt in a format.

  In addition, when the product is a set product that is sold as a set, and at least the product name of the sub-product belonging to the set product is printed on the receipt, the control unit displays the set product purchased in one account as the product name. The sub-items are arranged in succession to the corresponding set product, and information indicating the order is included in the print data. The products may be listed in order, and for the secondary products, the settlement result may be printed on the receipt in a form in which the corresponding set products are lined up after being dropped.

  Further, the control unit arranges the sub-items belonging to each set product purchased in the order of the alphabetical order of the product names following the corresponding set product, and displays information indicating the order in the print data. The sub-product may include a sub-product and a paragraph set following the corresponding set product, and the settlement result may be printed on the receipt in a form arranged in the order of the Japanese alphabetical order of the product name. Good.

  Furthermore, the identification information is attached to the product in the form of a bar code, the input unit includes a bar code reader, acquires a PLU code from the bar code, and the control unit includes a PLU code and A PLU file representing the correspondence between the product name and unit price of the product is stored in advance, and the product name and unit price of the product are referred to based on the PLU code acquired by the barcode reader. After extraction, it may be stored as sales information together with the quantity of the product.

  According to the present invention, there is provided a receipt printing method for a POS device that performs a checkout process for a purchased product and issues a receipt, wherein the POS device reads identification information attached to the product or accepts manual input. Information corresponding to the product name, unit price, and quantity is acquired, the product name, unit price, and quantity of the product are stored as sales information based on the acquired information, and further, based on the product name, unit price, and quantity of the product. Settlement is performed for each accounting, and the settlement results including at least the product name, unit price and quantity, and the total amount of the products are rearranged in the alphabetical order of the product names, and information indicating the order is included in the print data. Generated as printing data, and based on the generated printing data, prints the settlement results on the receipt in the form of listing the products in the order of the product name in the print feed direction of the receipt. Receipt printing process of POS device according to claim Rukoto is obtained.

  In addition, for each of the products purchased in one accounting, for the print data, a heading character that is one of the 50-character line characters “A to W” corresponding to the first character of the product name is extracted, The information that indicates the heading character is further included, and the receipt result is arranged in the form of placing the heading character along with the product listed at the top of the products corresponding to the common heading character in the product name. May be printed.

  The POS device according to the present invention can print on a receipt in a form that makes it easy to find a desired product from among printed products, and is excellent in convenience for customers.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the POS apparatus by Example 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement of the POS apparatus shown by FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of printing of the receipt by the POS apparatus by Example 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of printing of the receipt by the POS apparatus by Example 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the example of printing of the receipt by the POS apparatus by Example 3 of this invention.

  The POS device according to the present invention includes a control unit, an input unit, and a printing unit.

  The input unit acquires information corresponding to the product name, unit price, and quantity by reading the identification information attached to the product or accepting manual input.

  The control unit stores the product name, unit price and quantity of the product as sales information based on the information acquired by the input unit, and further performs settlement for each account based on the product name, unit price and quantity of the product, A settlement result including at least the product name, unit price and quantity of the product, and the total amount is generated as print data.

  Based on the printing data generated by the control unit, the printing unit prints the settlement result on the receipt in the form of listing the products in the print feeding direction of the receipt.

  In particular, in the present POS apparatus, the control unit rearranges the products purchased in one accounting in the order of the Japanese syllabary of the product names, and includes information indicating the order in the print data. On the other hand, the printing unit prints the settlement result on the receipt in the form of listing the products in alphabetical order of the product names.

  With this configuration, the POS device can print on a receipt in a form that makes it easy to find a desired product from among printed products, and is excellent in convenience for customers.

  Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the POS device according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  Referring to FIG. 1, the POS device according to the first embodiment of the present invention is a device installed in a cash register counter of a store such as a convenience store or a supermarket, and includes a control unit 10, an input unit 20, and a display unit. 30 and a printing unit 40.

  The input unit 20 is configured by a barcode reader, a keyboard, and the like, and acquires information corresponding to the product name, unit price, and quantity by reading the identification information attached to the product or receiving manual input.

  The control unit 10 includes a central processing unit (CPU), a read only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a hard disk drive (HDD) or a solid-state storage drive (SSD), a peripheral device interface, a communication interface, and Consists of a power supply circuit and the like, and controls all operations of the apparatus.

  At the same time, the control unit 10 stores the product name, unit price, and quantity of the product as sales information in an updated manner based on the information acquired by the input unit 20. Note that the sales information may be transferred via a network to a higher-level host device installed in a store accounting office or the head office as necessary. A series of operations from obtaining the identification information of each product to storing it as sales information is also called product registration.

  The control unit 10 further performs settlement for each accounting based on the product name, unit price, and quantity of the product, generates a settlement result including at least the product name, unit price, quantity, and total amount of the product as print data. Output to the unit 40.

  The display unit 30 is a display such as a liquid crystal display, and displays details of purchased products of the customer.

  The printing unit 40 is a printer, and prints the settlement result on the receipt in the form of listing the products in the print feeding direction of the receipt based on the printing data generated by the control unit 10.

  In this example, the input unit 20 except the barcode reader, the display unit 30, and the printing unit 40 are accommodated in a common housing with the control unit 10. However, any one of the input unit 20, the display unit 30, and the printing unit 40 may be housed in the control unit 10 and a separate casing.

  The identification information is attached to the product in the form of a barcode.

  The input unit 20 includes a barcode reader as described above, and acquires a PLU (Price Look Up) code from the barcode. When there are two or more same products, the quantity may be input from the keyboard of the input unit 20.

  On the other hand, the control unit 10 stores in advance the PLU file representing the correspondence between the PLU code and the product name and unit price of the product in the storage device described above, and the PLU acquired by the barcode reader of the input unit 20 The product name and unit price of the product are extracted by referring to the PLU file based on the code, and then stored as sales information together with the quantity of the product. The PLU file may not be stored in the control unit 20, but may be inquired from the control unit 20 to the host device described above via a network.

  Also, the barcode is attached to the product means that the barcode is printed on the product, the barcode label is affixed to the product, or the barcode corresponding to the product is printed. It also means that the paper is prepared at the register counter.

  Now, in the present POS apparatus, the control unit 10 rearranges the products purchased in one transaction in the order of the Japanese syllabary of the product names (in the order of AIUEO), and includes information indicating the order in the print data.

  Further, the printing unit 40 prints the settlement result on the receipt in the form of listing the products in the order of the Japanese syllabary of the product name.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, a series of operations from the POS device to product registration, payment and printing on a receipt will be described.

  Now, it is assumed that a customer (shopper) in a supermarket has put a plurality of products in a shopping wagon and comes to a cashier counter for accounting.

  In step S10, the clerk of the cashier counter reads and inputs the identification information and quantity of the plurality of products in an arbitrary order using the barcode and keyboard of the input unit 20. Based on the PLU code from the barcode reader of the input unit 20, the control unit 10 refers to the PLU file stored in advance to extract the product name and unit price of the corresponding product, and from the barcode reader of the input unit 20. Is stored in the database as sales information together with the quantity of the product, and the product is registered. The registered content is displayed on the display for at least the store clerk in the display unit 30 as needed. The registered product is put in a cart or a shopping bag for the product that has been accounted for by the store clerk. The merchandise registration is repeated until the store clerk presses the transaction execution button of the input unit 20 (step S20).

  When the transaction execution button on the keyboard of the input unit 20 is pressed by the store clerk, in step S30, the control unit 10 performs settlement based on the product names, unit prices, and quantities of all products in the current transaction. The total amount is displayed on both the display for the store clerk and the display for the customer of the display unit 30. The customer hands over money corresponding to the total amount to the store clerk or holds a credit card or the like over the card reader. When the store clerk receives money, the store clerk inputs the received amount with the keyboard of the input unit 20, or inserts money when the POS device is provided with a money discriminator. And when there is change, it is prepared. A card reader and a money discriminator are also constituent elements of the input unit 20 of the POS device.

  Subsequently, in step S40, the control unit 10 prints the settlement name including the product name, unit price and quantity, total amount, tax amount, deposit amount, change, etc. of the product, the store name, the settlement date and the name of the clerk in charge, etc. Generate as business data. Here, the control unit 10 rearranges all the products purchased in one accounting in the order of the Japanese syllabary of the product names (in the order of AIUEO), and includes information indicating the order in the printing data.

  Next, in step S50, the printing unit 40 that has received the printing data from the control unit 10, as shown in FIG. 3, displays the settlement results and the like on the receipt in the form of listing the products in the order of the alphabetical order of the product names. Print. Receipts for which printing has been completed are cut manually or automatically, and if there is a change, it is handed over from the store clerk to the customer along with the change.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the receipt printed by the POS device is printed in the form of listing the products in the order of the alphabetical order of the product names. This receipt is a receipt that allows a customer to easily find a desired product.

  The rearrangement of the product printing order may be performed between the completion of product registration and the settlement process.

  The second embodiment of the present invention is different from the first embodiment in the appearance of printing on a receipt and the operation of the control unit and the printing unit therefor. For this reason, about the part which is the same as that of Example 1, or the same part, the description and reference drawing in Example 1 will be used, and detailed description is abbreviate | omitted.

  Referring to FIG. 1, the POS device of the second embodiment is a device that is installed in a cashier counter of a store such as a convenience store or a supermarket, as in the first embodiment, and includes a control unit 10, An input unit 20, a display unit 30, and a printing unit 40 are included.

  However, in the second embodiment, the control unit 10 includes, for all the products purchased in one accounting, a heading in which the first character of each product name is one of the corresponding 50-character line characters “A-Wa”. Characters are extracted, and information indicating the heading characters is further included in the print data.

  In addition, the printing unit 40 prints the settlement result on the receipt in a form in which the heading characters are arranged in association with the products listed at the top of the products corresponding to the common heading characters in the product name.

  More specifically, referring to FIG. 2, the operations from step S10 to step S30 are the same as those in the first embodiment.

  Next, in step S40, the control unit 10 sorts all the products purchased in one account in the order of the Japanese syllabary of the product name (in order of AIUEO), and the first character of the product name corresponds to each product. Extract one of the heading characters "(A), (K), (S) ... (R), (W)", which is one of the line characters "A ~ WA" of the Japanese syllabary, and the order In addition to the information indicating, information indicating the heading character is included in the print data.

  Subsequently, in step S50, the printing unit 40 that has received the printing data from the control unit 10 enumerates the products in alphabetical order of the product names as shown in FIG. Of the products corresponding to the common headline characters, for example, the payment result is printed on the receipt in a form in which the headline characters are arranged along the left side of the products listed at the top.

  As shown in FIG. 4, in the receipt printed by the POS device, the products are listed in the order of the alphabetical order of the product names, and the first characters of the product names correspond to the common heading characters. It is printed in a style that arranges heading characters on the left side of the products listed in the top row. This receipt is a receipt that allows the customer to find the desired product more easily than in FIG.

  In the example shown in FIG. 4, the heading character “(NA)” indicating “NA LINE” and the heading character “(YA)” indicating “YA LINE” with no corresponding product is not printed. However, a heading character may be printed even for a line having no corresponding product.

  The third embodiment of the present invention is different from the first and second embodiments in the appearance of printing on a receipt and the operation of the control unit and the printing unit therefor. For this reason, about the part which is the same as or similar to the first and second embodiments, the description and the reference drawings in the first and second embodiments are used, and the detailed description is omitted.

  Referring to FIG. 1, the POS device according to the third embodiment includes a control unit 10, an input unit 20, a display unit 30, and a printing unit 40 as in the first and second embodiments. .

  However, the POS device according to the third embodiment is, for example, a set product (for example, steak course) installed as a POS terminal in a restaurant order entry system such as a restaurant at a cashier counter of a restaurant and selling products (menus) as a set. Hamburger set, etc.), which is a device that can cope with printing at least the product name of a secondary product belonging to the set product (for example, drink bar, rice, bread, salad, soup, dessert, etc.) on the receipt. .

  In the third embodiment, the control unit 10 rearranges the set products purchased in one accounting in the order of the alphabetical order of the product names, and arranges the sub-products in succession to the corresponding set products. The indicated information is included in the print data.

  Further, the printing unit 40 lists the products in the order of the Japanese syllabary of the product names, and, for the sub-products, prints the settlement result on the receipt in a form in which the corresponding set products are arranged in a paragraph-like manner.

  More specifically, referring to FIG. 2, operations from step S10 to step S30 are the same as those in the first and second embodiments.

  Next, in step S40, the control unit 10 rearranges all the products purchased in one account in the order of the Japanese syllabary of the product names in the same manner as in the second embodiment, and for each product, the product name One of the heading characters "(a), (ka), (sa) ... (ra), (wa)", which is one of the corresponding 50-sound line characters "a-wa". In addition, the sub-product is arranged next to the corresponding set product, and information indicating the heading character is included in the print data together with information indicating the order of the product.

  Subsequently, in step S50, the printing unit 40 that has received the printing data from the control unit 10 enumerates the products in the order of the alphabetical order of the product names as shown in FIG. For example, the heading characters are arranged on the left side of the products listed at the top of the products corresponding to the common heading characters, and the sub-products are dropped in the paragraph following the corresponding set products. Print the payment results on the receipt in a line-up style.

  As shown in FIG. 5, in the receipt printed by the POS device, products are listed in the order of the alphabetical order of the product names, and the first characters of the product names correspond to the common heading characters. The heading characters are arranged on the left side of the products listed at the top of the table, and the sub-products are printed in a style in which the corresponding set products are lined up after being dropped. This receipt is a receipt that allows customers to easily find desired products (including set products).

  In the example shown in FIG. 5, sub-products such as drink bars, rice, and desserts are listed in the order in which they are generally eaten and consumed in set dishes and course dishes, not in alphabetical order. The product may be configured to print in the order of the Japanese syllabary. Alternatively, the secondary product may not be printed on the receipt.

  Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments, various modifications that can be understood by those skilled in the art can be made to the configuration and details of the present invention.

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Claims (7)

An input unit that acquires information corresponding to the product name, unit price, and quantity by reading the identification information attached to the product or accepting manual input;
The product name, unit price and quantity of the product are stored as sales information based on the information acquired by the input unit, and further, payment is made for each account based on the product name, unit price and quantity of the product, and the product product A control unit that generates a settlement result including at least a name, a unit price and a quantity, and a total amount as print data;
Based on the printing data generated by the control unit, a printing unit that prints the settlement result on the receipt in a form listing the products in the print feeding direction of the receipt,
The control unit rearranges the products purchased in one accounting in the order of the alphabetical order of the product names, includes information indicating the order in the print data,
The POS apparatus, wherein the printing unit prints a settlement result on a receipt in a form in which products are listed in the order of Japanese alphabets. The control unit extracts, for each product purchased in one accounting, a heading character that is one of the syllabary line characters “A to W” corresponding to the first character of the product name, Information to be further included in the print data,
2. The printing unit prints a settlement result on a receipt in a form in which a heading character is arranged in association with a product listed at the top of products corresponding to a common heading character in a product name. The POS device according to 1. When the product is a set product that is sold as a set, and at least the product name of the secondary product belonging to the set product is printed on the receipt,
The control unit rearranges the set products purchased in one accounting in the order of the Japanese syllabary of the product names, and arranges the secondary products following the corresponding set products, and prints information indicating the order. Included in the data for
2. The printing unit lists products in alphabetical order of product names, and, for sub-products, prints the settlement result on a receipt in a form in which the corresponding set products are lined up in a paragraph. Or the POS apparatus of 2. The control unit arranges the sub-items belonging to each set product purchased in the order of the alphabetical order of the product names following the corresponding set product, and includes information indicating the order in the print data. ,
The POS device according to claim 3, wherein the printing unit causes the sub-product to drop a paragraph following the corresponding set product, and prints the settlement result on the receipt in a form arranged in the order of the alphabetical order of the product name. . The identification information is attached to the product in the form of a barcode,
The input unit includes a barcode reader, and obtains a PLU code from the barcode;
The control unit stores in advance a PLU file representing a correspondence between the PLU code and the product name and unit price of the product, and refers to the PLU file based on the PLU code acquired by the barcode reader. 5. The POS device according to claim 1, wherein after the product name and unit price of the product are extracted, the sales information is stored together with the quantity of the product. A receipt printing method for a POS device that performs a checkout process for a purchased product and issues a receipt,
The POS device is
By reading the identification information attached to the product or accepting manual input, we obtain information corresponding to the product name, unit price and quantity,
Based on the acquired information, store the product name, unit price, and quantity of the product as sales information, and perform payment for each account based on the product name, unit price, and quantity of the product. The settlement results including at least the quantity and the total amount are rearranged in the order of the alphabetical order of the product names, information indicating the order is included in the print data, and generated as print data.
A receipt printing method for a POS device, wherein a settlement result is printed on a receipt in a form in which products are listed in the order of the alphabetical order of product names in the print feed direction of the receipt based on the generated printing data. For each of the products purchased in one accounting, the print data is extracted with a heading character that is one of the 50-character line characters “A-Wa” corresponding to the first character of the product name. Include additional information that indicates the character,
7. The POS device according to claim 6, wherein a settlement result is printed on a receipt in a form in which a heading character is arranged in association with a product listed in the top row of products corresponding to a common heading character in a product name. Receipt printing method.

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