JP2014170588A - Change machine and received money management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a change machine capable of outputting an amount of received money including merchandise coupons to a POS terminal.SOLUTION: A change machine comprises: a reception section 214 which cooperated with a POS terminal for calculating a sales amount on the basis of inputted merchandise information and takes in coins and merchandise coupons thrown in from the outside; an identification section 201 for identifying and counting the coins and the merchandise coupons taken in by the reception section 214; a storage section 206 for storing the coins identified and counted by the identification section for each of amounts; a payment section 216 for paying a change on the basis of an instruction from the POS terminal; a recovery cassette 207 for storing coins and merchandise coupons when collecting coins and merchandise coupons within the machine;and an output section C2 in which data of a total amount of the merchandise coupons identified and counted by the identification section are added to data about the number of coins identified and counted by the identification section for each of the amounts, and the data are outputted to the POS terminal.

Description

  The present invention relates to a change machine capable of depositing a gift certificate and a deposit management system for collating a sales amount and a deposit amount including a gift certificate.

  In a retail store or the like, a customer may make payment by a gift certificate as well as payment by cash. 2. Description of the Related Art As a change machine that handles gift certificates, a change machine that counts the number of gift certificates taken into the machine in the gift certificate processing mode and stores the gift certificate in a withdrawal reject unit is known (see, for example, Patent Document 1). The face value of the gift certificate is manually entered into the control terminal (POS register) by an attendant.

  The gift certificate is collected together with cash after the end of business. The collected cash and gift certificate are deposited into a deposit machine installed in the cashier room at the back. Then, the deposit amount to the deposit machine is compared with the sales amount (or the deposit amount to the change machine) managed by the POS register.

  However, the conventional change machine as described above outputs only the counted number of gift certificates to the POS register as gift certificate information. In other words, the amount information of the gift certificate managed by the POS register is manually input by an attendant, and the conventional POS register has processed the amount information of cash and the gift certificate without distinguishing, The POS register has not grasped detailed and accurate information about the gift certificate stored in the change machine. For this reason, it is difficult to accurately perform the collation work.

JP 2007-213493 A

  An object of the present invention is to provide a change machine capable of outputting a deposit amount including a gift certificate to a POS terminal, and a deposit management system capable of accurately comparing a sales amount and a deposit amount including a gift certificate.

  A change machine according to an aspect of the present invention is a change machine that operates in conjunction with a POS terminal that calculates a sales amount based on input product information, and includes a receiving unit that takes in money and gift certificates that are input from the outside, An identification unit for identifying and counting money and gift certificates taken in by the receiving unit, a storage unit for storing the money identified and counted by the identification unit according to face value, and paying out change based on an instruction from the POS terminal The discriminating unit by the discriminating unit into the data of the number of coins and the collection cassette for storing the parcel and the voucher when the coins and the voucher are collected and the coins discriminated and counted by the discriminating unit. And an output unit for adding the data of the total amount of the gift certificate to be output to the POS terminal.

  A change machine according to an aspect of the present invention is a change machine that operates in conjunction with a POS terminal that calculates a sales amount based on input product information, and includes a receiving unit that takes in money and gift certificates that are input from the outside, An identification unit for identifying and counting money and gift certificates taken in by the receiving unit, a storage unit for storing the money identified and counted by the identification unit according to face value, and paying out change based on an instruction from the POS terminal And the collection cassette for storing the money and gift certificate when the money and gift certificate in the machine are collected, and the data of the number of coins and gift certificate classified and counted by the identification unit to the POS terminal And an output unit for outputting.

  In the change machine according to the aspect of the present invention, it is preferable that the output unit divides a face value of the gift certificate into a face value of a plurality of types of money and creates data for the number of face values.

  A change machine according to an aspect of the present invention is a change machine that operates in conjunction with a POS terminal that calculates a sales amount based on input product information, and includes a receiving unit that takes in money and gift certificates that are input from the outside, An identification unit for identifying and counting money and gift certificates taken in by the receiving unit, a storage unit for storing the money identified and counted by the identification unit according to face value, and paying out change based on an instruction from the POS terminal The discriminating unit by the discriminating unit into the data of the number of coins and the collection cassette for storing the parcel and the voucher when the coins and the voucher are collected and the coins discriminated and counted by the discriminating unit. And an output unit that adds data on the number of facets of the gift coupons according to face value and outputs the data to the POS terminal.

  A change machine according to an aspect of the present invention is a change machine that operates in conjunction with a POS terminal that calculates a sales amount based on input product information, and includes a receiving unit that takes in money and gift certificates that are input from the outside, An identification unit for identifying and counting money and gift certificates taken in by the receiving unit, a storage unit for storing the money identified and counted by the identification unit according to face value, and paying out change based on an instruction from the POS terminal The discriminating unit by the discriminating unit into the data of the number of coins and the collection cassette for storing the parcel and the voucher when the coins and the voucher are collected and the coins discriminated and counted by the discriminating unit. The total price of the gift certificate that has been added is added to the POS terminal and output to the POS terminal, or the money and the number of gift coupons identified and counted by the identification unit Output to the POS terminal or add the data for the face value of the gift certificate identified and counted by the identifier to the data of the face value for the money identified and counted by the identifier And an output unit for switching an output format to be output to.

  In the change machine according to the aspect of the present invention, it is preferable that the output unit automatically determines the output format according to the interlocking with the POS terminal and switches the output format.

  The deposit management system according to one aspect of the present invention includes the change machine, a POS terminal that acquires deposit data of money and gift certificates from the change machine, the deposit data received from the POS terminal, the deposit data, A verification unit that performs verification with the total amount of money and gift certificates in the collection cassette.

  According to the present invention, the deposit amount including the gift certificate can be output from the change machine to the POS terminal. Moreover, it is possible to accurately check the sales amount and the deposit amount including the gift certificate.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a deposit management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram of the change machine concerning the embodiment. It is an external appearance perspective view of the change machine which concerns on the same embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the output data format from a change machine to a POS terminal. It is a figure which shows an example of the output data format from a change machine to a POS terminal. It is a figure which shows an example of the output data format from a change machine to a POS terminal.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a deposit management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The deposit management system is provided in a store such as a retail store, and includes a change machine 10, a POS terminal 20, a deposit machine 30, and a store server 40.

  The change machine 10 linked to the POS terminal 20 takes in money (banknotes, coins) and gift certificates paid by customers, identifies and counts them, and transmits the counting results to the POS terminal 20. The counting result transmitted from the change machine 10 to the POS terminal 20 includes the number of coins by face value and the total amount of gift certificates. Further, the change machine 10 withdraws change based on the change dispensing instruction from the POS terminal 20. The configuration of the change machine 10 will be described later.

  The POS terminal 20 specifies the sales amount by manually inputting the product purchased by the customer and the amount of service received by the customer by reading a bar code attached to the product.

  The POS terminal 20 receives from the change machine 10 the counting results for money and gift certificates paid by the customer, and specifies the amount deposited from the customer. When the confirmation instruction is input, the POS terminal 20 calculates a change amount obtained by subtracting the sales amount from the deposit amount, and outputs a change dispensing instruction to the change machine 10. Further, the POS terminal 20 can display the sales amount, the deposit amount, the change amount, etc. on the customer display 21.

  Since the POS terminal 20 receives from the change machine 10 the counting result regarding the number of coins paid by customers, the number of coins stored in the change machine 10 can be managed. Moreover, since the POS terminal 20 receives the counting result about the total price of the gift certificate paid by the customer from the change machine 10, the total price of the gift certificate stored in the change machine 10 can be managed.

  Therefore, the POS terminal 20 can manage the amount of money by distinguishing the money stored in the change machine 10 from the gift certificate. The POS terminal 20 outputs money information and gift certificate information in the change machine 10 being managed to the store server 40.

  The depositing machine 30 is installed, for example, in a cashier room, and money and gift certificates collected from the change machine 10 are deposited to obtain a deposit amount. The depositing machine 30 is configured by two devices, for example, a money depositing device and a gift certificate depositing device. The money depositing device takes in the inserted money into the device, identifies and counts it, and obtains the total amount.

  The gift certificate depositing device takes in the inserted gift certificate into the device, identifies and counts, and obtains the total amount. A unique management number is printed on each gift certificate by OCR (Optical Character Recognition) or MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition). The management number indicates information such as a gift certificate issuing company and ticket type. The gift certificate depositing device may read the management number and charge the gift certificate issuing company. Further, the gift certificate depositing apparatus may perform invalidation processing such as pressing a stamp on the inserted gift certificate, making a hole, or making a stub.

  The depositing machine 30 (money depositing apparatus and gift certificate depositing apparatus) outputs to the store server 40 the counting result for the money collected from the change machine 10 and the counting result for the gift certificate.

  The store server 40 collates the money information and gift certificate information in the change machine 10 received from the POS terminal 20 with the count result received from the deposit machine 30. Thereby, the money and gift certificate collected from the change machine 10 can be strictly managed.

  Next, the configuration of the change machine 10 will be described with reference to a block diagram shown in FIG. 2 and an external perspective view shown in FIG. The change machine 10 includes a coin change machine 1A and a banknote change machine 1B. Coin change machine 1A and banknote change machine 1B have control parts C1 and C2, respectively. The control units C1 and C2 are connected to each other, and the control unit C2 is also connected to the POS terminal 20.

  The coin change machine 1A includes a coin receiving unit 114 that accepts coins from the outside, a coin identifying unit 101 that performs identification counting of the received coins received from the coin receiving unit 114, and according to the identification result by the coin identifying unit 101 according to the identification result. A coin storage unit 106 for storing the coins and a coin dispensing unit 116 for paying out the coins to the outside are provided.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the coin change machine 1 </ b> A includes a housing 110 having an operation display unit 112 on the front upper surface. A coin receiving unit 114 and a coin dispensing unit 116 are provided at the front of the housing 110.

  The coin receiving unit 114 takes in the accepted coins one by one in a one-layer, one-row state. A deposit conveyance unit 103 that conveys the captured coins extends behind the receiving unit 114.

  In the middle of the deposit conveyance unit 103, a coin identifying unit 101 for identifying and counting coins and a branching unit 104 are provided. Based on the identification result of the coin identifying unit 101, the branching unit 104 guides (conveys) the coins that are paid out (released) from the withdrawal unit 116 such as reject coins to the dispensing conveyance unit 108.

  Coins stored in a machine such as normal coins are transported to the coin storage unit 106 by the deposit transport unit 103. The coin storage unit 106 stores coins by face value, for example, stores coins in descending order from the upstream side of the deposit transport unit 103.

  The withdrawal conveyance unit 108 takes out the coins stored in the coin storage unit 106 and conveys them to the coin dispensing unit 116. Further, the coins guided from the branching unit 104 are conveyed to the coin dispensing unit 116.

  When the collection instruction is input via the operation display unit 112, the control unit C1 of the coin change machine 1A controls each unit so that all the coins stored in the coin storage unit 106 are paid out from the coin payout unit 116. . The coins paid out from the coin payout unit 116 are collected by a store clerk and carried to the depositing machine 30. The collection instruction may be a remaining collection instruction for leaving a predetermined number of coins in the coin storage unit 106 for each face value. The POS terminal 20 may output a collection instruction and give it to the control unit C1 via the control unit C2.

  Next, the configuration of the bill change machine 1B will be described. The banknote change machine 1B includes a receiving unit 214 that receives banknotes / gift certificates from the outside, an identification unit 201 that performs identification counting of banknotes / gift certificates received from the receiving unit 214, and the banknotes according to the identification results by the identifying unit 201. A storage unit 206 for storing and a payout unit 216 for paying out bills / gift certificates in the machine to the outside are provided.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the banknote change machine 1 </ b> B includes a housing 210 and an annular circulation transport unit 203 a provided at a substantially central portion in the housing 210. In addition, the receiving unit 214, the storage unit 206, the payout unit 216, the withdrawal reject unit 204, and the collection cassette 207 are arranged so as to surround the outer periphery of the circular transport unit 203a.

  Moreover, the connection conveyance part 203b of the banknote which connects between the receiving part 214, each accommodating part 206, the payment part 216, the withdrawal rejection part 204, the collection | recovery cassette 207, and the circulation conveyance part 203a is each formed. The circulation unit 203a is provided with an identification unit 201 that identifies and counts bills / gift certificates that pass through.

  Further, a path switching unit (not shown) for switching the banknote / gift certificate transport path between the circulation transport unit 203a and each connection transport unit 203b is arranged along the circuit transport unit 203a.

  As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the front surface of the housing 210 is provided with a receiving port 214 a of the receiving unit 214 and an outlet port 216 a of the paying-out unit 216. The collection cassette 207 is detachably attached to the casing 210. An operation display unit 212 is provided on the upper surface of the front part of the housing 210.

  The receiving unit 214 takes in the banknotes / gift certificates inserted into the receiving port 214a one by one and feeds them out to the circulating conveyance unit 203a side. Each storage unit 206 stores banknotes by face value based on the identification result of the identification unit 201. The gift certificate identified by the identification unit 201 is stored in the collection cassette 207. The payout unit 216 discharges the banknotes taken out from the storage units 206 from the outlet 216a.

  The withdrawal / rejection unit 204 stores, as a withdrawal / rejected banknote, a banknote that cannot be identified by the identification unit 201 due to skew or the like among banknotes fed out from the storage unit 206. Of the banknotes / gift certificates taken from the receiving unit 214, banknotes / gift certificates that cannot be identified by the identifying unit 201 due to contamination or the like are returned to the dispensing unit 216 as reject banknotes / reject gift certificates.

  When a collection instruction is input via the operation display unit 212, the control unit C2 of the banknote change machine 1B controls all units so that all the banknotes stored in the storage unit 106 are transported to and stored in the recovery cassette 207. To do. The collection cassette 207 is collected by a store clerk and carried to the depositing machine 30. The collection instruction may be a remaining collection instruction for leaving a predetermined number of banknotes in the storage unit 106 for each face value. The POS terminal 20 may output a collection instruction to the control unit C2.

  Next, operation | movement at the time of change payment of the change machine 10 is demonstrated. The POS terminal 20 calculates the sales amount generated by the merchandise transaction based on the merchandise information read from a merchandise information reading unit (not shown). The store clerk may manually input the product information and the price of the product.

  When the customer pays with the money and the gift certificate, the store clerk inserts the coin into the coin change machine 1A, and inserts the banknote and the gift certificate into the bill change machine 1B. The control part C1 outputs the counting result by the coin identification part 101 to the control part C2. The control unit C2 outputs the counting result of banknotes and gift certificates by the identification unit 201 and the counting result of coins received from the control unit C1 to the POS terminal 20.

  FIG. 4 shows an example of the data format of the output data from the control unit C2 (the output unit included in the control unit C2) to the POS terminal 20. In DLE, a code indicating transmission control extension is set. In STX, a code indicating the start of text is set. The data length is set for L.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the data section includes a count number of 10,000 yen bills, a count number of 5000 yen bills, a count number of 2000 yen bills, a count number of 1000 yen bills, a count number of 500 yen coins, and a 100 yen coin. The number of coins by the face value of the coins with the total number of coins, the number of coins of 50 yen coins, the number of coins of 10 yen coins, the number of coins of 5 yen coins, and the number of coins of 1 yen coins. Data) is added and stored.

In ETX, a code indicating the end of the text is set. BCC is next to STX (L
32h) is a parity bit for error detection in which an exclusive OR from ETX is set.

  The POS terminal 20 receives such a data signal, and specifies a deposit amount from the customer. The POS terminal 20 calculates a change amount by subtracting the sales amount from the deposit amount, and outputs a change withdrawal instruction to the control unit C2. Control part C2 controls each part in bill change machine 1B so that a change bill may be paid out from discharge part 216 based on this change payment instruction. Then, a change coin dispensing instruction is output to the control unit C1. The control unit C1 controls each part in the coin change machine 1A so that change coins are paid out from the coin payout unit 116 based on the change coin dispensing instruction.

  In this way, the POS terminal 20 distinguishes between the total amount of money in the change machine 10 and the total amount of the gift certificate in order to obtain not only the counted number of money from the change machine 10 but also the counted amount of the gift certificate. Can be managed. In addition, since the change machine 10 (the banknote change machine 1B) counts the total amount of the gift certificate, it is possible to prevent an error such as a counting error.

  Further, the store server 40 collates the money information and gift certificate information in the change machine 10 received from the POS terminal 20 with the counting result received from the deposit machine 30, and Gift certificates can be strictly managed.

  In the above embodiment, the clerk may count the amount paid by the customer using money and a gift certificate and manually input it to the POS terminal 20. The POS terminal 20 calculates a change amount from the manually entered deposit amount and the sales amount, and outputs a change withdrawal instruction to the control unit C2. After the change is dispensed, the coin paid by the customer is inserted into the coin change machine 1A, and the banknote and the gift certificate are inserted into the banknote change machine 1B. The counting result of the inserted coin by the coin identifying unit 101 and the counting result of the inserted banknote and the gift certificate by the identifying unit 201 are output to the POS terminal 20 in a data format as shown in FIG. The POS terminal 20 compares the amount manually input by the store clerk with the count result received from the change machine 10, and notifies the store clerk if they do not match. In this way, by changing the money and gift certificate after the change has been dispensed, the change can be promptly paid to the customer.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the output data from the change machine 10 to the POS terminal 20 may be data obtained by adding the number of gift coupons with the same face value to the number of pieces of money. For example, when two 10000 yen bills, one 5000 yen bill, two 1000 yen bills, one 5000 yen gift certificate, and two 1000 yen gift certificates are inserted into the bill change machine 1B, the POS terminal To 20, data in which two 10000 yen banknotes, 2 5000 yen banknotes and 4 1000 yen banknotes are written is output. In this way, by adding the number of gift cards according to face value to the number of face values according to face value, it is not necessary to expand the data part, so that the introduction cost can be reduced.

  In addition, when a gift certificate having a face value different from the face value of a bill or coin is inserted, it may be divided into face values of bills or coins and added to the number of each face value. For example, when a 3000 yen gift certificate is inserted into the bill change machine 1B, the number of 2000 yen bills and 1000 yen bills in the output data to the POS terminal 20 is increased by one. The number of 1000 yen bills may be increased by three. Also, for example, when a 706 yen gift certificate is inserted into the banknote change machine 1B, the number of 500 yen coins in the output data to the POS terminal 20 is one, the number of 100 yen coins is two, and the five yen coin is Increase the number of 1-yen coins and the number of 1-yen coins by one.

  By doing in this way, the gift certificate of the face value different from the face value of a banknote or a coin can be handled. In this case, the POS terminal 20 cannot distinguish between the amount of money in the change machine 10 and the amount of the gift certificate, but for the total amount of money and gift certificate, an accurate value counted by the change machine 10 is used. You can get it. The store server 40 can strictly manage money and gift certificates by comparing this value with the counting result from the depositing machine 30.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 6, the output data from the change machine 10 to the POS terminal 20 may be data obtained by adding data on the number of coins according to face value to data on the number of coins according to face value. Thereby, although the size of the output data from the change machine 10 becomes large, the POS terminal 20 can acquire more detailed information on the gift certificate in the change machine 10. The store server 40 can manage money and gift certificates more strictly by receiving this information from the POS terminal 20 and collating it with the counting result from the depositing machine 30.

  Further, the control unit C2 (an output unit included in the control unit C2) may be configured to switch and output at least two of the data formats illustrated in FIGS. Further, the control unit C2 may switch the format of the output data in response to a request from the store server 40 or the POS terminal 20 that is a higher-level machine of the change machine 10. Further, the control unit C2 may automatically determine a format suitable for interlocking with the POS terminal 20 and perform switching according to the model of the POS terminal 20 and the like. Further, the change machine 10 may be operated to switch the format. Specifically, the format may be switched via the operation display units 112 and 212 or an operation unit such as a dip switch (not shown).

  In the above embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the change machine 10 has been described as including the coin change machine 1 </ b> A and the banknote change machine 1 </ b> B. However, the change machine 10 may be configured with only the banknote change machine 1 </ b> B.

  In the said embodiment, the change machine 10 may be provided with the printing part which prints the code information which shows the identification number of the change machine 10. FIG. The printed code information is read by a reading unit provided in the depositing machine 30. Thereby, the money_receiving | payment machine 30 specifies which money machine and gift certificate were collected from which change machine 10 among several change machines 10 in a shop, and transmits to the store server 40 with a count result. The store server 40 collates the counting result received from the deposit machine 30 with the information output from the POS terminal 20 connected to the corresponding change machine 10.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment as it is, and can be embodied by modifying the constituent elements without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. In addition, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of components disclosed in the embodiment. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, constituent elements over different embodiments may be appropriately combined.

10 change machine 20 POS terminal 30 deposit machine 40 store server

Claims (7)

A change machine linked to a POS terminal that calculates a sales amount based on input product information,
A receiving unit for taking in money and gift certificates that are input from the outside;
An identification unit for identifying and counting money and gift certificates taken by the receiving unit;
A storage unit that stores the money identified and counted by the identification unit by face value;
A payout unit for paying change based on an instruction from the POS terminal;
A collection cassette for storing coins and gift certificates when coins and gift certificates are collected on board;
An output unit for adding the data of the total amount of the gift certificate identified and counted by the identifying unit to the data of the number of coins by face value for the money identified and counted by the identifying unit and outputting the data to the POS terminal;
A change machine equipped with. A change machine linked to a POS terminal that calculates a sales amount based on input product information,
A receiving unit for taking in money and gift certificates that are input from the outside;
An identification unit for identifying and counting money and gift certificates taken by the receiving unit;
A storage unit that stores the money identified and counted by the identification unit by face value;
A payout unit for paying change based on an instruction from the POS terminal;
A collection cassette for storing coins and gift certificates when coins and gift certificates are collected on board;
An output unit for outputting the data of the number of coins and gift certificates classified by the identification unit according to face value to the POS terminal;
A change machine equipped with.   The change machine according to claim 2, wherein the output unit divides a face value of the gift certificate into a plurality of kinds of money face values, and creates data for the number of face values. A change machine linked to a POS terminal that calculates a sales amount based on input product information,
A receiving unit for taking in money and gift certificates that are input from the outside;
An identification unit for identifying and counting money and gift certificates taken by the receiving unit;
A storage unit that stores the money identified and counted by the identification unit by face value;
A payout unit for paying change based on an instruction from the POS terminal;
A collection cassette for storing coins and gift certificates when coins and gift certificates are collected on board;
An output unit for adding to the POS terminal the data for the face value of the gift certificate identified and counted by the identifying unit to the data for the face value for the money identified and counted by the identifying unit;
A change machine equipped with. A change machine linked to a POS terminal that calculates a sales amount based on input product information,
A receiving unit for taking in money and gift certificates that are input from the outside;
An identification unit for identifying and counting money and gift certificates taken by the receiving unit;
A storage unit that stores the money identified and counted by the identification unit by face value;
A payout unit for paying change based on an instruction from the POS terminal;
A collection cassette for storing coins and gift certificates when coins and gift certificates are collected on board;
Add the data of the total amount of the gift certificate identified and counted by the identifying unit to the data of the face value for the money identified and counted by the identifying unit and output it to the POS terminal, or the identifying unit The data for the face value for the money and the gift certificate identified and counted by the output is output to the POS terminal, or the data for the face value for the money that is identified and counted by the identifying section is identified by the identifying section. An output unit for switching an output format as to whether to output data to the POS terminal by adding data of the counted number of gift coupons according to face value;
A change machine equipped with.   6. The change machine according to claim 5, wherein the output unit automatically determines the output format in accordance with the linkage with the POS terminal and switches the output format. A change machine according to any one of claims 1 to 6,
A POS terminal for acquiring deposit data of money and gift certificates from the change machine;
A collation unit that receives the deposit data from the POS terminal and collates the deposit data with the total amount of money and gift certificates in the collection cassette;
A deposit management system.

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