JP2526030B2 - POS system - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a POS system capable of processing a fraction of a transaction amount of a service provided by a POS system composed of a terminal device and a host device and preventing the provision of a duplicate service.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In current supermarkets, department stores, specialty stores, etc., in order to secure fixed customers, it is often the case that services such as the issuance of gift certificates, discount tickets, discount stamps, etc. is there. When shopping and paying at the cash register etc., the customer either receives a gift certificate or a discount voucher according to the transaction amount, or asks the customer's stamp card to stamp one at a fixed amount Receive service when you reach.

[0003]

If the customer forgets the stamp card, the target number of stamps will not be reached and the service cannot be received. In addition, since a gift certificate or stamp can be imprinted only after reaching a certain amount, a customer whose transaction amount per transaction does not reach a certain amount cannot receive the service no matter how much the transaction amount is increased.

Further, when the transaction amount and the accumulated amount of the transaction amount are recorded for each customer and the service is provided, the service provided is duplicated unless the service provided is identified by some means. It cannot be avoided. The present invention was created in view of the above circumstances, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a POS system capable of accurately and fairly providing services to each customer and preventing the provision of duplicate services. To aim.

[0005]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the principle of the present invention. The invention according to claim 1 is
As shown in Figure 1, the transaction amount for each transaction of the product is entered,
In the POS system for totaling the entered transaction amounts by the transaction summing means 111 and providing a service according to the transaction total value, the customer code is input for each transaction, and the customer code for the customer Customer identification means 121 for identifying the customer corresponding to the code, and the customer identification means 121
The total amount storage means 131 for storing the total transaction amount for each customer identified by the above, and the total transaction amount value means 131 for each transaction performed by the customer identified by the customer identifying means 121. A storage in which the total transaction total value of the transactions and the previous transaction total amount stored in the total amount storage means 131 are added, and the addition result is stored in the total amount storage means 131 as a new transaction total value. In response to the identification result of the control unit 141 and the customer identification unit 121, one or a plurality of numbers are obtained based on the result of comparison between the total transaction amount of the customer and the service provision amount stored in the total amount storage unit 131. And a service instruction means 151A for recording the fact that the service is provided in the total amount storage means 131, and providing the service. And providing a service according to the shown to the customer.

[0006]

According to the first aspect of the invention, the transaction sum for each commodity traded by the customer is totaled by the transaction summing means 111. The transaction amount for each transaction is added to the total transaction amount up to the last time corresponding to the customer identified by the customer identification unit 121 of the terminal device 101 in the storage control unit 141, and the addition result is stored in the total amount of the upper level device 100. Means 1
It is stored in 31.

In response to the identification result of the customer identifying means 121, the service instructing means 151 of the high-level equipment 100 stores the total transaction amount of the identified customer stored in the total amount storage means 131 and the service providing reference amount. An instruction to provide one or a plurality of services determined by is output. Further, the service instructing means 151 records that the service has been provided in the total amount storage means 131.

Therefore, each time a service is provided according to the result of the comparison between the total transaction amount and the service provision amount as described above, that effect is recorded in the total amount storage means, so that duplicate services are provided. It is possible to avoid the inconvenience.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 shows the configuration of a POS system according to an embodiment of the present invention. I. Correspondence between Embodiment and FIG. 1 Correspondence between the embodiment of the present invention and FIG. 1 will be described.

The transaction totaling means lll corresponds to the main control section 211. The customer identification means 121 uses the customer information table 2
Corresponds to 31. The total amount storage means 131 corresponds to the customer information table 231. The storage control unit 141 corresponds to the main control unit 21l. The service instruction means 151A is
It corresponds to the main controller 211, the service determination program a 221, and the service determination program b 222.

II. Configuration of Embodiments Embodiments of the present invention will be described below assuming that there is the above correspondence. In FIG. 2, for example, the P0S terminal 201 installed at each cash register such as a supermarket
Is connected to the host computer 200 of the center.

The P0S terminal 201 includes a display 295 for displaying a transaction amount and a message from the host computer 200, a keyboard 297 for inputting information such as numerical values, a bar code scanner 299 for optically reading a bar code, and a bar read. A product information memo 215 for storing product information from the host computer 200 corresponding to the code, a total sales memory 217 for storing the total transaction amount, a printer 291 for issuing a receipt, and a safe 29.
3. A line control unit 287 for controlling communication with the host computer 200 is provided. And these are the control unit 2
Controlled by 89.

Further, the host computer 200 has a display 283 for displaying various information, a keyboard 285 for inputting various information, a product information table 281 in which product information corresponding to a product code is stored, and a name corresponding to each customer. , A customer information table 231 in which customer information such as the total transaction amount is stored, a service determination program a221 for instructing service to the customer, and a service determination program b222, which are provided in the main control unit 21.
controlled by l.

III. Operation of Embodiment FIG. 3 shows a POS terminal 201 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 and 5 show the operating procedure of the host computer 200. Further, FIG. 6 shows the host computer 2
00 shows the contents of the customer information table 231 inside. Hereinafter, FIGS. 2 to 6 will be referred to.

Now, in a supermarket where a POS system is introduced, as a variety of services, the transaction amount is summed up for each period by dividing the period, and after a set period, a certain fixed amount (for example, 5000 yen) is a ratio of one sheet. Consider a case where a gift certificate is issued and a case where the transaction amount for each transaction is summed up without dividing the period and the gift certificate is issued at a certain fixed amount (for example, 5000 yen).

[0016] Supermarket customers are registered in advance,
It is assumed that the customer code corresponding to each customer is assigned as a bar code. (I) When issuing a gift certificate every period When a customer makes a transaction for a product purchase at a cash register, the barcode of the product is read by a barcode scanner 299.
The POS terminal is in the state of determining whether it is the next processing or the total processing (step 31l), and a negative determination is made because the bar code is input. Next, it is determined whether or not the barcode is read from the barcode scanner 299 (step 312). Similarly, a positive determination is made by inputting the barcode, and then the barcode is read (step 313). When the barcode is not read, the operation of the keyboard 297 causes the step 31
A negative determination is made at 2, and the barcode is input from the keyboard 297 (step 315).

When the bar code is input, it is determined whether or not the bar code is a product code (step 314). If the input bar code is a customer code for identifying a customer, a negative determination is made in step 314, and the customer code is transmitted to the host computer 200 (step 315).
If the input bar code is a product code, an affirmative decision is made in step 314, and a reference request for the product information is sent to the host computer 200 via the line controller 287 (step 316).

When the product information from the host computer 200 is received (step 317), the received product information is stored in the product information memory 215 (step 31).
8). When the storage of product information is completed in step 318, the process returns to step 311. Then, steps 31l to 318 are repeated until the reading of the barcode is completed.

When the reading of the bar code is completed, an affirmative decision is made in step 31l by pressing the total key (not shown) on the keyboard. Then, the product price in the product information stored in the product information memory 215 is added to calculate the total sales, and the total sales amount is stored in the total sales memory 217 (step 320). Next, the total sales amount stored in the total sales memory 217 is transmitted to the host computer 200 (step 321). In addition, the total sales amount is billed to the customer, and the change calculation and safe 2
Deposit / withdrawal processing such as withdrawal of cash from 93 is performed (step 322), and a receipt is issued from the printer 291 (step 323).

The host computer 200 is normally in a state of judging whether the bar code of the product or the customer code is received (step 41l). If the code is received and the determination in step 411 is affirmative, then it is determined whether the code is the product code (step 41).
2). When the affirmative determination is made that the product code is the product code, the product information corresponding to the product code is searched from the product information table 281 (step 413), and the searched product information is POS.
It is transmitted to the terminal 201 (step 414).

If the received code is a customer code, a negative decision is made in step 412, and the customer is identified by the customer code (step 415). Steps 41l to 415 are repeated until reception of the product code and the customer code is completed. After receiving the product code and customer code,
When the total sales amount is sent from the POS terminal,
A negative determination is made in step 411, and the service instruction processing starts.

First, it is judged whether or not the period is divided when calculating the total transaction amount for judging the service (step 416). Since the period is divided and the transaction amounts are summed for each period, and one voucher is issued at a rate of 5000 yen after the set period, a positive determination is made in step 416 that the period has been set. Then, the total sales amount within the received period is sequentially added to create the customer information table shown in FIG. 6 stored in the customer information table 231 (step 42).
0), the process ends.

During the set period, the host computer 20
In the 0, P0S terminal 201, the above operation is repeated. When the set period expires, the host computer 20
0 internal service judgment program a221 is executed,
By dividing the total sales in the customer information table by 5000 yen, it is determined whether or not to issue a gift certificate (step 51l).

Since the total sales are 62350 yen, 62
Since 350 yen / 5000 yen = 12.47, and 12 gift certificates need to be issued, a positive determination is made in step 51l. In the host computer 200, the POS
An instruction to issue 12 gift certificates to the target customer is sent to the terminal 201 (step 512). When the instruction to issue the gift certificate is completed in step 512 or when it is determined negatively in step 5ll that the gift certificate is not issued, the goods information table is reset (step 51).
3), the process ends.

At the POS terminal 201, in response to a gift certificate issuing instruction from the host computer 200, when the target customer visits the store next time, 12 gift certificates are handed or mailed. (Ii) When a gift certificate is issued for each fixed amount For the customer's transaction at the cash register, the product information table is searched and the customer is identified as in the case of (i), and the total sales amount is calculated by the host computer 200. Will be sent to.

Then, in step 411, a negative determination is made when the total sales other than the product code and the customer code are received, and then it is determined whether or not there is a period setting (step 416). When issuing a gift certificate for each fixed amount, the period is not set, so a negative determination is made in step 416,
The service determination program b222 inside the host computer 200 is executed.

When the service determination program b222 is executed, the total sales received from the POS terminal 201 are sequentially added to create the customer information table of FIG. 6 (step 417). Then, for each of the sales total addition processing in step 417, it is determined whether or not to issue a gift certificate (step 418). Since one gift certificate is issued for every 5000 yen, it is negatively determined that there is no gift certificate issued in the first purchase with a cumulative sales of 3000 yen (step 41).
8), the process ends.

When the cumulative sales amount reaches 5500 yen in the second shopping, it is necessary to issue one gift certificate, so that an affirmative judgment is made in step 418. And the POS Termill 2
An instruction to issue a gift certificate is sent to 01 (step 419). P
In the OS terminal 201, the host computer 200
In response to the instruction to issue a gift certificate from, a gift certificate will be issued on the spot, or the service will be provided by mail.

When the issuance instruction is completed in step 419, the gift certificate issuance mark (A) is recorded in the customer information table 231, and the process ends. From the next time onward, by referring to the gift certificate issuing mark (A), duplicate gift certificate issuing instructions can be avoided. IV. Summary of Examples As described above, the customer information table 2 identified by the customer code is used.
The sales information for each customer is stored in 31 and the service determination program a221 and the service determination program b22 are stored.
By executing step 2, a service instruction is given to the customer.

Therefore, it is possible to provide services accurately and fairly for each customer. V. Modification of the Invention In the above-described embodiment of the present invention, the customer service in the POS system was considered, but in addition to this, it can be applied to customer management by a personal computer or the like. Further, although the correspondence between FIG. 1 and the present invention has been described in “1. Correspondence between Example and FIG. 1”, the present invention is not limited to this, and there are various modifications. A person skilled in the art can easily guess.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, for each customer identified by the customer identifying means of the terminal device, the transaction amount of each time in the host device is summed, and the total transaction amount and the service provision amount are calculated. Since the service to be provided is determined and the service is provided and the total transaction amount is updated according to the service supply result, the fraction generated in the service provision is effectively carried over to the next service provision. Moreover, by recording the service provision mark in the total amount storage means, it is possible to avoid providing duplicate services.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a principle flock diagram of the invention according to claim 1;

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the invention described in claim 1;

FIG. 3 is an operation explanatory diagram of the POS terminal according to the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is an operation explanatory diagram of the host computer according to the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the host computer according to the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram of a sales table for each customer according to the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 100 Host device 101 Terminal device 111 Transaction totaling means 121 Customer identifying means 131 Total amount storing means 141 Storage controlling means 151 Service instructing means 151A Service instructing means 200 Host computer 201 POS terminal 211 Main control section 215 Product information memory 217 Total sales memory 221 Service determination program a 222 Service determination program b 231 Customer information table 281 Product information table 283 Display 285 Keyboard 287 Repeat control section 289 Control section 291 Printer 293 Safe 295 display 297 Keyboard 299 Bar code scanner

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A POS system in which a transaction amount for each transaction of a product is input, the transaction amounts input are summed by a transaction totaling means, and a service is provided according to the transaction total value, which is input for each transaction. The customer identification means for identifying the customer corresponding to the customer code by the customer code for each customer involved in the transaction, and the total transaction amount for each customer identified by the customer identification means are stored corresponding to the customer code. A total amount storage means to perform, for each transaction performed by the customer identified by the customer identification means, the total transaction value of the transaction totaled by the transaction total means and the previous time stored in the total amount storage means Storage control means for adding the transaction total amount and storing the addition result as a new transaction total value in the total amount storage means; and in the total amount storage means in response to the identification result of the customer identification means. Based on the comparison result of the total transaction amount of the customer and the service provision amount, an instruction to provide one or a plurality of services is issued and the provision of the service is recorded in the total amount storage means. A POS system comprising: a service instructing means, and providing a service corresponding to the service providing instruction to a customer.