JP2726852B2 - Metering and sales equipment and payment management equipment - Google Patents

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Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a metering / sales apparatus in which a plurality of electronic balances having a weighing unit and a label issuing unit are connected by a register and a bus line, and a payment management apparatus.

(Prior art) Usually, products that are measured and sold, such as meat and prepared foods, in a large-scale store or the like are weighed in front of an electronic balance, and a label printed with the price of each product is issued to the product. After sticking, it is handed over to customers. Then, the customer takes the product to a cash dispenser called a cash register, where payment is made collectively.

In such a front-side weighing and sales system, an electronic scale with a label printer is mounted on a composite stand on a showcase or the like at a sales floor, and for each product purchased by a customer, the nearest electronic scale with a printer is weighed and valued. Now another clerk looks at the priced label of the product and enters it into the register. However, at the time of payment, the price printed on the label must be input to the cash register, so that the amount of work at the cash register increases, and there is a problem that sales efficiency decreases when customers concentrate. In addition, there is a possibility that an input error may occur at the time of inputting the price, which may cause a store credit problem.

In order to avoid such a situation, several electronic balances must be
One that is connected to one cash register and transfers the price data calculated by each electronic balance to the cash register has already been disclosed in JP-A-56-51623 and JP-A-56-51624. Proposed.

In addition, in order to eliminate the need to re-enter the sales price at the cash register, and to record the sales of each of the customers without error, multiple electronic balances and multiple receipt issuing machines are connected by a bus line. A weighing system for performing various kinds of total printing has also been developed (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-228316).

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) In such a conventional weighing and selling device, a dedicated receipt issuing machine is required separately from the electronic weighing device. Many receipt issuing machines will be installed. In order to transfer data by connecting these devices to each other, it is necessary to newly develop hardware and software for the electronic scale, which causes inconvenience in terms of cost.

In addition, when a plurality of customers are individually weighed by two or more electronic balances, it is necessary to sort out the purchase price of each customer. There is a possibility that the payment will be made, and a problem will arise in the aspect of account management. In other words, payment management of merchandise sold by face-to-face weighing is indispensable for preventing errors caused by register malfunctions and input errors, and for preventing fraudulent acts by customers and clerks.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and provides a weighing / selling apparatus and a payment management apparatus capable of quickly performing face-to-face weighing / selling and accurately and promptly performing payment of sold products. It is intended to be.

(Means for Solving the Problems) According to the present invention, there is provided a weighing and selling apparatus in which a product sales position and a checkout position are separated from each other. A plurality of weighing means having a function of calculating the weighing is arranged, and a label issuing means for issuing a label printed with the result of the weighed sale there is integrally provided, and for each product brought to the continuous cash register, A weighing and selling device configured to read the sales result from the label and settle the charge, storage means for storing the sales result of each weighing means of the weighing and selling apparatus, and storage for storing the charge adjustment data read by the charge adjustment means. Means for comparing the sales result stored in each storage means with the charge settlement data.

(Operation) The weighing and selling apparatus of the present invention includes a label for each product on which details such as a product name, a unit price, a weight, and a price are printed together with the product sold to the customer by face weighing, a beef department, a pork department,
Issue a receipt label that prints the item details and total price for each sales floor in the poultry section, etc., and even if products from multiple sales floors are brought to the cash register, accurately calculate those charges and settle charges. And it can be done quickly.

In addition, the settlement management device of the present invention compares the sales result of the product sold by the metering and sales device with the charge settlement data read by the charge settlement unit, thereby causing a mismatch between the sales result and the charge settlement data. Can be taken promptly to determine the causes and countermeasures.

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

(1) Outline of Metering and Selling FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the entire metering and selling system.

In this system, a plurality of electronic balances 1 to 6 are connected so that sales price data and the like can be exchanged with each other.
Via cash registers 8,9
Is connected to The electronic scales 1 and 2 are placed in a beef section, and the electronic scales 3 and 4 are placed in a pork section and the electronic scales are placed.
5,6 are located in the poultry section.

Here, a case in which a specific clerk A moves together while sequentially weighing a plurality of products for a specific customer α, FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG. 2A is a label printing example, FIG. 2B is a receipt label printing example, and FIG. 2C is a receipt printing example. The label and the receipt label are common blank label paper. Is printed while being temporarily attached to a backing paper (release paper).

First, when the customer α purchases a beef steak product by face weighing using a child scale 2 (electronic scale) at a beef section, the child scale 2
The label a shown in FIG. 7A is issued, and the clerk A sticks the label a to the beef steak 10a. Further, when the customer α purchases the beef stew 10b and the beef mince 10c, the labels b and c are issued and attached, respectively. The clerk A puts these three beef products 10a, 10b, and 10c into one bag 11 and moves it with the customer α.

Next, when the customer α purchases the pork steak and the minced pork at the pork counter 3 at the pork section, labels are issued for each of them at the sub scale 3, and the clerk A sticks each of the items as before, and Two pieces of pork are put in one bag 12, and they are moved for customer α. Further, when the customer α purchases the chicken peach and the chicken flesh on the child scale 5 at the poultry section, a label is issued for each of them on the child scale 5 and affixed to each item. Put in bag 13.

Here, when the customer α informs the clerk A of the end of the purchase, the clerk A uses the child scale 5 to issue a receipt label for the customer α. The clerk cuts the label and the receipt label together with the backing sheet after printing, peels off the backing sheet, and affixes it to the article or bag 11-13.

In the child scale 5, data (articles, prices, etc.) of commodities weighed by the clerk A on each scale are transferred and stored.
The child scale 5 sorts the data according to the section of the product classification, and issues a receipt label on which the details and the total price are printed for each section. FIG. 2B is an example of a receipt label printed on a blank label sheet. A bar code is also printed on the receipt label. Clerk A
Affixes a beef receipt label 11a to a bag 11 containing three dishes of beef, affixes a pork receipt label 12a to a bag 12 containing two pieces of pork,
a to a bag 13 containing two kinds of bird meat,
Pass 1 to 13 to customer α.

Customer α who receives the bag takes it to the cash register,
Another clerk B in charge of the register 8 scans the barcode on the receipt label attached to each bag, reads the sales result, and adjusts the fee. 14 and 15 are bar code scanners attached to the registers 8 and 9, respectively.

That is, first, the barcode 11b of the receipt label 11a attached to the bag 11 containing the three beef products is scanned, and the total price of the three beef products is input to the register 8, and then, similarly, from the receipt labels 12a and 13a. Enter the total price of two pork and two birds in the register. The register 8 calculates the total sum of the three total prices, issues a receipt shown in FIG. 2 (c), and the customer α pays the fee.

When the child labels 1 to 5 issue the receipt labels 11 a to 13 a, data such as the total price printed on the receipt labels 11 a to 13 a is transmitted to the parent scale 6. These data are stored together in the parent scale 6, and each register
In 8 and 9, data such as the total price read from the receipt labels 11a to 13a is stored.

The computer 7 captures receipt label data (that is, data measured and sold by each of the electronic balances 1 to 6) from the parent scale 6 after the store closes, and reads data (registered data) from the registers 8 and 9 from the registers 8 and 9. That is, the receipt label 11a
デ ー タ 13a), and ticks whether each data matches. If data that does not match is found, it is printed as metered sales data that has been metered and sold but has not been correctly settled at the cash register.

(2) Configuration of the weighing and selling device FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a key switch of the electronic balance. The key switch 20 is provided in each of the electronic balances 1 to 6, and includes a clerk key 22, a function key 23, and the like, in addition to a numeric keypad 21 for inputting a product number. The clerk key 22 is used to specify a clerk who operates the key switch 20, for example, A
To E, and a function key 23 is composed of a total key S and a print key P which are operated at the time when the front sale of the customer is completed.

FIGS. 4 (a) to 4 (e) show an example of storage of input data by an electronic balance, and FIGS. 4 (a) and 4 (b) show scales 2 (electronic) used for weighing and selling at a beef section. 3 shows the stored contents of the scale. In FIG. 9A, the first to third rows show details of a single item for a customer α who has purchased beef steak or the like by face-to-face weighing, the first column is a balance number, the second column is a clerk code, The third column is a department code, the fourth column is a product name code, the fifth column is unit price data, the sixth column is weighing data, and the seventh column is a storage area for price data. 4 (c) to 4 (e) show the stored contents of the child scale 3 in the pork section.

That is, the beef steak, the beef stew, and the beef mince are weighed by the scale 2, and then the customer α and the clerk A move to the other scale 3, where the pork steak is weighed.
When the clerk key A is turned on from there, the data of the child scale 2 is read out to the single item specification area (FIG. 4 (d)) of the child scale 3, and the single item specification area of the child scale 2 is cleared to zero (No. FIG. 4 (b). Then, in the child scale 3, after the data such as the price for the pork steak is printed on the label, it is stored in the single item specification area on the fourth line (FIG. 4 (e)). Furthermore, child scale 5
When the two items are measured and sold with respect to the bird meat, the details of the single item are similarly stored. Each electronic balance 1 to 6 in FIG.
In each of the child scale and the parent scale, a single item specification can be similarly stored in its memory.

FIG. 5 shows the department detail data read from the issued receipt label in the register 8 for adjusting the fee.

The first to third rows are data about other clerks,
The fourth to sixth rows show the department details purchased by the customer α by the front weighing of the clerk A, the first column is a balance number, the second column is a clerk code, the third column is a department code, and the fourth column. Is a receipt label number, and the fifth column is a storage area for department-based total price data. Here, the data for the three bags brought by the customer α is accumulated as the storage contents of the section detail storage area of the register 8, and after the business closing time of the store, the
Used to compare with pre-weighed sales results.

FIG. 6 is a non-matching data list created by comparing the charge adjustment data of each of the registers 8 and 9 at the adjustment position with the sales result stored as the scale-side data and printing only the data that did not match. An example is shown. By detecting the mismatch between the data by the computer 7 and analyzing the created mismatch data list, the cause of the mismatch can be estimated. In other words, the cause is on the device side, for example, malfunction due to noise, intentional heating element of the thermal head of the scale, scale failure such as data reading error by the scanner of the register, malfunction or failure of the register, or on the human side If there is a cause and, for example, it is specified whether the clerk is taking back an illegal item or a customer is taking away illegally, it is easy to take countermeasures.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram of an electronic balance constituting the child scale or the parent scale shown in FIG.

The arithmetic control unit 30 includes a CPU 31, a communication interface 32, an R
It comprises an OM 33, a RAM 34, and two input / output interfaces 35 and 36. The input / output interface 35 is connected to a weight sensor 37 for detecting a product weight via an A / D converter 38. The key switch 20 shown in FIG. 3 is also connected to the input / output interface 35. The communication interface 32 is for exchanging sales price data with each other, and accordingly, the data in the single item detail storage area of the RAM 34 is appropriately exchanged. The input / output interface 36 has a display
39 and the printer 40 are connected.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram of the registers 8 and 9 shown in FIG.

The arithmetic control unit 50 includes a CPU 51, a communication interface 52,
The OM 53, the RAM 54, and two input / output interfaces 55 and 56 are connected to the input / output interface 55. The input / output interface 55 is connected to a scanner 57 for reading a product price from a receipt label 11a or the like on which a sales result is printed with a bar code. Key input section 58
Are also connected to the input / output interface 55. The communication interface 52 is for transferring sales data from the section detail storage area of the RAM 54 to the computer 7.
A display 59 and a receipt printer 60 are connected to the input / output interface 56.

(3) Label Issuance by Electronic Scale FIG. 9 is a flowchart for issuing labels for each product weighing by the electronic scales constituting the child scales 1 to 5.

When the customer α tells the clerk A that he wants to purchase beef steak, the clerk A inputs the beef steak product number using the numeric keypad of the child scale 2 and the unit price and product name of the beef steak registered in advance. And weigh the beef steak (step 61) and turn on his / her clerk key A (step 6).
2). The electronic balance determines whether the data of the clerk A has already been input (step 63). In the case of the weighing sale example of the above (1), since it is not stored in any of the weighers 1 to 6 yet, the process passes step 64 and the name and price of the beef steak currently weighed are displayed. The data is printed on blank label paper (step 65) and stored in the single item specification area (step 66). The label a fed by the length of the printed paper is affixed to a beef steak cut and weighed and sold by a clerk, and put into the bag 11 (step 67). If the customer continues shopping with this scale,
Returning to steps 68 to 61, likewise for beef stew,
The beef mince is weighed and labels b and c are issued.

If the customer is already shopping on another scale, the data of the corresponding clerk has been entered on the other scale.
At 64, the data of the clerk is read and transferred to the single item detail storage area of the weigher, and the read data of the weigher is cleared (FIG. 4). When the shopping with the scale is completed, the clerk A moves to the next sales place with the customer with the goods.

(4) Issuance of Receipt Label by Electronic Scale FIG. 10 is a flowchart of issuing a receipt label (FIG. 2 (b)) by an electronic balance as a child scale.

When the customer α informs the clerk A of the end of purchase after the front weighing with the scale 5, the clerk A turns on the total key of the scale 5 and then turns on his / her clerk key A (step 69). In the case of the metering and sales example of (1), since all the data of the clerk A is stored in the child scale 5, the process skips from step 70 to step 71 and the data of the department code 1 (beef department) of the clerk A is skipped. Is collected from the single item specification area (step 72).

Note that, for example, the section code 1 is set for beef, the section code 2 is set for pork, the section code 3 is set for poultry, and so on.

If there is data of the department code 1 collected, step 73
After that, the process proceeds to step 74, and the data relating to the beef stored in the single item specification area is printed (labeled) on the label paper as shown in FIG. Total price, department code,
The salesclerk code, receipt label number, scale number, etc. are printed, and a receipt label is created. After that, the data such as the department total price is transmitted from the child balance 5 to the parent balance, and the parent balance receives the data and stores it in the memory in the parent balance (step 7).
Five). The child scale 5 clears the data of the section code 1 in the single item specification area (step 76). The clerk A cuts the receipt label on which the details and the total of the beef are printed, and affixes it to the bag containing the beef (step 77).

Since the receipt label to be attached to the bag of pork and poultry has not been issued yet, it is determined that there is uncollected data (step 78), and the clerk A turns on the print key P (step 79). The child balance 5 collects the data of the next section code, that is, data on pork from the single item specification area (step 80) and issues a corresponding receipt label (step 74). The clerk A cuts the receipt label and attaches it to a bag containing pork (step 77).

Further, when the print key P is turned on, a chicken receipt label (FIG. 2 (b)) is issued, and the sticker is attached to the bag containing the chicken, and the clerk A sends three to the customer α. Give the bags (three bags of beef, two bags of pork, two bags of poultry)
81).

For example, if the customer α returns to the child scale 4 after the front weighing with the child scale 5 and informs the clerk A of the purchase end there, the clerk A uses the child scale 4 to enter the total key S and the clerk key A. By turning ON, a receipt label can be issued by the child scale 4. In this case, since there is no data of the clerk A on the child weigher 4, the child weigher 4 stores the data of the clerk A from the child weigher 5 after the total key and the clerk key A are turned on. The data is read out and transferred to the single item specification area of the self-balance (small scale 4), and the data of the clerk A stored in the small scale 5 is cleared (step 71). In this way, the data of the clerk A is stored in the child scale 4, and in the same manner as described above, the beef, pork, and chicken receipt labels can be issued by the child scale 4.

(5) Settlement processing by register FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a settlement procedure by a register.

The customer α was given three bags (beef bag 11, pork bag 12, and poultry bag 13) to which the receipt label was attached from clerk A,
Go to the cashier with those bags. At the cash register, the cashier clerk B scans the barcode on the receipt label of the beef bag with a scanner and inputs the data stored in the barcode into the register (step 82). In the register, the department name (beef) of the input data and the total price for each department are printed on ordinary receipt paper (step 8).
3) All the input data (scale No., store clerk code, department code, receipt label No., department total price) are stored in the detail area for each department in the RAM 54 (step 84). Subsequently, when the receipt label of pork and poultry is scanned, printed, and stored, all the items of the customer α have been scanned, and the fact is set from the key input unit 58 of the register (step 85). The calculation control unit 50 of the register calculates the total price, and prints the total price of each section on the receipt paper as shown in FIG. 2C (step 8).
6), use it as a receipt for customer α (step 8
7), customer α pays the price (step 88).

The contents stored in the detail area for each section of the RAM 54 are as follows.
As shown in FIG. 5, data for three bags is stored, but when data is not input from the scanner 57, it is checked whether or not there is a data request from the computer 7 (step 89). If so, all the data in the detail area for each department is transmitted to the computer 7, and after the transmission is completed, this area is cleared to zero (step 90).

(6) Data Match Check by Computer 7 FIG. 12 is a flowchart of a match check by the computer 7. First, the computer 7 determines whether or not the current time by the internal clock is the set check time (step 91). In this case, an appropriate time after the store closing time is set in advance in the computer 7 as a check time in order to perform a match check after all customers have completed the checkout process at the cash register.

When the check time comes, the computer 7 transmits a data request signal to the parent scale (step 92), and the balance number, the clerk code, the division code, the receipt label number, and the division total price transmitted from the parent scale as detailed data for each section. When all the weighing data and the like are received, they are stored in the weighing data area of the memory of the computer 7 (step 93).

Next, a data request signal is also sent to each register (step 94), and all data scanned from the register, such as balance number, clerk code, department code, receipt label number, department total price, cash register number, etc. The data is received and stored in the register data area of the memory of the computer 7 (step 95).

The computer 7 sequentially compares the data in the scale data area and the data in the cash register data area (step 9).
6) If it is determined that they match (step 97), the matching data in both areas is cleared (step 98). Therefore, when the comparison of all data is completed (step 99), the remaining data that has not been cleared is checked (step 100), and they are printed as mismatched data as shown in FIG. Is displayed (step 101).

In the comparison between the weighing data and the register data, the register numbers are not compared. This is because there is no data of the register 8 number in the scale data area.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the section-specific data is temporarily stored in the parent scale 6 and the registers 8 and 9.
Each time the measurement is performed and each time the scanner 57 reads the data from the registers 8 and 9, the data is transmitted to the computer 7 and stored in the computer 7, so that the data can be compared and checked at a predetermined check time.

By creating and analyzing the mismatch data list in FIG. 6 in this manner, the cause of the mismatch can be estimated, and if the cause can be estimated, the countermeasure can be taken promptly.

As described above, the present invention has been described in some detail with respect to the most preferable embodiment, but the description of the preferable embodiment does not violate the modification of the detailed part of the configuration and the spirit of the present invention described in the claims. Obviously, various modifications as long as possible or combinations thereof can be made.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, according to the present invention, a plurality of electronic balances having a weighing unit and a label issuing unit are connected to each other by a register and a bus line, and when a product is sold by front-side weighing, a customer can be sold. Along with the products sold by front-line weighing, a label for each product on which details such as the product name, unit price, weight, price, etc. are printed, and the details and totals of products totaled for each sales floor such as beef, pork, and poultry departments By issuing a receipt label printed with the price, even if products at multiple sales floors are brought to the cash register, they can accurately and quickly process their tallying and payment, and saw those labels Alone, it is possible to provide a weighing and selling device that allows the user to immediately know the details of each product and the total price of each department, and furthermore, the sales results of the products sold by the weighing and selling device and the charges read by the charge settlement means. By comparing the settlement data with the settlement data, it is possible to promptly take a cause when a mismatch between the sales result and the charge settlement data occurs and a countermeasure thereof, and to provide a settlement management device capable of surely managing products.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 (a) is a label printing example, FIG. 2 (b) is a receipt label printing example, FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of receipt printing, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a key switch of the electronic balance, FIGS. 4 (a) to 4 (e) are diagrams showing a storage example of input data by the electronic balance, and FIG. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing department detail data read from a receipt label, FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a mismatch data list, FIG. 7 is a block diagram of an electronic balance constituting a child scale or a parent scale, FIG. FIG. 8 is a block diagram of a register, FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a flowchart for issuing a label by an electronic balance, FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a flowchart for issuing a receipt label by an electronic balance, and FIG. Is a diagram showing a flowchart showing a settlement procedure according to
FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a flowchart of the matching check by the computer 7. 1 to 6 Electronic balance, 7 Computer, 8, 9 Register, 20 Key switch, 30 Operation control unit, 40
Printer, 50 ... Calculation controller, 60 ... Receipt printer.

Claims (6)

(57) [Claims] 1. A weighing and selling apparatus in which a merchandise selling position and a checkout position are separated from each other, wherein a plurality of weighing means for calculating a selling price of the weighed goods are provided integrally with the weighing means. Therefore, a label issuing means for issuing a label on which the details of each product sold by weighing are printed and a receipt label on which the details of the product and the total price are printed for each department of the sold product, and the sales result from the issued receipt label And a charge adjusting means for adjusting the charge by reading the charge. 2. A plurality of weighing means for calculating a selling price of a weighed product; a label issuing means provided integrally with the weighing means and issuing a label on which the sales result is printed; and the issued label. A payment management device for performing payment management of goods sold by a weighing / selling device, comprising: a payment device for reading a sales result from the Yahoo! And a storage means for storing the charge settlement data read by the charge settlement means, and comparing the stored sales results with the charge settlement data. 3. The apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising data processing means for comparing the sales result stored in each of said storage means and the charge settlement data and detecting a mismatch between the data. Checkout management device. 4. The settlement management apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the weighing means of the weighing and selling apparatus has input means for specifying an operator who inputs a sales result. 5. The settlement management apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said data processing means has a data printing means. 6. The settlement management apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said data processing means has data display means.