JP3303067B2 - Deposit system and host device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention is applied to a deposit system for managing the deposit status of sales from each store in a shopping center or the like , and to this deposit system.
Regarding the host device .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Normally, in a shopping center or the like, a floor usage fee (rent) for a store is set according to the sales amount of the store. When the developer, the manager, completes the day's business, the sales are once collected for each store, and the collected sales are subtracted from the floor usage fees (rental fees), administration costs, utility costs, and the like. Is returned to the store.

[0003]

However, in a shopping center having a large number of stores, there is a problem that it takes too much time to collect the sales proceeds of each store. Therefore, in order to eliminate the trouble of collecting sales proceeds from stores, a payment system in which a deposit machine is provided and each store deposits the sales amount into the deposit machine has been proposed.

[0004] It is an object of the present invention to detect whether or not the payment of sales has been completed for each payer, to notify the non-payer who has not received the sales, and to easily prompt the non-payer to pay. Deposit system and host equipment
To provide a location .

[0005]

Means for Solving the Problems (1) A deposit system according to the present invention includes a deposit device for receiving a deposit, and the deposit device.
In the payer storage means for storing information of payer performing deposit, and the deposit completion determining means for determining whether payment for each payer is completed, the deposit in the deposit completion determining means Kan
The number of unpaid persons judged to have not completed
Displays the information of the unpaid person in the case of the
And a non-payer display means that does not display the information of the non-payer when it is not .

[0006] In this configuration, the host device may store the information of the payer to the payer storage means, to determine whether the deposit in the deposit device for each <br/> payer by payment completion determination means has been completed . In this determination, if the number of unpaid persons determined to have not completed payment is less than a predetermined number,
Information on the depositor is displayed, and on the contrary, the number of unpaid recipients is less than the specified number
If not, the information of the unpaid person is not displayed.

(2) There is no unpaid person in the host device.
Executes the payment completion determination means at predetermined time intervals until
I do.

[0008] In this configuration, there is no unpaid person.
The payment completion determining means repeatedly executes at predetermined time intervals.
Is done.

[0009] (3) the non payment's display hand stage, means including to print output the information of the non-payer.

[0010] In this configuration, the information of the unpaid person detected by the payment completion judging means is not only displayed but also printed and output.

[0011] (4) the non payment's display hand stage, the payment
Not received when it is determined that payment has not been completed by the completion determination means
If there is no money holder, include a means to indicate so.
No.

In this configuration, when it is determined that the payment has been completed for all the members, the unpaid person display means displays that fact.

(5) Further, based on the input transaction data,
Comprising a transaction processing system for processing a transaction Zui, the host
The deposit completion determination unit of the device is a unit that determines whether or not the deposit has been completed based on deposit data including an amount deposited by the depositor into the deposit machine and the transaction data.
You.

In this configuration, the transaction is processed in the transaction processing device, and it is determined whether or not the payment has been completed based on the amount deposited in the deposit machine and the amount transacted in the transaction processing device.

[0015]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a deposit system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The deposit system includes a plurality of deposit machines 1 for depositing money and a host device 2. A transaction processing device 3 such as a POS terminal device is installed at each store in the shopping center, and the transaction processing device 3 at each store is connected to the host device 2 via the store controller 4. In addition, deposit machine 1
And the host device 2 are also connected via a data communication line. As shown in FIG. 2, the host device 2
1, an ROM 12, a RAM 13, an input unit 14 in which keys for performing input operations are arranged, and a display unit 15 for displaying.
And a communication unit 16 that controls data communication with the transaction processing device 3 installed in the store via the deposit machine 1 and the store controller 4, and a printer 17 that performs a printing process.

The RAM 13 of the host device 2 stores a deposit management file 21 shown in FIG. Store records 22 are registered in the payment management file 21 for each store. Store records 22 include a store identification code storage area 23 for identifying a store, a store name storage area 24 for storing a store name, a cash sales storage area 25 for storing a cash sales amount, and a cash deposit machine 1. And a deposit amount storage area 26 for storing the received amount.

At each store in the shopping center,
Enter data (transaction data) to the transaction processing apparatus 3 about the transaction, including the price of the product or the like to transactions, to process transactions with customers. At this time, the transaction processing device 3 stores a transaction amount, a method of paying the transaction amount (cash payment, credit payment, and the like). Then, when the store is closed for one day, the transaction processing device 3 performs the settlement processing of the sales. The transaction processing device 3 issues a settlement report and the like based on the transaction data and the like input on the day , creates settlement data, and notifies the host device 3 of the settlement data via the store controller 4. As shown in FIG. 4, the settlement data includes a store code for identifying the store, a sales amount for each transaction method (cash, credit, gift certificate, credit, prepaid card, check, etc.) and the number of transactions. include.

When the settlement data is transmitted from the transaction processing device 3, the host device 2 uses the cash sales amount included in the settlement data as the store record 2 of the corresponding store.
2 is written in the cash sales storage area 25. The transmitted settlement data is stored in the host device 2 for managing the total sales amount of the store, and the rent for the store is determined based on the settlement data.

When the settlement process is completed, the store deposits the cash sales into the deposit machine 1. Deposit machine 1
Payment of the sales proceeds to the store is performed by inserting a payment card or a passbook containing a store identification code distributed in advance for each store into the deposit machine 2, and then inserting cash (sales proceeds). The deposit machine 1 reads out a store code for identifying a store from the inserted deposit card or deposit book, determines the authenticity and type of the deposited cash, and calculates the deposit amount. Then, the host device 2 receives the deposit data (see FIG. 5) including the store code read from the deposit card or the deposit passbook, the calculated deposit amount and the denominated deposit.
Send to Then, the deposit machine 1 prints out the deposit amount and the like on a deposit passbook or a slip and discharges the same. If a deposit card has been accepted, the deposit card is also discharged.

In the host device 2, when the deposit data is transmitted from the deposit machine 1, the deposit amount included therein is stored in the deposit amount storage area 1 of the store record 22 of the corresponding store.
6 is added to the amount stored. Therefore, even when the depositing machine 1 makes a deposit in a plurality of times, the total amount of money deposited by the store into the depositing machine 1 is stored in the deposit amount storage area 26. Therefore, the deposit file 21 in the host device 2 stores the total of the sales amount in cash for each store and the total amount of money deposited in the deposit machine 1 (deposit amount).

Next, the host device 2 confirms the unpaid person,
The processing performed based on the confirmed result is shown in FIGS.
This will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the host device at this time. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the payment confirmation processing in FIG.
The host device 2 performs a payment confirmation process for confirming whether or not payment has been completed at each store in the order registered in the payment management file 21. (N1).

In the payment confirmation processing shown in FIG. 7, the cash sales amount stored in the cash sales storage area 25 of the store record 22 and the payment amount stored in the payment amount storage area 26 are read (n11). ). Then, it is determined whether or not the two read amounts substantially match (n12). For example, if the deposit amount is a difference between the cash sales and a predetermined amount, it is determined that they are substantially the same. In the determination of n12, if it is determined that they do not substantially match, it is determined that the store has not been paid, and if they substantially match, it is determined that the store has been paid (n13, n14).

Here, in the deposit machine 1, at least one
If you make a system that determines that a store has already been paid if you make a deposit, for example, the sales amount in cash is 100,000 yen,
The deposit machine 1 also determines that a store where only 10,000 yen has been deposited is a deposited store (actually, it is a non-deposited store). However, in this embodiment, it is determined whether the store is an unpaid store based on the payment data transmitted from the transaction processing device 3 and the payment data transmitted from the deposit machine 1 as described above. Thus, for example, a store where the sales amount in cash is 100,000 yen and the deposit machine 1 has received only 10,000 yen can be determined as a non-paid store. Therefore, it is possible to accurately determine whether or not each store has not received money.

In this processing, the host device 2 counts the number of unpaid stores. If it is determined in n13 that the number of unpaid stores has not been received, the count value is incremented by 1 to update the number of unpaid stores. Perform (n15). Then, it is determined whether or not the number of unpaid stores is equal to or less than a predetermined number of preset stores (n16). The store is changed to a store that has not performed the determination as to whether the store is an unpaid store or not (hereinafter referred to as an unconfirmed store), and the above-described processes after n11 are performed (n17, n18).

At n16, if the number of unpaid stores is not less than the predetermined number of stores, the process ends at that point even if there are still unconfirmed stores. Also, n
In 17, when it is determined that payment has been confirmed for all stores (when there is no unconfirmed store), the process is terminated. In other words, the payment confirmation processing ends when the number of stores determined to be unpaid exceeds a predetermined number of stores or when confirmation of payment for all stores is completed.

When the payment confirmation processing is completed, the host device 2 determines whether or not the number of unpaid stores is equal to or less than a predetermined number (n2). If the number of unpaid stores is equal to or less than the predetermined number, it is determined whether the number of unpaid stores is zero (n
3). In n3, if the number of unpaid stores is not 0, the information of the store determined to be unpaid is displayed on the display unit 15 (n4). Then, the process waits for a predetermined time set in n6, and repeats the processes in and after n1 again. If the number of unpaid stores is not less than the predetermined number in n2, the display of n4 (display of unpaid stores) is not performed, the process waits for a predetermined time in n6, and the processes after n1 are performed again. That is, if the number of unpaid stores is equal to or less than the predetermined number, the unpaid stores are displayed on the display unit 15 (see FIG. 8). If the number of unpaid stores exceeds the predetermined number, the unpaid stores are displayed. Is not displayed, and the process after n1 is repeated after waiting for a predetermined time. Note that the displayed unpaid store is stored in the printer 1
7 can also be printed.

Here, the number of unpaid stores is not less than a predetermined number .
In such a case, not displaying these stores is complicated.
It's not just because it gets messy. It is often the case that an unpaid store has completed the settlement process in the transaction processing device 3 and is ready to make a deposit to the deposit machine 1, or is waiting for a turn to deposit money into the deposit machine 1. Then, even if the developer urges the unpaid store to pay at this time, when the reminder is performed, the payment is completed and it takes time and effort, and this is not a reminder of the effective payment to the store.
Therefore, when the number of unpaid stores is large, a reminder of payment is not performed. Therefore, the number of unpaid stores is large
Sometimes, even if the unpaid store is displayed , this display is not used by the developer to take any action, but is a useless display. In such cases, the display of unpaid stores is not performed. Also, in such a case, the unpaid store
Since the display is not performed, when the number of unpaid stores is not less than the preset number of stores at n16, no problem occurs even if the payment confirmation processing is terminated, and the load on the host device 2 is not increased. Can be reduced.

Further, generally, in the processing in the host device 2, the time required to display data on the display unit 15 is shorter than the time required to print data with a printer. When the number of unpaid stores is equal to or less than a predetermined number, the unpaid stores are displayed on the display unit 16, so that the developer can be notified of the unpaid stores faster than by printing and outputting with a printer or the like. Can be. Therefore, the developer can promptly and easily urge payment for the unpaid store. Further, since printing paper is unnecessary, running costs can be reduced.

On the other hand, if it is determined in n3 that the number of unpaid stores is 0, the completion of the payment is displayed on the display unit 15 and the process is completed (n5) (see FIG. 9). That is, the host device 2 repeatedly performs the payment confirmation processing for each store until the number of unpaid stores becomes 0, at regular intervals. Then, when all the stores have completed the payment, the completion of the payment is displayed on the display unit 15 and the processing is completed. Further, when the host device 2 receives the notification of the payment data from the deposit machine 1 and the settlement data from the transaction processing device 3 during the standby at n6, the cash sales amount and the payment amount are stored in the store record 22 as described above. Remember.

The store record 22 registered in the deposit management file 21 has an area for storing a flag indicating whether or not the deposit has been completed. When it is determined at n11 that the deposit has been completed, this flag is set. When the process is completed and the payment is repeatedly confirmed (n6
When a predetermined time has elapsed after the transfer to (), the store in which the completion of the deposit is stored is not compared with the above-described cash sales amount and the deposit amount, and it is determined that the deposit is completed in n12. You may make it. By doing so, the load on the host device 2 can be further reduced.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, the information of a non-payer is displayed on the display unit, so that the information of the non-payer can be notified more quickly than printing and outputting with a printer or the like. Thus, it is possible to promptly and easily urge payment to the unpaid person. Further, since the paper required for printing is not required, the running cost can be reduced.

In addition , when the number of unpaid persons is equal to or less than a predetermined number, the information of the unpaid persons is displayed, so that information of a large number of unpaid persons exceeding the predetermined number is displayed on the screen in a complicated manner. Nothing. At this time, the host device does not perform the process for displaying the unpaid person, so that the load is reduced.

Further, the information of the unpaid person can be printed and confirmed.

Further, when the payment of all the members has been confirmed, an indication that there is no unpaid person is displayed, so that it can be easily determined whether or not the payment of all the members has been completed.

Further, since it is determined whether or not payment has been completed on the basis of the transaction data in the transaction processing device and the payment data including the amount of money deposited in the deposit machine, it is accurately determined that the payment has been completed. can do.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a deposit system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of a host device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a deposit management file in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a configuration of settlement data.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a structure of payment data.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing processing of the host device in the embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a payment confirmation process in the embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing display of information on unpaid stores on a display unit.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a payment completion display on a display unit.

[Description of Signs] 1-Payment machine 2-Host device 3-Transaction processing device 11-CPU 12-ROM 13-RAM 15-Display unit 17-Printer 21-Payment management file 22-Store record

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Claims (6)

(57) [Claims] 1. A and depositing apparatus that accepts payment, and payer storage means for storing information of payer performing deposit in the deposit device, payment completion determining means for determining whether payment has been completed for each payer And the payment completion determination means determines that payment has not been completed.
If the number of unpaid people is less than the specified number,
Information is displayed, and conversely, if the number is not less than the specified number,
Payment is system comprising a host device including a non payer display means does not display the information of the gold's, and the. 2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the host device has no unpaid users.
The payment completion determining means is executed every predetermined time until
The deposit system according to claim 1. Wherein the non-payer display hand stage payment system according to means for printing out the information of the un payer to including請 Motomeko 1 or 2. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein non-payment's display hand stage, the completion of payment
Non-payers who have been determined that the payment has not been completed by the determination means
Claims that include a means to indicate if there was no
Item 4. The deposit system according to any one of Items 1 to 3 . Further, based on the input transaction data,
Comprising a transaction processing system for processing transactions Te, the payment completion determining means of the host device, or deposit based on the deposit data including the amount payer is credited to the deposit machine said the transaction data has been completed The deposit system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, which is a means for determining whether or not the deposit is made. 6. A host apparatus connected to the depositing apparatus that accepts payment, or the payer storage means for storing information of payer performing deposit in the deposit device, is credited to each payer is completed Payment completion determining means for determining whether or not payment has not been completed by the payment completion determining means.
If the number of unpaid people is less than the specified number,
Information is displayed, and conversely, if the number is not less than the specified number,
A host device comprising: a not- yet-received person display unit that does not display information on a gold person .