JP4134668B2 - POS terminal device - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a POS terminal device that is used in a retail store or a store that provides a service for performing predetermined processing (for example, cleaning processing) on a custody item, and that can register the item and pay for the item.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Conventionally, in a store that provides a predetermined service such as a retail store or a cleaning store, if there is a similar store nearby, a discount may be performed to secure sales. However, it will be difficult to secure profits if discounts are applied to all customers and a wide range of products. Therefore, it is necessary to narrow down the discount targets for customers and products.
In order to solve this problem, in Japanese Patent No. 2544512, a direct mail (coupon voucher) in which coupon information is printed by a bar code is mailed in advance, and this voucher is read by a bar code scanner when visiting the store. A sales registration device is provided that provides a special price service by reading a range of codes of discount target products from a coupon table and performing discounts when registering the corresponding products.
[0003]
[Patent Document 1]
Japanese Patent No. 2544512 [0004]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
However, in the invention of the above sales registration device, an operation for reading a barcode is required for inputting coupon information for a special price service at the time of a transaction. Moreover, since a general bar code scanner cannot read a plurality of bar codes at the same time, there is a drawback that it is not suitable for giving a plurality of different coupons to the same customer.
[0005]
The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and can narrow down the target of discounts for customers and products. In order to input information for a special price service at the time of transaction, a reading operation using a barcode or the like is performed. An unnecessary POS terminal device is provided.
[0006]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the invention described in claim 1 relates to information identifying an article and price information of the article in a POS terminal device capable of registering a transaction article and paying for its price. and an article file to be stored, and the Special files for storing related and deals of information and the article to identify the article, customer information, including customer number, the address information is stored in association with the transaction goods history information A customer file, search means for searching customer information corresponding to the inputted predetermined condition from the customer file , and mail information for creating an email based on the customer information searched by the search means are output. output means for, for the customer information retrieved by said retrieval means, and travel information setting means for setting the Japanese Ataijo report stored in the travel file, the For registration operation articles during the transactions that enter the customer number, if the prices are set in the customer information corresponding to the input customer number is stored in the travel information and the article file And a special price registration means for registering a transaction article based on the price information .
[0007]
In the present invention, the information for identifying an article is the article number itself or the article name assigned to distinguish the article, but instead of the article number itself, the article is classified by its category. A classification number or a washing category (dry / hand-washing /...) May be used. The fixed price is the standard price of the article or the standard price of the service processed for the article.
[0008]
In the POS terminal device according to claim 1, the invention described in claim 2 is a POS terminal device that is operated at the time of a transaction, thereby permitting or prohibiting registration by the special price registration unit. Furthermore, it is characterized by having prepared.
[0009]
The invention described in claim 3 is the POS terminal device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the output means outputs the mail information to a printing means for creating a direct mail. It is said.
[0010]
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the POS terminal device according to the first or second aspect, the output means outputs the mail information to a transmission device capable of transmitting an electronic mail. Yes.
[0011]
In addition, in the POS terminal device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, the invention described in claim 5 is that the registration of the transaction article is an article registration for storing the article and performing a cleaning process. It is characterized by that.
[0012]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
The POS terminal device of the present embodiment described below is a cleaning POS terminal device used in a cleaning store.
First, the appearance and outline of the cleaning POS terminal device will be described.
[0013]
FIG. 1 is an external view showing the external appearance (front and side) of a cleaning POS terminal device 1 (hereinafter abbreviated as “POS terminal device 1”) according to the embodiment. The POS terminal device 1 is provided with a liquid crystal touch panel 13, a customer side display 14, an input key 15, a printing unit 17 and a card reader 18.
The liquid crystal touch panel 13 (or the input key 15) is used for inputting clothes types and the like deposited from customers. The card reader 18 reads customer information (customer number etc.) magnetically recorded on the customer card. The customer-side display 14 displays the bill amount calculated according to the input operation of the liquid crystal touch panel 13 (or the input key 15). When the liquid crystal touch panel 13 (or the input key 15) is operated in accordance with the payment of the customer, the printing unit 17 receives receipt details (receipt) in which the reception date, scheduled finish date, slip number, etc. are printed, and predetermined customer information (Customer number, etc.), a tag number for identifying the type of clothing deposited, and a receipt slip on which a slip number is printed. Note that a drawer (not shown) is separately connected to the POS terminal device 1.
[0014]
Next, the electrical configuration of the POS terminal device 1 will be described with reference to FIG.
In FIG. 2, the CPU 10 controls each part of the apparatus based on the control program read from the ROM 11, and details of the processing operation according to the gist of the present invention will be described later. The ROM 11 stores various control programs loaded on the CPU 10 and various screen data to be displayed on the liquid crystal touch panel 13. The RAM 12 includes a work area for temporarily storing calculation results of the CPU 10, that is, various registers and flag data, and a file area for storing a file group in which data necessary for various processes executed by the CPU 10 is registered. This file area stores an article file, a customer file, a special price file, and the like, which will be described later.
[0015]
The liquid crystal touch panel 13 displays various screens in accordance with display control signals supplied from the CPU 10, and generates key event signals corresponding to touch operations of keys displayed on the liquid crystal screen. Specifically, the CPU 10 is instructed to switch operation modes, file settings, product registration (clothing type registration), or the like according to the touch operation. The input key 15 includes a numeric keypad and a preset key (corresponding data is read by the operation), and generates a key event signal corresponding to an input operation for product registration (clothing type registration) or fee settlement. The buzzer 16 sounds a buzzer according to a buzzer driving signal supplied from the CPU 10 when, for example, an erroneous input operation is performed. The clock 19 has a calendar function, and outputs the current time and date.
[0016]
The serial communication unit 20 is an interface for connecting to the address label printer 100 by serial communication, and transmits data including special price information to be printed on the address label for direct mail to the address label printer 100. The address label printer 100 only needs to be able to issue an address label printed with the contents of the received data, and a commercially available address label printer can be used.
[0017]
Here, each file stored in the file area of the RAM 12 will be described.
(1) Goods file:
As shown in FIG. 3, the article file includes an article number assigned to each article to be handled, an article name, a price charged for the processing, a classification number for classifying the article by category, and a washing category. These data are registered. Since the classification number belongs to the category “skirt” if it is a tight skirt, the number assigned to this category is set. The washing category is designated by the washing method, and is set to dry, hand washing, and the like.
[0018]
(2) Customer file:
As shown in FIG. 4, this customer file includes a customer number (ID) for identifying each customer, a customer's name and address (address), a special price number of the following special price file, and a customer's usage history. The transaction article history (date and article number when the transaction was performed) is recorded, and these data are registered. As the customer number, the customer's telephone number may be used since it is sufficient if the customer's household can be specified in the case of a cleaning shop. The customer number is also recorded on a customer card distributed to each customer. In addition, a large number of the special price numbers and transaction article histories can be registered by separating them with commas.
[0019]
(3) Special price file:
As shown in FIG. 5, this special price file has items of a special price number for distinguishing each special price information, the aforementioned item number or classification number, a discount rate of the corresponding item, and a period, and these data are registered. Is done. In the item number or classification number item, the item number or classification number is set as the item name. However, in this embodiment, the number of digits of data set in this item is 5 digits or more. If it is less than 5 digits, it is determined as a classification number. The number set in this item is for designating the article to which the discount is applied. In addition, the period item sets a period during which the discount is valid.
[0020]
Next, the operation of the POS terminal device 1 of the present embodiment configured as described above will be described.
[0021]
[Direct mail creation process]
First, when a selection screen for creating a direct mail is selected from a menu screen displayed on the liquid crystal touch panel 13, processing for creating a direct mail is started. Hereinafter, a description will be given with reference to FIG.
In step S01 shown in the figure, the operator considers what kind of transaction history the customer wants to extract as a customer providing special price information by direct mail, and searches for searching based on the transaction history from the customer file. Define the conditions and enter the data that will be the search conditions.
[0022]
For example, if there is a towel cleaning request at the end of last summer and you want to send a direct mail to a customer who has not yet requested it near the end of this summer ((September 1 to 9 Month 30 period) AND (Towel item number)) AND ((September 1 to September 30 period) NOT (Towel item number))). Here, the article number may be input by operating a preset key.
[0023]
In addition, (the period from September 1 to September 30) AND (the item number of the towel) is the item number of the towel (the transaction article history is in the period of September 1 to September 30 last year). (The period from September 1 to September 30) NOT (the item number of the towel) is September 1 to September 30 of this year. The condition is that there is no towel item number (not registered in the transaction article history) during the period.
[0024]
Next, in step S02, the transaction information history item of the customer file is searched for the customer information corresponding to the input search condition.
In step S03, the first hit customer information is read from the customer file and displayed on the screen.
In step S04, a key display for designating whether or not to print is displayed on the touch panel, and it is determined whether or not “print” has been operated. If it determines with YES by this judgment, it will transfer to step S05, and if it determines with NO, it will transfer to step S07.
[0025]
In step S05, the operator inputs the special price number by key, and sets the special price number in the corresponding customer information in the customer file.
In step S 06, data for creating a direct mail address label is created from the customer information and the set special price number and output to the address label printer 100. Here, the address label printer 100 prints and issues an address label based on the received data. The operator attaches this address label to the postcard and creates a direct mail as shown in FIG. In this way, a direct mail for notifying only a specific customer of the special price service is created. The address label printed and issued by the address label printer 100 includes the special price information based on the data obtained by reading the discount rate (special price data) from the special price file, the customer's address and name for mailing to the customer, and the customer. The number (ID), the store name of the sender of the direct mail, etc. are printed.
On the other hand, in step S07, it is determined whether or not there is corresponding customer information next. If NO is determined in this determination, the process returns to step S02, and if YES is determined, the process ends.
[0026]
[Registration process for transactions]
First, on the transaction screen normally displayed on the POS terminal device 1, the transaction is started from the point where the transaction starts with the customer. Hereinafter, a description will be given with reference to FIG.
First, in step S11, the customer's customer card is read by the card reader 18 in order to input a customer number (ID). Alternatively, the operator keys in the customer ID.
Next, in step S12, the corresponding customer information is read from the customer file based on the customer ID and displayed on the screen.
[0027]
In step S13, the operator performs an operation using the preset key displayed on the transaction screen. Here, the key corresponding to the clothes brought in by the customer is operated. By this operation, the article number of the clothes brought in by the customer is determined.
Next, in step S14, the corresponding article data is read from the article file based on the article number determined in step S13.
Further, in step S15, the special price information is read from the special price file based on the special price number registered in the customer information of the customer.
In step S16, it is determined whether or not the article data read in step S14 is a target of discount (discount) based on the special price information read in step S15. If YES is determined, the process proceeds to step S17. If NO is determined, the process proceeds to step S18.
[0028]
In step S17, the price in the article data is discounted (discounted) at the discount rate of the special price information read in step S15.
Further, in step S18, the article registration is performed based on the article data, that is, by adding the price (or the discount price if discounted in step S16) to the total transaction amount.
Next, in step S19, it is determined whether or not the key indicating that registration of all articles has been completed. If NO is determined, the process returns to step S13. If YES is determined, the process proceeds to step S20. .
Finally, in step S20, the total transaction amount is displayed and the payment is settled. Then, a receipt is issued to complete one transaction.
The processing operation according to the gist of the present invention in the POS terminal device 1 has been described above. However, the operation flow described above is an example and is not limited to the above processing flow.
[0029]
Further, as described above, the embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the specific configuration is not limited to this embodiment, and the configuration does not depart from the gist of the present invention. Etc. are also included.
For example, in the above embodiment, the case where the present invention is applied to a single POS terminal device is described. However, the present invention is not limited to a single POS terminal device, but a POS terminal device in which a store controller and a plurality of POS terminal devices are connected. There may be.
The POS terminal device of the present invention is not limited to the cleaning POS terminal device, and may be a POS system used in a general retail store.
[0030]
In the present invention, the printing means for creating a direct mail is not limited to an address label printer, and may be a device that prints directly on a postcard or the like.
Further, instead of direct mail created by the printing means, electronic mail may be sent as direct mail. That is, instead of the printing means, a personal computer (transmission device) that can send an e-mail via the Internet connection may be used.
In addition, some stores may wish to offer a discount service only when they bring a direct mail. In this case, it is preferable to provide a key (allowance operation means) that can be permitted or prohibited to register at a special price by being operated during a transaction. In this case, as described above, instead of direct mail, if you send an e-mail to the customer's mobile phone, you can bring the mobile phone that received this e-mail, You can eliminate the need to bring your own postcard.
When mail information is output, special price information is not manually set in the corresponding customer information, but special price information (special price number) is specified in advance when entering search conditions, etc., and the customer information corresponding to the conditions is automatically entered. It may be possible to set it automatically.
[0031]
【The invention's effect】
As described above in detail, according to the invention of claim 1 or claim 3 or claim 4, only a customer who issues a direct mail and only a predetermined article can be a special price target, At the time of transaction, there is no need to perform an operation for inputting special price information, and the customer can be serviced.
Further, according to the invention of claim 2, the special price information is included in the customer information in advance, but since the clerk can operate the permission or prohibition of the special price service at the time of the transaction, for example, direct mail is brought Can only serve customers.
Further, according to the invention described in claim 5, since the customer number is originally input at the time of the transaction in order to store and return the article at the cleaning shop, the operation at the time of the transaction is usually performed. The special price service can be performed while being almost the same as the case of the transaction.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is an external view showing an external appearance of an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the embodiment.
FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of an article file.
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a customer file.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a special price file.
FIG. 6 is an example of a direct mail (postcard) with an address label attached thereto.
FIG. 7 is an operation flowchart of direct mail creation processing;
FIG. 8 is an operation flowchart of registration processing at the time of transaction.
[Explanation of symbols]
1. Cleaning POS terminal device (POS terminal device)
10 ... CPU (output means, special price information setting means, special price registration means)
11 ... ROM
12 ... RAM
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 13 ... Liquid crystal touch panel 14 ... Customer side display 15 ... Input key 16 ... Buzzer 17 ... Printing part 18 ... Card reader 19 ... Clock 20 ... Serial communication part 100 ... Address label printer (printing means)

Claims (5)

In a POS terminal device that allows registration of trade items and settlement of their prices,
An article file for storing information identifying the article and price information of the article in association with each other;
A travel file that stores in association with the travel information of the information and the article to identify the article,
A customer file that stores a customer number, customer information including address information, and transaction article history information in association with each other;
Search means for searching customer information corresponding to the input predetermined condition from the customer file;
Based on the customer information searched by the search means, output means for outputting mail information for creating mail;
For the customer information retrieved by said retrieval means, and travel information setting means for setting the Japanese Ataijo report stored in the travel file,
If the special price information is set in the customer information corresponding to the entered customer number for the article registered at the time of the transaction for which the customer number is entered, the special price information and the article file are stored. A special price registration means for registering a transaction article based on the price information being stored ,
A POS terminal device comprising: The POS terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising permission / prohibition operation means for permitting or prohibiting registration by the special price registration means by being operated during a transaction. The output means includes
The POS terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the mail information is output to a printing unit for creating a direct mail. The output means includes
The POS terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the mail information is output to a transmission apparatus capable of transmitting an electronic mail. The POS terminal apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the registration of the transaction article is an article registration for keeping an article and performing a cleaning process.

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