JP4498576B2 - Card issuing device - Google Patents

Description

[0001]
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a card issuing device such as a membership card or a point card for issuing a card on the spot when applying for membership.
[0002]
[Prior art]
Conventionally, in the case of immediate card issuance, 1) Have an enrollee fill out an application form, and then issue the card on the spot. 2) At that stage, the number printed on the card issued by the store clerk is posted on the application form as the member number. 3) A three-step method has been adopted in which the contents of the application form are registered in the customer database later.
[0003]
[Problems to be solved by the invention]
In the above method, when a card number is transferred to an application form, a mistake in posting tends to occur. Therefore, the matching of purchase history data and member data does not match, and the customer database may not be analyzed well. The present invention has been made in consideration of such problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a card issuing apparatus capable of registering customer data with no number error in immediate card issuing.
[0004]
[Means for Solving the Problems]
Accordingly, a first aspect of the present invention is an apparatus for issuing a card having a magnetic recording unit and a rewrite area , and an attribute storage unit storing attribute information of the card issuer and a unique number based on the issue instruction generate, print writing the generated number in the magnetic recording portion Mutotomoni, and the card issuing unit for printing on rewrite area, the application form was printed attribute information stored in the attribute storage unit and the number by providing the application form printing section for outputting a recorded number on the card, the card issuing the issuer of the attribute information application form that is printed in the card, and characterized in that at the same time create output card issuing Device.
[0005]
A second aspect of the present invention to solve the problems described above is, in the card issuing apparatus of the first aspect, by providing the built timer, may issue also printed application form the date and time of card issuance It is a possible card issuing device.
[0006]
A third aspect of the present invention, the in the card issuing apparatus of the first or second aspect has an attribute input unit for inputting the attribute information of the card issuer, the inputted attribute information to solve the problem This is a card issuing device capable of storing information in the attribute storage unit .
[0007]
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of the membership card used in the present invention. The case where a rewritable PET card is used is shown. The membership card 500 has a front side and a back side, and the front side has a rewritable display section 503 that displays the points earned by the card user. On the back side, almost one surface is a magnetic recording unit 502, on which a member number is recorded as magnetic data.
[0008]
The card is issued by a card reader / writer. FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a card issuing device 1 used in the present invention. The card issuing device 1 has a configuration in which a printer 101 as an application form printing unit is connected to a card reader / writer 100 as a card issuing unit. The card reader / writer 100 includes a control unit 104, a memory unit 105 (attribute storage unit) for recording attribute information and the like, a card read / write unit 106, and a clock 108. Under the control of the control unit 104, processing such as issuance of a new card and printing of an application form can be performed. The card read / write unit 106 can print or write data instructed by the control unit 104 in the rewrite area 503 and the magnetic recording area 502 of the rewrite type PET card in FIG. In addition, a liquid crystal display 103 and a keyboard 102 are connected to the card reader / writer 100. As an attribute input unit, the keyboard 102 can input attribute values such as a store name, a person in charge, and a birthday, and can store them in the memory unit 105.
[0009]
When a new card is issued, a raw card (a card containing no data) 500 is inserted into the card read / write unit 106 and a new card issuance instruction is input from the keyboard 102. Then, a program for executing a new card issuance process built in the control unit 104 operates to automatically generate a member number and write it in the magnetic recording unit 502 of the raw card 500, and the member number is rewritten on the card surface 503. The member number display 501 is formed by printing at the determined position, and a new point card 500 is obtained. Further, a program for printing application forms built in the control unit 104 operates, and the title of application form and drawing data of the entry frame stored in the memory unit 105, the issuing store name, the name of the person in charge entered, the birth The printer 101 connected to the input / output port 107 by reading the attribute value such as date, the current time held by the clock 108, and the membership number data recorded on the card from the card, and creating print output data appropriately combining them. Is output as an application form 400 as shown in FIG.
[0010]
FIG. 3 shows an example of an application form created by the card issuing device 1. The application form 400 includes a store entry field 401 and a customer entry field 402. Each item in the store entry column 401 is automatically entered and output by the card issuing device 1 from the attribute value stored in the memory unit 105 and the built-in clock 108.
[0011]
By using the card issuing device 1 of the present invention, it is possible to obtain an application form 400 in which the same number as the member number recorded on the card is printed in the member number column without error. Therefore, it is possible to completely avoid the transfer mistake that the clerk transcribes the card number to the application form mentioned above as a problem. If the person in charge of the store (card issuer) registers the data of the enrolled customer as customer master data in the customer database in accordance with the application form 400 that the applicant for enrollment fills in the customer entry field 402, registration is made in the customer database. Number and the membership number recorded on the membership card must match.
[0012]
In the card issuing apparatus 1 according to the present invention, the name of the member store, the date and time of joining, and the person in charge number can be printed on the application form 400, so that the trouble of the person in charge of issuing the card can be saved greatly.
[0013]
The card reader / writer 100 may have a function of not only issuing a new card but also providing points to customers, exchanging points, storing transaction data, and saving to a memory card. All of these processes are executed by a program that controls each process built in the control unit 104. The keyboard 102 is also used for inputting a purchase amount when giving points to a customer, inputting the number of exchange points when exchanging points, and the like. The liquid crystal display 103 is also used for displaying the number of points earned by the customer and the number of retained points after the point exchange. When processing one point at a time, giving points to a customer, or exchanging points, the program that controls the processing reads the membership number recorded from the customer's card inserted in the card read / write unit 106. Together with the transaction content data, the transaction data is stored in a predetermined area of the memory unit 105.
[0014]
The transaction data stored in the memory unit 105 can be sucked out by providing a magnetic recording medium writing device. For example, a certain card reader / writer on the market can be copied to the memory card 600. In FIG. 3, assuming such a card reader / writer, the card read / write device 106 is depicted as also having a memory card read / write function. However, physically, the card read / write unit and the memory card read / write function are depicted. The light part may be separate. This transaction data includes the membership number and transaction details for each transaction. The purchase history data is obtained by sorting these by membership number and registering them in the database. If the point card issued by the card issuing device 1 is used, the membership number of the purchase history data and the membership number of the customer master data are correctly matched, so that the customer can be analyzed correctly.
[0015]
The membership card may be a PET card without a rewrite area 503, or a plastic card with a magnetic stripe that has been used for a bank cash card or the like instead of a rewrite type PET card. An IC card may also be used.
[0016]
The display of the membership number in the application form 400 may be a barcode as shown in FIG. If the membership number is read by a bar code reader at the time of database registration, the registration process of customer master data becomes easier and input errors can be avoided.
[0017]
【The invention's effect】
As described above, the card issuing device of the present invention enables customer data registration without an error in the immediate card issuing.
[Brief description of the drawings]
FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a card issuing device 1 according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an example of a card.
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a membership application form.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a modification of the store entry field 401 of the membership application form.
[Explanation of symbols]
1 Card issuing device 100 Card reader / writer 101 Printer 102 Keyboard 103 Liquid crystal display 104 Control unit 105 Memory unit 106 Card read / write unit 107 Serial port 108 Built-in clock 400 Membership application form 401 Store entry field 402 Customer entry field 500 Customer card 501 Member Number display area 502 Magnetic storage area 503 Rewrite area

Claims (3)

An apparatus for issuing a card having a magnetic recording unit and a rewrite area , an attribute storage unit storing attribute information of a card issuer, and generating a unique number based on an issuance instruction. write Mutotomoni the magnetic recording portion, and the card issuing unit for printing on rewrite region, by providing the application form printing section for printing out the application form was printed the stored attribute information in the attribute storage unit and the number, A card issuing device , wherein an application form on which a number recorded on the card and attribute information of an issuer of the card are printed is created and output at the same time as the card is issued. In the card issuing apparatus according to claim 1, by providing the built timer, the card issuing apparatus capable also issue a printed application form the date and time of card issuance. In the card issuing apparatus according to claim 1 or claim 2, which can be stored has an attribute input unit for inputting the attribute information of the card issuer, the entered attribute information in the attribute storage unit Card issuing device.

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