JPH01228089A - Pos terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To surely prevent a misoperation such as the omission of registration or double registration by storing the commodity data of registered commodities until the next commodity registration, and displaying the commodity data of the commodities registered last time when an error occurs. CONSTITUTION:Commodity data C corresponding to a commodity code B of the sales commodities inputted from a code scanner A are read from a file control part D and displayed to a display part E. A registration data memory G stores the commodity data of the commodities normally processed in an item registration processing F until the item registration processing for the commodities of the commodity code inputted next time is completed. When the normal commodity data corresponding to the inputted commodity code cannot be obtained and error notification is executed by an error notifying means H, the commodity data, which are stored into the registration data memory G, of the commodities, for which the item registration processing is normally executed, are displayed on a commodity data displaying means I.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a POS terminal incorporated in a PoS system, and particularly relates to a POS terminal with an improved method for dealing with cases where the product code read by a scanner is not normal. .

[Prior Art] In a POS (point of sale) system used in general retail stores, for example, one file control unit (FC) has multiple electronic cash registers (EC).
A POS terminal consisting of R) is connected. In such a POS system, a fixed scanner or hand scanner is installed to read the barcoded product code attached to each sales product in order to improve the efficiency of sales registration work at the POS terminal. has been done. The file control unit contains a product file that stores product data such as product name and unit price for each product code for all products sold at the store, and the number of sold products for each product registered individually at each POS terminal. A sales registration file is provided for cumulatively registering sales data such as sales amount (number of items x unit price), for example, by product code.

In each PO8 terminal, when the product code of one sales product is input from the scanner, that product code is sent to the file control unit, and the file control unit selects the product name corresponding to the corresponding product code from the product file. ,
Product data such as unit price is read out and sent back to the corresponding PO8 terminal.

The PO8 terminal displays product data such as the product name and unit price on the display section, and performs a single item registration process for the corresponding product. That is, the unit price is added to the totalizer, the product name and unit price are printed on the receipt, and sales data such as the product code, quantity, and sales amount are sent to the file control section and registered in the sales registration file.

In such a POS system, as described above, it is assumed that product codes for all products sold at this store are set in advance in the product file of the file control unit. Therefore, when selling a new product, product data such as the product code, product name, unit price, etc. of the product are set in the product file prior to the sale.

However, there are many cases where the user forgets to set the product data of the product for sale, sets the wrong product code, or attaches a label with the wrong product code to the product for sale. In such cases, even if the product code is read with a scanner,
Since the corresponding product code is not set in the product file of the file control unit, the product data is not read and an error process occurs.

In addition, a check digit is attached to the product code to prevent reading errors, but if an error determination using this check digit is made and a reading error is determined, error processing will also occur.

Generally, in the above error processing, an error message is displayed on the display of the PO8 terminal, or nothing is displayed at all, and only an error warning sound is emitted.

Therefore, when the cashier confirms the above-mentioned error message or error warning sound, the cashier must read the product code of the product again with a scanner, or manually process the sales registration for the product using the number keys or department keys on the keyboard. Execute.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, the following problems still exist in the PO8 terminal that performs single item registration processing for each sales product using the scanner as described above. That is, a fixed scanner is installed as a scanner in a PO8 terminal installed in a store such as a supermarket where one customer purchases many products at once. When customers are lining up to pay,
The cashier uses a fixed scanner to read the product code of each item purchased by the customer in rapid succession. Therefore, there is a slight delay between the time when the cashier reads the product code of the product with a fixed scanner and the time when the product name and unit price of the corresponding product are displayed on the display, causing product data is not always displayed on the display section.

Therefore, if an error like the one described above occurs in such a case, the display section at the time of the error occurrence will either be displaying an error message or not displaying anything at all.
The cashier cannot clearly determine whether an error has occurred with the item in hand or with the previous item.

In other words, it is not immediately possible to determine which products have been successfully registered individually.

As a result, there is a concern that erroneous operations such as missing registration of sales products or double registration may occur.

The present invention stores the product data of registered products until the next product registration, and displays the product data of the previously registered product when an error occurs, so that it is possible to immediately understand which products have been successfully registered. The present invention aims to provide a PO8 terminal that can reliably prevent erroneous operations such as omissions in registration and double registration, and can improve operability and reliability.

[Means for Solving the Problems] As shown in FIG.
P reads out product data C such as unit price from the product file in the file control section connected via the transmission path, displays it on the display section E, and executes the single item registration process F for this product.
On the O8 terminal, there is a registration data memory G that stores the product data of a product that has been successfully registered as a single product until the single product registration process for the product with the next input product code is completed, and corresponds to the input product code. an error notification means H for notifying an error when normal product data cannot be obtained; and a product data display for displaying product data stored in the registered data memory in response to an error cancellation operation performed after the error notification. It is equipped with means I.

[Function] With the PO8 terminal configured in this way, when the code scanner reads the product code of a sales product, the product data such as the product name and unit price of the product will be displayed on the display, and the product data of the product will be displayed on the display. is registered as a single item. Furthermore, the product data of this product is stored in the registration data memory until the next product is registered as a single item. In such a state, if a product code that is not set in the product file of the file control unit is input from the code scanner, for example, an error occurrence will be notified. When the cashier performs an error cancellation operation, the product data such as the product name and unit price of the previously successfully registered product is displayed on the display section.

Therefore, it can be immediately determined which products have been successfully registered.

[Example] An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is an external view showing the PO8 terminal of the embodiment. A fixed scanner 2 as a code scanner is disposed along a customer passageway and between soccer tables 1a and 1b on which customers place their shopping baskets. A reading window 2a is provided on the top surface of the fixed scanner 2, and a PLU keyboard 2C is attached to the top.

A PO8 terminal 4 consisting of an electronic cash register (ECR) is placed on a cash register 3 adjacent to soccer table lb. As shown in the figure, this PO8 terminal 4 includes a keyboard 5, a display section 61, and a display section 7 for customers. Receipt issue port 8. A drawer 9 is provided.

The keyboard 5 includes number keys for inputting numerical data such as deposit amount and sales amount during manual registration operations, a department key for inputting department codes of sales items during manual registration operations, and a subtotal key. Various keys are provided, such as a lock key such as a deposit/account key, and an error release key for canceling an error state.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of the PO8 terminal 4. As shown in FIG. A CPU 11 that executes various information processing is connected via a path line 12 to a ROM 13 that stores programs for executing various tasks such as [registration] and [settlement], a RAM 14 that stores various variable data such as a totalizer, and a product file. and an interface 17 connected to a file control unit 15 having a sales registration file via a transmission line 16, a keyboard input circuit 18 to which various key signals are input from the keyboard 5, and a display for sending display data to display units 6 and 7. A control circuit 19, a printer control circuit 21 that sends print data to a printer 20 that prints sales data such as item name, unit price, and total amount on a receipt, an I10 interface 22 that inputs a product code from the fixed scanner 2, and an error warning sound. It controls the buzzer drive circuit 24 of the buzzer 23 that emits the buzzer.

In the RAM 14, as shown in FIG.
8 Total memory 1 for storing various total data such as total sales amount and total number of customers generated in sales registration work on terminal 4
4a1-Totalizer 14 which calculates the total price of products sold to one customer 14b1 Print data to be printed on the display buffer 14C which stores display data such as product name, unit price, total price and message to be displayed on the display section 6.7 and a registration data memory 1 that stores the product name and unit price of a product that has been successfully registered as a single item until the product corresponding to the next input product code is successfully registered as a single item.
4e etc. are formed.

When the PO8 terminal 4 and fixed scanner 2 are powered on and various initial processes are completed, the CPU
11 is programmed to execute sales registration work according to the main routine shown in FIG.

The flowchart is started and fixed scanner 2 to I1 at Pl
When a product code is input via the 0 interface 22, the product code is incorporated into a temporary message and transmitted to the file control unit 15 via the interface 17 and the transmission line 16. When a response message to the makeshift message is returned from the file control unit 16, the response message is examined. If the response message in Pl is product data such as product name and unit price, normal product data corresponding to the corresponding product code has been input, so the product name and unit price are input in P3 as shown in Figure 6 (a).
), it is displayed on the display section 6.7 and printed out on a receipt by the printer 20. Then, in P4, a single item registration process is executed for the corresponding item.

That is, the sales amount (unit price) is added to the totalizer 14b of the RAM 14, and the product code, sales quantity, and sales price (quantity x
The sales data consisting of unit price) is incorporated into a message, transmitted to the file control unit 15, and registered in the sales registration file.

After that, enter the product name of this single registered product on P5.

Product data including the unit price is stored in the registered data memory 14e of the RAM 14. Since the single product registration process for the product corresponding to one product code input from the fixed scanner 2 has been completed, the process returns to Pl and waits for the product code input for the next product.

Then, the next product code is input at Pl, and the response message from the file control unit 15 to this product code is
If Pl is a response message that indicates that the corresponding product code is not found in the product file, rather than product data such as product name and unit price, an error warning is issued by the buzzer 231 via the buzzer drive circuit 24 in P6. Along with making a sound,
The error message "Misetsu Teiko" is displayed on the display section 6.7, as shown in FIG. 6(b).

Then, when the cashier operates the error release key on the keyboard 5, the product name and unit price that were successfully registered the previous time stored in the registration data memory 14e are displayed on Pl as shown in FIG. 6(c). Display product data consisting of. Then, return to Pl and wait for the cashier's next operation.

If the registered data memory 14e has been cleared in Pl, an error occurred in the single item registration operation for the first product sold to this customer, so the product data is not stored in the registered data memory 14e. is not stored. Therefore, in this case, nothing is displayed on the display sections 6 and 7.

If the lock key such as the deposit/cash key is operated on P8 without entering the product code on P1, the normal registration will be performed because the single item registration operation for all products sold to - customers has been completed. Execute lock key processing. That is, the total amount on the totalizer 14b is displayed on the display units 6, 7, the total amount is printed on a receipt, a receipt is issued, and the drawer 9 is opened in the case of cash payment. Further, the total amount is added to the corresponding total data in the total memory 14a. After that, totalizer 14b
Clear. When the above lock key processing is completed, the RAM
14 registered data memory 14e is cleared. and,
The process returns to Pl and waits for the product code of the product sold to the next customer.

Further, if another key operation is executed at P9 without inputting the product code and operating the lock key, a predetermined key manual process for the corresponding key is executed at Plo.

In the PO8 terminal configured in this way, when the cashier uses the fixed scanner 2 to sequentially read the product code of each product sold to one customer, the product name and unit price of the corresponding product are shown in Figure 6. As shown in (a), the display section 6.
7 and are sequentially registered as individual items. Further, product data such as product name and unit price stored in the registered data memory 14e of the RAM 14 is sequentially updated.

In this situation, if the product code read by the fixed scanner 2 is not registered in the product file of the file control unit i5, an error process will occur, the buzzer 23 will sound, and the code will be processed as shown in FIG. 6(b). The error message [Misset] is displayed on the display section 6.7. Then, when the cashier operates the error release key on the keyboard 5, the display section 6.7 shows the product name and unit price of the product that was previously successfully registered as a single item, as shown in Figure 6 (C). Data is displayed.

In this way, when an error occurs, the product name and unit price of the previously successfully registered product are displayed, so the cashier can immediately check which products have been successfully registered individually. Therefore, sales registration work is continued by manually registering products for which no product code has been set using, for example, the numeric keys or department keys on the keyboard 5.

That is, it is possible to significantly reduce the probability of occurrence of erroneous operations such as omission or omission of registration of sales products or double registration, the burden on the cashier can be reduced, and the operability of the entire PO8 terminal can be improved.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above. In the example, we have explained the case where the product code is not set, but even if the product code itself is determined to be an error due to a judgment using a check digit, etc., as described above, the product code will be registered normally. It is also possible to display the product name and unit price of the product.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the PO8 terminal of the present invention, the product data of registered products can be stored until the next product registration, and when an error occurs, the product data of the previously registered product can be displayed. are doing. Therefore, it is possible to immediately know which products have been successfully registered, and it is possible to reliably prevent erroneous operations such as omissions in registration and double registration, thereby improving operability and reliability.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a functional block diagram showing the present invention, Figures 2 to 6
The figures show a PO8 terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which Fig. 2 is an external view, Fig. 3 is a block diagram showing the schematic configuration, and Fig. 4 is a diagram showing the main memory of the storage unit. , FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation, and FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the display contents of the display section. 2... Fixed scanner, 4... PO8 terminal, 5...
...Keyboard, 6.7...Display section, 11...CP
U. 14...RAM, 14a...Total memory, 14b.
...Totalizer, 14e...Registered data memory, 15...
-File control unit, 16...transmission line, 20...printer, 23...buzzer. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 3, Figure 4

Claims (1)

[Claims] The product data such as the product name and unit price corresponding to the product code of the sales product input from the code scanner is read from the product file of the file control unit connected via the transmission path and displayed on the display unit, and the product is registered as a single item. In the POS terminal that executes the process, there is a registration data memory that stores the product data of the product that has been successfully registered as a single item until the single item registration process for the product with the next input product code is completed; An error notification means for notifying an error when normal product data corresponding to a product code cannot be obtained, and displaying the product data stored in the registered data memory in response to an error cancellation operation performed after the error notification. A POS terminal comprising a product data display means for displaying product data.