JPH02259898A - Commodity sale processing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent the settlement of account from being executed in the transaction of the same commodity by the two kinds of sales prices by providing a comparing means to compare a transaction starting time and a changed time in the commodity fluctuation information of a commodity code. CONSTITUTION:When the date and time to start the transaction are obtained from a time mechanism 14 and the commodity code, etc., is inputted from an input device 11, a commodity information judgement part 15 retrieves the commodity information from a commodity information file 12 and compares the transaction starting date and time, which are obtained in advance, with the changed date and time of these commodity information. In the case of transaction starting date and time >= commodity information changed date and time, the newest information of the commodity fluctuation information in the commodity information file 12 is adopted and in the case of the transaction starting date and time < commodity information changed date and time, the preceding information are adopted. Thus, even when a customer buys plural commodities and the sales price of the commodity is changed during the transaction of the commodity, only the same sales price is outputted on a receipt.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a product sales processing method, particularly to a product sales processing method in a point of sale information management (hereinafter referred to as PO8) system.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in this type of product sales management system, the latest product information is recorded in the product information file in the PoS system, and the product code is entered by the customer at the PO8 terminal when settling the transaction for the product to be purchased. The product information file is searched for each item and output according to its contents.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The conventional product sales processing method described above is as follows: - When the selling price of a product is changed during a customer's transaction, if the customer is trying to purchase multiple items of this product, two items will be displayed on the receipt even though they are the same product. Transactions may be settled at different selling prices. In order to avoid this, the operator of the PO8 terminal needs to organize the products to be input in advance and input the same products all at once. Furthermore, for the above-mentioned reasons, the process of changing product information must be carried out with great care under the direction and control of the operator.

For example, at a certain time, a customer may ask for ``2 eggs back'' or ``
In order to purchase ``3 Carrots'' and ``Other 10 Items,'' I placed the items in a basket and came to the PO8 terminal to register the sales.When I was registering sales, ``1 Egg Pack'' went from 150 yen to 120 yen, and ``1 Carrot
Suppose that the selling price of "Book" was changed from 100 yen to 80 yen. At this point, the PO8 terminal operator does not know when the change occurred, so he organizes the products in the basket and sells "Egg 2 Pack".
, "3 carrots" will be input at once. If you don't enter them all at once, "1 pack of eggs" will cost 150 yen, the remaining pack will cost 120 yen, and "1 carrot" will cost 100 yen.
The remaining two bottles may be printed as 80 yen on the receipt, which poses a problem that may cause trouble with the customer.

[Means to solve the problem]

The product sales processing method of the present invention is a point-of-sale information management system that searches a product information file by inputting a product code from a terminal and outputs at least the selling price as product change information for this product code. When the product change information of the product code stored in the product code is changed, the product information change means records the change information, the change information immediately before the change, and change time information in the product change information column, and the transaction start information is sent from the terminal. a comparison means for storing the time and comparing this time with the change time in the product change information of the product code obtained by searching the product information file; and a selection means for outputting the variation information immediately before the change when it is determined that the start time is before the change time.

〔Example〕

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, which constitutes a POS system, in which an input device 11 is a keyboard and an optical reader for inputting product codes, etc., and a product information file 12 is a file for storing product information. Device and product information change setting section 1
3 stores the change date and time from the clock mechanism 14 and new and old product information in the product information file 12 when changing the product information. The clock mechanism 14 always has date and time information and can be read when necessary. The product information judgment unit 15 is the input device 11
Searches the product information file 12 based on the product code input from , reads the change date and time, compares it with the transaction start time read from the clock mechanism 14, and adopts either before or after the change in the product information. The correct information is extracted and output to the output device 16. The output device 16 is a display and a receipt printer for outputting transaction confirmation information.

Figure 2 shows the format of the product information file in Figure 1.
Fixed product information such as product code (code for searching product information) 1 name, product fixed attributes (product classification, bulk products, etc.) and product fluctuation information such as selling price/cost, product fluctuation attributes (flyer/end sales combined value) This information is input from the product information change setting section. Further, the product change information includes the latest information after the change, the information just before the change, and the date and time information of the change.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the processing in the embodiment of FIG. 1, and the processing of FIG. 1 will be explained below with reference to FIG. When a product transaction begins, the terminal becomes dedicated to the customer. Here, the customer's transaction start date and time are acquired from the clock mechanism 14 in accordance with the terminal and stored (step ■).
. When the product code, etc. is input from the input device 11 of the keyboard or optical reader (Step ■), the corresponding product information is searched from the product information file 12 based on this (Step ■), the previously obtained transaction start date is entered. The time is compared with the change date and time of this product information (step ■), and if the transaction start date and time ≧ the product information change date and time, the latest information on the product fluctuation information in the product information file 12 is adopted (
Step ■), and if the transaction start date and time <product information change date and time, the immediately preceding information is adopted (step ■). Based on the product information adopted based on this judgment, the name of the fixed product information and the selling price of the product fluctuation information are displayed or printed on the display of the output device 16 or the receipt printer as final information for the product transaction (Step ■), Next Return to step ■ for the item.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention enables a customer to purchase multiple products and, even if the selling price of the product is changed during the product transaction,
Since only the same selling price is output on the receipt, PoS
The terminal operator can trade products without any special awareness. Furthermore, there is an effect that the person who specifies changes to the product information can manage and operate the product information independently without being aware of the operator of the PoS terminal.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a format of the product information file shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 is a flowchart of FIG. 1. 11... Input device, 12... Product information file, 1
3...Product information change setting section, 14...Clock mechanism, 1
5... Product information judgment unit, 16... Output device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a point-of-sale information management system that searches a product information file by inputting a product code from a terminal and outputs at least the selling price as product change information for this product code, the product with the product code stored in the product information file is used. When the fluctuation information is changed, the product information changing means records the change information as well as the change information immediately before the change and the change time information in the product change information column, and when the transaction start information is given from the terminal, the time is memorized. , a comparison means for comparing this time with a change time in the product change information of the product code obtained by searching the product information file, and a comparison means that determines whether the transaction start time is before the change time. A product sales processing method comprising: a selection means for outputting the change information immediately before the change when it is determined that there is a change.