JPH06243350A - Article sales data processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically calculate and output the amount of difference between the total of tax amounts collected from member customers during a prescribed term and a tax amount corresponding to the total amounts of taxed articles of member customers during the prescribed term. CONSTITUTION:This device is provided with a member file 6 equipped with accumulation areas for the amounts of taxed articles and tax amounts corresponding to member numbers respectively allocated to member customers, the tax amount corresponding to amounts respectively stored in taxed amount accumulation areas 6a by member numbers in this member file 6 is calculated at suitable timing, the amount of difference is calculated between the calculated tax amount and the amount stored in the taxed amount accumulation area 6a for the relevant member number in the member file 6, and the differential amount is reported out together with the relevant member number.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a merchandise sales data processing device such as a POS (point of sale information management) system used in department stores, supermarkets, etc., which provides a service for granting benefits to member customers.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, privilege points are calculated based on the total amount of money for one transaction of a member customer, and the privilege points are accumulated for each customer to give discounts to customers who have exceeded a certain point. Service systems that give benefits are introduced at department stores, supermarkets, shopping centers, and the like.

As a commodity sales data processing device capable of processing such a service system, conventionally, a plurality of POSs equipped with a magnetic card reader for reading card information (membership number, etc.) of a membership card composed of a magnetic card. The terminal is connected to the file controller that has a member file that forms a cumulative area of privilege points for each member by membership number via a transmission line, and each POS terminal completes the registration of one transaction by entering the closing key. Is specified, the privilege points are calculated from the total price of all products purchased in the transaction, and the privilege point data is sent to the file controller together with the card information read by the card reader, and the file controller is sent from each POS terminal. From the received card information and privilege point data, the member file The POS system which is adapted to update the was known.

In addition, a magnetic card reader / writer is used for each POS.
There was also one that was installed at the terminal to accumulate the privilege points of each member for each membership card.

On the other hand, some countries or regions impose a fixed tax rate on purchases of taxable products.

[0006] As a product sales data processing device capable of processing such a taxation system, conventionally, a memory area for storing the total amount of all products purchased in one transaction,
A memory area for storing the total amount of taxable products is provided, and when registration of one transaction is instructed by entering the closing key, the total amount of taxable products is multiplied by a certain tax rate to calculate the tax amount. A POS terminal or an electronic cash register has been known in which is added to the total price of all products to calculate and output the total price including tax.

[0007]

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] However, since the tax calculation is rounded down or rounded up after the decimal point,
When purchasing the same multiple products, there may be a difference in the tax amount between the case of purchasing at once and the case of purchasing at the same time, and some customers feel dissatisfied.

[0008] In particular, at a store that has introduced the member service system as described above, member customers often shop, so it is necessary to eliminate customers' dissatisfaction with tax calculation as much as possible to improve services. You can expect a great effect in connecting and promoting sales.

In view of this, the present invention automatically calculates and outputs the difference between the total tax amount collected from member customers within a predetermined period and the tax amount with respect to the total amount of taxable products of member members within the predetermined period. It is intended to provide a merchandise sales data processing device capable of refunding the difference to the member customer who has a large amount of tax collection amount.

[0010]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention is a taxable object which stores a merchandise registration means for registering all merchandise purchased in one transaction and a total amount of taxable merchandise among all merchandise registered by this registration means Amount total storage unit, transaction tax amount calculation means for calculating the tax amount for the taxable amount stored in this taxable amount total storage unit, and the taxable amount and tax amount corresponding to the member number assigned to each member customer A member file having a total area, a member number input means for inputting a member number, an end instruction means for instructing the end of merchandise item registration in one transaction, and an end instruction means for instructing the end of registration and the member number When the membership number is entered by the input means, the taxable amount in the taxable amount cumulative area and the taxable amount cumulative area corresponding to the input member number in the member file will be taxed. An amount accumulating means for adding the tax amount calculated by the elephant amount and the tax amount calculated by the tax amount calculating means, and a correction tax amount calculating means for calculating the tax amount for the amount stored in the taxable amount accumulation area for each member number in the member file A difference calculation means for calculating the difference between the tax amount calculated by the corrected tax amount calculation means and the amount stored in the taxable area of the applicable member number in the member file, and the difference calculated by this difference calculation means It is a product sales data processing device provided with a tax correction report output means for outputting a report together with a number.

[0011]

According to the present invention having such a structure, when all the products purchased in one transaction are registered by the product registration means,
The total amount of taxable products among all registered products is stored in the total taxable amount storage unit. Further, the transaction tax amount calculation means calculates the tax amount for the taxable amount stored in the taxable amount total storage unit. Subsequently, when the member number input means inputs the member number and the end instruction means instructs the end of the product registration in one transaction, the amount accumulation means corresponds to the input member number in the member file The taxable amount in the taxable amount storage unit and the tax amount calculated by the tax amount calculating means are added to the cumulative area. Therefore, the member file stores, for each member customer, the cumulative amount of sales amount of taxable merchandise and the cumulative amount of tax amount for each shopping of each member customer.

Therefore, for example, the tax amount correction work is executed every month. Then, the tax amount for each cumulative amount of taxable merchandise sales amount of each member customer in the member file is calculated, and the difference between the tax amount and the cumulative tax amount of the corresponding member number in the member file is calculated, and the difference information is calculated. The report is output together with the corresponding membership number.

Therefore, the difference between the collected tax amount and the actual tax amount for each member customer for one month can be known from the contents of the report output.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, the file controller 1 includes a plurality of POS terminals 2.
A case will be described in which the present invention is applied to a POS system in which the transmission lines 3 are connected in a closed loop.

The file controller 1 controls writing and reading of data with respect to a center file 4 which is composed of a semiconductor memory, an external storage device, etc., and the center file 4 has a structure as shown in FIG. Corresponding to the individual product code assigned to each product, the individual product file 5 in which product data such as the individual product name, unit price, attribute code, and tax code of the product is stored in advance, as shown in FIG. Corresponding to the member number issued to each member customer, the name etc. of the member customer is stored in advance and the taxable amount,
A member file 6 and the like, which are respectively provided with respective cumulative areas 6a, 6b, and 6c of tax amount and points, are created.

Here, the attribute code in the single item file 5 is a code of a department or group for classifying each item. Further, the tax code is a code for distinguishing the tax type of each product, and in this embodiment, the tax symmetrical product code is "1" and the tax exempt product code is "0".

The creation of various files for the center file 4 is performed in advance by the POS terminal 2 set as the master machine or a host computer (not shown).

As shown in FIG. 3, each POS terminal 2 has a CPU (central processing unit) 21 as a main body of a control unit,
R as a main memory controlled by the CPU 21
An OM (read only memory) 22 and a RAM (random access memory) 23, a communication interface 24 for transmitting and receiving data through the transmission path 3, and an I / O port 25 for inputting and outputting various signals are provided. , And these are connected by a bus line 26 to form a control circuit.

The I / O port 25 has a keyboard 27 provided with a numeral key for inputting numerical data, a closing key as an end instruction means for instructing the end of product registration in one transaction, and the like. A bar code scanner 28 for optically reading a bar code, a magnetic card reader 29 as a member number input means for reading card information (member number, store code, expiration date, etc.) of a member card composed of a magnetic card, for sale A display device 30 for displaying the amount and total amount of registered products, a printer 31 for printing and issuing receipts, and a drawer 32 for accommodating cash or the like.
Etc. are connected to various input / output devices.

The ROM 22 stores in advance a control program for the CPU 21 to execute various tasks.

In the RAM 23, as shown in FIG.
A transaction memory 41 for temporarily storing transaction data consisting of sales data of each registered product and total data of one transaction, and sales data of each product are classified by department, group, cashier, time zone, etc. Transaction-by-transaction memory 42 and total purchase amount area 4
3. A work memory 46 is provided which is divided into a taxable amount total area 44 and a flag area 45 of a registration flag F which is set to “1” during product registration for one transaction.

Here, the total purchase amount area 43 is a storage unit for storing the total amount of all the commodities purchased in one transaction. The total taxable amount area 44 is a storage unit that stores the total amount of taxable products among all the products purchased in one transaction, that is, a total taxable amount storage unit.

Therefore, the CPU 21 is configured to execute the process shown in the flow chart of FIG. 5 as a product registration means. That is, when it is detected that the single product code of the purchased product is input by the key input of the keyboard 27 or the bar code input by the bar code scanner 28, the CPU 21 starts the processing, and first performs the step (S).
T) 1 as flag area 4 in work memory 46
It is determined whether or not the registration flag F is set (1) to 5. If not set, the purchase amount total area 43 and the taxable amount total area 44 in the work memory 46 are cleared to "0" after setting.

Next, if the single item code input as ST2 is set in the product data inquiry message, the inquiry message is transmitted to the file controller 1 via the communication interface 24 and the transmission path 25, and the single item file is sent. The product data (single product name, unit price, attribute code, tax code, etc.) corresponding to the input single product code is read from 5.

Then, when the product data is received through the communication interface 24, the unit price in the received data is the number of sales points (when the number is entered by the number key input on the keyboard 27 immediately before the input of the individual product code). The numerical value data is used as the score in the case of "1" if it is not entered.
Is used as the score) to calculate the sales amount. And
The transaction sales memory 41 stores the sales data of sales points and the sales amount of money in the transaction memory 41, and also the transaction memory 42.
Process cumulatively. Further, the product detail data such as the name of the individual item, the unit price, the number of sales, and the sales amount are displayed on the display device 30 and the receipt is printed by the printer 31.

Next, the tax code of the product data received in ST3 is checked. If the tax code is "1", the taxable product is registered, so the taxable total area 4
4 and the total purchase amount area 43 are added with the sales amounts of the corresponding products. If the tax code is “0”, it means that the tax-exempted product is registered, so that the sales amount of the corresponding product is added only to the total purchase amount area 43, and this process is ended.

Further, the CPU 21 is configured to execute the processing shown in the flowchart of FIG. 6 as a transaction tax amount calculation means and an amount accumulation means. Ie keyboard 2
When it is detected by the closing key input of 7 that the end of the merchandise item registration in one transaction is instructed, the CPU 21 starts the process and first checks the registering flag F as ST4. When the flag F is reset to "0", the end of registration is instructed and input before the product registration of one transaction is started. finish.

When the registration flag F is set to "1" in ST4, the tax amount is calculated by multiplying the amount data in the taxable amount total area 44 by the preset tax rate in ST5 ( Transaction tax amount calculation means).

Then, the tax amount calculated in ST5 is added to the amount data in the total purchase amount area 43 to calculate the total amount including tax, and the total amount including tax is displayed on the display unit 30.

Next, in ST6, the magnetic card reader 29 is used.
Determines whether the membership card is being read. Here, when the membership card is being read, it is a transaction of a member customer, so in ST7, the privilege points are calculated based on the amount data of the total purchase amount area 43.

The member number in the membership card, the total taxable amount in the taxable total amount area 44, the tax amount calculated in ST5, and the privilege points calculated in ST7 are sent to the member customer transaction notification message. If set to, the notification message is transmitted to the file controller 1 via the communication interface 24 and the transmission line 25, and the respective cumulative areas 6a, 6b and 6c corresponding to the corresponding member number of the member file 6 are taxed respectively. The target total amount, tax amount, and privilege points are added and updated (amount accumulation means).

Thereafter, in ST8, the printer 31 is drive-controlled to issue a receipt, and if the registration flag F is reset to "0" after issuance, this process is terminated.

If the member card is not read at ST6, the process immediately proceeds to the receipt issuing process at ST8. Even if the membership card is read, even if the membership card has expired or is invalidated as an unauthorized card, the process immediately proceeds to the receipt issuing process in ST8.

The POS set especially for the master machine
The CPU 21 of the terminal 1 is configured to execute the processing shown in the flowchart of FIG. 7 as the corrected tax amount calculation means, the difference amount calculation means, and the tax correction report output means. That is, when it is detected that the tax amount correction work is selected by the key input of the keyboard 27, the CPU 21 starts the processing, and first in ST9, the count value n of the record read counter built in the CPU is initialized to "1".

Next, at ST10, if the count value n is set in the member data inquiry message, this inquiry message is transmitted to the file controller 1 via the communication interface 24 and the transmission line 25, and the member is sent. File 6
The member data (member number, member name, accumulated taxable amount, accumulated tax amount, etc.) of the n-th record in is read.

When the member data is received via the communication interface 24, the tax amount is calculated by multiplying the taxable amount cumulative amount in the received data by a preset tax rate in ST11 (corrected tax amount calculating means). .

Next, in ST12, the tax amount A calculated in ST11 is compared with the tax amount cumulative amount B in the received data. When the relation [A <B] is established,
Since the total tax amount collected for each transaction was larger than the tax amount for the total purchase amount of taxable products in each transaction, ST
As 13-1, the difference between the accumulated tax amount B and the tax amount A is calculated as a refund amount (difference calculation means).

On the other hand, when the relation [A <B] is not established, the total tax amount collected for each transaction is less than or equal to the tax amount for the total purchase amount of the taxable products in each transaction. The refund amount is set to "0".

Thereafter, the member number, the member name, the cumulative amount of taxable amount, the cumulative amount of tax amount, and the refund amount calculated in ST13-1 or ST13-2 in the member data received in ST14 are printed as a report by the printer 31. Receipt paper is used as the recording paper (tax correction report output means).

Next, at ST15, if the record read counter is updated by "+1", it is determined whether or not the count value n exceeds the total number N of records of the member file 6. Then, when the count value n is equal to or less than the total number of records N, the processes of ST10 to ST16 are repeatedly executed.

When the count value n exceeds the total number of records N, that is, when all the records registered in the member file 6 are read and the processes of ST10 to ST14 are completed, the tax amount correction printed by the printer 31 is performed. After issuing the report, the command for clearing the taxable amount cumulative area 6a and the tax amount cumulative area 6b of each record in the member file 6 is transmitted to the file controller 1 via the communication interface 24, and this processing is ended. .

In this embodiment having such a configuration, when registration of all commodities purchased in one transaction is completed and the closing key is operated by a key, the taxable commodities out of all the registered commodities are Since the tax amount for the total amount is calculated and the total amount including tax is displayed on the display unit 30, the customer pays the price corresponding to the total amount including tax.

If the customer is a member and the member card information is read by the magnetic card reader 29, the taxable amount cumulative area 6a and the tax cumulative area 6b corresponding to the corresponding member number of the member file 6 are recorded. In addition, the total amount and tax amount of taxable products in this transaction are added.

Therefore, the member file 6 stores and manages the total amount of taxable merchandise and the total amount of tax in each transaction together with the accumulated privilege points corresponding to the member number of each member customer.

Therefore, the store side executes tax amount correction work using the POS terminal 1 set as the master machine after the business on the last day of every month is completed, for example. Then,
The tax amount for the taxable amount accumulated amount of each member customer stored in the member file 6 is automatically calculated for each member customer, and the difference between the tax amount and the accumulated tax amount of the corresponding member customer is calculated.

If the tax amount with respect to the taxable amount is smaller than the tax amount, the difference is printed together with the member number and name of the member. On the other hand, when the cumulative tax amount is less than or equal to the tax amount with respect to the taxable cumulative amount, the report is printed with the difference as "0". After that, the taxable amount accumulated area 6a and the tax amount accumulated area 6 of the member file 6
b is once cleared, and the data for the next month will be accumulated again.

Thus, the POS set in the master machine
FIG. 8 shows a print example of the tax amount correction report printed and issued from the terminal 1. As shown in the figure, the tax correction report 50 includes a member number 51, a member name 52,
A cumulative amount of taxable amount (taxable amount) 53, a cumulative amount of tax amount (tax collected amount) 54, and a difference amount (tax refund amount) 55 are printed.

Here, if the difference (tax refund amount) 55 is greater than 0 yen, the total tax amount collected in all transactions with the member customer for the first month of this month is the purchase of taxable products in each transaction. Since the tax amount was higher than the total amount, tax refunds will be taken, such as refunding the difference.

As described above, according to this embodiment, it is possible to easily know the difference between the collected tax amount of each member customer and the actual tax amount, for example, from the printed contents of the tax amount correction report 50. By taking steps to give back, it is possible to eliminate the dissatisfaction of member customers with respect to taxes. Therefore, since the serviceability for member customers is further improved, it is highly expected that the member customer system will be widely spread, sales will be promoted, and sales will be increased.

In the above embodiment, the difference is calculated for each predetermined period and the report is output each time. However, the difference calculated for each predetermined period is accumulated in the member file 6 for each member customer, and the difference from the member customer is calculated at a later date. You may make it output the report of the accumulated difference amount of the corresponding customer according to an inquiry.

Although the tax correction report is printed out in the above embodiment, it may be printed out on a display such as a CRT display or the contents of the report may be written in an external storage device such as a floppy disk.

Further, in the above embodiment, when the accumulated tax amount is less than or equal to the tax amount with respect to the taxable amount accumulated amount, the difference amount is set to "0". The store side may determine whether or not to collect the tax shortage from the member customers.

Besides, it is needless to say that various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.

[0054]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention, the difference between the total tax amount collected from member customers within a predetermined period and the tax amount with respect to the total amount of taxable products of member members within the predetermined period is calculated. It is possible to provide a merchandise sales data processing device that can be automatically calculated and output, can refund the difference to member customers who have collected a large amount of tax, and can contribute to promotion of sales.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall view of a POS system that is an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing record formats of a single item file and a member file shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a main part of the POS terminal shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a main memory area of the RAM shown in FIG.

5 is a flowchart showing a single product code input process of the CPU shown in FIG.

6 is a flowchart showing registration closing input processing of the CPU shown in FIG.

7 is a flowchart showing tax amount correction processing of the CPU shown in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a plan view showing an example of a tax correction report issued in this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... File controller, 2 ... POS terminal, 5 ... Single file, 6 ... Member file, 21 ... CPU, 22 ... ROM, 23 ... RAM, 24 ... Communication interface, 27 ... Keyboard, 28 ... Bar code scanner, 29 ... Magnetic Card reader, 30 ... Display device, 31 ... Printer, 43 ... Total purchase amount area, 44 ... Total taxable amount area, 50 ... Tax correction report.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A merchandise registration unit for registering all merchandise purchased in one transaction, a total taxable amount storage unit for storing the total amount of taxable merchandise among all merchandise registered by this registration unit, and this taxation A member file that includes a transaction tax amount calculation means for calculating a tax amount for the taxable amount stored in the total amount for taxable amount, and a cumulative area for the taxable amount and the tax amount corresponding to the member number assigned to each member customer. A member number input means for inputting the member number, an end instruction means for instructing the end of product registration in one transaction, an end instruction for the end instruction means, and a member number input means for inputting the member number. Once entered,
An amount accumulating unit for adding the taxable amount in the taxable amount storage unit and the tax amount calculated by the tax amount calculating unit to the taxable amount accumulated area and the tax amount accumulated area corresponding to the input member number of the member file; Corrected tax amount calculation means for calculating the tax amount for the amounts stored in the cumulative amount of taxable amount for each membership number in the file, and the tax amount calculated by this correction tax amount calculation means and the taxable amount of the corresponding membership number in the member file It is characterized by comprising a difference calculation means for calculating a difference from the amount stored in the total area, and a tax correction report output means for outputting a report of the difference calculated by the difference calculation means together with the corresponding member number. Product sales data processing device.