JPH06290324A - Parking charge controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a parking charge controller which applies no parking charge to such customer that purchased the commodities of a large amount by judging whether the parking charge should be applied to the customers or not based on the commodity purchase data recorded on a record control means and the commodity purchase result data read out of a storage means. CONSTITUTION:A customer presents his member card 11 when the purchase of commodities is adjusted by an electronic cash register 14, and transmits the inquiry data on a card to a host computer 17 together with the commodity purchase data of this time to make the computer 17 store and control them. When the customer leaves a parking lot in his car and puts his card 11 into a no-charge leaving ticket issuing machine 16, the machine 16 reads the information recorded on the card 11 and sends these information to the computer 17. The computer 17 reads the past commodity purchase data out of a RAM in accordance with the card 11 and judges whether the parking charge should be applied or not to the customer based on his purchase result data, and sends the deciding result back to the machine 16.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a parking charge management device for managing a parking charge of a parking lot attached to a large store such as a shopping center in accordance with the transaction record of a product which differs for each customer. Specifically, it relates to a parking charge management device that improves the parking serviceability of stores.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, many stores equipped with parking lots are being used in response to a car society, and a parking charge management system of this kind of parking lots has a storage time in which the parking time is printed on the incoming car. They issued a ticket and presented both the warehousing ticket and the shopping receipt to the clerk at the time of leaving, and a dedicated clerk instantly judged this to decide free / paid.

However, since the parking charge is determined by a staff member, calculation mistakes and misunderstandings are likely to occur, and troubles with customers are likely to occur. For example, if it is set to be free for customers who have used a certain amount or more for shopping within a certain period of time, if the amount of time slightly exceeds the certain amount of time, if it is slightly less than the certain amount of money, Even high customers are charged, serviceability is low, and there is a problem that the customer visit rate decreases.

[0004]

Therefore, according to the present invention, the parking charge is handled free of charge for a customer who has a high degree of contribution based on the past product purchase record data which is different for each customer, and the serviceability to the customer is improved. The purpose is to provide a parking charge management device with a high store visit rate.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a parking charge management device for managing a parking charge of a parking lot attached to a store, wherein a card issued to a customer who uses the parking lot, The storage management means for reading the card data recorded on the customer's card and allowing the goods to be stored, the record management means for recording and managing the product purchase data of the customer who purchased the product in the store, and the customer's past product purchase record data. Storage means for storing, and determination means for determining free / paid parking based on the product purchase data recorded in the record management means and the customer's product purchase record data read from the storage means. To do.

[0006]

According to the present invention, at the time of warehousing, the warehousing management means reads the customer's card and allows the warehousing, and when the customer purchases a product at the store, the record management means records and manages the purchase data to purchase the product. At the time of exit from the parking lot, the determination means determines whether the parking fee of the customer is charged or free, based on the product purchase data recorded in the record management means and the customer product purchase record data read from the storage means. For example,
Normally, even long-time parking customers and low-value shoppers who are treated as paid customers are determined to be free if they are good customers who have a high degree of contribution based on past product purchase record data.

[0007]

As a result, for the parking customers who have a high degree of contribution to the store where the usage status differs depending on the customer, it is treated as free parking and the serviceability to the good customers is improved. It is possible to realize convenience and reliability, promote store visits, and increase the store visit rate.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. The drawing shows a parking charge management device for a parking lot attached to a large store. As shown in FIG. 1, this parking charge management device includes a membership card 11 issued to a customer in advance,
A warehousing ticket issuing machine 13 that issues a warehousing ticket 12 installed at the entrance of a parking lot, and a POS system-type electronic cash register that records product purchase data of a customer's purchase of a product in a member card 11 14 and a free issue ticket issuing machine 16 that is installed near the exit of the parking lot and issues a free issue ticket 15
The host computer 17, which is the main body of the POS system, controls and manages these.

The member card 11 is issued in advance to a customer who uses the parking lot, and is handled at the time of entering the warehouse, leaving the warehouse, and paying for the purchase of goods to record and confirm various data. In addition to the warehousing time data, the purchase data that the customer purchased the product is recorded. Further, this data can be stored and managed on the host computer 17 side.

The warehousing ticket issuing machine 13 has a card insertion slot 13a, a warehousing ticket discharging slot 13b, a display guide section 13c and a voice guidance section 13d on the front surface. When the insertion operation of 11 is performed, the card data is read, the read card data is transmitted to the host computer 17, the inquiry is confirmed, and the warehousing ticket 12 on which the warehousing time is printed is issued.

The electronic cash register 14 allows the customer's membership card 11 to be used for parking other than the cash registration processing when the customer purchases the product, and records the purchase data on the card 11. For example, the data of purchase points corresponding to the purchase amount are recorded. Also, this data is transmitted to the host computer 17 for data management.

The free issuance ticket issuing machine 16 is also provided as a checkout machine at the time of delivery, and has a card insertion slot 16a, a free issuance ticket ejection opening 16b, a display guide section 16c, a voice guidance section 16d, a bill insertion slot 16e and a coin insertion. It has a mouth 16f, guides the insertion of the membership card 11 at the time of leaving, and when the customer inserts the membership card 11, the card data is read and the read card data is transmitted to the host computer 17 for inquiry, and this inquiry data Free issuance ticket 15 is issued according to.

The host computer 17 handles as a customer management file, stores and manages all customer data, and updates the data through each of the devices 13, 14, and 16. In the member's unique data, the name and sex are stored. , Age, date of birth,
Addresses, hobbies, telephone numbers, family members, owned vehicles, plate numbers, license numbers, etc. are stored in detail, and when a card is forgotten, it can be used as a search code.

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a control circuit of the parking charge management device. The CPU 21 controls each circuit device according to a program stored in the ROM 22, and the necessary control data at this time is stored in the RAM 23 so that it can be read out. To do.

In this case, the RAM 23 stores the customer specifying data,
In addition to the parking usage time data and the product purchase data of this time, the product purchase record data used by the customer in the past is stored. For example, various record data such as store visit frequency, average shopping amount, degree of contribution to the store, cumulative points by purchase history, etc. are totaled and stored and managed.

The CPU 21 determines from the result data whether the customer who used the parking is free or paid,
Instead of deciding free / paid by the amount of one-time shopping, the decision is made based on past performance data. For example, even a long-time parking customer or a low-priced shopper who is normally determined to be charged is determined to be free if it is recognized from the past product purchase record data as a parking user who has a high contribution to the store.

The processing operation of the parking charge management device thus configured at the time of storage will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Now, a customer who came to the store by car inserts the membership card 11 into the warehousing ticket issuing machine 13 installed at the entrance of the parking lot, and the warehousing ticket issuing machine 13 records on the card 11 based on this insertion operation. The stored information is read and transmitted to the host computer 17 (steps n1 to n2), and the host computer 17 reads the card information such as the member number from the transmitted data to confirm the inquiry and records the current date and time of storage. After recording, the receipt data such as customer name, vehicle type information, and receipt ticket issuing command are returned to the receipt ticket issuing machine 13 again (step n3), and the receipt ticket issuing machine 13 receives the reply data from the host computer 17 based on the reply data. Issue a warehousing ticket 12 on which various warehousing data such as the date and time of warehousing and, in some cases, customer name, vehicle type, parking lot, etc. are printed, and at the same time, the membership card 1
1 is returned to the customer to allow warehousing (steps n4 to n
Five ).

As a result, the customer puts the car in the parking lot and moves on to purchase products at the store. Then, at the time of purchasing various products and paying for the products in the electronic cash register 14, the customer submits the membership card 11 and sends the product inquiry data and the card inquiry data to the host computer 17 for storage management. Let At this time, the host computer 1
Reference numeral 7 totalizes and manages the product purchase data of this time in addition to the past performance data, and changes the data every time the purchase data changes, and stores and manages the performance data. On the other hand, the electronic cash register 14
On the side, the settlement receipt and the membership card 11 are handed to the customer, and the purchase operation of the product is completed (steps n6 to n7).

Next, the processing operation of the parking charge management device when the vehicle is leaving will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. When the customer inserts the membership card 11 into the free issue ticket issuing machine 16 installed near the exit of the parking lot at the time of leaving, the free issue ticket issuing machine 16 stores the information recorded in the member card 11 based on this insertion operation. It is read and sent to the host computer 17 (steps n8 to n10), and the host computer 17
Reads the inquiry data of the card such as the membership number and records the past product purchase record data corresponding to the membership card 11 into the RA.
M23 is read, and the free / paid parking fee for this time is determined based on the read result data, and this determination data and parking fee data in the case of paid parking are issued free of charge.
6 (step n11), and the free issuance ticket issuing machine 16 determines, based on the reply data from the host computer 17,
If it is judged that parking is free, this free issue ticket issuing machine 1
The free issuing ticket 15 is issued from 6, and the membership card 11 is returned to allow the leaving (steps n12 to n14).

On the other hand, when it is determined that the parking fee is charged, the free issuing ticket issuing machine 16 displays guidance and voice output of the parking fee to be settled to settle the predetermined parking fee, and after the settlement is completed, a membership card. 11 is returned to permit delivery (steps n15 to n16).

As described above, since the parking customers who make a high contribution to the store are treated as free parking, the serviceability to the good customers can be improved, and the good customers who have contributed are convenient and reliable. You can feel the nature of your business, and you can increase the store visit rate by promoting store visits by your favorite customers.

In the correspondence between the present invention and the configuration of the above-described embodiment, the card of the present invention is the membership card 1 of the embodiment.
In the same manner, the warehousing management means corresponds to the warehousing ticket issuing machine 13, and the record management means corresponds to the electronic cash register 14
Membership card 11 and host computer 17 via
The storage means corresponds to the RAM 23 and the determination means corresponds to the CPU 21, but the present invention is not limited to the configuration of the above-described embodiment.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic explanatory view of a parking charge management device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a control circuit block diagram of the parking charge management device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing operation when the parking charge management device of the present invention is stored.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a processing operation of the parking charge management device according to the present invention at the time of leaving.

[Explanation of Codes] 11 ... Member Card 13 ... Entry Ticket Issuing Machine 14 ... Electronic Cash Register 17 ... Host Computer 21 ... CPU 23 ... RAM

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A parking charge management device for managing a parking charge of a parking lot attached to a store, wherein a card issued to a customer who uses parking and a card recorded on the customer's card at the time of storage. Receipt management means for reading data and allowing receipt of goods, record management means for recording and managing commodity purchase data of a customer who has purchased a commodity in a store, storage means for storing customer's past commodity purchase record data, and the above-mentioned record A parking charge management device comprising: a determination unit that determines whether parking is free or paid based on the product purchase data recorded in the management unit and the customer product purchase record data read from the storage unit.