JPH06290349A - Cash settlement system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simultaneously settle the accounts of plural transactions to the same customer to simplify the settlement and to improve the services to customers in a cash settlement system where a cash receiving/dispensing machine is connected to a POS terminal. CONSTITUTION:The sales record corresponding to the slip number supplied from a keyboard 12 of a cash receiving/dispensing machine 3 is retrieved through a sales file stored in a storage device 33 of a POS terminal equipment 2. If other sales records having the same customer code are detected before and after the relevant sales record or in a fixed range, the transaction amounts of these records having the same customer code are totalized and sent to the machine 3. The machine 3 settles the accounts of the totalized transaction amount.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cash settlement system used for transaction processing in stores such as gas stations.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a gas station, transaction processing occurs in a plurality of fueling apparatuses installed outside the store, and the content of the transaction processing is constituted by an ECR (electronic cash register) installed in the store. It is managed by a transaction processing device such as a POS terminal device. This POS
The terminal device issues a voucher in which sales data indicating the contents of each transaction process is recorded, and the clerk performs a payment process with the customer based on the contents recorded in the voucher. When the settlement process is performed by cash, the clerk goes to the refueling position with the slip issued by the POS terminal device in the store,
Receive cash payments from customers. Further, the cash paid by the customer is stored in the POS terminal device in the store, and if there is a change, it goes to the refueling position again. However, in such a procedure, not only the working conditions of the store clerk become severe, but also the transaction processing takes a long time, resulting in deterioration of customer service. Also,
The store clerk may make a mistake in the change calculation because he / she is too rushed to perform cash deposit / withdrawal processing because he / she does not have to wait for the customer, and a change error is likely to occur.

Therefore, conventionally, a POS terminal has been connected in the vicinity of a transaction processing place such as a refueling position, and P
A cash depositing / dispensing machine that can be installed separately from an OS terminal device has been proposed. This cash depositing / dispensing machine accepts the deposit of cash paid by a customer, calculates the difference between the amount paid and the transaction amount sent from the POS terminal device, and discharges the change of the correct amount. By installing such a cash depositing / dispensing machine near the place where transaction processing occurs, it is possible to shorten the distance traveled by the clerk during transaction processing, improve working conditions, and shorten the time required for transaction processing. As a result, customer service can be improved, and change errors can be prevented.

[0004]

However, in the conventional cash settlement system, even if a plurality of transaction processings are successively performed for the same customer, a plurality of transactions issued for each transaction processing are performed. The settlement process must be performed for each of the slips, and the work becomes complicated.

An object of the present invention is, when a plurality of transaction processes are performed for the same customer, by summing up transaction amounts in the respective transaction processes so as to input / output a plurality of transaction processes for the same customer. An object of the present invention is to provide a cash settlement system that enables money to be executed by a single settlement process and realizes easy work during settlement processing.

[0006]

A cash settlement system according to the invention described in claim 1 is provided with a storage means for storing sales data for each transaction processing including a customer code for specifying a customer and a transaction amount. A cash processing system configured to connect a single or a plurality of cash depositing / dispensing machines that read sales data from a storage unit and execute cash payment processing with respect to a transaction processing device that accepts an input, The transaction processing device or the cash depositing / dispensing machine, the customer code determining means for determining whether or not the customer codes included in each of the plurality of sales data match, and the transaction included in the sales data in which the customer code matches in the customer code determining means. Transaction amount summing means for summing the amounts and executing the settlement processing are provided.

In the cash settlement system according to the second aspect of the present invention, the customer code determination means stores the customer code included in the sales data stored before and after the sales data related to the current settlement processing in the storage means. It is to judge the coincidence.

In the cash settlement system according to a third aspect of the present invention, the customer code determination means includes the sales data stored in the storage means within a predetermined range with respect to the sales data related to the current settlement processing. It is to determine whether or not the customer code is matched.

In the cash settlement system according to the invention described in claim 4, the transaction processing device accepts input of sales data for each transaction process including a customer code for specifying a customer and a transaction amount. A cash payment system configured to connect a single or a plurality of cash depositing / dispensing machines for reading out the sales data and executing cash settlement processing, the transaction processing device or the cash depositing / dispensing machine,
Instructing means for instructing the summing mode and, when the summing mode is instructed, summing the transaction amounts included in the plurality of continuously read sales data and executing the settlement processing, and the transaction amount summing means. It is characterized by being provided.

[0010]

In the invention described in claim 1, the customer code judging means judges whether or not the customer codes included in each of the sales data relating to the plurality of transaction processes are coincident with each other. The transaction amounts included in the matched sales data are summed by the first transaction amount summing means to be settled. Therefore,
If there are sales data related to transaction processing for the same customer among multiple sales data, the transaction amounts included in these multiple sales data are summed up and settlement processing is performed at once for multiple transaction processing. Be seen.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the customer code included in the sales data relating to the current settlement processing,
The storage means determines a match with the customer code included in the sales data stored before and after the sales data. Therefore, when a plurality of transaction processes are successively performed for the same customer, the settlement processes for the plurality of transaction processes are performed at one time.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the customer code included in the sales data relating to the settlement processing this time,
The storage means determines that the sales data matches the customer code included in the sales data stored within a predetermined range. Therefore, even when a transaction process of another person is executed during a plurality of transaction processes of the same customer, a settlement process relating to a plurality of transaction processes of the same customer is performed at one time.

In the invention described in claim 4, when the summing mode is instructed by the instructing means, the transaction amounts included in the plurality of sales data continuously read out during that time are summed by the transaction amount summing means. Payment processing is performed.
Therefore, the settlement process related to the plurality of transaction processes instructed by the clerk is performed at one time.

[0014]

1 is an external view of a transaction processing apparatus and a cash depositing / dispensing machine which constitute a cash settlement system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The cash settlement system 1 includes a POS terminal device 2 which is a transaction processing device, and a cash depositing / dispensing machine 3 which is connected to the POS terminal device 2 online. The POS terminal device 2 is composed of an ECR, and has a keyboard 4 for receiving input of sales data relating to transaction processing, a printer 5 for issuing a slip recording the sales data, and a card reader for reading card data from a card presented by a customer. 6, a CRT 7 for displaying guidance or the like to the clerk, a display 8 for displaying the sales amount, and a drawer 9 for storing cash. This drawer 9 has a POS
Cash to be deposited and withdrawn at the time of settlement processing executed in the terminal device 2 is stored.

On the upper surface of the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3, there is a coin slot 1
1, a keyboard 12, a display 13 and a card reader 14 are provided. Further, a bill insertion slot 15, a coin ejection slot 16 and a bill ejection slot 17 are provided on the front side. The keyboard 12 receives input of identification data that specifies transaction processing. As this identification data, for example, the slip number written on the slip issued in the POS terminal device 2 can be used. Display 13
Shows sales data related to transaction processing. The card reader 14 reads card data from the card presented by the customer. The coin insertion slot 11 and the bill insertion slot 15 accept the insertion of cash paid by the customer. The coin outlet 16 and the banknote outlet 17 discharge the change to be returned to the customer.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the structure of a cash settlement system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in (A) of the same figure, for a single POS terminal device 2 installed in a store, a plurality of cashes installed outside the store via a multi-drop interface 21 such as RS485, RS422 or Ethernet. The depositing / dispensing machine 3 is connected. Also,
In the cash settlement system shown in FIG. 2B, a single POS terminal device 2 installed in the store is connected to the external device 23 outside the store connected via the multi-drop interface 21, RS232C, etc. The cash deposit / withdrawal machine 3 is connected via the peer-to-peer interface 24. In this case, the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3 provided in the store can be directly connected to the POS terminal device 2 via the peer-to-peer interface 22.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the control unit of the POS terminal device and the cash depositing / dispensing machine. Figure 3
As shown in (A), the keyboard 4, the printer 5, the card reader 6, and the display 7 provided in the POS terminal device are connected to the CPU 31. A ROM 32, a storage device 33, and a communication control unit 34 are connected to the CPU 31. A program defining the operation of the CPU 31 is stored in the ROM 32 in advance, and the CPU 31 controls the input / output device such as the printer 5 according to the program. Data input / output during this time is the storage device 33.
Is temporarily stored in.

The storage device 33 can be constituted by a hard disk or the like in addition to a general RAM.
The communication control unit 34 transmits / receives data to / from the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3.

As shown in FIG. 1B, the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3
The keyboard 12, the display 13, and the card reader 14 provided in the CPU are connected to the CPU 41. The CPU 41 includes a ROM 42, a storage device 43, and a communication control unit 46, and is also connected to a cash input processing unit 44 and a cash output processing unit 45. C in ROM42
A program that prescribes the operation of the PU 41 is written in advance, and the CPU 41 performs overall control of each input / output device according to this program. Data input / output during this time, data transmitted by the communication control unit 46, and the like are temporarily stored in the storage device 43. The input cash processing unit 44 executes authenticity determination processing, denomination determination processing, and counting processing for the cash input from the coin insertion slot 11 and the bill insertion slot 15, and inputs the total of the inserted amount to the CPU 41. On the other hand, the CPU 41
Supplies the change amount obtained by subtracting the sales amount from the input amount to the discharge cash processing unit 45 as the discharge amount data. The amount of sales is determined by the communication control unit 46 by the POS terminal device 2.
Received from. The discharged cash processing unit 45 discharges the change from the coin discharge port 16 and the bill discharge port 17 based on the discharged amount data. The communication control unit 46 sends and receives data to and from the POS terminal device.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the structure of a sales file provided in the cash settlement system. Sales file 5
In 1, a sales record for each day of transaction processing in a store is stored in the order of input in the POS terminal device 2.
Each sales record 52 is composed of a slip number for specifying transaction processing, a customer code for specifying a customer involved in the transaction processing, and transaction amount data. The sales file 51 is provided in the storage device 33 of the POS terminal device 2. The sales file 51 may be provided in the storage device 43 of each cash depositing / dispensing machine 3, or may be provided in a dedicated storage device connected to the data transmission line.
Further, the POS terminal device 2 issues a slip in which the slip number included in the sales record 52 is printed for the input sales data for each transaction process. By inputting this slip number from the keyboard 12 of the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3, the sales record for which the settlement process should be executed is specified.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the control unit of the cash depositing / dispensing machine.

The CPU 41 of the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3 accepts the input of the slip number for specifying the transaction processing to execute the settlement processing (n1), and sends the search command data including the input slip number to the POS terminal device 2. And send (n
2). When a response is received from the POS terminal device 2 (n3), the state of the flag F is determined (n4). This flag F stores the state of whether or not a continue key, which will be described later, has been operated. When the flag F is set, the transaction amount included in the response data already received is
The transaction amounts included in the response data received this time are added up (n5), and the flag F is reset (n6). After that, the transaction amount is displayed on the display 13 (n7), and the operation of the continue key or the enter key is awaited (n8, n).
9).

The clerk operates the continuation key when performing settlement processing for a plurality of slips for the same customer at once. By operating this continuation key, the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3 executes the summing mode, and sums the transaction amounts included in the sales data read based on the respective slip numbers. Therefore, when the continue key is operated, the flag F is set and the process returns to n1 (n10). When the confirmation key is operated, the cash input processing unit 45 performs cash input processing (n
11) Based on the difference between the input amount and the transaction amount, the release cash processing unit n12 performs a change release process (n1).
2).

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a part of the processing procedure of the control unit of the POS terminal device. The CPU 31 of the POS terminal device 2 is waiting for the transmission of the search command data from the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3 (n21), and upon receiving the search command data, determines the preset mode (n22, n23). . The processing mode determined here is any of modes A to C. When the mode A is set, the sales file 51 is searched for the slip number included in the search command data (n2
4) The sales records located before and after the sales record corresponding to this slip number are checked, and if the customer codes are the same, the summing process is performed (n25).

When the mode B is set, the sales file 51 is searched for the slip number included in the search command data (n26), and the sales record corresponding to this slip number falls within the preset range. The sales records having the same customer code are searched for for the sales records in (1) and these are added up (n27). When the mode C is set, only the work of searching the sales file 51 for the slip number included in the search command data is performed (n28). In this way n2
The sales record and the transaction amount obtained at 5, n27 and n28 are transmitted to the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3 as response data (n29).

As described above, according to this embodiment, when the mode A is selected and the search command data transmitted from the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3 includes the slip number D12, First, the sales record including the slip number is searched in the sales file 51 shown in FIG. 4, and the customer code is the slip number D12 in the sales records of the slip numbers D11 and D13 located before and after the search.
It is determined whether or not it matches the customer code of the sales record of. In the example shown in FIG. 4, since the customer code of the sales record of the slip number D13 matches the customer code of the sales record of the slip number D12, the sum of the two is sent to the cash deposit / withdrawal machine 3 as the transaction amount.

When mode B is set, the sales record of the slip number included in the search command data is searched in the sales file 51 in the same manner,
As an example, four sales records before and after this sales record are searched for sales records having the same customer code. This search range is fixedly set in advance at the time of designing the transaction processing system, or is set to be appropriately changeable by a setting operation in the POS terminal device 2 or the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3. For example, slip number D13
If the customer code C1 of the sales record of the slip number D7 and the customer code C2 of the sales record of the slip number D15 match the customer code of the sales record of the slip number D12, not only the customer code of the sales record of the slip number of D7 The transaction amounts of the sales records D7, D13 and D15 are added to the transaction amounts of the sales record of the slip number D12 and transmitted to the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3.

When the mode C is set, the POS terminal device 2 continuously operates from the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3 because the clerk at the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3 selects whether or not to perform the summing process. The sales record of the slip number included in the search command data sent to the sales file 51
In step 3, the information is searched for and sequentially transmitted to the cash deposit / withdrawal machine 3.

In this way, when a plurality of transaction processes are carried out for the same customer, the transaction amounts for the respective transaction processes can be summed up and the settlement process can be carried out at once.

Which of the above modes A to C is to be executed can be made selectable at the time of designing the transaction processing system or by a selection operation in the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3. In addition, regarding correction processing when a change error occurs due to erroneous input by a clerk, correction processing is performed by performing negative addition processing on the transaction amount of the sales record related to erroneous input with respect to the transaction amount related to the appropriate sales record. Appropriate transaction processing can be performed at once.

In the above embodiment, the sales file 5
Due to the provision of 1 in the POS terminal device 2, it was decided to execute the customer code judgment process and the transaction amount summing process in the POS terminal device 2. It may be executed in the money machine 3. In this case, it is conceivable to provide the sales file 51 in the cash depositing / dispensing machine 3 in order to prevent the data communication process from becoming complicated and the settlement process from being lengthened due to this.

[0032]

According to the invention described in claim 1, in a cash settlement system in which a cash processing apparatus is connected to a cash depositing / dispensing machine, when a plurality of transaction processes occur for the same customer, these transaction processes are performed. It is possible to perform the payment processing according to the above at once, simplify the cash exchange between the clerk and the customer, improve the workability, and improve the customer service.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, when a plurality of transaction processes for the same customer occur consecutively, the settlement processes related to these transaction processes can be performed at one time, and the clerk and the customer. It is possible to simplify the exchange of cash with and improve workability and improve customer service.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, even when transaction processing for another customer occurs during a plurality of transaction processing for the same customer, the same transaction within the preset range is performed. It is possible to perform the payment process related to a plurality of transaction processes for the customer at one time, simplify the cash exchange between the clerk and the customer, improve the workability, and improve the customer service.

According to the invention described in claim 4, the transaction processing corresponding to a plurality of sales data read continuously after the store clerk has selected and selected the summing mode can be settled at one time. It is possible to improve the workability by simplifying the cash exchange between the store clerk and the customer and improve the customer service.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of a POS terminal device and a cash depositing / dispensing machine constituting a cash payment system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a configuration of the cash settlement system.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a control unit of a POS terminal device and a cash depositing / dispensing machine of the system.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a structure of a sales file provided in the cash settlement system.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of a control unit of the cash depositing / dispensing machine.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of a control unit of the POS terminal device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1-Cash settlement system 2-POS terminal device 3-Cash depositing / dispensing machine 33-Memory device 51-Sales file

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A storage device for storing sales data for each transaction process including a customer code for specifying a customer and a transaction amount, and the sales data is read from the storage device to a transaction processing device that receives an input of the sales data. A cash settlement system configured by connecting a single or a plurality of cash depositing / dispensing machines for executing cash settlement processing by means of the transaction processing device or the cash depositing / dispensing machine included in each of a plurality of sales data. A customer code judging means for judging whether the customer codes match or not, and a transaction amount summing means for summing the transaction amounts included in the sales data with the customer code matching means to execute the settlement processing. A cash payment system characterized by 2. The cash settlement according to claim 1, wherein the customer code determination means determines a match with a customer code included in sales data stored before and after the sales data related to the current settlement processing in the storage means. system. 3. The customer code determination means determines whether the sales data related to the current settlement processing in the storage means matches the customer code included in the sales data stored within a predetermined range. Cash settlement system described in. 4. A transaction processing apparatus which accepts input of sales data for each transaction processing including a customer code for specifying a customer and a transaction amount, reads out the sales data input in the transaction processing apparatus, and performs a cash settlement processing. A cash settlement system configured to connect a single or a plurality of cash depositing / dispensing machines to be executed, wherein the transaction processing device or the cash depositing / dispensing machine is instructed to instruct a summing mode, and a summing mode is instructed. A transaction amount summing means for performing a settlement process by summing transaction amounts included in a plurality of consecutively read sales data in this case.