JPH0644459A - Card coupon system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a card coupon system for unnecessitating an operation for registering sales merchandise in a shop coupon processing system for providing service with specific merchandise as object by using membership cards for customers. CONSTITUTION:A POS terminal 1 is installed at a shop, reads the membership card and processes coupon service to specified coupon merchandise. A PLU file 2 is stored in the POS terminal 1 and is provided with the information of all the merchandise displayed at the shop such as the idendification codes and price data, etc., of the merchandise. The service data of the coupon service respectively set to the merchandise selected from all the merchandise stored in the PLU file 2 and the information of members such as the identification codes of the membership cards or the like are stored in a master file 3. A host computer 5 performs sum-up processing for the respective members and for respective makers with output data from the POS terminal 1 and stores the result in a main memory 6.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an over-the-counter coupon processing system for providing a service for a specific merchandise by using a membership card for a customer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, one of the customer service functions of a member management system is a preset discount of a specific product for a customer who inputs a member code from a magnetic card reader, a scanner, or a keyboard. Alternatively, a coupon service is provided for the purpose of increasing the number of members and making customers fixed by automatically performing a discount process.

As an example of the system as described above, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 3
There is one disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 167693. The outline of this system is shown in FIG. In the figure, 1 is a cash register which is installed in a store and provides a coupon service to customers by a privilege card, 2 is a PLU (Price Look Up) file which is stored in the cash register 1 and includes product name data, price data, privilege code, etc. , Contains information on all products on sale in the store. Four
Is a control program for performing various control operations necessary for registration of these sold products, and is provided for each cash register 1. Reference numeral 5 is a host computer that stores the output data from these cash registers 1 and performs file control of each cash register 1. Reference numeral 6 is a main memory that stores the above output data. I am downloading.

Next, the operation will be described. When making a transaction with a privilege card in the cash register 1, the privilege card is read by a magnetic card reader (not shown), the membership number is entered, and the payment method is entered, and then the sale item is registered. After registering each product, operate the privilege key (not shown) to confirm that the privilege card is valid, check the privilege code of this product included in PLU file 2 for the presence of a privilege, and the privilege is available. In this case, sales data is created according to the set privilege conditions. When the closing key is operated in the registration process after all the sales products for one customer are registered, the sales data stored in the buffer is supplied to the host computer 5.

[0005]

Since the conventional card coupon system is constructed as described above, one
It is necessary to operate the privilege key every time each item is registered to check whether or not the privilege is present, which not only complicates the operation, but also causes a problem in that it takes time to register the sale item.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object thereof is to obtain a card coupon system which does not require an operation for registering a sale product.

[0007]

In the card coupon system according to the present invention, the identification code of the membership card and the identification code of the product are compared with the identification code stored in the read master file, and there is an identification code that matches each other. At this time, it comprises a POS terminal for executing the above-mentioned product-specific coupon service, and a host computer for collecting sales results for each product manufacturer based on the coupon data output from the POS terminal.

[0008] Also, a PO that issues a point voucher with a service point of the coupon service printed separately from the receipt
It is the S terminal.

[0009]

In the POS terminal, the product identification code is read, and the service data stored in the master file and the price data stored in the PLU file are read at the same time based on the identification code.

[0010]

【Example】

Example 1. An embodiment according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration. In the figure, 1 is installed at a store, reads a membership card, and provides four types of coupon services for a designated coupon product, special price, discount, discount, and points. The POS terminal 2 for processing is a PLU file which is stored in this POS terminal 1 and which contains the product identification code, price data, etc.
It contains information on all products displayed in the store. 3 is a master file, and selects only the target products for which the coupon service among all the products stored in the PLU file 2 is selected,
The service data of the coupon service set for each selected product and the member information such as the identification code of the member card are stored. 4 is a control program that performs various control operations required when selling all the above products,
It is provided for each POS terminal 1. 5 for each P
The host computer stores the results of output from the OS terminal 1 for each member of each maker, and stores the result in the main memory 6. The PLU file 2, the master file 3, and the control program stored in each POS terminal 1 4 is properly maintained, and each POS
Downloading to Terminal 1.

Next, the operation will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. When making a transaction with a membership card at the POS terminal 1, first, a card reader
The identification code such as the membership number on the membership card is read (not shown) (step 7), and it is checked whether the read identification code exists in the master file 3 (step 8). If it does not exist, the POS terminal 1 "Member not registered" is displayed on the screen (step 9). If present, the bar code, which is the identification code displayed on the product, is read by a bar code reader (not shown). It is checked whether the read bar code exists in the master file 3 (step 11), and if it exists, the service data of the coupon service for each product stored in the master file 3 is read (step 12), and the master file 3 is read. At the same time, the price data (step 13) obtained from the accessed PLU file 2 and the calculation process of the discounted price are performed (step 14). If the read bar code does not exist in the master file 3, the price data is used as it is without performing the calculation process. When all the products purchased by the member are processed and the closing key on the POS terminal 1 is pressed, the individual product data and the total data purchased by the member are transferred to the host computer 5 (step 15). In the host computer 5 receiving these data, the control program 4 adds the current total value to the previous cumulative value of the member and stores the member data such as cumulative points in the individual file of the main memory 6. It is returned to the POS terminal 1 of the originator (step 16). Further, the host computer 5 classifies the transferred individual product data for each product maker and cumulatively stores it as coupon data in the main memory 6 (step 17).

[0012] In the first embodiment, when all the products purchased by the member are processed and the closing key on the POS terminal 1 is pressed, a receipt is naturally issued.
As shown in FIG. 3, the result of the coupon service is printed on the receipt 18 at the same time. At this time, the accumulated points of the coupon service are independently output as the point ticket 19 and cut after the receipt 18 is output and cut.

The point voucher 19 may be output by a printer provided separately from the receipt 18, and in this case, the shape, paper quality and color of the point voucher may be different from the receipt 18.

Although the above-described first embodiment describes the case where the coupon service is applied, it goes without saying that the processing can be performed even when the coupon service is not applied.

[0015]

As described above, according to the present invention, the identification code of a product is read, and the service data stored in the master file and the price data stored in the PLU file are simultaneously read based on the identification code. With this configuration, it is possible to obtain a card coupon system that does not require an operation for registering a sale product.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of a first embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the first embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a receipt and a point ticket according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a conventional card coupon system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 POS terminal 2 PLU file 3 Master file 4 Control program 5 Host computer 6 Main memory

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A POS terminal for executing the coupon service peculiar to the product, when the identification code of the membership card and the identification code of the product are respectively read and collated with the identification code stored in the master file, and when there is a matching identification code. , A card coupon system comprising a host computer that collects sales results for each manufacturer of the above products based on coupon data output from this POS terminal. 2. The POS terminal according to claim 1, wherein the point ticket printed with the service point of the coupon service is issued separately from the receipt.