JPH0744773A - Sales information management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To lighten the burden of an operator in register-minus processing, and besides, to improve the reliability of the processing. CONSTITUTION:When, for instance, the register-minus key of a touch panel 2 is pushed down, a registration mode selecting part 3 sends the signal of a register-minus mode to a control part 6. A cancellation mode selecting part 4 allows the operator to select whether the data to be canceled is one commodity or one transaction in conformity to an instruction from the control part 6, and when the operator designates the cancellation processing of one transaction, it sends this information to the control part 6. A register-minus information generating part 7 retrieves the designated transaction from commodity data stored in a sales information storage part 5, and extracts the commodity data contained in that transaction. Then, the register-minus information of each commodity data is generated on the basis of the extracted commodity data, and a register-minus information registering part 8 stores this register-minus information in the sales information storage part 5.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sales information management system for managing sales information of products.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Today, a POS (Point of Sales) system is widely used as a sales information management system for managing product sales information in the retail industry. This POS system is used to connect multiple P
It connects OS terminals and manages product sales information from these POS terminals. The system form is 1
Stand-alone type in which one POS terminal is installed in a store, multiple POS terminals (slave type) in one store, and master type POS for controlling these POS terminals
There is a master / slave type in which the terminal is installed.

In such a POS system, the PO
At the POS cash register as an S terminal, data such as price and item of each product is registered, and cash register operations such as issuing receipts to customers are performed. As the cash register operation, data of normally sold products, that is, normal sales data is registered. On the contrary, processing of canceling sales of product data which is later from the sales data once registered There is a cash register operation for. The registration minus operation is the same operation as the sales operation, but at the time of this operation, it is registered with the opposite sign to the normal sales data indicating the cancellation data. For example, if a customer purchases several types of products, registers this sales information at the POS cash register, and then cancels the sales by returning the sold product, etc., add a minus sign to the information of the product to be canceled. And then re-registered.

[0004]

As described above, the conventional cash register operation is to register cancellation information for each product. However, 1 is required for cash register minus processing.
Transactions, that is, information on product sales that were accounted for once (1
There is a case where you want to cancel the product data of the receipt issued once. However, in the conventional cash register minus operation,
Since it was only possible to register cancellation information for each product, if a large number of products were registered in one transaction, the regi-minus processing would be extremely time-consuming, and that information would be read from a keyboard, etc. When inputting, there are problems that input errors are likely to occur and reliability is low.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and reduces the operator's burden in register-minus operation and also enables highly reliable register-minus operation to be performed. The purpose is to provide.

[0006]

According to the sales information management system of the present invention, the sales information management system that manages the sales information of these products is one transaction, and the sales information management system manages the data of the sales products. When the registration minus mode is selected in the registration mode selection unit for selecting the normal product registration mode to be registered and the registration minus mode for canceling the sales data of the already registered product, in the mode selection unit, 1 in the cancellation mode selection section for selecting whether the data to be canceled is one product or one transaction, and the cancellation mode selection section
When the cancellation of the transaction is selected, the product data included in the corresponding transaction data is extracted from the registered product data, and the registration / minus information creation unit creates the cancellation information for each product data based on the extraction result. A register-minus-information registering unit for registering the cancellation information created by the register-minus-information creating unit is provided.

[0007]

In the sales information management system of the present invention, when the operator wants to perform the register minus operation, the operator depresses the register minus key. As a result, the registration mode selection unit sends a signal of the registration minus mode to the control unit, and the control unit instructs the cancellation mode selection unit to select the cancellation mode. In the cancellation mode selection section, as a selection of cancellation data, the operator inputs a receipt serial number on the display unit, and if the operator inputs the receipt serial number, it is considered that one transaction is canceled, that is, batch cancellation. Send a signal.

The cash register information creating unit of the control unit first searches the TRAN header of the input receipt serial number from the product data stored in the sales information storage unit, and if this TRAN header is present, searches it. The data from the data to before the next TRAN header is extracted as data for one transaction. Then, the cash register information is created based on these extracted data. In addition, the cash register minus information created by the cash register minus information creation unit is registered in the sales information storage unit by the cash register minus information registration unit. On the other hand, when the register minus key is pressed again, the register minus process is canceled.

[0009]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a sales information management system of the present invention. The system shown in the figure shows the main configuration of a slave POS terminal (POS cash register). P
The OS terminal 100 includes a keyboard 1, a touch panel 2, a display device 2a, a registration mode selection unit 3, a cancellation mode selection unit 4,
The sales information storage unit 5 and the control unit 6 are provided.

The keyboard 1 is a keyboard provided with function keys such as numeric keys and a register minus key for performing a register minus operation. Touch panel 2
Is a panel in which key settings can be switched by software executed by the control unit 6, and a display 2a for displaying an operation menu is provided on the panel. In addition, the registration mode selection unit 3 has a normal product registration mode for registering sales product data and a registration minus mode for canceling the sales data of an already registered product by pressing the registration minus key set on the touch panel 2. It has the function of selecting and.

When the registration mode selection unit 3 selects the registration minus mode, the cancellation mode selection unit 4 displays the display 2a.
Has a function of displaying a message on the screen and prompting the operator to select whether the data to be canceled is one product or one transaction. The sales information storage unit 5 is a memory including a battery backup memory and for registering data of sold products.

The control unit 6 is composed of a processor, etc.
The S terminal 100 is a part that performs various controls, and includes a cash register minus information creation unit 7 and a cash register minus information registration unit 8. When the cancellation mode selection unit 4 selects cancellation of one transaction, the registration minus information creation unit 7 extracts the product data included in the corresponding transaction data from the product data registered in the sales information storage unit 5. , Has a function of creating cancellation information for each product based on this extraction result. In addition, the cash register minus information registration unit 8 stores the cancellation information created by the cash register minus information creation unit 7 in the sales information storage unit 5.
It has the function of registering with. Further, the control unit 6 is connected to the master type POS terminal via the network 9.

The scanner 10 is connected to the POS terminal 100 so that the data of the sold product can be input. The scanner 10 is composed of a fixed type bar code reader and a wand type bar code reader, and reads the bar code given to each product and sends the read data to the control unit 6.

Next, the storage state of the sales information in the sales information storage section 5 will be described. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a storage state of sales transactions. Further, in the figure, transactions and transactions show the storage state in the normal registration mode, and batch cancellation and partial cancellation show the storage state in the cancellation mode. That is, 1
The transaction is composed of a TRAN header, single item registration details for each sold item, and closing information. For example, the transaction in the figure is sales information for 7 items, and the transaction is sales information for 5 items.

Here, the TRAN header is header information for indicating that the subsequent data is one transaction, and includes information such as sales date and receipt serial number. In addition, each individual item registration statement shows information of a product, and is composed of information such as a selling price and a product code of the product. Further, the closing information is information indicating the end of one transaction such as the number of units sold, the total amount, and the tax amount in the transaction.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an internal structure of each data described above. That is, each data is a fixed-length data such as 256 bytes, and a data identification unit for identifying what data the data is, and what number transaction data the data is. It consists of items such as the receipt serial number shown. For example, if the data of the data identification portion is "00H", the TRAN header,
The identification data is determined in advance, such as "01H" for single item registration details and "02H" for closing details.

Next, the operation of the sales information management system configured as described above will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the operation. First, the registration process of the POS terminal 100 is started, and the process in the normal product registration mode is performed. Note that this product registration process is a process of registering a sale product and is a known process, and therefore a description thereof is omitted here.

During the execution of such merchandise registration processing, the operator may want to cancel registration for a certain merchandise or transaction unit. In this case, the operator first depresses the register minus key set on the touch panel 2. As a result, the registration mode selection unit 3 outputs a selection signal for the registration minus mode to the control unit 6, and the control unit 6 sets the control to the registration minus mode (step S1), and the cancellation mode selection unit 4 receives the cancellation mode. Instruct selection.

The cancellation mode selection unit 4 displays "receipt No?" On the display 2a (step S2), and determines whether the receipt serial number and the current total key (not shown) are pressed from the keyboard 1 (step S2). S3). This step S
When the receipt serial number and the current total key are pressed in 3, the cash register TRAN header is written in the sales information storage unit 5 (step S4). The position A in FIG. 2 shows this TRAN header data, and a transaction and a transaction minus process are performed after the transaction. Incidentally, step S
The current total key in No. 3 has a function as a so-called execution key.

On the other hand, as in the conventional case, when canceling each product, the registration minus product information such as reading the barcode of the product to be canceled with the scanner 10 or entering the product code is entered. Do (Step S
5). As a result, the partial cancellation process is performed (step S6), and the partial cancellation process will be described later. Further, if the product information is not input in step S5 and the register minus key is pressed in the next step S7, the register minus process is terminated, which will also be described later. In step S7, if the register minus key is not pressed, another process such as displaying a message prompting for correct input is performed (step S7).
8).

In step S4, the register minus T
When the RAN header is written, the registration minus information creating unit 7 of the control unit 6 reads the data written before the registration minus TRAN header (step S9).
That is, the last written data (TR minus minus TR
Read the data immediately preceding the (AN header).

Then, it is judged whether or not this data is a TRAN header (step S10), and if it is a TRAN header, the receipt number of the TRAN header and
It is determined whether the receipt numbers pressed in step S3 match (step S11). If the receipt numbers do not match in step S11, or if step S1
If it is not the TRAN header at 0, the data to be read is regarded as the previous data (step S12), and the process returns to step S9. That is, the processes of steps S9 to S12 are the same as the registration minus TR of the position A in FIG.
This is a process for retrieving the corresponding TRAN header in the reverse direction from the closing information of the transaction at position B, which is the data immediately preceding the AN header.

When the receipt numbers match in step S11, the registration / minus information creating section 7 reads the next data of the TRAN header with the matching receipt numbers (step S13). Then, it is determined whether or not this is the TRAN header (step S14), and if it is not the TRAN header, the registration minus information registration unit 8 writes it as the registration minus information next to the registration minus TRAN header (step S14). In S15), a receipt printing unit (not shown) prints a receipt. afterwards,
The data to be read is used as the next data (step S1
6) The process returns to step S13, and these operations are repeated until the data immediately before the next TRAN header, that is, the closing information data.

For example, when the data of the corresponding TRAN header is the TRAN header at the position C in FIG. 2, it is read in order from the next, such as "single item registration detail 1, single item registration detail 2, ..., Closing information", The cash register information is sequentially created based on these data and written.

When the retrieved data reaches the next TRAN header, that is, when the data is the TRAN header in step S13, it is determined that the register minus processing for one transaction is completed, and the receipt is output. At the same time, the process returns to step S4 to display "Receipt No?".

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the output receipt. In this way, the receipt in the cash register minus process is the same as that in the normal product registration process,
The code of the data (price) of each product is "-".

When the operator wants to continue the registration-minus process of batch cancellation, he or she depresses the desired receipt serial number and the current total key, and performs the same process as the above operation. Further, as in the conventional case, when it is desired to perform the registration minus process for each product, as described above, the product information such as the product code input and the bar code input is input (step S5) and the partial cancellation of step S6 is performed. Perform processing.

In this partial cancellation process, the states shown in FIG. 2 are the single item registration details 9 and the single item registration details 1 in the transaction.
It is shown that 0 and 0 were processed by the register minus. That is,
As shown in the position D, the registration minus TRAN header similar to the above-mentioned batch cancellation is written next to the (-) closing information of the batch cancellation, and the (-) single item registration details 9 and the (-) single item registration details 10 are sequentially entered. , (-) Tightening information is written.

When the partial cancellation process is completed, the receipt is output, and the process returns to step S4 and the "Receipt No.
? Is displayed. When the operator wants to continue the above-mentioned collective cancellation processing or partial cancellation processing, the operator performs the above processing. When the user wants to end the cash register processing, the cash register key on the touch panel 2 is pressed again (step S7) to cancel the cash register minus mode, return to the normal product registration mode, and perform some transaction. In this case, the normal TRAN header is written as shown at position E in FIG.

Although the cancel mode is selected by inputting the receipt serial number in the above embodiment, the invention is not limited to this structure, and various cancel mode selection keys may be set, for example. Configurable.

[0031]

As described above, according to the sales information management system of the present invention, in the register minus process, one product or one transaction is selected as the data to be canceled,
When the cancellation of one transaction is selected, the corresponding product data is extracted from the registered product data, and the cancellation information for each product data is created based on this extraction result. Even if a large number of products are registered in the transaction, the operator does not need to input the cash register information for each product, the operator's burden can be reduced, and the reliability of cash register processing can be improved. it can.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a sales information management system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a storage state of a sales transaction in the sales information management system of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an internal configuration of each data in the sales information management system of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a batch cancellation process in the sales information management system of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of an output receipt in the sales information management system of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 3 Registration mode selection section 4 Cancellation mode selection section 5 Sales information storage section 7 Cash register minus information creation section 8 Cash register minus information registration section

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A normal product registration mode for registering sales product data in a sales information management system that manages sales of these products as one transaction, with one product transaction being accounted at one time,
A registration mode selection unit for selecting a registration minus mode for canceling sales data of an already registered product, and if the registration minus mode is selected in the mode selection unit, whether the data to be canceled is one product or one transaction When a cancellation of one transaction is selected in the cancellation mode selection unit for selecting, the product data included in the corresponding transaction data is extracted from the registered product data, and based on this extraction result A sales information management system including a cash register minus information creating unit for creating cancellation information for each item data, and a cash register minus information registering unit for registering cancellation information created by the cash register minus information creating unit. .