JPH10269461A - Pos terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a POS terminal with which convenience is improved. SOLUTION: This POS terminal is provided with a PLU file(purchased merchandise storage means) 1-2 for storing the data of merchandise purchased by a customer, a POS control part 1-3 for retrieving merchandise information having the classification data and merchandise name data of merchandise corresponding to that merchandise and printer 1-4 as a receipt printing means for printing the purchased merchandise information and based on the merchandise classification data, the information of merchandise purchased by the customer is collected for the same class of merchandise and printed in the order of merchandise classification.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a POS system, and more particularly to a sequence control of merchandise information to be printed on a receipt.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a printing method of a registered product of a POS system in a supermarket, a store or the like will be described with reference to FIG. Conventional receipt printing method P
The OS terminal inputs a scanner unit 1-6 for reading a barcode attached to the product, a product code for identifying the product without reading the barcode, or a product identification code, and a price and quantity. And a display 1 for displaying registration information.
-1, print customer receipt with transaction information printed,
Alternatively, it is configured by a printer 1-4 that prints job contents and a POS control unit 1-3 that controls these devices.

Next, the operation will be described with reference to FIG.

A registration operator (hereinafter referred to as a checker) operates a scanner to input a bar code (4-1). The bar code is used as a key to search for product data from the PLU file, and the product information of the product is taken in (4).
-2). Of the product information, the product name and the price are displayed on the display (4-3). In addition to the display, the product information (price, product name) is printed by a printer device (4-
4).

After printing or before printing, the merchandise information is buffer-stored in a memory or a storage medium.
5). The product registration operation is repeated until all product registrations are completed. When the registration is completed, a completion key code indicating the end of the registration is input from the keyboard (4-6).

[0006] When all the registration processes are completed, the total amount is displayed on the display unit. Depending on the total amount, the customer hands cash (or a card or the like) to the cashier. The cashier inputs the received amount (4-7). afterwards,
A receipt is printed with the printer for the settlement information (4-
8).

The cashier completes the delivery of the receipt printed by the printer and the change, if any, to the customer (4).
-9).

[0008] The receipt printed by this method is printed with the product name, amount, etc. in the order in which the products are registered.

[0009]

The conventional problem is that the registered products are printed in the order of registration. For this reason, since the registered goods are printed at random, the receipt is difficult to see.

[0010] An object of the present invention is to provide a POS terminal for improving usability.

[0011]

According to the present invention, a print data editing process is performed between the display of the total amount, the input of the amount received, and the printing of the settlement information.

In the POS terminal of the present invention, the information recorded by the means for storing or storing the registered information is processed by the arithmetic processing means, and the searched product data is sorted by the product information search means for each product classification. After changing the order, the receipt is printed.

[0013]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS As shown in FIG. 1, a scanner unit 8-6 for reading a bar code attached to a product, or a product code for identifying a product, or a product identification code and a price. A keyboard 8-5 for registering a quantity or the like, a PLU file 8-2 for searching for product information from a product code, a registration unit display 8-1 for displaying registration information or a processing result in the registration unit,
A memory or storage medium 8-7 for storing or storing registration information, a printer 8-4 for printing customer receipts or printing business contents, input control, search,
It is composed of a POS control unit 8-7 that performs arithmetic processing and the like, and a sorting unit 8-8.

The scanner unit 8-6 reads a bar code on each product, decodes the bar code data, and transmits the data to the POS control unit 8-3.

The POS control section 8-3 includes a scanner section 8-6.
A search is performed from the data in the PLU file 8-2 shown in FIG. 5 from the PLU file 8-2 in which the single item registration information such as the key code, the product name, and the amount is input using the data sent from the PC as a key. Search for product information such as price and price.

The display 8-1 displays a product name, an amount, and the like in the searched single item registration information.

In the keyboard 8-5, a fixed product code is assigned to each key in advance, and the key code of the keyboard pressed by the key input is assigned to the POS control unit 8--.
Send to 3. The POS control unit 8-3 searches for product information using the data sent from the keyboard as a key, and obtains single item registration information.

The storage means 8-7 such as a memory holds the merchandise registration information retrieved by the POS control section 8-3 until the registration of one customer is completed.

When the completion code of the registration process is input and the transaction of one customer is completed, the POS control unit 8-3 reads out the single product information of one customer stored in the storage unit 8-7 and outputs the product department code. Are sorted in the order of the product section code using the as a key. The POS control unit 8-3 reads the registered merchandise information that has been rearranged and stored in the storage unit 8-7, and checks what the merchandise classification code is from the merchandise department code.

When the POS control unit 8-3 finishes counting the data of the merchandise classification codes, the POS control unit 8-3 performs printing and editing, sends necessary data such as the price and the product name to the printer 8-4, and the printer performs a printing operation.

The POS control section 8-3 prints all the single item information (item name and price) for each product classification code by the above-described method, and then calculates the sum of the amount of the single item information calculated in advance, the tax amount, and the like. The settlement information such as the amount of payment to the customer combined with is displayed on the display.

According to the displayed total amount, the customer hands the cash or cash card to the cashier, and the cashier passes the change, if any, to the customer together with the receipt, if any, after the payment processing such as input of a deposit from the customer. In this way, customer registration and settlement processing is performed.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

First, a registration operator (hereinafter referred to as a checker) performs a product registration operation as follows. There are two types of merchandise registration operations: bar code reading and keyboard input.

The registration by inputting the bar code is performed by reading the bar code attached to the commodity purchased by the customer using a scanner and performing the registration (2-1). The read barcode data is decoded, and a search is performed using the barcode data as a key from a PLU file (FIG. 5) in which a code, a product name, and an amount of single item registration information such as an amount are input in advance using the barcode data as a key. To search for product information such as product name and price (2-
2).

At this time, of the single item registration information retrieved, the product name, the price, etc. are displayed on the display (2).
―3).

When inputting from the keyboard, fixed keys are assigned to the products in advance, and the product information is searched by using the key code of the keyboard pressed by the key input as a key to obtain single item registration information.

The merchandise registration information retrieved as described above is retained in a memory or a storage medium until the registration of one customer is completed (2-4). The end of the processing of one customer is determined by inputting a completion code indicating that the registration processing has been completed from the keyboard (2).
-5).

The above-described registration processing is repeated until all the merchandise registration processing of the customer is completed. Product single item information is P
As shown in the LU file (FIG. 5), it is composed of a product name, a price, a product section code, and the like.

When the completion code of the above-described registration processing is input (2-5), the sorting unit 8-8 in FIG. 1 sorts the single product information of one customer in the order of the merchandise section code using the merchandise section code as a key. Rearrangement is performed (2-6).

As shown in FIG. 7, the merchandise section codes are determined by allocating merchandise classification codes.

Each registered merchandise information is read, and the merchandise classification code is checked based on the merchandise section code (2-7). When the data of one product classification code is totaled, printing and editing are performed, and the data is sent to necessary data such as the price and the product name and printed by the printer (2-7). This operation is repeated, and printing is performed in the form of grouping for each product classification code.

According to the above-described method, after printing all the single item information (item name and price) for each product classification code, the total amount of the single item information calculated in advance, the amount of payment to the customer including the tax, etc. The settlement information such as is displayed on the display. According to this displayed total amount,
The customer hands the cash or cash card to the cashier, and the cashier passes the change, if any, to the customer, together with the receipt, if any, after entering the deposit from the customer. In this way, customer registration and settlement processing is performed.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, a receipt printing POS terminal that is more easily understood can be realized.

In the above-described embodiment, as a method of editing the print data on the receipt, the registered data is rearranged once, and then each registered product is edited. Instead of rearrangement as shown in FIG. 11, the registered data may be searched one by one for the merchandise department and the print edited. In FIG. 3, step 3
Steps -1 to 3-6 are the same as steps 2-1 to 2-6 in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 4, the receipt is printed, the product registration information compiled by all the product department codes is printed, and after the printing and editing of all transactions are completed, the printing is performed collectively. You can go.

[0037]

As described above, according to the present invention,
It is possible to provide easy-to-understand receipts to customers.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

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

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation of another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation of still another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a table showing contents of data stored in a PLU file of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a table showing allocation of merchandise department codes to merchandise classification codes.

FIG. 7 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a conventional POS terminal.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of a conventional POS terminal.

[Explanation of symbols]

 8-1 Display 8-2 PLU file 8-3 POS control unit 8-4 Printer 8-5 Keyboard 8-6 Scanner unit 8-7 Storage unit 8-8 Sort unit

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A purchase merchandise storage means (hereinafter referred to as a PLU file) for storing merchandise data to be purchased by a customer, a merchandise information search means having merchandise classification data and merchandise name data corresponding to the merchandise, 1. A POS terminal comprising a receipt printing means for printing information, merging merchandise information of the same classification based on merchandise classification data, and printing merchandise information purchased by a customer in the merchandise classification order. 2. After printing all the single item information (item name and price) for each product classification code, settle the total amount of the single item information calculated in advance, the amount of payment to the customer including the tax, etc. The POS terminal according to claim 1, wherein the information is displayed on a display. 3. The printing of receipts, the printing of merchandise registration information totaled by all merchandise department codes is collectively printed after printing and editing of all transactions. Item 7. A POS terminal according to Item 1.