JPH11105996A - Sales management system for gas station - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To contrive a sales increase in commercial-goods, by composing so that sales data from a plurality of oil feeders is received and classified by means of a server and the classified data is transmitted from the server according to each classification. SOLUTION: When an oil feed nozzle 25 is detached from an oil feeder 4 in order to feed oil, a closing signal is input into an oil feed control means 29 from a nozzle switch 28, a display 30 returns to 0, a pump 23 is driven, and the feed of oil starts. The oil feed control means 29 calculates an amount of fed oil from the flow-rate signal of a flow meter 24 and indicater on the display 30. When the nozzle 25 is hung on a nozzle hook 27, an opening signal is output from the nozzle switch 28, the oil feed control stops, and sales data is sent to a sales control means 31 to be subjected to a registering operation. Sales data input/output mechanism 3 sales data to a server 6 together with other sales-data. The server 6 classifies and stores the sales data and transmits each classified data to an oil delivery center, and the settlement of its charge and so on are carried out. Thus, various kinds of commercial goods can be sold.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sales management system for a gas station that can sell various products at a fueling position.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of gas stations that have diversified management by adding convenience stores. However, customers do not want to get out of the car, and few customers shop at convenience stores far from the refueling position, and sales of products at convenience stores are stagnant. Therefore, a sales management system for a gas station that can sell various products at a fueling position is desired.
In addition, the conventional sales management system built at the refueling station is mainly used to manage the refueling data refueled by the refueling equipment, so the sales management at the newly attached convenience store is It cannot be used, and a separate sales management system for convenience stores has been built. For this reason, despite the same management, unified management of sales could not be performed, and two sales management systems were constructed, increasing investment costs. Furthermore, communication to the computers in each center could not be performed directly, and the communication cost was high.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to improve the sales of goods at a gas station by selling various goods at a fueling position, and to obtain merchandise sales data of all the goods sold at the gas station. A single sales management system, which can reduce the construction cost of the sales management system, and provide a sales management system for gas stations that can reduce the communication cost by directly communicating with the computer at each center. It is to be.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, a sales management system for a gas station according to the present invention has a function of controlling product sales from a refueling nozzle and a function of selling products from a sales data input / output device. A plurality of refueling devices having a function of controlling and transmitting product sales data, a function of classifying product sales data received from each refueling device, and a function of transmitting classified product sales data by classification. And a server having the same. As described above, the function of controlling the sales of goods from the sales data input / output device is provided in the refueling device, so that various kinds of goods can be sold at the refueling position, and the sales of goods at the gas station can be improved. be able to. And, since the product sales data of each refueling device is input to one server, it is possible to centrally manage the product sales data of all the products sold at the gas station, and to reduce the construction cost of the sales management system. Become. Further, since the server classifies the merchandise sales data and transmits the classified data, the communication with the computer at each center can be performed directly, and the communication cost can be reduced.

[0005]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. As shown in FIG. 1, a fueling device 4 with a sales data input / output device 3 is provided on an island 2 of a gas station 1.
The refueling device 4 is connected to a server 6 provided in a management office 5 by a signal line 7. In addition, a convenience store 8 is provided in the management office 5 and a POS 9 provided in the management office 5 is provided.
It is settled in. The POS 9 is connected to the server 6 via a signal line 10, and the server 6 is connected to a communication line 11.
Through a computer 12 at the oil distribution center, a computer 13 at the commodity shipping center, and a computer 14 at the card center.

[0006] A product display case 15 is provided on the island 2. In the product display case 15, products for automobiles such as canned oil and radiator liquid, and products such as gum and snacks are placed.

[0007] As shown in FIG.
1, a pipe 22 from an oil storage tank (not shown) is provided, and a pump 23 and a flow meter 24 are interposed in the pipe 22. And, at the tip of the pipe 22,
A refueling hose 26 provided with a refueling nozzle 5 is connected, and a nozzle switch 28 is provided on a nozzle hook 27 for refueling the refueling nozzle 25.

[0008] Refueling control means 2 provided in case 21
Reference numeral 9 indicates the total number of the display 3 upon receiving the closing signal from the nozzle switch 28.
The drive signal is output to the pump 23 by returning zero to zero. Then, during refueling, the flow rate signal from the flow meter 24 is calculated, and the calculated refueling amount is displayed on the display meter 30. Further, upon receiving an open signal from the nozzle switch 28, the driving of the pump 23 is stopped, and the product sales data by refueling is transmitted to the sales data input / output device 3.
Is output to the sales control means 31.

The sales data input / output device 3 has a display 32
, A keyboard 33, a card reader 34, a printer 35, and a cash register box 36, so that the merchandise in the merchandise display case 15 is sold.
And the sales control means 31 of the sales data input / output device 3
The product sales data processed by the sales data input / output device 3 and the product sales data received from the refueling control means 29 are transmitted to the signal line 7.
Is transmitted to the server 6 via the.

[0010] The server control means 37 of the server 6 classifies and stores the merchandise sales data input from the sales control means 31 of the sales data input / output device 3. For example, product sales data for the oil distribution center is stored in the oil data storage unit 38, product sales data for the product shipping center is stored in the product data storage unit 39, and product sales data for the card center is stored in credit data. The information is stored in the unit 40. Then, the server control means 37 of the server 6 receives the transmission signal from the computer 12 of the oil distribution center and outputs the product sales data stored in the oil data storage unit 38,
The merchandise sales data stored in the merchandise data storage unit 39 is output in response to the transmission signal from the computer 13 in the merchandise shipping center, and the transmission data is stored in the card data storage unit 40 in response to the transmission signal from the computer 14 in the card center. The merchandise sales data is output via the communication line 11.

Next, the operation will be described. When the refueling nozzle 25 of the refueling device 4 is removed from the nozzle hook 27 in order to refuel the automobile, a closing signal is transmitted from the nozzle switch 28 to the refueling control means 29, and the refueling control means 29 returns the indicator 30 to the pump 23 Drive. Then, when refueling is performed from the refueling nozzle 25, a flow rate signal from the flow meter 24 is calculated by the refueling control means 29, and the refueling amount is displayed on the display meter 30. When the refueling of a desired amount is completed and the refueling nozzle 25 is hung on the nozzle holder 27, an opening signal is transmitted from the nozzle switch 28 to the refueling control means 29, and the refueling control means 29
3 is stopped, and the product sales data by refueling is output to the sales control means 31 of the sales data input / output device 3.

When the product in the product display case 15 is sold to the customer, when the product sales data is input from the keyboard 33 of the sales data input / output device 3, the sales control means 31 displays the product sales data on the display. 32, and when the issue button of the keyboard 33 is pressed, the merchandise sales data and the merchandise sales data input from the refueling control means 29 are output to the printer 35, and a slip is issued from the printer 35.
Payment is performed based on this slip, cash is stored in the cash register box 36, and merchandise sales data is transmitted to the server 6 via the signal line 7.

When a product is sold by a credit card, the sales control means 3 of the sales data input / output device 3
1 transmits the merchandise sales data to the server 6 together with the card data read by the card reader 34.

When a product is sold at the convenience store 8, product sales data is input and a slip is issued at the POS 9 of the management office 5, and the product sales data is sent to the server 6 via a signal line 10. Sent to

On the other hand, the server control means 37 of the server 6
The merchandise sales data for the oil distribution center input from the refueling device 4 is stored in the oil data storage section 38, the merchandise sales data for the merchandise shipping center is stored in the merchandise data storage section 39, and the merchandise sales data for the card center is stored. Is stored in the credit data storage unit 40. Then, the server control means 37 receives the transmission signal from the computer 12 of the oil distribution center, outputs the product sales data stored in the oil data storage unit 38, and receives the transmission signal from the computer 13 of the product shipping center. Product data storage unit 39
And outputs the product sales data stored in the card data storage unit 40 via the communication line 11 in response to a transmission signal from the computer 14 of the card center. In this way, based on the merchandise sales data input to the computers 12, 13, and 14, the shipment of the merchandise and the settlement of the price are performed.

[0016]

As described above, the sales management system for a gas station according to the present invention has a function of controlling product sales from a refueling nozzle, a function of controlling product sales from a sales data input / output device, and a function of product sales. A plurality of refueling devices having a function of transmitting data, a server having a function of classifying the product sales data received from each refueling device, and a function of transmitting the classified product sales data by classification; I have. As described above, the function of controlling the sales of goods from the sales data input / output device is provided in the refueling device, so that various kinds of goods can be sold at the refueling position, and the sales of goods at the gas station can be improved. be able to. And since the product sales data of each refueling device is input to one server,
It is possible to centrally manage product sales data of all products sold at a gas station, and to reduce the cost of building a sales management system. Further, since the server classifies the merchandise sales data and transmits the classified data, the communication with the computer at each center can be performed directly, and the communication cost can be reduced.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a gas station sales management system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a sales management system for a gas station according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Gas station 2 Island 3 Sales data input / output device 4 Fueling device 5 Management station 6 Server 7, 10 Signal line 8 Convenience store 9 POS 11 Communication line 12 Computer at oil distribution center 13 Computer at commodity shipping center 14 Computer at card center 15 Commodity display case 21 Case 22 Piping 23 Pump 24 Flow meter 25 Refueling nozzle 26 Refueling hose 27 Nozzle hook 28 Nozzle switch 29 Refueling control means 30 Indicator 31 Sales control means 32 Display 33 Keyboard 34 Card reader 35 Printer 36 Cash register 37 Server Control means 38 Oil data storage unit 39 Product data storage unit 40 Credit data storage unit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of refueling devices having a function of controlling product sales from a refueling nozzle, a function of controlling product sales from a sales data input / output device, and a function of transmitting product sales data. A sales management system for a gas station, comprising: a server having a function of classifying commodity sales data received from a refueling device and a function of transmitting classified commodity sales data by classification.