JPH1153650A - Pos terminal system having its receipt handled electronically - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To send receipt information as an electronic mail, to easily automate inputting to a household account book software and to easily add an additional value to a receipt. SOLUTION: At a point of sales information management(POS) terminal, a mail address or a registration ID from a customer is read by a bar code reader 100 and it is transmitted to a merchandise management center. At this time, merchandise name, its unit price, and its quantity, and the subtotal, the excise tax and the total, etc., at the time of a payment processing, are transmitted to the merchandise management center. Also, at the time of a money receiving processing from the customer, received money and a change are transmitted to the merchandise management center. In the merchandise management center, additional information is added to the receipt information stored until then in the money receiving processing and it is converted to the electronic mail by pressing a receipt electronic mail making key 119 of the POS terminal for transmission to a mail host. The customer receives the receipt electronic mail at his/her convenient time, which is automatically stored in the household account book software of the customer according to a date, time and classification in the receipt electronic mail.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a POS for a retail store or the like.
(Point Of Sale
e); a system having a function of converting customer receipt information into electronic mail in a point-of-sale information management system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this kind of receipt information management system is used by directly communicating with a customer or by saving it in a file as an external recording medium, as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 7-175858. .

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a conventional purchased item information management system. In this conventional example, the POS terminal device 300 includes a POS terminal 310 and a first communication unit 320, and the customer terminal device 340 includes a second communication unit 35.
0, input means 390, calculation means 360, display means 380, and storage means 370.
The data is directly transferred between the first communication unit 320 of the OS terminal device 300 and the second communication unit 350 of the customer terminal device.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a conventional household account book creating system. In this conventional example, the receipt information is represented by A
From the POS terminal 3 of the store 1 through the communication device 4, the customer 1
The data is directly transmitted to one terminal 12 via a telephone line by facsimile, personal computer communication, mail, or the like, or is directly transmitted using the external recording medium 8.

[0005]

In the above-mentioned conventional receipt information transfer system, electronic mail is not widely used.
This system is also used when there are few mail centers that can handle electronic mail. Therefore, since the data transfer is performed directly with the customer or directly via the recording medium, a significant hardware change of the POS terminal is required.

[0006] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to automate the input to a household account book by converting a receipt into an electronic mail in order to solve the above-mentioned problem.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a system that can easily add value to a receipt.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, a receipt POS terminal system for receiving e-mails according to the present invention communicates with a POS terminal which manages information at the point of sale at a retail store or the like, and a POS terminal. In a POS terminal system provided with a merchandise management center, the POS terminal inputs a mail address or registration ID of the customer, communicates with the merchandise management center, and transmits the mail address or registration ID of the customer and the receipt information. Means for transmitting to the merchandise management center, wherein the merchandise management center registers / deletes / changes a mail address or registration ID; means for converting receipt information received from the POS terminal into e-mail; Means for adding value-added information to the converted receipt information. To.

Preferably, the POS terminal includes a bar code reader as a means for inputting.

[0010] Further, the merchandise management center executes the registration I of the customer.
It is preferable to provide a means for converting D to a mail address.

It is preferable that the merchandise management center further includes means for adding a journal code corresponding to the receipt information and means for adding a journal code of household account book software corresponding to the journal code.

[0012] It is preferable that the household account book software has a means for automatically storing each corresponding item by a journal code of the receipt information converted into an electronic mail.

Further, the receipt information includes retail store information,
It is preferable to include product information and calculation information.

It is preferable that the retail store information includes a store name, a branch name, and a store number.

It is preferable that the product information includes a product name, a unit price, and a quantity.

Further, the calculation information preferably includes a subtotal, a consumption tax, and a total.

The receipt e-mail POS terminal system of the present invention has a function for inputting an e-mail address or a registration ID of a customer. It also has a function of editing receipt information into an e-mail and transmitting it. Furthermore, it has a function of adding a journal code in order to eliminate the journal entry work of the customer.

Therefore, according to the present invention, the receipt electronic mail P
The OS terminal system can omit the input to the household account book software by converting the POS terminal device installed in the retail store and the receipt information from the merchandise management center into e-mail.

That is, it is not necessary to change the hardware of the conventional POS terminal significantly, and it is possible to respond by upgrading the software. Therefore, by directly reading the customer's e-mail address, it can be used nationwide uniformly. In addition, this can be realized regardless of the type of retail store and the size of the large-scale store. Customers can process household accounts whenever they like.

[0020]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described.
This will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a receipt electronic mail P according to the present invention.
It is a block diagram showing composition of an example of an OS terminal system. The terminal includes a central processing unit CPU 120, a bar code reader 100 capable of reading alphabet bar codes, an input key 110, a memory 150, and a product management communication control unit 130 for controlling communication between product management centers.
And a confirmation sound generation unit 140. Input key 110
Has a number key 111, a settlement key 118, and a receipt e-mail key 119. To explain each function, a customer's e-mail address or registration I
The receipt electronic mail key 119 is used to read D and read the customer's mail address or registration ID. In addition, a merchandise management center communication control unit 130 for controlling communication with the merchandise management center, and a confirmation sound generation unit 140 for notifying a store clerk that the mail address or the registration ID has been correctly recognized by the merchandise management center are arranged.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a receipt electronic mail P according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an OS terminal system on a product management center side. The merchandise management center converts the receipt e-mail into a receipt e-mail P which controls communication between the POS terminals.
An OS terminal communication control unit 200, an Internet communication control unit 220 for controlling communication with a mail host on the Internet of the customer, a central processing unit CPU 210, and a memory 230 are provided. In the merchandise management center, in particular, a receipt electronic mailing POS terminal communication control unit 200 for controlling communication with a receipt electronic mailing POS terminal, an Internet communication control unit 22 for controlling customer mails
0 is placed. Customers also use personal computers that can use email and household account software.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a receipt electronic mail P according to the present invention.
5 is a flowchart illustrating a processing operation of the embodiment of the OS terminal system. First, the customer presents a card on which a bar code of an e-mail address is described or a registered ID bar code card that has obtained a registration ID in which the e-mail address has been registered in the merchandise management center (S1), and the clerk reads the card from a bar code reader. The receipt e-mail conversion key is pressed down so that it can be performed (S2). Next, the mail address or the registered ID is read from the barcode reader (S3) and stored in the memory 150. Next, a communication link with the product management center is established (S4). And the store name, cash register No,
The information such as the date and time is edited as a start signal and transmitted to the product management center (S5). Next, the previously read mail address or registration ID is read from the memory, edited as a mail address signal, and transmitted to the product management center (S6). Thereafter, a response signal is received from the merchandise management center, and it is checked whether the mail address or the registered ID is equal to the transmitted content. If OK, a confirmation sound is output (S
7). Next, the bar code of the product is read, the product code is stored in the memory, the product name and the price are converted into a product signal, the product code, the product name, the price, etc. are edited into a product signal, and the product management center sends the product signal. It transmits (S8). Next, the number key 11
It is determined whether the key has been pressed 1 (S9). If the number key 111 has been pressed, the number is edited into a number signal and transmitted to the product management center (S10). If the number key is not pressed, S10 is not performed. In this way, until all products are read, S
8 to S10 are repeated. Next, it is determined whether the settlement key 118 in FIG. 1 has been pressed (S11). If the settlement key 118 has been pressed, the subtotal, consumption tax, and total are edited into a settlement signal and transmitted to the product management center ( S12). Next, payment is input, payment and change are edited into an end signal, and transmitted to the product management center (S13). After the transmission is completed, the link with the product management center is released (S14). S1 described above
If the settlement key is not depressed in step 1, the process returns to step S8 to repeat the same operation.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the processing operation in the merchandise management center. The operation of the product management center will be described with reference to this flow. The merchandise management center establishes a link from the receipt e-mail POS terminal and clears the memory (S20). Next, the store name, cash register No., date and time are received by the start signal and stored in the memory (S21). Next, a mail address or a registration ID is received by the mail address signal and stored in the memory (S22). Next, the mail address or the registration ID is edited into a response signal from the memory, and the receipt electronic mail is created.
The message is transmitted to the OS terminal (S23). Next, it is determined whether the received mail address signal is a mail address or a registration ID (S
24) If it is a registration ID, the registration ID is converted into a mail address (S25) and stored in a memory (S2).
6). Next, it is determined whether the signal is a settlement signal (S27). If the signal is other than the settlement signal, it is next determined whether the signal is a commodity signal (S28).
Next, the journal code for household account book software corresponding to the product code is stored in the memory (S30). In S28, if it is other than the product signal, the number signal is confirmed and the number is stored in the memory (S31). In this way, (S27) to (S31) are repeated until the settlement signal is received. Next, when the settlement signal is received, the subtotal, the consumption tax, and the total are stored in the memory (S32). Next, when the end signal is received, the deposit and the change are stored in the memory (S33).
Next, the added value information is stored in the memory (S34). Next, the receipt information stored in the memory is converted into an e-mail (S35). Next, the receipt e-mail is transmitted to the designated e-mail address of the customer (S36), and the link between the receipt e-mail conversion POS terminals is released (S37).

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of use by a customer. The customer activates WWW (S40) and executes mail retrieval (S41). Next, by receiving the receipt electronic mail (S42), the plug-in household account book software is activated, and the receipt information is passed to the household account book software (S43). The date and time and the journal data are automatically stored in the corresponding item (S44). Finally, the WWW is closed (S45).

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a receipt electronic mail P according to the present invention.
FIG. 9 is a sequence diagram showing an operation of a receipt electronic mailing POS terminal system using an OS terminal. First, as an initial state, the receipt e-mail POS terminal of FIG.
A link between the product management centers in FIG. 2 is established (S50),
Next, a start signal is transmitted (S51), a mail address signal is transmitted (S52), a response signal is received (S53), a product signal is transmitted (S54), and a number signal is transmitted (S55). ), This is repeated for all products. Next, a settlement signal is transmitted (S56), and an end signal is transmitted (S5).
7). Upon receiving the end signal, the merchandise management center converts the received receipt information into an e-mail and sends it to the designated mail host of the customer (S59). On a terminal,
The link between the receipt electronic mail POS terminals is released (S58). Next, the customer activates the WWW on the personal computer, retrieves the e-mail (S60), receives the receipt e-mail (S61), activates the plug-in household accounting software, and automatically uses the date and time and the journal code. Is stored in the corresponding item.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of the receipt electronic mail in S59 of FIG. First, there are columns for customer's mail address or registration ID and retail store information (store name, etc.), and there are columns for receipt information (product name, unit price or unit price, quantity), and subtotal, consumption tax, and total thereof. The receipt e-mail is transmitted to the merchandise management center. In addition, a bar for special sale information is provided as value-added information.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention, the receipt information is sent as an e-mail, so that the input to the household account book software can be easily automated.

In addition, compared to advertising and promotion activities for unspecified customers, first, it can be regarded as a highly accurate advertising medium for customers who can easily add a large amount of value-added information. This has the effect of being able to be added to

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a receipt electronic mail POS terminal according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a merchandise management center.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of a receipt electronic mailing POS terminal.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation on the merchandise management center side.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the customer's personal computer.

FIG. 6 is a sequence diagram showing the operation of the receipt electronic mailing POS terminal system.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a receipt email.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a conventional information management system.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing the entire configuration of a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 store 2 information processing device 3 POS terminal 4 communication device 5 output terminal device 8 external storage device 11 customer 12 terminal 100 barcode reader 110 input key 111 number key 118 settlement account key 119 receipt e-mail key 120 CPU 130 commodity control center communication control Unit 140 confirmation sound generation unit 150 memory 200 receipt e-mail POS terminal communication control unit 210 CPU 220 internet communication control unit 230 memory 300 purchase information management system 310 POS terminal 320 first communication means 340 customer terminal means 350 second Communication means 360 Arithmetic means 370 Storage means 380 Display means 390 Input means S1 to S14 Processing steps of POS terminal for receiving e-mail S20 to S37 Processing steps of merchandise management center S40 to S45 Processing step of the personal computer

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A POS terminal system comprising a POS terminal for managing information at the point of sale at a retail store or the like, and a merchandise management center for communicating with the POS terminal, wherein the POS terminal has a customer mail address or a registered mail address. Means for inputting an ID, means for communicating with the product management center, means for transmitting the customer's mail address or registration ID and receipt information to the product management center, wherein the product management center Means for registering / deleting / changing an address or registration ID; means for converting the receipt information received from the POS terminal into e-mail; means for adding value-added information to the receipt information converted into e-mail. And a receipt e-mail POS terminal, wherein the receipt information is e-mailed. System. 2. The POS terminal system according to claim 1, wherein said POS terminal includes a bar code reader as said input means. 3. The product management center according to claim 1, wherein
3. The POS terminal system according to claim 1, further comprising means for converting D into a mail address. 4. The merchandise management center includes means for adding a journal code corresponding to the receipt information, and means for adding a journal code of household account book software corresponding to the journal code. 4. A POS terminal for converting a receipt electronic mail into a receipt electronic mail according to claim 1. 5. The receipt electronic mail according to claim 4, wherein said household account book software has means for automatically storing each corresponding item by a journal code of the receipt information converted into an electronic mail. POS terminal system. 6. The receipt information according to claim 1, wherein said receipt information includes retail shop information, product information, and calculation information.
6. The POS terminal system according to claim 5, wherein the POS terminal is a receipt electronic mail. 7. The POS terminal system according to claim 6, wherein said retail store information includes a store name, a branch name, and a store number. 8. The POS terminal system according to claim 6, wherein the product information includes a product name, a unit price, and a quantity. 9. The POS terminal system according to claim 6, wherein said calculation information includes a subtotal, a consumption tax, and a total.