JPH1186138A - Commodity sales registering data processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a commodity sales registering data processor which can easily fractionize a business zone into plural areas to identify them and can quickly totalize the number of customers in each of fractionized areas. SOLUTION: In a sales-processing mode, the zip codes (a) stored in the member cards are read by a number reading means. Based on the numbers (a) read, the number of customer visited (b) which are stored in a number-based customer number storage means B are added together cumulatively. Thus, it is possible to quickly store the numbers (b) for each fractionized code (a) based on the member number, simply by reading the member card without retrieving customer files. Thereby, a business zone can be easily fractionized into plural areas for recognition, and the numbers (b) can be totalized quickly for each fractionized area.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a merchandise sales registration data processing device such as an ECR or POS terminal to which a card reader is connected.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to grasp the number of customers visiting each area obtained by subdividing a trade area into a plurality of areas, a trade area analysis using a membership card for fixing customers by a point redemption service or the like has been performed. Have been. For such trade area analysis, for example, a member card in which a member number is stored is read by a card reader connected to a merchandise sales registration data processing device such as a POS terminal, and a customer file provided outside the device or the device itself is provided. Is searched based on the membership number to grasp the number of customers visiting each area and analyze the trade area. In this case, the customer file stores a member name, an area code, a telephone number, an address, the number of points, and the like for each member number.

[0003]

However, an area code for grasping the number of customers visiting each area and conducting a trade area analysis is set for each area obtained by subdividing the trade area into a plurality of areas. In many cases, the information is allocated manually and registered in a customer file.

Further, in order to grasp the number of customers coming to each area, it is necessary to search for an enormous amount of member numbers in the customer file every time sales processing is performed, read out the area code, and count the number of customers coming to the store. Processing may take time.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a merchandise sales registration data processing device capable of easily recognizing a trade area by dividing it into a plurality of areas and accumulating the number of customers visiting each area. is there.

[0006]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
In a merchandise sales registration data processing device that uses a member card during sales processing, a number-of-customers number storage unit that stores the number of customers visiting in association with each zip code, and a number reading unit that reads the zip code stored in the member card Customer number adding means for accumulatively adding the number of visiting customers stored in the corresponding number-of-number-of-customers storage means based on the read postal code.

[0007] Therefore, the postal code stored in the member card is read by the number reading means, and the number of visiting customers stored in the corresponding number-of-customers storage means is determined by the number-of-customers adding means based on the read postal code. Is cumulatively added. As a result, the trade area is divided into a plurality of areas based on the postal code and recognized, and by simply reading the postal code stored in the member card, the number of customers visiting each postal code, which is the subdivided area, is calculated as the member number. Swiftly stores and retains customer files without searching.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the merchandise sales registration data processing apparatus according to the first aspect, a member card uses a magnetic card.

[0009] Therefore, since the magnetic card is used as the member card, the analysis of the trade area can be performed with an inexpensive configuration.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. The present embodiment is an example in which the POS terminal 1 is applied as a merchandise sales registration data processing device.

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view showing the POS terminal 1. The POS terminal 1 is placed on a drawer 2,
The opening and closing of the drawer 3 of the drawer 2 is controlled. The POS terminal 1 is provided with a keyboard 4 in which various keys are gathered, a control key 5 switched by a key (not shown), a receipt issuing port 6 for issuing a receipt R (see FIG. 6), and a journal window 7. Have been. Also, P
A display 8 functioning as a display unit on the operator side is arranged on the upper right side of the OS terminal 1.
, A customer side display unit 9 functioning as a customer side display unit is provided upright.

The POS terminal 1 is connected to a card reader / writer 10 for reading and writing a membership card (not shown) made of a magnetic card. Here, FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a data record A which is card information held by the member card. This data record A stores and retains a 7-digit “zip code” a for subdividing a trade area into a plurality of areas for each “member number” specifying a member, and “member information” including the total number of points and the like. It has a structure.

Further, although not shown in FIG. 1, a bar code scanner 11 for optically reading a product code is connected to the POS terminal 1.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the electrical connection of each part built in the POS terminal 1. This POS terminal 1
Is a microcomputer 12
The microcomputer 12 drives and controls each unit. The microcomputer 12 controls the CPU 13 that centrally controls each unit.
A ROM 15 for storing fixed data such as programs in advance and a RAM 16 for storing variable data are connected via a bus line 14. RAM16
Functions as a work area such as a print buffer and a display buffer and an image memory.

An HDD 17 is connected to a bus line 14 connected to the CPU 13.
Stores a control program, a product master file, a sales file, and the like. Furthermore, this HDD 17 has
Various data files are stored. The contents of this data file are written to a table provided in the RAM 16 when the POS terminal 1 is started. For example, one of the data files is an area-by-area customer visitor data file. This area-by-area visitor number data file is written into the area-by-area visitor number table B provided in the RAM 16 when the POS terminal 1 is activated. Here, FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing the data structure of the area-by-area visitor number table B.
As shown in FIG. 4, the area-by-area visitor number table B has a seven-digit “zip code” a and a “district name” for subdividing the trade area into a plurality of areas. The number of customers “b”, which is the number of customers visiting the store, is associated with “a” and serves as a means for storing the number of customers by number. That is, in this case, the area of the member's address is divided by the "postal code" a based on the new seven-digit postal code assigned to the town area unit which is implemented from February 2, 1998. By using the postal code as it is, accurate classification for each town area becomes possible.

Since the control program is stored in the HDD 17, when the POS terminal 1 is started, the control program stored in the HDD 17 is written into the RAM 16 together with a product master file, a sales file, and the like. Can be driven. The components that are driven and controlled by the microcomputer 12 will be described below.

The keyboard 4 includes a keyboard input circuit 18
A signal corresponding to the key pressed by the operation of the keyboard input circuit 18 is input to the microcomputer 12 through the bus line 14.

The control key 5 is switched by a plurality of types of keys (not shown). In this case, the switchable positions differ depending on the type of the key. The control key 5 is connected to the bus line 14 via a control key input circuit 19, and inputs a signal corresponding to the switching position to the microcomputer 12 by the operation of the control key input circuit 19. The microcomputer 12 sets the operation mode of the POS terminal 1 to a registration mode, a setting mode, a checkout mode, an inspection mode, and the like according to an output signal of the control key 5.

The display 8 is connected to the bus line 14 via the display control circuit 20. When display data from the microcomputer 12 is input to the display control circuit 20, the display 8 is driven by the display control circuit 20 to display predetermined items. I do.

The customer side display unit 9 is connected to the bus line 14 via a customer side display control circuit 21 and
Is input to the customer-side display control circuit 21 to drive the customer-side display control circuit 21 to display predetermined items.

The card reader / writer 10 is connected to the bus line 14 via a reader / writer control circuit 22, reads member card data read by the operation of the reader / writer control circuit 22, transmits the data to the microcomputer 12, and Data is read / writer control circuit 2
2 is driven by the reader / writer control circuit 22 to write data to the membership card.

The bar code scanner 11 is connected to the bus line 14 via a scanner input circuit 23, and transmits the data of the product code read by the operation of the scanner input circuit 23 to the microcomputer 12.

The POS terminal 1 has a built-in line printer 24. The line printer 24 is connected to the bus line 14 via a printer control circuit 25. When print data from the microcomputer 12 is input to the printer control circuit 25, the line printer 24 is driven by the printer control circuit 25 to print predetermined items. . Furthermore, this line printer 2
4 has a built-in cutter unit 26, which is connected to the bus line 14 via a cutter control circuit 27,
The cutter control circuit 27 controls the cutter unit 26 in accordance with the drive signal from the printer 2 to cut the printing paper. As a result, the line printer 24 functions as a receipt printer that prints the necessary items as the receipt R on the printing paper, cuts it, and issues the receipt R from the receipt issuing port 6.

The drive of the drawer 2 provided separately from the POS terminal 1 is also controlled by the microcomputer 12. The drawer 2 is connected to the bus line 14 via a drawer control circuit 28, and the drawer control circuit 28 is driven in response to an open signal from the microcomputer 12 to open the drawer 3 of the drawer 2.

Here, the function of the control program stored in the HDD 16 to be executed by the microcomputer 12 will be described. In the POS terminal 1 after activation, an operation mode is selected according to the switching position of the control key 5. That is, the microcomputer 12 sets the operation mode of the POS terminal 1 to a registration mode, a setting mode, a checkout mode, an inspection mode, or the like according to an output signal generated by a switching position of the control key 5. The processing in the checkout mode, the inspection mode, and the like is not different from the similar processing performed by the conventional POS terminal 1, and therefore the description is omitted, and the processing in the setting mode is described in the area-by-area customer number table B. Since there is no difference from the conventional processing except that the "zip code" a and the "area name" are set in the data file, the description is omitted. Next, the flow of processing in the registration mode will be described below.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart schematically showing the flow of the merchandise sales registration process. First, the member card made of a magnetic card presented by the customer is read by the card reader / writer 10 and transferred to a work area provided in the RAM 16 as shown in FIG.
"Member number" and "Postal code" of data record A shown in
a. Registration of “member information” is executed (step S
1). Next, a product code is acquired by input from the barcode scanner 11 and the like, a product master file is searched based on the acquired product code, and sales data of the product determined by inputting the quantity is sequentially registered in the sales file. Product registration processing is performed (step S2). The process of step S2 is repeated until, for example, the deposit / current total key on the keyboard 4 is pressed in step S3.

When the deposit / current total key is pressed in step S3, the data record A registered in step S1
"Postal code" a is read (step S4). Here, the function of the number reading means is executed.

In the following step S5, based on the read "postal code" a, "postal code" a of the corresponding area-by-area visitor count table B is searched. Then, step S
At 6, the number of customers b provided in association with the postal code a is cumulatively added one by one. These steps S
From 5 to S6, the function of the customer number adding means is executed.

Here, only by reading the postal code stored in the member card, the number of customers visiting the subdivided postal code can be promptly stored without searching the customer file by the member number. Further, since a new seven-digit postal code with a postal code attached to each town area is used, it is easy to subdivide the area of the commercial area.

In step S7, the total sales amount is presented,
The change processing by depositing, the writing of the number of points to the member card, the closing processing such as the receipt printing, and the like, the drawer 2 of the drawer 2 is opened, and the processing ends.

FIG. 6 is a plan view partially showing an example of the receipt R to be issued. The receipt R is issued, for example, as a part of a report issued by switching the control key 5 to a checkout mode or an inspection mode. On the receipt R, the number of store visitors for each area is printed.

Although the present embodiment has been described as an example of application to the POS terminal 1, the embodiment may be applied to ECR.

In this embodiment, the member card is made of a magnetic card. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, an IC card may be used.

[0034]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the postal code stored in the member card is read, and the number of customers stored in association with each postal code is added one by one based on the read postal code. As a result, it is possible to quickly store and hold the number of customers who visit the store for each postal code by simply reading the member card without searching for a customer file based on the member number. As a result, the trade area can be easily divided into a plurality of areas to be recognized, and the number of customers visiting each area can be summed up quickly.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, in the merchandise sales registration data processing apparatus according to the first aspect, a magnetic card is used as a membership card, so that the trade area analysis can be performed at a low cost. .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view showing a POS terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a data record held by a membership card.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an electrical connection of each unit built in the POS terminal.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a data structure of an area-by-area visitor number table;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart schematically showing the flow of a merchandise sales registration process.

FIG. 6 is a plan view partially showing an example of an issued receipt.

[Explanation of symbols]

 B Customer number storage means by number a Postal code Step S4 Number reading means Step S5 to S6 Customer number addition means

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A merchandise sales registration data processing device that uses a member card in sales processing, wherein: a number-of-customer-number storage means for storing the number of customers visiting in association with each zip code; and a zip code stored in the member card A number-reading means for reading the postal code; and a customer number adding means for accumulatively adding one to the number of customers stored in the corresponding number-of-customer-number storage means based on the read postal code. Sales registration data processing device. 2. The merchandise sales registration data processing device according to claim 1, wherein the member card uses a magnetic card.