JPS63307577A - Gift ticket card system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a receiver of a gift ticket card to freely select his/her desired commodities and then to carry out an automatic ordering job for the commodities even in a remote place via a terminal equipment, by using a laser card for the gift ticket card. CONSTITUTION:A laser card is used as a gift ticket card 1 where catalog information 3 on plural commodities that can be purchased within a price of the card are recorded in the form of picture data. An ordering terminal equipment 4 can select the desired commodities out of the information recorded on the card 1 and also can perform an automatic ordering job. Thus the equipment 4 reads the information 3 showing plural commodities recorded on the card 1 in picture and display this information 3 on the picture of a display part 7 for selection of commodities. The selected commodities are automatically ordered to a relevant retail store based on commodity sales agency information recorded on the card 1.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a product buying and selling transaction system using a prepaid card, and particularly to a gift certificate card system suitable for selecting/ordering products.

[Conventional technology]

Generally, when gifting a product, there are two methods: the gift recipient directly selects and purchases the product, and the other method is to gift the product indirectly using a prepaid card, such as a beer ticket or book ticket.

However, in either method, the gift recipient was responsible for selecting the product, and the receiver did not have the freedom to choose the product. Therefore, it may not suit the hobbies or tastes of the receiver, and the sender's feelings may not be fully conveyed to the receiver. Another disadvantage of conventional prepaid cards is that if you want to receive a product, you have to go to a store that accepts prepaid cards.

This kind of related technology includes, for example, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 60-1
No. 73669 is available, but this is a product reservation system that selects and reserves one product from a plurality of products, and does not automatically select or order products using a prepaid card.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

In the conventional technology described above, the product is selected by the giver, and the recipient cannot select based on the recipient's hobbies and preferences, so there is a problem in that the recipient has to take away unnecessary products.

Another disadvantage is that in order to exchange a prepaid card for a product, one must go to a store where the prepaid card can be exchanged.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and to enable the receiver to freely select the desired product using a prepaid card, and to enable the recipient to freely select the desired product using a prepaid card, and to use a terminal device even from a location away from the product sales floor. For example, it is an object of the present invention to provide a gift certificate card system that automatically processes product orders.

[Means for solving problems]

The above purpose is to turn the gift certificate into a laser card.

A gift certificate card that records catalog information for multiple products that can be purchased at the selling price of the gift certificate as image data, and an ordering terminal device that allows you to select a desired product from the information on this gift certificate card and automatically processes one order. By providing
achieved.

[Operation] When the ordering terminal device reads the product catalog information that is an image of multiple products recorded on the gift certificate card, it displays this product catalog information on the screen and selects one selection that allows the product to be selected. When this is done, an order is automatically placed from the store that handles the selected product based on the product vendor information recorded on the gift certificate card.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows a gift certificate card using a laser card, which is an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Figure 2, the gift certificate card 1 includes vendor information 2 indicating the vendor of the product, product codes of multiple products that can be sold for the sales price of the gift certificate card 1, and a product catalog containing images of the products. Information 3 is recorded.

FIG. 1 shows an example of the configuration of a gift certificate card system which is an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, an embodiment will be described in detail with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

First, insert the gift certificate card 1 into the card reading section 6 of the terminal device 4 (300), and read the information on the gift certificate card 1 (300).
302). The store code of the read vendor information 2 is checked, and if the store code is registered in advance, it is determined that the store is eligible for handling (304).

Under the control of the control section 8, the code number of the product recorded on the gift certificate card 1 and the product catalog information 3, which is an image of the product, are displayed on the display section 7 (306). Select the desired product from the displayed products and input the code number of the product from the operation unit 5 (308). Information on the selected product is transmitted from the host computer interface unit 9 to the host via the communication line 11 under the control of the control unit 8. computer 1
2 (310). The host computer 12 searches the product database 13 based on the sent product information (312), and checks whether the corresponding product is in stock (314).
, if there is stock, update the product database 13 316
), sends product inventory information to the host computer interface unit 9 of the terminal device 4 through the communication line 11 (31
8).

The terminal device 4 uses the sent product inventory information to control the control unit 8.
Under the control of , the display section 7 displays that the selected product is redeemable (320).

At the same time, a product exchange slip is output from the printer unit 10 (322). Exchange of products is performed at the nearest product exchange office using the product exchange slip. If the desired product is out of stock (314), the host computer 12 sends product out-of-stock information to the host computer interface section 9 of the terminal device 4 via the communication line 11 (324). In the terminal device 4, based on the sent product out-of-stock information, under the control of the control unit 8, since the selected product cannot be exchanged, a message is displayed on the display unit 7 asking the user to select another product (326). Next, the product catalog information 3 is displayed on the display section 7 again (306), and the desired product can be selected and exchanged in the same manner as described above.

If the desired product is out of stock, the customer will place an order for the missing product when the product is out of stock, record information on the expected arrival date of the product in the product database 13, and determine how many days later the desired product can be exchanged. In addition to the method of selecting a different part, there is also a method of displaying the item on the display unit 7 and exchanging the item after the date the desired item is received, if the item can be exchanged at a later date.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, the recipient of the gift can freely select the product according to his/her hobbies and preferences while looking at the image of the product, so there is an effect similar to that of going directly to the sales floor and selecting the product. Even from a remote location, if you have a terminal device, you can automatically process orders for products, so there is no need to go to the store to exchange products.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is a configuration diagram of a gift certificate card system according to an embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a gift certificate card using a laser card according to an embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 3 is an operation of the gift certificate card system. 3 is a flowchart showing an example. 1...Gift certificate card, 2...Seller information, 3...
Product catalog information, 4... Terminal device, 5... Operating unit, 6... Card reading unit, 7... Display unit, 8... Control unit, 9... Host computer interface unit,
10... Printer section, 11... Communication line, 12...
-Host computer, 13...product database. Also country

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a product purchase and sale transaction system using a prepaid card, the prepaid card has a first recording area in which product codes and image data of the products related to a plurality of products that can be purchased are recorded, and a vendor of the products. A second recording area is provided in which the prepaid card is recorded, and the product recorded on the prepaid card is ordered from a store handling the product based on the information recorded in the second recording area. Gift certificate card system.