KR19980041598A - How to handle discount sales of electronic cash registers by hour - Google Patents

Abstract

end. The technical field to which the invention described in the claims belongs

The present invention relates to an automatic discount sale service in an electronic cash register.

I. The technical problem to be solved by the invention

An electronic cash register provides a discounted sales process that can automatically induce the time variance of the customer.

All. Summary of Solution of the Invention

The discount application time is selectively set according to the user's program registration, and the discount sale is processed only during the set discount application time.

la. Important uses of the invention

Used to disperse guests in time.

Description

How to handle discount sales of electronic cash registers by hour

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic cash register (hereinafter referred to as an ECR), and more particularly to a method of automatically providing a discount sale service.

Normally, the time for the visitor to the store is not constant. As a result, at a given time, a lot of guests flock together, and the manager is tired. Therefore, it is desirable to disperse customers who flock at a certain time to visit during their free time.

Meanwhile, most stores use ECR to manage overall product sales. The ECR has various operation modes such as a registration mode, a check mode, a settlement mode, a program mode, and the like. The registration mode is a mode for registering the items purchased by the customer, the inspection mode is a mode for mid-checking the registered items, the settlement mode is a mode for settlement and settlement of the registered data at the deadline, and the program mode is registered. This mode is to program the data necessary to do this. In addition to the return mode for processing the return of the item sold, as well as a variety of additional features.

In particular, most ECRs have a function of automatically offering discount sales services as one of additional functions. This is a function to automatically process the discount sales at the time of sale by programming the ECR so that the ECR user applies the discount amount or the discount rate. This discount sales process can induce more visitors, but it is not possible to induce the customer's time dispersion by applying a discount system without time division.

As such, the ECR did not have the ability to induce the distribution of guests in time despite having various operation modes or additional functions. Accordingly, even if the company has an ECR that can manage overall sales of merchandise, it has never been used to induce the distribution of customers.

As described above, the conventional ECR could not be utilized to induce the distribution of customers despite having various operation modes or additional functions. there was.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a discount sales processing method in which the ECR can automatically induce the time distribution of the guests.

1 is a block diagram of a conventional electronic cash register,

2 is a process flow diagram in accordance with the present invention.

The present invention for achieving the above object is characterized by selectively setting the discount application time according to the user's program registration, and processing the discount sale only during the set discount application time.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Many specific details are set forth in the following description and in the accompanying drawings, in order to provide a more general understanding of the invention. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. In addition, detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted.

1 shows a block diagram of a conventional ECR to which the present invention is applied. The central processing unit (CPU) 100 controls the overall operation of the ECR according to the key input from the keyboard 102. The keyboard 102 includes a mode switch 116, a numeric keypad 118, and a function keypad 120 to input a key input, a mode selection command, or an operation command by the user to the CPU 100. The mode switch 116 is used to select one of operation modes such as a registration mode, a check mode, a settlement mode, a program, or a stop mode. Here, the function keypad 120 shows only a cash key, for example, among various function keys. The ROM (Read Only Memory) 104 stores an operation program of the CPU 100 and various reference data. The random access memory (RAM) 106 temporarily stores information according to the operation of the CPU 100 generated at each transaction point. The display unit 108 displays information according to data applied from the CPU 100. The printer 110 prints and issues a receipt and a report on the transaction information by the CPU 100. The drawer driving unit 112 is driven by the CPU 100 to open a storage drawer (not shown). The buzzer 114 is driven by the CPU 100 to generate a buzzer sound.

In this ECR, the present invention allows the ECR to automatically perform hourly discount sales processing so that the ECR can automatically induce the variance of the time of the customers. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a process according to an embodiment of the present invention. First, when the user selects the mode switch 116 of the keyboard 102 as the program mode, the CPU 100 enters the program mode in response to steps (200) to (202). Then, the CPU 100 processes the user's ECR program registration through the keyboard 102 in step 204, and checks whether or not the hourly discount sale is set in step 206. At this time, the user sets whether to sell the hourly discount by a key input through the keyboard 102. If the user does not set the hourly discount sale, the CPU 100 performs again from the above step (200). On the other hand, if the user sets the time-based discount sales, the CPU 100 registers the discount application time, the discount criteria, and the applied items according to the input from the user's keyboard 102 in steps 208 to 212, and then the ( Repeat from step 200). At this time, the user selectively sets the time to apply the discount, the discount criteria, and the applied item. The discount criteria are set as discount amount or discount rate. In addition, it is set not to apply a discount sale during a busy time, but to apply a discount sale only during a free time. The customer will then be there at the time the discount sale is applied as usual, resulting in temporal dispersion.

Next, when the user selects the mode switch 116 of the keyboard 102 as the registration mode, the CPU 100 enters the registration mode in response to steps (200) to (202). Then, the CPU 100 checks whether the end key is input while processing the user's registration operation through the keyboard 102 for the item purchased by the customer in steps 214 to 216. The end key is set to, for example, a cash key which is one of the keys on the function keypad 120. When the registration operation is completed and the end key is input, the CPU 100 checks whether or not a discount sale is set for each hour at step 218. If the hourly discount sale is not set, the CPU 100 ends the registration process by applying the undiscounted standard as in the normal case in step 226. On the other hand, if the hourly discount sale is set, the CPU 100 applies the discount criteria to the corresponding item in step 224 if the current time corresponds to the discount application time and the discount item is applied in steps 220 through 222. To complete the sale. If the current time is not a discount application time or a discount application item in steps 220 to 222, the CPU 100 performs step 226. If it is not the program mode or the registration mode in the steps (200) to (202), the CPU 100 ends after processing the mode in the same manner as usual in the step (228).

As described above, by applying a discount sale only during a busy time without applying a discount sale during a busy time, the visitor who comes to the busy time may be distributed to a time when the discount sale is applied. Therefore, by performing the discount sale process only during the discount application time set by the user, it is possible to induce the time distribution of the customer.

Meanwhile, in the above description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. In particular, in the embodiment of the present invention has been illustrated to selectively set the discount criteria and the applied items, may be applied uniformly to all items as needed. Therefore, the scope of the invention should not be defined by the described embodiments, but should be defined by the equivalents of the claims and the claims.

As described above, the present invention has an advantage of automatically inducing the time distribution of the customers by performing the hourly discount sales process.

Claims (5)

In the discount sale processing method of the electronic cash register, And selectively setting a discount application time according to a user's program registration, and processing a discount sale only during the set discount application time. The method of claim 1, wherein when setting the discount application time, discount criteria and applied items are selectively set. The method of claim 2, wherein the discount criteria are set as a discount amount or a discount rate. In the discount sale processing method of the electronic cash register, Selectively setting the discount application time, discount criteria, and applied items according to the user's program registration in the program mode; And processing the discount sales by applying the discount criteria to the applied items during the set discount application time in the selected mode. 5. The discount sales processing method according to claim 4, wherein the discount criterion is set as a discount amount or a discount rate.