KR20010064679A - System and method for electronic commerce relating payment with salary - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A system and a method for an electronic commerce interlocking price for a product with a salary is provided to enable an office worker to purchase a product through a reliable electronic commerce site by enabling the price for the product from being deducted from the salary of the office worker, and by enabling the office worker to send the money to the electronic commerce site, thereby enabling the office worker to pay the price for the product. CONSTITUTION: An electronic commerce system includes a client computer(100-n), a customer company server(300), an electronic commerce server(400), a payment network and purchaser system(500). The client computer(100-n) displays information transmitted from the electronic commerce server(400), and includes a web browser(102) which forms a communication line, a communication agent(104) which connects the web browser(102) with an external network. The customer company server(300) includes a communication agent(310), a member management unit(312), a salary processing unit(314). In addition, the customer company server(300) includes a staff database(320), a salary database(322), a personnel information database(324) and a purchasing price information database(326). The purchasing price information database(326) includes information on a product purchasing of an office worker. A payment database(424) receives a purchasing price deducted from a salary, and stores data on the purchasing price.

Description

System and method for electronic commerce relating payment with salary}

The present invention relates to an electronic commerce linking a product price and a salary, and more particularly, an electronic commerce system and a method for processing a product purchase price when the money is deducted from a salary and remitted to an e-commerce site. It is about.

E-commerce using the Internet is becoming more and more common, but existing e-commerce sites still have reliability problems. In addition, consumer-oriented purchasing sites and cyber services for office workers needed to be improved. Apart from this, most companies invest a lot of money for in-house welfare, but these investments occur separately, resulting in problems of overlapping investment and inefficiency, and it is difficult for a small company to make a separate investment for in-house welfare. There was an issue that was.

Thus, by realizing the company's in-house welfare in connection with the existing e-commerce site, the company provides the in-house welfare to employees at low cost, the employees purchase goods through the reliable e-commerce site, and the e-commerce site is stable. There was a need for a profit base.

The present invention is to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic commerce system and method for linking the price of goods with the salary of office workers.

1 is a block diagram of an electronic commerce system according to the present invention

2 is a flowchart of an electronic commerce method according to the present invention.

According to the present invention for realizing the above object, in an electronic commerce system in which an employee of a customer company can purchase a product using a network, information about the employee's product purchase, that is, the employee who purchased the product and the type of the purchased product , Data about payments, payment methods, etc., in particular, a purchase information database containing purchase price information, payout data that is paid and remitted from customer company servers, and payouts that are paid to the seller, among payouts. It includes a payment database that includes, and when an employee of the customer company accesses this e-commerce site through a client computer, the employee authenticates that he is an employee of the customer company and enables the purchase of goods on the e-commerce site. Purchase price information of goods purchased by Sent to the company's servers, including e-commerce systems linked to remittances received treatment for a purchase price deducted from the employee's salary the commodity price includes an e-commerce server that handles billing and payroll.

In addition, the electronic commerce method according to the present invention, in the e-commerce method in which the employee of the customer company can purchase a product using a network, the step of authenticating that the employee of the customer company by determining whether the employee of the customer company to the potential buyer who wants to purchase the product In addition, when the certified employee decides to purchase a product, selecting a payment method between using basic employee information payment and direct input information payment, and when the payment method using basic employee information is selected in the previous step, Storing the purchase information including the information in a database, transmitting the purchase information to the customer company server, remitting the purchase price deducted from the employee's salary from the transferred purchase price information, and paying the purchase price; E-commerce room to link the price of goods to include Provide the law.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings that can be easily implemented by those skilled in the art.

1 is a block diagram of an electronic commerce system according to the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 1, an e-commerce system according to the present invention includes a client computer 100-n, a customer company server 300, an e-commerce server 400, a payment network and a merchant system 500. The system establishes a connection path through a network 200 including the Internet.

The client computer 100-n displays information received from an e-commerce server such as a web page in a predetermined form, and connects and controls the web browser 102 to form a communication line with the outside, and the web browser and the external network. Communication agent 104. The purchaser runs the client computer, in particular a web browser, to access the e-commerce server through the network. The purchaser transmits and receives the desired information by using the client computer, such as inputting and transmitting data such as a product and a delivery time to be purchased based on the data transmitted from the electronic commerce server.

On the other hand, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains will readily understand that the client computer is a concept including various laptops, laptops, palmtops, wired and wireless terminals, etc. in addition to the general desktop. It will also be appreciated that the networks connecting the systems may include various wired and wireless communications in addition to the Internet.

The customer company server 300 includes a communication agent 310, member management unit 312, payroll processing unit 314, employee database 320, payroll database 322, personnel information database 324, purchase price information Database 326.

Since the communication agent 310 has a role similar to that of the client computer, a description thereof will be omitted. The member management unit 312 controls information on employees who will use the e-commerce site according to the present invention among the employees of the company using the e-commerce site according to the present invention, and provides information on newly hired employees or employees who are leaving the company. Store or delete information in the database, and update the database with new content. The payroll processing unit 314 processes data related to the salary of employees and various deductions, and in particular, reflects the purchase price information transmitted from the e-commerce server to the pay, and transmits the purchase price deducted from the pay to the e-commerce server. give.

The employee database 320 includes information about employees who can purchase a product through the e-commerce server and allow the product price to be automatically deducted from the salary. The employee may be for an entire company, or for some employees. Information about employees includes data such as name, age, gender, employee number, social security number and address, and may include personal information and family information. The employee database also includes a salary database, a personnel information database, and a purchase price information database for each employee.

The salary database 322 includes data on salaries for each employee, severance pay, installment conditions for e-commerce within the severance pay range, and the like. The human resources information database 324 includes data on whether the employee, the position, leaving the company. The purchase price information database 326 stores the purchase price information received from the electronic commerce server before the pay job.

The e-commerce server 400 includes a communication agent 410, employee authentication unit 412, shopping mall management unit 414, payment unit 416, employee information database 420, purchase information database 422, Commodity database 424, payment database 426, merchant database 428.

Since the communication agent 410 has a role similar to that of the client computer, a description thereof will be omitted. The employee authentication unit 412 provides a process for logging in when an employee of the customer company accesses the electronic commerce site and authenticates the employee. The employee authentication unit transmits a web page for logging in to a client computer accessing an e-commerce site, and the web page is provided with a template for entering an employee's company number and password. In addition, a separate user registration number may be entered. The data transmitted through the web page for login can be compared with the information in the database and searched for employee authentication. When the employee is authenticated, a product can be purchased. In addition, the login process may be performed after the purchase of the product and before the payment for the product.

The shopping mall manager 414 handles and processes a business necessary for electronic commerce such as product management, price management, and seller management. It sends various web pages to select the required products to the buyers who are certified as employees, provides the necessary information about the products selected by the buyers, and if the buyer wants to purchase the products, the data is sent to the payment department for payment processing. Send it. The payment unit 416 provides a possible payment method as the buyer pays for the product to be purchased, receives the necessary information, and pays for the product according to the received information. In particular, when an employee of a customer company purchases a product, the corresponding purchase information is stored in a purchase information database, and the purchase price and money paid to the product supplier after the salary is deducted from the company server are stored in the payment database.

The employee information database 420 stores data about employees of companies in partnership with this site. The employee information database may receive and register an employee database, a personnel database, and a salary database of a client company in a batch, and may store only necessary data provided by the client company. In addition, general buyers may be registered as members of an e-commerce site, receive necessary data, and store the data in the employee information database. In particular, data such as company, employee number, password, etc. required for employee authentication is included.

The merchandise database 422 stores data on merchandise sold on an e-commerce site, namely, product name, product graphic information, price, manufacturing company, and the like. The seller database 428 stores data on a supply source, a cost, etc. that supplied the product. The purchase information database 426 stores information about the employee's purchase of goods. It includes data about the employee who purchased the product, the type of the purchased product, the price, the payment method, and the like, and in particular, the purchase price information. The purchase price information is later provided to the payroll deduction process by transmitting to the customer company server on the designated date before the pay job of the purchasing customer company. The payment database 424 receives and stores data on the purchase price, which is paid and deducted from the company server. In addition, the amount to be paid to the seller of the amount is transmitted and stores data about it.

The payment network and the seller server 500 includes a system required for payment, and a separate module for security or the necessity to perform socket communication is not necessarily limited thereto. It is possible to build a firewall for each system (Fire Wall) for security, and each system can be built and operated separately by a web server and a web application server as necessary, the general knowledge of the technical field to which the present invention belongs If you have it, you can easily understand it. In addition, each functional unit of the customer company server and the e-commerce server may be independently implemented as a separate server.

2 is a flowchart of an electronic commerce method according to the present invention.

As shown in Fig. 2, first, a customer company of an e-commerce site according to the present invention transmits necessary data such as a personnel and salary information database built in a company server to an e-commerce server. Store it in the employee information database. (S100, S102) The customer company may hand over all the databases in the company server, but may provide only data necessary for electronic commerce and payment for the purchase in consideration of security, confidentiality, and the like. In addition, by granting only the right to access the necessary database without transmitting the database to the e-commerce server, the e-commerce system can access the salary and personnel database as needed to retrieve and call the data. The invention includes various methods for sharing a database.

Employees of the customer company use a client computer to access an e-commerce site with a communication path through the network. At this time, a web page including basic purchase information is provided, and if an employee wants to purchase a product, an employee authentication web page is provided. (S112) Employees input data necessary for employee authentication such as company, employee number, and password into the employee authentication web page output through the web browser of the client computer and transmit it to the e-commerce server. In operation S114, the electronic commerce server that receives the data necessary for employee authentication searches the employee information database and performs an employee authentication process for the employee. (S116) If the employee authentication process is not possible, the corresponding information is notified to the client computer, and if the employee is authenticated, a web page for product purchase is provided. If the employee's visit to this site is the first visit of the month, the employee information database is searched to check for leave. (S118) If the employee is dismissed, the client computer transmits the necessary message according to the preset criteria. (S120) For example, if the employee who has left the office is not allowed to use the electronic commerce site, a message such as a product cannot be purchased or an electronic commerce site cannot be used is transmitted to the customer through the client computer. Alternatively, the employee who left the company may not be able to purchase the product using the basic employee information of the customer company, and may notify that only the product can be purchased using the direct input information of the employee. If the employee can purchase a normal product, various web pages for purchasing the product are provided according to the employee's input key and mouse operation. (S122)

After deciding which product to buy, you will be presented with a web page from which you can choose a payment method. (S124) In the payment method, first, the purchase price is deducted from the salary using the basic employee information database of the customer company; and second, the personal information and payment information of the buyer are directly inputted as in the general e-commerce site. There is a method of paying the purchase price based on the data. The second method needs to be provided for the case where the employee of the customer company wants to change the delivery address of the goods or the temporary change of the payment method. Among the two payment methods, an appropriate web page is provided according to the payment method desired by the buyer, and necessary data is input. (S126, S128, S130) Among the above payment methods, in particular, in the case of payment by basic employee information, it is determined whether the purchase price of the current month is within the salary of the employee who is the buyer. (S132) If the monthly purchase price of the product exceeds the monthly salary, it is notified through the client computer. (S134) The range of purchase price may be determined by monthly salary, but is not necessarily limited thereto, and may be variously set within a range of twice the monthly salary. Employees of the customer company may be presented with various installment purchase conditions. In order to use the installment, the criteria such as the purchase of a certain amount or more may be suggested, and the installment condition may be presented by the electronic commerce site as the installment amount within the limit of employee retirement allowance of the client company. (S136)

When the purchase and settlement process of the product is completed through the above process, the related information is stored in the purchase information database, and the related information includes the purchase price, installment condition, shipping address, etc. according to the purchaser's personal information, purchased product, price and quantity of the purchased product. This includes. (S138) Information necessary for salary work such as personal information and purchase price information of the buyer among the information stored in the purchase information database is transmitted from the e-commerce server to the customer company server on the date specified by the customer company. (S140) The customer company server uses the transmitted data to reflect the purchase price for each employee in the salary, and deducts the related data, and the related data is stored in a database. The purchase price deducted from the salary is remitted to the e-commerce server and received and processed, and the e-commerce server receiving the remittance of the purchase price pays it. (S144) The selling price of the purchase price is transferred to the seller system and received. (S146) Through the above process, an electronic commerce in which salary and purchase price are linked to each other may be implemented.

On the other hand, the product is not meant to include physical and materialized goods, but is not limited to this, any object that can be traded through general electronic commerce can be understood as a concept including a variety of services and content. Accordingly, a system for booking a cultural performance for corporate welfare may also use the concept according to the present invention, and accordingly, the present invention may include a system and a method in which a performance ticket is purchased through the Internet, and the price thereof is deducted from a salary. Can be.

The drawings and detailed description of the invention are merely exemplary of the invention, which are used for the purpose of illustrating the invention only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims or claims. Therefore, those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible from this. Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

An electronic commerce system and method for linking a commodity price with a salary according to the present invention has the following effects.

First, client companies can provide their employees with in-house welfare at a lower cost. In particular, as a small- and medium-sized company, in-house welfare through a separate in-house organization or outsourcing is often a great burden or practically impossible, but when using an e-commerce site linked to salary and product purchase price according to the present invention, The company will be able to realize the concept of in-house welfare through outsourcing with a certain contractual relationship and minor system changes.

Second, the reliability problems of existing small and medium e-commerce sites can be largely solved through a contractual relationship with a customer company. Since the e-commerce site according to the system and method of the present invention delivers the purchased product once the payment for the purchased product is resolved in relation to the company, the buyer, the employee, can trust the e-commerce site and purchase the product. Because there is.

Third, as the purchase price of the product has been solved in relation to the customer company as an e-commerce site, it is possible to focus on supplying more diverse and higher quality products than the payment method, and share the database of employees who are buyers with the company. More targeted marketing is possible. This provides a stable and solid revenue base.

Claims (13)

In an e-commerce system where employees of your company can purchase goods over the network, A purchase information database including information on the product purchase of the employee, that is, data about the employee who purchased the product, the type of the purchased product, the price, the payment method, and the like, in particular, the purchase price information; A payment database including data on purchase price data payroll deducted and remitted from the client company server and sales price paid to a seller among the purchase price. Including; When an employee of the customer company accesses the e-commerce site through a client computer, the employee authenticates that the employee is an employee of the customer company and enables the customer to purchase the product on the e-commerce site, and The e-commerce server transmits the purchase price information to the server of the customer company, and receives the payment of the purchase price deducted from the salary of the employee. E-commerce system for linking the product payments with pay. In claim 1, Employee information database including employee data, personnel data and payroll data of the customer company The e-commerce system for linking the payment of goods further comprising a salary. In claim 1, The customer company server includes an employee information database including employee data, personnel data and salary data of the customer company; The e-commerce server is connected to the employee information database of the customer company server electronic commerce system for linking the price of goods that can retrieve the employee data, personnel data and salary data with the salary. In an e-commerce way where employees at your company can purchase goods over the network, A first step of determining whether an employee of a customer company is an employee for a potential buyer who wants to purchase a product; A second step of selecting a payment method from payment of using basic employee information and payment of direct input information as the employee who has passed the authentication step decides to purchase a product; A third step of storing purchase information including purchase price information in a database and transmitting the purchase information to a customer company server when a payment method using basic employee information is selected in the second step; A fourth step of receiving a payment for the purchase price deducted from the salary of the employee from the transmitted purchase price information and payment for the purchase price E-commerce method of linking the product payments with pay. In claim 4, The first step, In response to the purchaser requesting employee authentication, step 1-1 of transmitting the employee authentication web page to the client computer; Step 1-2 of receiving data required for employee authentication, including company, company number, and password from the buyer, and searching the received data and data in the employee information database to determine whether to authenticate the employee The e-commerce method of linking the product price with a salary further comprising. In claim 4, The first step, If the authorized employee tries to purchase a product for the first time in the corresponding month, searching for whether the employee leaves the company from a database; Step 1-4, if the employee leaves the company, providing a message according to a predetermined rule to the employee through a client computer; The e-commerce method of linking the product price with a salary further comprising. In claim 4, The second step, A step 2-1 of transmitting a web page for selecting a payment method to a client computer as the employee purchases a product; Step 2-2 of receiving information on a payment method selected from the payment using the basic employee information and the payment using the direct input information from the employee; The e-commerce method of linking the product price with a salary further comprising. In claim 4, The second step, In case the employee selects payment by input information directly, step 2-3 of transmitting a web page to receive necessary data and inputting data therethrough The e-commerce method of linking the product price with a salary further comprising. In claim 4, The third step, Step 3-1 of determining whether the employee's monthly purchase price of the employee exceeds the employee's monthly salary; In the step 3-1, if the price of goods exceeds the monthly salary Step 3-2 to transmit a predetermined message according to the salary exceeded to the client computer to provide to the employee The e-commerce method of linking the product price with a salary further comprising. In claim 4, The third step, Step 3-3, in which the payment for the goods by the installment can be selected according to the installment condition set within the range of the employee's severance pay The e-commerce method of linking the product price with a salary further comprising. In claim 4, The third step, Step 3-4 of storing the purchase information according to the product purchase of the employee in a database; Step 3-5 of transmitting the purchase information including the purchase price information to the customer company server on the date designated by the customer company The e-commerce method of linking the product price with a salary further comprising. In claim 4, The fourth step, Step 4-1 of deducting a product purchase price from a salary from purchase information including the purchase price information of the employee during a salary operation of the employee; Step 4-2 of receiving the transfer of the purchase price deducted from the salary and processing the purchase price The e-commerce method of linking the product price with a salary further comprising. In claim 4, The fourth step, Step 4-3 of remitting the payout to the seller system among the transferred payouts The e-commerce method of linking the product price with a salary further comprising.