KR20040089059A - United Network system of bookstore - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A network member shop system integrating offline bookstores is provided to improve sales and customer satisfaction of the offline bookstores by offering an information environment to the offline bookstores, and organically offering merits of online/offline bookstores. CONSTITUTION: A cash database(260) and a customer database(210) enable the offline bookstores(100-120) to share cyber cash and accumulation by integrating book information and customer management. A web server(250) provides the book information to customers and receives online order from the online bookstores(130-150). An order database(220) receives the offline orders. A stock database(230) manages stock held by the offline bookstores.

Description

Offline Bookstore Integrated Network Merchant System {United Network system of bookstore}

The present invention relates to a system for maximizing the advantages of an online bookstore and an offline bookstore and minimizing the disadvantages, thereby improving the reliability and sales of offline bookstores.

Books that are sold in real time by building an integrated database with offline bookstores as merchants are accumulated in the database, so sales data can be analyzed, and statistical data analysis is used as marketing data for merchants. In addition, the difficulty of obtaining information about new books from existing offline bookstores can be easily obtained through the integrated database. In addition, by establishing an Internet bookstore based on the integrated database, it is possible to provide book discount services that are not possible in offline bookstores.

Currently, there are bookstores that have established and operated their own internet bookstores. However, the company's sales information alone has a disadvantage in that the statistical data analysis results are not reliable, and there is also a burden on expenses such as operating costs and shipping costs of internet bookstores. In addition, there are some offline bookstores that issue a membership service to issue a membership card, but in terms of consumers, there is a disadvantage in that it does not provide a choice of which bookstore to purchase from when purchasing a book. When a consumer named "Hong Gil-dong" registers as a member of bookstore A, if the book he wants does not exist in bookstore A, when he needs to go to bookstore B and purchase it, he / she has to register as a member in bookstore B again. In fact, even if you register as a member of bookstore B, the reserves of bookstore A cannot be used.

In addition, Internet bookstores can afford shipping costs because they have large warehouses and receive books from publishers at a lower price than offline bookstores. However, offline bookstores can bear the cost of shipping even if they establish an internet bookstore. There is nothing but reality. The sharp drop in sales of small and mid-sized bookstores is a natural result due to the discount services of online bookstores and the construction of Internet bookstores and reserve services for large bookstores with economic abilities.

To provide a system that improves the sales and customer satisfaction of the offline bookstore by providing a poor information environment of the conventional offline bookstore, and organically provide the advantages of the online bookstore and the advantages of the offline bookstore.

In other words, it provides discounts and reserves for customers' orders through co-founded Internet bookstores, and sends orders to bookstores that customers want to receive. It provides the opportunity to access information about the purchase and the purchase amount is settled monthly by the operating entity and delivered to the merchant.

In addition, when a customer visits an offline bookstore and purchases a book, a certain percentage of the reserve is updated again in the integrated database when the book is purchased or accumulated in cash or other payment method.

Here's another thing. In order to overcome the situation where offline bookstores cannot book discounts, the public cyber cache is sold to consumers at a public internet bookstore, and the amount is stored in the integrated database.The consumer then visits the offline bookstore with a membership card and visits the cyber cache. You can buy books using. Consumers will replace the disadvantage of not being able to get a discount on books when they buy a book at an offline bookstore. Cyber Cash can also be used in common internet bookstores, and reserves services other than discounted books are available.

In addition, even if a book is purchased at a jointly established internet bookstore, the buyer can directly pick up at the desired merchant, thereby eliminating expenses for logistics, thereby contributing to the increase in net profit.

1 is a block diagram showing an offline bookstore integrated network affiliated store system according to the present invention.

2 is a database block diagram of orders, inventory, customers, etc. according to the present invention.

Description of the main parts of the drawings

10: network

100, 110, 120: offline bookstore

130, 140, 150: Customers buying books online

300: A customer buying a book directly from a bookstore

200: operating entity

210: customer database

220: order database

230: Inventory Database

260: Reserves and Cyber Cache Database

240: database server

250: web server (shared internet bookstore)

For the present invention, the operating entity has a database server for managing book information, member information, sales information, and inventory information, and a web server for operating a joint internet bookstore.

In addition, each offline affiliated store provides a separate program to provide an environment that can be linked with the database server.

The reserves generated by the merchants are delivered to the database in real time, and the current status of the reserves is searched through the membership card issued to the consumers, and when the consumer wants to pay through the reserves, the reserves are used to access the database.

The revenue generated from the joint Internet bookstores can be settled for each affiliated store by the consumer selecting the bookstore where the book can be received after payment and receiving the book with the purchase confirmation of the book.

The operating agent analyzes the database to provide consumers with various information such as best sellers, recommendation books, etc., and provides merchants with various information such as daily, monthly, yearly, and region, namely, book sales status data, best sellers, book sales rankings, and sales curves by period. And so on.

In addition, when it is determined that sufficient book sales data is established in the database, statistical analysis data such as demand forecast and sales forecast are provided to each merchant.

As for the provision method, the operating entity builds each statistics data in a separate database, and each affiliated store is provided with access to the database through the installed program.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, it will be described in more detail with respect to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, when a customer 300 directly purchases a book by visiting a bookstore 100, 110, 120, a certain percentage of the purchase amount is transferred to a reserve and stored in the database 260, which is stored in the database 260. The merchant bookstore (100, 110, 120) can be used anywhere to use the stored reserve.

To help understand, let's take an example where a customer buys a book.

(1) In case of making a cash purchase by visiting the store

The customer 300 visits the store and directly purchases the book, and presents the membership card along with the payment. When a book is purchased by credit card or cash, a certain percentage of the purchase amount is stored in the database 260 as a reserve.

(2) Paying with cyber cash or reserve by visiting the store

The customer 300 visits the store, purchases the book, and requests a cyber cash or reserve payment with the membership card presentation. The offline store accesses the database 260 through the network to check the customer's cyber cache or reserve status and then pays by the customer's desired payment method. You can pay in the form of cyber cash + reserves, and a certain percentage of the amount paid with the cyber cache is stored as reserves again. The cyber cache will be described in detail in (5) below.

(3) Buying books online by credit card or bank transfer

Customers 130, 140, and 150 access the common Internet bookstore 250 operated by the operator, log in with a membership card, and purchase a desired book by credit card or bank transfer. In this case, the price discount set in the fixed price system is applied. The customer purchases the book at a discounted amount, and a certain percentage of the purchase amount is accumulated as a reserve in the database 260. The offline bookstore to receive the book is confirmed by checking the stock status in the database 230, and the record is stored in the database. Stored at 220. After the payment is completed online, the customer visits the store (100, 110, 120) to present the membership card, the store checks the order history in the database 220 and delivers the book from the customer.

(4) Buying books online with cyber cash or reserves

Customers 130, 140, and 150 access the joint Internet bookstore 250 operated by the operator, log in with a membership card, check the status of their cyber cache or reserve, and store the desired book in the cyber cache, cyber cache + When the payment is made by reserves, reserves, etc., the used cyber cache or reserves are deducted from the database 260. In this case, the price discount set by the fixed price system does not apply. The reason is described below in (5). The customer checks the inventory status in the database 230 to designate an offline bookstore to receive the book and the record is stored in the database 220. In addition, the amount purchased by the cyber cache will store a certain percentage as a reserve.

The customer visits the store (100, 110, 120) to present a membership card, the store checks the order history in the database 220 and delivers the book from the customer.

(5) How to purchase cyber cache

Cyber cache is a system that compensates for the disadvantage that offline bookstores cannot discount books due to the influence of the book price system. When a customer purchases a book at an offline bookstore, in order to receive a book discount service, he or she accesses the Internet bookstore 250 with a membership card and purchases a certain amount of cyber cash by credit card or bank transfer method. You will receive a discount or additional offer. In other words, if you purchase 10,000 won of the cyber cache, the actual payment amount is set to 9 thousand won, or the actual payment amount to 10,000 won and the additional 1,000 won by providing the cyber cache is 11,000 won. The cyber cache purchased in this way may be used by visiting the offline bookstores 100, 110, and 120, or may be connected to the online bookstore 250.

When using such a system, the customer is provided with a price discount service at the same time as he purchases the cyber cash, so even if a book is purchased through the cyber cache in the offline bookstore (100, 110, 120), the system receives a discount service. It is

Since the cyber cache is already discounted, if you purchase a book through the cyber cache in the online bookstore 250, the price discount service set by the book price system does not apply, and a portion of the purchase amount will be accumulated as a reserve. Can be.

Lastly, it is a part of calibrating the cyber cache and the reserves used by the customers (300, 130, 140, 150) to purchase the book in the offline bookstore (100, 110, 120).

The actual payment amount generated when the customer purchases the cyber cache and the reserves accumulated when the customer purchases the book is kept by the operating entity 200. When the book purchase occurs with the cyber cache and the reserve, the operating entity 200 is an offline bookstore. You must give (100, 110, 120) cash as much cyber cash as the purchase occurred. Since the customers 300, 130, 140, and 150 are provided with a price discount when purchasing the cyber cache, the customers 300, 130, 140, and 150 are provided to the offline bookstores 100, 110, and 120 in cash, except for the discount ratio.

And, since the used reserve is also recognized as the sales of offline bookstores (100, 110, 120), the operator should also make corrections on the use of reserves.

For example, assume that the reserve amount of customer 'A' is 1,000 won, and that all 1,000 won are from offline bookstore 'A'. In this case, the operator 200 does not need to correct the reserve to the offline bookstore (100, 110, 120). This is because reserves are regarded as potential sales and included as sales when purchasing books. However, if the amount accrued from the 'book' bookstore among the 1,000 won is 800 won and 200 won is generated from other bookstores, the operating entity compensates for the remaining 200 won by cash to the 'book' bookstore. By retrieving the reserve for customer 'A' at any other bookstore, the operating entity will receive a refund from the bookstore.

As described above, the offline bookstore integrated network affiliate system provides the buyer with a wide selection of bookstores by integrating cyber caches and reserves, thereby preventing the disadvantage of joining multiple bookstores in double or multiple. With the current system, there are inconveniences in joining many bookstores and not sharing each other's accumulated reserves.

To solve the inconvenience, and to buy a book in an offline bookstore solves the disadvantage of not being able to receive the book discount service due to the implementation of the book price system to provide a benefit of price discount to the buyer.

In terms of offline bookstores, you can:

It is possible to solve the disadvantages of building its own Internet bookstore due to difficult economic conditions or financial difficulties, by establishing a joint Internet bookstore. In addition, the convenience of not having to search for new information on a daily basis is also provided for new information pouring out every day, and through the sales information updated through the integrated network, reliable statistical data obtained through various statistical analysis methods can be provided. It can be used as a means of bookstore management.

In addition, by adopting a method of receiving books from bookstores both offline and online, the book purchase method can increase the number of bookstore visits by buyers, contributing to the activation of bookstores.

Claims (9)

A cache database for sharing cyber caches and reserves by integrating book information, customer management, etc. for multiple offline bookstores, a customer database server, and a web server for providing book information to customers and receiving multiple online orders. And an order book database server for receiving a plurality of offline orders, and an inventory book server managing an inventory held by a plurality of offline bookstores. The method of claim 1, Offline bookstore integrated network affiliate store system that allows the plurality of offline bookstores to operate the customer's purchase information, cyber cache, reserves, etc. The method according to claim 1 or 2, Merchant system of offline bookstore integrated network that allows the multiple bookstores to share statistical data obtained through book sales information The method of claim 1, Offline bookstore integrated network affiliate store system for receiving book purchases directly from offline bookstores without delivering the purchased books through the logistics system for the number of book purchases obtained through the multiple online orders The method of claim 2, Offline bookstore integrated network affiliated store system using cyber cache system that provides price discount for the plurality of offline orders The method of claim 3, wherein Offline bookstore integrated network merchant system including a point of sale (POS) means for the plurality of offline bookstores to share book information, sales information, customer information, statistical analysis data and the like and obtain the book sales information The method of claim 1, The offline bookstore integrated network merchant system that allows the reserves obtained through the plurality of online orders and the plurality of offline orders to be used at all merchants, and the reserves obtained through the plurality of orders can be used again at all merchants. The method according to claim 1 or 4, Offline bookstore integrated network merchant system that allows buyers to search for available offline bookstores of ordered books through the inventory database for multiple online orders The method according to claim 1 or 2, By analyzing the cyber cache and reserves used for multiple online orders and multiple offline orders, the operating agent compensates the cyber cache used for orders to offline bookstores in cash, and checks the source of the reserve through the cache database for the reserves. Off-line bookstore integrated network merchant system