KR20050115081A - Credit card payment processing method by a distributed variable merchant discount rate - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a credit card payment processing method according to a variable variable merchant fee rate setting that can collect the detailed information for each merchant and provide an objective MDR establishment basis for each merchant based on the size, transaction volume, and industry. The method enters detailed information of a predetermined operator who applied to join a merchant at a payment agent server, and registers the operator as an affiliated store based on the inputted information at the payment agent server, from the registered details of each merchant to the card company. Calculate the merchant commission rate (MDR) by summing the basic fee rate r ₀ based on the issuance cost and purchase cost, and the variable fee rate Δr that can vary according to the characteristics of the merchants, and adding the basic fee rate r ₀ and the variable fee rate Δr. The purchase history by collecting purchase related data on credit transactions generated at the merchants After confirming and applying the calculated MDR of the merchant to the determined purchase history, the fee is calculated and settled, so that the fee can be properly distributed to the merchant, settlement agency, and the card company.

Description

Credit card payment processing method by a distributed variable merchant discount rate}

The present invention relates to a credit card commerce for purchasing goods or services using a credit card, and more particularly, to setting up a variable variable merchant fee rate so that the merchant fee rate can be variously calculated according to the size, transaction volume, and business type of the merchant. The present invention relates to a credit card payment processing method.

In recent years, as the amount of online commerce as well as offline commerce increases, the risks and inconveniences of storing and managing cash, which have been used as the most common payment methods, have emerged. It is becoming universal.

Credit card commerce is made easier by a network of card companies and merchants that perform approval of credit transactions and purchase of approved slips through a payment agency that transmits and receives credit card transactions.

1 is a block diagram showing a schematic structure of a credit card payment system, wherein the system includes a plurality of affiliated terminal terminals 11 and a plurality of affiliated terminal terminals 10 that perform receipt processing according to an approval request and a result thereof. The card company which installs and manages the communication network 12 in which data communication with the settlement agent server 30 and the plurality of merchant terminals 11 are performed, and the approval request transmitted from the merchant terminal 11 is approved and purchased by the corresponding card transaction. Payment agency server 13 to send to the server (14) and receive the response to the merchant terminal 10, and the credit card transaction slip of the credit card transaction slip of the merchant and credit card transaction slip Server 14.

In FIG. 1, a user who receives a credit card from a card issuer such as a predetermined credit card company or a bank visits a merchant and presents a credit card 10 to the merchant to purchase a desired item or use a service. Then, the information presented by the credit card 10 is read by the merchant terminal 11, the merchant terminal 11 combines the read credit card unique information and the transaction history, the approval to the payment agent server 30 Send the request message.

Upon receiving this, the payment agent server 30 transmits the received approval request message to the server 14 of the card company, which is the relevant approval institution, and waits for a response. At this time, the payment agency server 30 stores and manages the transaction details for each merchant.

Subsequently, the card company server 14, which is the approval authority, examines the received request, determines whether to approve it, and transmits the result to the payment agency server 30.

Accordingly, the payment agency server 30 in the standby state transmits the approval result received from the card company server 14 to the corresponding affiliated store terminal 10.

 The affiliated store terminal 10 outputs a non-processing message according to the approval result transmitted from the payment agent server 4 when the approval is not possible, and prints a receipt in which the approval number is stamped.

By the above system, the cash payment is not made between the merchant performing the transaction and the credit card holder. Instead, the use amount of the credit card holder is billed to the holder at regular intervals by the card company that approves the transaction. Slips are purchased by the card company at regular intervals and paid in cash, excluding authorization and purchase fees.

In the above credit card payment model, the merchant must enter into a contract with the credit card company and the payment agency of the credit card to be accepted, and pay the payment agency fee and the authorization and purchase fee according to the number of transactions or the transaction amount to each of them. shall.

At this time, after purchasing the slip of the merchant, the card company's merchant discount rate (MDR), which the card company subtracts as a fee from the purchase amount, is simply determined according to the classification table of the merchant business that each card company defines itself. The fee rate was set not to be fixed at all, or to negotiate with each other for high-quality merchants with a large volume of transactions.

However, the MDR system based on the sector classification table of each card company does not consider the cost of each merchant, or even the same industry does not take into account details such as sales size, volume, and credit rating, so there are many problems in terms of equity and efficiency. There is a growing demand for MDR reduction by merchants. However, there is a problem that the profitability of credit card companies deteriorates due to the lack of an objective MDR setting base that can satisfy both equity and efficiency.

The present invention has been proposed to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, the purpose of which is to collect the detailed information for each merchant and based on this, the variable variable merchant commission rate that can provide an objective MDR development basis for each merchant's size, transaction volume, industry It is to provide a credit card payment processing method according to the setting.

As a constituent means for achieving the above object of the present invention, in the credit card payment system that passes the approval process between the payment terminal and the card company server of the plurality of merchants through the payment agent server credit card payment processing according to the variable variable merchant fee rate setting In the method,

Inputting detailed information of a predetermined operator who applied to join a merchant at a payment agent server;

Registering the service provider as an affiliated store based on the input detailed information at a payment agent server;

Merchant-specific basic fee rate based on the development in the credit card company from the registration details issuance cost and purchase cost r ₀ and, according to the merchant-specific characteristics, and calculating the variable fee rate Δr, which may be variable, the basic fee rate r ₀ and a variable fee rate Δr Calculating the merchant commission rate (MDR) by adding up;

Determining purchase details by collecting purchase related data on credit transactions generated at the affiliate store; And

And calculating and calculating a fee by applying the calculated MDR of the affiliated store to the determined purchase history.

In the above, the basic fee rate r ₀ is set according to the criteria set for each card company, and the variable fee rate Δr is (Where C is the merchant classification code, X is the amount of one-time or a certain period of card sales according to the card of the particular card company of the merchant, n is the total number of transactions within a certain period of the merchant by the specific card, Cr is the credit rating of the merchant) , b is the relevant card company, p is the program applied to the merchant, l is the time from the point of sale by the credit card to the merchant deposit of the payout.).

Hereinafter, the configuration and method of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a credit card payment system to which the present invention is applied.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 21 denotes a dealer input device for inputting information on a competent affiliated store at an agency performing installation, sale, and management of a payment terminal 1 for an affiliated store, and 22 is installed at a registered affiliated store. A payment terminal for a credit transaction that transmits an approval request of a merchant and receives a result of the approval and outputs a receipt, and 23 represents data communication to / from the multiple agency input devices 21 and payment terminals 22; Is a network configured for wired and / or wireless.

Next, reference numeral 24 denotes a server system of a payment agency that can perform the transfer of approval-related messages and / or data and purchase processing for credit slips, and includes a transaction history transmission / reception server 241 and an input device 242. Terminal management server 243, merchant management server 244, risk management server 245, MDR server 246, approval management server 247, transaction history storage server 248, purchase The management server 249, the settlement server 250, and a message processing server 251 may be included.

In the above, the transaction history transmission and reception server 241 distributes the request received through the communication network 23 to the responsible server in the payment agent server system 24, the details processed from each server merchant 22 or card company server Perform the function of transmitting to (25).

The input device 242 is for receiving and inputting information from a merchant in a payment agency.

In addition, the terminal management server 243 manages a plurality of payment terminals 22 installed and registered at the affiliated store side, and the affiliated store management server 244 stores and manages registered merchant information.

The risk management server 245 monitors the information and transaction details of the affiliated stores managed by the terminal management server 243 and the affiliated store management server 244 in real time, and recognizes and handles risks that may occur during a merchant or credit transaction. It is to follow-up.

The MDR server 246 performs auditing, calculation, processing, distribution, and management of distributed variable merchant commission rates, the procedure of which will be described in more detail below.

The approval management server 247 stores and manages the approval history for the credit transaction including the approval request and the approval result received through the transaction history transmission / reception server 241.

The purchase management server 249 converts the approval details stored in the approval management server 247 into purchase details for each affiliate store and card company and manages them.

The settlement server 250 is to determine and settle the sales for each affiliate store based on the purchase data processed by the purchase management server 249, and may include a deposit processing function when the settlement agency acts as a deposit business. .

Finally, the message processing server 251 collects the information to be provided to the affiliated store within the period from the time when the sale is made by the credit transaction until the actual cash is deposited to the affiliated store among the information managed by the servers. In addition to the payment terminal 22 registered in the performs a function to provide in various forms to the wired / wireless terminal.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 25 denotes a server of a card company that manages the approval, purchase, and deposit of a credit transaction for an issued card.

In the credit card payment system configured as described above, the credit card payment processing method according to the distributed variable merchant fee rate setting is as follows.

3 is a flowchart showing a method of processing a credit card payment according to the present invention from the time of registration of a merchant.

Referring to FIG. 3, a predetermined operator must be registered as an affiliated store with a corresponding card company and a payment agent server to perform a credit transaction with a consumer, and, in addition, a merchant of a related service to a payment agent side to receive an agency service for purchase processing. You must apply for registration (S31).

Accordingly, the payment agency server system 24 receives the basic information (business type, location, size, etc.) of the operator who applied for registration through the input device 21 of the agency and the input device 242 in the server system 24.

Then, the basic information of the entered operator is registered in the affiliated store management server 244 as affiliated store information, and the degree of credit and size of the affiliated store are examined (S32).

In addition, based on the inputted merchant data and data related to the affiliated store provided from the outside for the examination, the MDR deducted from the affiliated store is determined in consideration of the credit, the business type, the transaction details, etc. (S33).

At this time, the MDR (r) to be determined is variably determined according to the merchant's creditworthiness, type of business, and transaction details, and the fixed fee rate (r ₀ ) which is largely fixed and does not change, and the variable fee rate (Δr) arbitrarily set by the settlement agency ), And its detailed configuration is as shown in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 4, the merchant fee rate r will be described in detail as follows.

First, the merchant fee rate (r) is composed of the sum of the basic fee rate r ₀ and the variable fee rate (Δr), wherein the basic fee rate r ₀ is a commission rate that is basically applied to all merchants in the same or the same merchant category, It is determined according to the factors established by the card company, and is calculated by adding the purchase cost Δr ₀ and the card company issuance fee I ₀ . In the above, the purchase cost Δr ₀ is a cost required to perform the purchase service, and is a portion paid to the side that has performed the purchase process. The card company issuance fee I ₀ is a fee that is paid to the card issuer as a part that is paid in return for performing the card issuance.

For example, when a purchase process is performed together with a card company, the basic fee rate is provided to the card company. As another example, as illustrated in FIG. 2, when the purchase agency processes a purchase related process, Of the basic fee rate r ₀ , the purchase cost Δr ₀ is taken by the settlement agent, and the remaining issuance fee I ₀ is provided to the card company.

Next, the variable variable fee rate (Δr) of the MDR is a part that is applied differently according to the terms and conditions of the respective merchants, unlike the basic fee rate that is equally applied in all affiliated stores or affiliated stores. As shown in Equation 1, it is determined from a functional relationship according to a combination of several items.

Here, C is a merchant shop code, X is the amount of one-time or a certain period of card sales according to the card of a specific card company of the merchant, n is the total number of transactions within a certain period of the merchant by a specific card, Cr is the merchant's credit rating, b is the relevant card company, p is the service program applied to the merchant, and l is the time from the point of sale by credit card to the deposit of the merchant.

That is, the variable variable fee rate Δr is a value that varies according to items such as merchant classification, sales amount, transaction number, merchant creditworthiness, card company, time, and the like.

In particular, the variable fee rate Δr determined according to various items as described above is a change rate R ₀ that is determined for a specific program for a card company's affiliate store, a change rate ΔR corresponding to a loyalty calculation and management cost for each affiliate store, and purchase processing and affiliate store management. It is calculated as the sum of cost α.

In the above, among the variable fee rate Δr, a pure variable value excluding α, which represents the cost due to the purchase exclusive processing and the cost to be used at the time of purchase, is a portion capable of appropriately distributing ΔR + R ₀ . That is, by appropriately setting the ΔR + R ₀ , it is possible to increase or decrease the revenue share of the settlement agency.

In particular, ΔR is a standard value of loyalty points distributed to merchants when loyalty points are paid to merchants, and the cost β used for managing and calculating the accumulation of loyalty for a period of time, and is purely referred to when calculating loyalty points. It consists of the sum of ΔR _1, the commission rate actually paid from the merchant to the payment agency.

Next, R ₀ constituting the variable fee rate Δr is a part that varies according to a special program for the affiliates of the card company, which is implemented by the card company, rather than a service or program provided to the affiliated store in connection with the purchase by the settlement agency. This is a fee that must be paid to the card company in exchange for the program offered to the company. At this time, if the service or program related to the payment agency to perform, the payment agency will be profit.

Finally, α is a cost for performing purchase processing and managing merchants on behalf of a card company, which is a revenue share of a settlement agency.

Accordingly, the MDR server 246 determines each parameter shown in FIG. 4 based on various data of the affiliate store, and finally calculates the total MDR discounted from the purchase amount of the affiliate store by the sum of the parameters. .

As described above, after the MDR and the parameters of the MDR are calculated for the affiliated store, the payment agent server system 24 receives the approval request from the payment terminal 22 of the affiliated store and transmits the request to the card company server 25, and the card company. While performing the approval process for the credit transaction that delivers the approval details of the server 25 to the payment terminal 22, the respective approval details are stored. In addition, the purchase process of the document for the approved transaction, and generates the purchase data (S34)

Next, the fee for the purchase history is calculated and settled according to the calculated MDR (S36).

The calculated purchase data and settlement data is transmitted to the card company server 25, so that the card company can perform the deposit for the purchase slip, the settlement agent server system 24 calculates the actual settlement data to the merchant It can also carry out the purchase business of depositing. At this time, the subject of payment of the calculated MDR may be determined according to which agent performs the purchase task.

Accordingly, the settled fee is distributed in relation to each business to the merchant, payment agency, and card company.

That is, among the fees settled, the portion of the expenses related to the business of the card company is paid to the card company (S38), the purchase-related costs are paid to the target (card company or settlement agency) that performed the purchase, and the merchant side purchase details Compute and accumulate loyalty according to (S37.S40)

In this step, the payment of the loyalty of the merchant may be made selectively, and when the royalty is paid to the merchant, the loyalty point L ₁ may be calculated as a function according to various parameters as shown in Equation 2 below.

Where C is an affiliate code classified by type of business, r is an affiliate fee rate, Δr is a variable fee rate among affiliate fee rates, R ₀ is a special fee rate set by the card company, and ΔR ₁ is a base rate when calculating merchant loyalty. Where Cr is the merchant's credit rating, p is the program applied to the merchant, and l is the time from the point of sale by credit card to the merchant's deposit of the payout.

Although not shown in FIG. 3, each information including all information related to an affiliate store, purchase history, affiliate store fee rate, and royalty generated from the sales point of sale to the deposit by the above procedure is the message processing server 251. By, may be provided to the merchant in real time or periodically. In this case, the providing form may be formed in various forms that can express the corresponding information, such as e-mail, fax, SMS.

As described above, the credit card payment service according to the present invention can be charged to the fee for each merchant level by objectively calculating the fee for each merchant into detailed categories such as merchant classification, transaction history, credit rating, size, etc. In addition, by distributing the added fee to the merchant, payment agent server, card company side, there is an excellent effect to improve the mutual satisfaction. In addition, it is possible to increase the profit through the above.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing the overall configuration of a general credit card payment system.

2 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of a credit card payment system to which the present invention is applied.

3 is a flowchart showing a credit card payment processing method according to the present invention.

4 is a schematic diagram illustrating the concept of a variable variable merchant fee rate in the credit card settlement processing method according to the present invention.

Claims (11)

In the credit card payment system for transferring the approval process between the payment terminal of the multiple merchants and the card company server through the payment agent server, the credit card payment processing method according to the distributed variable merchant fee rate setting, Inputting detailed information of a predetermined operator who applied to join a merchant at a payment agent server; Registering the service provider as an affiliated store based on the input detailed information at a payment agent server; Merchant-specific basic fee rate based on the development in the credit card company from the registration details issuance cost and purchase cost r ₀ and, according to the merchant-specific characteristics, and calculating the variable fee rate Δr, which may be variable, the basic fee rate r ₀ and a variable fee rate Δr Calculating the merchant commission rate (MDR) by adding up; Determining purchase details by collecting purchase related data on credit transactions generated at the affiliate store; And The credit card payment processing method according to the variable variable merchant fee rate setting, characterized in that comprises the step of calculating the fee by applying the calculated commission rate (MDR) of the merchant to the determined purchase history. The method of claim 1, The basic fee rate r ₀ is a credit card payment processing method according to a variable variable merchant fee rate setting, characterized in that set according to the criteria set by each card company. The method of claim 1, The variable completion rate Δr is (Where C is the merchant classification code, X is the amount of one-time or a certain period of card sales according to the card of the particular card company of the merchant, n is the total number of transactions within a certain period of the merchant by the specific card, Cr is the credit rating of the merchant) , b is the relevant card company, p is the program applied to the merchant, and l is the time from the point of sale by credit card to the deposit of the merchant.) Credit card payment processing method according to a variable variable merchant fee rate setting, characterized in that calculated as a function of. The method of claim 1, The payment agent server purchases a card sales slip from an affiliated store according to the calculated purchase details, and transmits the purchase result to a card company to request a deposit, wherein the credit card according to the variable variable merchant fee rate setting is set. How payments are processed. The method of claim 4, wherein The payment agent server is a credit card payment processing method according to the variable variable merchant commission rate setting, characterized in that for requesting the card company to deposit the merchant fee for the limited amount of the calculated merchant fee in the purchase result. The method of claim 1, The credit card payment processing method according to the variable variable merchant fee rate setting, characterized in that the fee based on the basic fee rate of the settled fee provided by the payment agency server to the card company. The method of claim 1, The variable fee rate Δr is A variable variable merchant commission rate, which is calculated by the sum of a change rate R ₀ determined for a particular program of a card company, a change rate ΔR corresponding to the loyalty calculation and management costs for each merchant, and a purchase processing and merchant management cost α. How credit card payments are handled by setup. The method of claim 7, wherein The "variation rate R ₀ + the change rate ΔR" among the variable fee rate Δr can be appropriately distributed credit card payment processing method according to the variable variable merchant fee rate setting. The method of claim 7, wherein The variance rate ΔR, which is a reference when calculating the loyalty, is composed of β corresponding to the accumulated royalty calculation and management costs for a certain period from each card company, and ΔR ₁ , which is a point-based fee rate when calculating the loyalty. How to process credit card payments according to the merchant commission rate setting. The method of claim 9, According to the calculated fee rate of the merchant, the loyalty point L ₁ to the merchant (Where C is a merchant code classified by industry, r is a merchant fee rate, Δr is a variable fee rate among merchant fee rates, R ₀ is a special fee rate set by the card company, and ΔR ₁ is a base rate when calculating merchant loyalty) Where Cr is the merchant's credit rating, p is the program applied to the merchant, and l is the time from the point of sale by credit card to the merchant's deposit of the payout) Computing according to the function formula, and accumulating for each merchant, credit card payment processing method according to the variable variable merchant fee rate setting characterized in that it further comprises. The method of claim 1, Credit card payment processing according to the variable variable merchant fee rate setting, characterized in that it further comprises the step of transmitting the information generated from the point of sale including the calculated purchase history, merchant fee rate, royalties to the merchant terminal Way.