KR20100004647A - Payment agency system and method for bulk mail - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A payment agency system for a bulk mail and a method thereof are provided to execute payment about a bulk mail of clients for the clients at once, thereby reducing waiting time due to payment. CONSTITUTION: A client registering unit(330) inputs postal information and payment information. A manager registering unit(340) inputs postal price information. The manager registering unit requests payment approval about a mail. A payment unit(310) outputs approved payment information. An information storage unit(320) stores the information.

Description

Mass agency bill payment system and method {Payment agency system and method for bulk mail}

The present invention relates to a large amount of postage billing settlement system and method thereof, and is derived from a study performed as part of the postal technology research and development project of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Ministry of Information and Communication Research. [Task Management No.:2006-X-004-01, Development of Real-time Postal Logistics Element Technology]

In general, post offices or postal concentration offices receive large amounts of mail from a direct mail (DM) company, which is a business or a mailing agency. In addition, the sampling flowmeter conversion technique is used as a method for calculating the fee. It selects a random mail as a sample, finds the weight, divides the total mail by the weight of the sample mail, and infers the total number of mails and multiplies the total number of mails by weight to calculate the fee. That's the way.

In the case of the mailing agency, which is responsible for producing the mail, in the payment of the calculated charges, a separate payment method (for example, a credit card, etc.) is provided by the customer, and the payment of the amount charged at the post office or the mail concentration center Acting on behalf of. With respect to such a method with reference to Figure 1 will be described a generally large volume mail agency payment process.

1 is a flowchart illustrating a general mass mail agency payment process.

As shown in FIG. 1, a mail delivery agency 20 that receives a mail production request and a payment method from a customer 10 receives a mail at a postal concentration station 40 (S10 and S11). After receiving the mail, the postal central office 40 requests the payment server 30 to settle the fee for the mail (S12, S13), and charges the fee for the mail delivery agency 20 (S14).

The billing agency 20 having been charged provides a payment method to the mail central office 40 (S15), and the mail central office 40 uses the payment method provided by the mail sending agency 20 to settle the payment server. Provide payment information to 30 (S16). The payment server 30 requests payment approval from the payment approval authority server 50 (S17), and the payment approval authority server 50 approves the requested payment (S18). Thereafter, the payment server 30 issues a receipt to the mail central office 40 (S19), and the mail central office 40 passes the received receipt to the mail sending agency 20 (S20), a mail sending agency ( 20) to deliver the received receipt to the customer to confirm (S21).

In the process, if a mailing agency acts for the postal service of several customers, for example, due to the morning month of the payment method, such as the transfer of another customer's credit card and the entry of another customer's credit card number due to the recipient's mistake, In some cases, you may not be charged by the right customer.

In addition, the payment processing by manual operation of the mail receiver in the postal service or the post office central office decreases the efficiency of the reception work during the afternoon time or during a special period (eg, holiday, Christmas, etc.) when the mail is concentrated. Increasing the waiting time of the receiving customer causes a problem of lowering the efficiency of the work.

In addition, the completion of the mail production agency work of the mailing agency until the receipt of the receipt issued after the payment at the post office or the centralized post office is confirmed by the customer. In other words, when the contract for the production of a mailing agency contracts, the reference point of the deadline for receiving mail is determined as the time of receipt issuance. There is a work burden from receiving a receipt to the customer to confirm, there is also a problem that the waiting time of the order customer is long, thereby reducing work efficiency.

Accordingly, the present invention provides a mass mail bill proxy payment system and method, which can easily and quickly handle a problem caused by bill payment for a large amount of mail.

In order to achieve the technical problem of the present invention, a billing system for billing a large amount of mail according to one feature of the present invention,

A customer reception unit for receiving mail information and payment information for mail from a mail forwarding agency system; An administrator reception unit which receives postal rate information for the postal items settled by either a post office or a postal concentration station, and requests payment approval for the postal items; A payment unit for requesting payment approval based on the postal fee information input from the manager reception unit and outputting the approved payment information; And an information storage unit for storing the mail information, payment information, mail fee information, and payment information approved by the payment unit.

In order to achieve the technical problem of the present invention, a method for billing a bill for a large amount of mail according to another feature of the present invention,

Receiving mail information, billing information, and fee calculation information for mail from a system of a mail sending agency; Receiving charge reordering information for the postal matter from a system of a postal concentration station where the postal matter is received, and receiving a request for payment for the recalculated rate; And requesting payment approval of the received payment request, and notifying the approval result when the payment approval is received.

According to the present invention, when a large amount of mail is sent out, it is possible to settle the bill without a cumbersome fee payment procedure at the mail reception counter by registering the payment information in advance in the payment system. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the waiting time of the mail sending agency, and to prevent the problem that may occur due to the settlement agency, it is possible to minimize the cost of opportunity loss.

In addition, mail can be sent to multiple customers at once, and when receiving mail, multiple customers can be settled at once, thereby preventing time loss.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, it means that it can further include other components, without excluding other components unless specifically stated otherwise. In addition, the terms “… unit”, “… unit”, “module”, etc. described in the specification mean a unit that processes at least one function or operation, which may be implemented by hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software. have.

Now, with reference to the drawings will be described a mass mailing agency billing system and method according to an embodiment of the present invention. First, the system structure will be described with reference to FIG. 2.

2 is a structural diagram of a payment system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the payment system 300 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a customer reception unit 330, an information storage unit 320, a payment unit 310, and an administrator reception unit 340. The customer reception unit 330 transmits and receives information with the customer 100 or the mail sending agency 200, and the manager reception unit 340 is connected to the system of the mail central office 400. In addition, the payment unit 310 is linked with the payment approval authority server 500.

The customer reception unit 330 is interlocked with the system provided in the customer 100 or the mail sending agency 200, and receives the mail information and the payment information from the customer 100 or the mail sending agency 200, and the payment unit ( Transfer to 310 to be stored in the information storage unit 320. In addition, when a customer or a mailing agency requests information (for example, payment information), the information stored in the information storage unit 320 may be retrieved and provided to a customer or a mailing agency.

The information storage unit 320 stores the customer's information and temporary receipt information of the mail inputted through the customer reception unit 330. Here, the information of the customer means information such as the name, address, telephone number of the customer. The temporary receipt information of the mail includes mail information and payment information, and the mail information includes information such as the type of mail, the size of the mail, and the weight. Payment information refers to information that can be used for payment such as bank name and bank account number, credit card type and card number, debit card type and card number, check card type and card number, electronic money issuer name and identification number. do.

The payment unit 310 requests payment approval based on the postal fee input from the manager reception unit. In addition, it also controls the data transmitted between the post office / post-editing China, the customer 100 or the mail sending agency 200 and the payment unit 310.

The manager reception unit 340 may receive an input of a postal fee settled by a post office or a postal concentration center, or provide data requested by a post office or a postal concentration center. In the embodiment of the present invention will be described as an example of interworking with the postal concentration station, but is not necessarily limited to this.

 Next, the structure of the payment unit 310 described above will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

3 is a structural diagram of a payment unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the payment unit 310 may include a communication connection control unit 312, a payment approval control unit 313, a data unit 316, a mail verification unit 314, a mail charge calculation unit 315, and a control unit. 311.

First, the communication connection control unit 312 controls wired / wireless data transmission and reception between the customer 100 / mailing agency 200 and the customer reception unit and the mail central office 400 and the manager reception unit 340.

The payment approval control unit 313 controls the payment approval such as transferring the payment approval request requested by the postal central office 400 to the payment approval authority server 500.

The mail verification unit 314 verifies whether the information on the mail received from the mail sending agency 200 and the mail information stored in advance match.

The postal mail calculation unit 315 re-determines the mailing fee for the mail verified by the mail verifying unit 314. In the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an example of calculating postage charges through a sampling and weighing conversion method is described as an example, but is not necessarily limited thereto.

The control unit 311, the payment unit 310 is a communication connection control unit 312, payment approval control unit 313, the postal mail verification unit 314, the postage charge calculation unit 315 and the data unit 316 to be described later To control.

The data unit 316 stores and manages information about a customer or a mail sending agency 200 and a mail central office, and information such as payment information and mail reception information. In other words, each data is physically stored in the information storage unit 320, and the data unit 316 manages data such as data input, modification, deletion, and the like through communication with the information storage unit 320. The data portion 316 includes a customer data portion 316-1, a mailing agency data portion 316-2, a mail central office data portion 316-3, a payment information data portion 316-4 and a reception management data. Section 316-5.

Referring to the components of each data unit 316, the customer data unit 316-1 stores information about the customer, for example, information such as a customer name, a contact or an address. The stored customer information is stored together with the related information in the information storage unit 320 at the same time the payment of the mail requested by the customer is completed. Here, the related information includes information related to payment and mail information.

Like the customer data unit 316-1, the mail sending agent data unit 316-2 stores a company name, contact information, address, or associated customer information for the mail sending agent. These information are also stored in the information storage unit 320 at the same time payment of the mail is completed.

The postal concentration station data section 316-3 stores information about the postal concentration station. In the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, only the postal concentration station is shown. However, if there is a post office that can settle the postage charges for the settlement of mails, such as the postal concentration station, information about the post office may be stored in the postal center data unit 316-3. .

The payment information data unit 316-4 may include the payment information input from the customer 100 or the mail sending agent 200, the presumed fare information input from the mail sending agent 200, and the mail concentration station 400. It stores information about the payment and the information such as the input recalculation rate information, basic rate and reduction rate information.

The reception management data unit 316-5 stores reception information of mails such as mail reception date, reception time, mail information, and the like.

Next, a process of performing proxy payment through the above-described mail agency payment system will be described with reference to FIG. 4.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a billing process for a large amount of mail according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in Figure 4, the customer requests the mail production agency to send mail (S100). In the embodiment of the present invention, but will be described as an example for the billing of a large amount of mail, but is not necessarily limited to this.

At the same time, it provides its own payment information (S110). Here, the payment information may be entered into a payment system through a mail sending agent, or a customer may directly enter a payment system and input payment information. The payment information includes the name of the bank with which the customer transacts, the deposit account number, the types of cards (e.g. credit card, debit card or check card, etc.) Means information that can be used for.

Mail sending agency to access the payment information received from the customer to the customer receiving unit 330 of the payment system 300 to enter and provide the payment information (S120), and assumes the charge of the mail produced at the request of the customer (S130). Here, since a criterion for assuming a postal charge is already entered in a payment system, a mail sending agency may receive information for a homeowner through the customer reception unit 330. In addition, the standard for domestic property may be said to be the same as that used by the post office or the post office to settle the charges for mail.

The payment system 300 receives the information on the postal rate information and the postal matters assumed by the mailing agency in step S130 (S140). The postulated postal fee information is temporarily stored in the payment information data unit 316-4. In this case, the information on the mail includes information such as the type, size, weight of the mail, and information on postage / postpayment. In addition, although FIG. 4 shows that the mail sending agent 200 first provides the billing information to the payment system and then postulates the mail fee, the mail sending agency 200 assumes the mail fee in consideration of the card limit. After the calculation, the card may be selected according to the assumed fee, and the selected card information may be provided to the payment system 300.

When the mail central office 400 receives the mail from the mail sending agency 200 (S150), the postal mail rate is rearranged against the corresponding mail (S160) and checks whether it is the same as the postal rate assumed in step S130. . At this time, the postal central office 200 may receive the postal mail in the form of a bundle, a postal bag, a box, or a pallet. In addition, although only the postal center is shown in FIG. 4, the postage of the postal office may be rearranged at a post office capable of measuring the weight of the postal mail.

In the embodiment of the present invention, for the recalculation of mails, the basic reduction rate is determined by obtaining the number of mails according to the total weight according to the sampling and weighing conversion method for a large number of mails, and determining the basic reduction rate, and satisfying the submission form and barcode classification criteria of mails. Although it demonstrates as an example of confirming and setting an additional reduction rate, it is not necessarily limited to this. In addition, the entire rate is reduced according to the basic reduction rate and the additional reduction rate. Information on the basic reduction rate and the additional reduction rate is also calculated by the mail rate calculation unit 315 of the payment system and stored in the payment information data unit 316-4.

If the rearranged postal rate is the same as the postulated rate, the postal settlement information is requested to the payment system 300 using the postal rate information stored in the payment system, and if it is different, the rearranged postal rate information from the postal central office ( S170). The payment approval control unit 313 transmits the mailing fee information stored in the payment information data unit 316-4 or the mailing fee information and payment information input from the centralized post office to the payment approval authority server 500 to request payment approval. (S180).

The payment approval institution server 500 approves the requested payment in step S180 (S190), and the payment system 300 notifies the customer 100 of the approval result (S200). In this case, the process of notifying the approval result to the customer 100 is a process of notifying the customer 100 of the billed amount and the approval result, and in advance, such as a short message service (SMS) or an e-mail, etc. Simple information is transmitted through the method agreed by (100).

Then, the customer 100 checks the payment details by accessing the payment system 300 (S210). When checking the payment details, the customer checks the mail information such as the volume of the mail received through the payment system 300, the submission form, and the basic fee and reduction rate of the mail, and the amount after the reduction is applied. In addition, when checking the payment history, the customer can check whether the charges for the mail ordered by him or her are properly charged. If an incorrect payment occurs, notify the mailing agent or the post office / post office to cancel the payment and charge the bill correctly.

As described above, FIG. 4 illustrates a proxy payment method for mail for one customer, but similarly, proxy payment for a plurality of customer mails may be performed.

In other words, when the postal agent 200 redefines the postal charges based on the plurality of pieces of mail information and the plurality of billing information requested by the plurality of customers, the postal concentration agency 400 receives a plurality of pieces of mail. Treat mail for customers as a single piece of mail. This can reduce the waiting time due to paying for the mail for a large number of customers at once. In addition, since payment information for a plurality of customers is already stored in the payment system 300 even if not separately provided, payment errors may be prevented.

The embodiments of the present invention described above are not implemented only through the apparatus and the method, but may be implemented through a program for realizing a function corresponding to the configuration of the embodiment of the present invention or a recording medium on which the program is recorded. Implementation may be easily implemented by those skilled in the art from the description of the above-described embodiments.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improvements of those skilled in the art using the basic concepts of the present invention defined in the following claims are also provided. It belongs to the scope of rights.

1 is a flowchart illustrating a general mass mail agency payment process.

2 is a structural diagram of a payment system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a structural diagram of a payment server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a billing process for a large amount of mail according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (9)

In a billing system for large quantities of mail, A customer reception unit for receiving mail information and payment information for mail from a mail forwarding agency system; An administrator reception unit which receives postal rate information for the postal items settled by either a post office or a postal concentration station, and requests payment approval for the postal items; A payment unit for requesting payment approval based on the postal fee information input from the manager reception unit and outputting the approved payment information; And An information storage unit for storing the mail information, payment information, mail fee information, and payment information approved by the payment unit Billing billing system comprising a. The method of claim 1, The payment unit, A communication connection control unit controlling data transmission / reception between the customer or mail sending agency and the customer reception unit, and controlling data transmission / reception occurring between a post office or a mail central office and an administrator reception unit; A payment approval control unit controlling the requested payment approval request through the manager receiving unit and connecting to a server of a payment approval authority; A mail verification unit for verifying mail received from the mail sending agency; A mail charge calculation unit for refining a charge for a mail verified by the mail verification unit; A data unit that stores the mail information, payment information, mail fee information, and payment information and manages data in association with the information storage unit; And Control unit for controlling the communication connection control unit, payment approval control unit, postal mail verification unit, postage charge calculation unit and data unit Billing billing system comprising a. The method of claim 2, The data unit, A customer data unit for storing customer information on the mail sending agency; A mailing agency data unit for storing the mailing agency information; A mail collection China data unit which stores information of the post office or a postal concentration station; A payment information data section for storing payment information requested from the post office or a postal concentration station; And Reception management data unit for storing the reception information of the mail received from the customer or mailing agency Billing billing system comprising a. In the method of paying the bill for bulk mail, Receiving mail information, billing information, and fee calculation information for mail from a system of a mail sending agency; Receiving charge reordering information for the postal matter from a system of a postal concentration station where the postal matter has been received, and receiving a request for payment for the recalculated rate; And Requesting payment approval of the received payment request, and notifying the approval result when the payment approval is received. Agency payment method including a. The method of claim 4, wherein The billing information billing method can be received from a customer connected to the mailing agency. The method of claim 5, The billing information billing method billing method including one or more of the customer's bank name, bank account number, at least one card type, a card number corresponding to the card, electronic money issuing agency information and electronic money identification number . The method of claim 4, wherein The mail information billing method billing payment method including one or more of the information, mail type, size, weight or payment method information. The method of claim 4, wherein The fee redefinition information is to determine the basic reduction rate by obtaining the number of mails according to the total weight of the mail, determine the additional reduction rate according to the receiving form of the mail, and calculate the fee from the basic reduction rate and the additional reduction rate Billing payment method generated. The method of claim 4, wherein Receiving the rate home-use information, Receiving mail information, payment information, and billing property information for a plurality of customers from a mail sending agency system and managing them as information for one customer Fee agency payment method that includes more.

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