KR20110138667A - Method and system for managing gift certificate - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A gift card management method and system thereof are provided to previously prevent the mistake of an employee in a gift card store by effectively managing the usage of a gift card. CONSTITUTION: A communication unit(211) receives gift card information recognized from a gift card which was already purchased by a client. A management unit registers the gift card in order to enable the client to use the gift card which includes the gift card information received by the communication unit. A security measurement unit(213) informs a gift card selling state to a gift card seller when the gift card information is not matched with security information.

Description

Method and system for managing gift certificate

The present invention relates to a voucher management method and system, and more particularly to a voucher management method and system for selling vouchers and managing the use of the vouchers sold.

A gift certificate is a certificate that allows the purchase of goods or services within the face value. Vouchers begin with those issued and used at department stores, department stores, gas stations, and the like, and are currently being used frequently on the Internet.

In addition, vouchers are also sold in various places such as vouchers, department stores, gas stations, and other places such as banks and the like.

Accordingly, there has been a case where even a small-scale company sells gift certificates, it is required to find a way to make it easier to manage the gift certificate sales.

In addition, in the case of a company that is open 24 hours a day, the owner often leaves the seat after leaving the employee to sell the gift certificate, and thus usefulness of the gift certificate may be generated by the employee, and a countermeasure for this is required.

In addition, there is a problem that companies that are open 24 hours a day are vulnerable to crime, and they are also required to seek measures to counter theft of gift certificates due to crime.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to effectively manage the extinction management by the sale and use of gift certificates, and to prevent the use of gift certificates by employees in gift vouchers. The present invention provides a method and a system for managing gift certificates.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a gift certificate management method and system that can prevent the gift voucher theft by criminals who invade the voucher vendor, and can perform security measures for post-processing the voucher theft occurs. Is in.

According to the present invention for achieving the above object, a gift certificate management method comprises: receiving gift certificate information recognized in a contactless manner from a sold gift certificate; Registering a gift certificate containing the gift certificate information received in the receiving step to be usable; And notifying the gift voucher vendor of the gift voucher sale situation if the gift voucher sale situation corresponds to a specific situation.

The specific situation is that when the par value of the voucher sold exceeds the set par value, when the voucher sales speed exceeds the set sale speed, when the voucher sales amount exceeds the set sales amount and the voucher sales quantity is set It may include at least one of the cases exceeding the quantity.

In addition, the set face value, the set selling speed, the set selling amount, and the set selling quantity may be set by the gift certificate seller.

The set face value is a face value in which the proportion of the total sales is less than a certain weight ratio, the set sale rate is a specific multiple of the past average sales rate, the set sale value is a specific multiple of the past average sales amount, or The set selling quantity may be a specific multiple of the past average selling quantity.

In addition, the gift certificate management method, if the gift certificate sale situation corresponds to the specific situation, the step of performing a security measure for the gift certificate sale place; preferably further includes.

The security measure may include at least one of a recording action for a situation occurring at the gift certificate sale place and a patrol request for the gift certificate sale place.

In addition, the contactless, it is preferable that the way to recognize the gift certificate information by scanning the barcode printed on the sold gift certificate.

In the registration step, when it is determined that the gift certificate containing the gift certificate information received in the receiving step is effectively issued, it is preferable to register the gift certificate containing the gift certificate information to be usable.

In addition, the gift certificate management server, receiving the gift certificate information requested to use; Using the gift certificate containing the gift certificate information received in the receiving step; And extinguishing and registering the used gift certificate.

On the other hand, the gift certificate management method according to the present invention, receiving the gift certificate information recognized in a contactless manner from the sold gift certificate; Registering a gift certificate containing the gift certificate information received in the receiving step to be usable; And performing security measures on the place where the gift certificate is sold if the gift certificate sale situation corresponds to the specific situation.

On the other hand, the gift certificate management server according to the present invention, the communication unit for receiving the gift certificate information recognized in a contactless manner from the sold gift certificate; A management unit which registers to use the gift certificate containing the gift certificate information received through the communication unit; And a security measure unit for notifying the gift voucher vendor of the gift voucher sales situation when the gift voucher sale situation corresponds to a specific situation.

On the other hand, the gift certificate management server according to the present invention, the communication unit for receiving the gift certificate information recognized in a contactless manner from the sold gift certificate; A management unit which registers to use the gift certificate containing the gift certificate information received through the communication unit; And a security measurer that performs a security measure on the place where the gift certificate is sold if the gift certificate sale situation corresponds to the specific situation.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to more effectively manage the extinction caused by the sale and use of the gift certificate, and to prevent the use of the gift certificate by employees in the gift certificate vendor. Inform the owner of the facts so that they can promptly follow up.

In addition, the voucher will be prevented from being stolen by criminals who invade the gift voucher, and if the voucher is stolen, the security company will automatically conduct a patrol request and field shooting / recording for preservation of evidence. It becomes possible.

1 is a view showing an example of a gift certificate management system applicable to the present invention,
2 is a view provided to explain the gift certificate sales registration process;
3 is a view provided for the description of the process in which the voucher registered for sale is extinguished by use;
4 is a diagram illustrating another example of a gift certificate management system to which the present invention is applicable;
5 is a detailed block diagram of a terminal for selling a gift certificate, and
6 is a detailed block diagram of the gift certificate management server.

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

The present specification will exemplify preferred embodiments of a system and method for voucher sale, use extinction and theft / use prevention.

1. Voucher Sale / Use / Destruction Management

1.1. Gift Certificate Management System

1 illustrates an example of a gift certificate management system to which the present invention is applicable. Gift certificate management system to which the present invention is applicable, as shown in Figure 1,

1) the voucher terminal 110 and the game PC 120 provided in the PC room 10, and

2) the gift certificate management server 210, the gift certificate management DB 220 and the account management DB 230 provided in the gift certificate issuer 20,

It is constructed by being connected to each other via the Internet.

The voucher for sale terminal 110 is a terminal used to 'sell registration' of vouchers sold to customers visiting the PC room 10. Since the vouchers sold are implemented to be used only when they are registered for sale in the voucher management server 210 of the voucher issuer 20, the terminal 110 for vouchers is required.

To request a sale registration, the voucher for sales voucher 110 recognizes the voucher number by scanning a barcode printed on the voucher sold. And the voucher for sale terminal 110 transmits the recognized voucher number to the voucher management server 210, and requests the voucher sales registration.

The gift certificate management server 210 may identify the gift certificate sold through the gift certificate number received from the terminal for selling the gift certificate. This is because the gift certificate number is a kind of gift certificate information for specifying a gift certificate.

The gift certificate sales terminal 110 may be a dedicated terminal manufactured for a gift certificate sale registration request or a terminal having a function for requesting a gift certificate sale registration for another purpose. An example of the latter is a case where a PC room owner uses the POS system for managing the PC room 10 as the terminal 110 for the gift certificate sale.

The gaming PC 120 is a PC used by a PC room customer, and the PC room customer can use a gift certificate purchased using the gaming PC 120.

The gift certificate management server 210 is a server in charge of gift certificates 'sales registration' and gift certificates 'extinction registration'.

'Sales registration' is to register that the voucher is validly sold in the PC room 10, it can be used only for the voucher registered for sale. That is, even in the case of gift certificates sold in the PC room 10, gift certificates not sold and registered by the gift certificate management server 210 cannot be used.

'Extinction registration' is to register the gift certificate used by the customer, the gift certificate registered by the gift certificate management server 210 is exhausted and can not be used later.

The gift certificate management DB 220 is a DB in which gift certificate numbers and gift certificate PIN numbers for gift certificates issued by the gift certificate issuer 20 are stored. In addition, the gift certificate management DB 220 is registered whether the sale of the issued gift certificates and whether or not expired, in addition, the issue date, sale date and extinction date may be further included. The recorded / registered contents of the gift certificate management DB 220 are updated by the gift certificate management server 210.

The account management DB 230 is a DB that stores the deposit and withdrawal status and balance for the PC owner account. The PC cafe owner's account is processed by 1) the PC cafe owner depositing the gift card price in advance and 2) withdrawing it at the time of registering the gift card sale.

For example, 1) If a PC cafe owner pays 1 million won in advance for a gift certificate, 1 million won is deposited into a PC cafe owner account, and 2) After the sale registration for a 100,000 won gift card is made, With 100,000 won being withdrawn, the balance of the PC owner's account is reduced to 900,000 won.

The account management DB 230 is also updated by the gift certificate management server 210.

1.2. How to Manage Gift Certificates

Hereinafter, the process of managing the extinction due to the sale and use of the gift certificate by the gift certificate management system shown in FIG. 1 will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3. 2 is a view provided for explaining the gift certificate sales registration process.

As shown in FIG. 2, when a gift certificate is sold at a purchase request of a customer visiting the PC room 10 (S410), the PC room owner uses a barcode printed on the gift certificate sold using the terminal 110 for a gift certificate sale. Scanning, thereby the voucher for sale terminal 110 recognizes the voucher number (S420).

In operation S420, the terminal for selling the gift certificate that recognizes the gift certificate number 110 transmits a gift certificate sale registration request message to the gift certificate management server 210 together with the recognized gift certificate number (S430).

The gift certificate management server 210 refers to the gift certificate number received with the gift certificate sale registration request message from the gift certificate sales terminal 110 through step S430, and verifies whether the gift certificate requested for sale registration is a valid gift certificate (S440). .

Authentication in step S440 is made with reference to the contents contained in the gift certificate management DB (220). This is because the gift certificate management DB 220 contains the gift certificate numbers for the validly issued gift certificates.

Therefore, if the voucher number requested for sale registration is listed as a voucher number validly issued in the voucher management DB 220, the voucher management server 210 determines that the voucher for sale registration has been issued as a voucher validly issued.

In addition, the gift certificate management server 210 registers the sale of the gift certificate requested for sale in the gift certificate management DB 220 (S450). In addition, the gift certificate management server 210 transmits a notification message for notifying that the sale registration for the sold gift certificate is completed (S460).

As a result, the PC room owner recognizes that the gift certificate sale registration is completed, and delivers the sold gift certificate to the PC room customer (S470).

On the other hand, the gift certificate management server 210 withdraws the price of the gift certificate registered for sale from the PC store owner account contained in the account management DB 230, and reduces the balance of the PC room owner account (S480).

The gift certificate registered for sale by the process shown in FIG. 2 is usable and is destroyed by use, which will be described in detail below with reference to FIG. 3. 3 is a view provided to explain the process of the sale-registered gift certificate is destroyed by use.

To use the voucher registered for sale, as shown in FIG. 3, the customer first needs to input a PIN number printed on the voucher registered for sale through the game PC 120 (S510).

Then, the game PC 120 transmits a gift certificate use request message to the gift certificate management server 210 together with the gift certificate PIN number entered in S510 (S520).

The gift certificate management server 210 authenticates whether the gift certificate requested for use is a valid gift certificate registered through the gift certificate PIN number received from the game PC 120 together with the gift certificate use request message (S530).

Authentication in step S530 is made with reference to the contents contained in the gift certificate management DB (220). This is because the gift certificate management DB 220 includes gift certificate PIN numbers for gift certificates registered for sale.

Therefore, if the gift certificate PIN number requested to be used is stored as the PIN number of the gift certificate registered for sale in the gift certificate management DB 220, the gift certificate management server 210 determines that the gift certificate requested for use is validly registered.

Then, the gift certificate management server 210 uses the gift certificate requested to be used (S540). The use process at step S540 means providing a product or service corresponding to the face value of the gift certificate requested to be used, or paying cyber money or points to purchase the same to the account of the PC room customer.

Thereafter, the gift certificate management server 210 registers and extinguishes the gift certificate used in step S540 to the gift certificate management DB 220 (S550). The gift certificate management server 210 transmits a notification message for notifying that the gift certificate extinction registration is completed to the game PC 120 (S560).

As a result, the customer of the PC room recognizes that the gift certificate has been used, and the extinction registration is completed.

2. Gift Certificate Use / Stolen Management

4 illustrates another example of a gift certificate management system to which the present invention is applicable. Gift certificate management system to which the present invention is applicable, as shown in Figure 4,

1) a voucher for sale voucher 110, a game PC 120 and a CCTV camera 130 provided in the PC room 10, and

2) a gift certificate management server 210, a gift certificate management DB 220 and an account management DB 230 provided in the gift certificate issuer 20, and

3) the security company server 310 provided in the security company 30,

It is constructed by being connected to each other via the Internet.

The detailed description of the gift certificate sales terminal 110, the game PC 120, the gift certificate management DB 220 and the account management DB 230 shown in Figure 4, the gift certificate sales terminal 110 shown in Figure 1, the game Since it is the same as the detailed description of the PC 120, the gift certificate management DB 220 and the account management DB 230, it will be omitted.

The gift certificate management server 210 performs, in addition to the function performed by the gift certificate management server 210 shown in FIG. 1, a function for preventing the use of gift certificates by employees or theft by criminals.

To this end, the gift certificate management server 210 first determines whether the gift voucher sales situation by the gift voucher sales terminal 110 corresponds to a situation where there is a possibility of use / theft.

When the gift certificate sale situation corresponds to the situation that is useful / theft,

1) The amount of face value of the voucher sold is a large sum,

2) the situation where the sale of vouchers is very fast;

3) the situation where the gift certificate sales amount is large; and

4) The number of gift certificates sold is large.

Here, 1) the par value of a large amount, 2) the selling speed of a fast one, 3) the selling amount of a large amount, and 4) the selling quantity of a large amount can be set by a PC owner as well as a gift certificate issuer. It is also possible to set by.

In addition, 1) the amount of par value corresponding to a large amount, 2) the selling speed corresponding to a large amount, 3) the selling amount corresponding to a large amount, and 4) the selling quantity corresponding to a large amount are set automatically other than being set by a person. It can be implemented. E.g,

1) The amount of par value of a large amount is a gift certificate with a par value of less than 1% of the total sales (more specifically, a "500,000 won" gift certificate accounts for 1% of the total sales. ),

2) The sales speed that corresponds to the faster sales speed is more than five times faster than the average sales speed in the past (more specifically, the average sales speed in the past is "100,000 won / hour", and the current sales speed is "500,000 won / hour" "),

3) The sales amount corresponding to the huge amount is 5 times more than the average sales amount in the past (more specifically, if the average sales amount in the past is "1 million won" and the current sales amount is "5 million won"),

4) The quantity sold corresponds to the quantity sold more than 5 times more than the average sales volume in the past (more specifically, the average sales quantity in the past is "200 sheets", and the current sales quantity is "1000 sheets").

It is also possible to implement automatic configuration.

If it is determined that the gift voucher sale status by the gift voucher terminal 110 corresponds to a situation in which the voucher is useful / stolen, the gift voucher management server 210 may perform a security measure for the PC room 10 where the gift voucher is sold. Do it.

Specifically, the gift certificate management server 210,

1) to control the CCTV camera 130 through the Internet to perform the shooting and recording of the situation occurring in the PC room 10,

2) to patrol the PC room 10 to the security company server 310,

3) The PC shop owner will be notified by SMS to the PC shop owner so that the PC shop owner can recognize the sale of the gift card.

3. Devices constituting the gift certificate management system

3.1. Vouchers for Sale

FIG. 5 is a detailed block diagram of the gift certificate sales terminal 110 shown in FIGS. 1 and 4. As illustrated in FIG. 5, the terminal for selling a gift certificate 110 includes a barcode scanner 111, a display 113, a controller 115, an input unit 117, and a communication unit 119.

The barcode scanner 111 scans a barcode printed on a gift certificate sold to a PC room customer, and transmits the scan result to the controller 115.

The display 113 is a means for displaying various kinds of information, and the input unit 117 is a means for transmitting a command input by the PC owner to the control unit 115.

The communication unit 119 establishes a connection to communicate with the gift certificate management server 210 through the Internet.

The controller 115 controls the overall operation of the terminal for selling gift certificates. Specifically, the control unit 115 recognizes the gift certificate number through the scan result received from the barcode scanner 111.

The controller 115 transmits a gift certificate sale registration request message together with the gift certificate number to the gift certificate management server 210 through the communication unit 119.

In addition, upon receiving the gift certificate sale registration completion notification notification message from the gift certificate management server 210 through the communication unit 119, the control unit 115 displays the fact that the 'gift certificate sale registration complete' on the display 113, PC owner To be recognized.

3.2. Gift certificate management server

FIG. 6 is a detailed block diagram of the gift certificate management server 210 shown in FIGS. 1 and 4. As shown in FIG. 6, the gift certificate management server 210 includes a communication unit 211, a security measurer 213, a controller 215, a DB manager 217, and an authentication unit 219.

The communication unit 211 is connected to communicate with the gift certificate management DB 220 and the account management DB (230). In addition, the communication unit 211 establishes a connection to communicate with the terminal 110 for the gift certificate sales, the PC for gaming 120, CCTV camera 130, and the security company server 310 via the Internet.

The authentication unit 219 refers to the number of the gift certificate requested for sale registration from the terminal for selling the gift certificate, and verifies whether the gift certificate requested for sale registration is a valid gift certificate.

Then, the authentication unit 219 refers to the PIN number of the gift certificate requested to be used from the gaming PC 120, and verifies whether the gift certificate requested to be used is a valid gift certificate registered for sale.

The DB manager 217 updates the DB according to the authentication result of the authenticator 219. Specifically, the DB manager 217 sells and registers a gift certificate authenticated with a valid sales registration request in the gift certificate management DB 220. Then, the DB management unit 217 expires and registers the gift certificate authenticated with the valid use request in the gift certificate management DB 220.

In addition, the DB management unit 217 updates the deposit details, withdrawal details and balances of the PC owner account recorded in the account management DB (230).

The control unit 215 uses and processes the gift certificate certified as a valid use request. In addition, the controller 215 transmits a gift certificate sale registration completion notification message and a gift certificate extinction registration completion notification message to the terminal for the gift certificate sales through the communication unit 211.

The security measurer 213 determines whether the gift voucher sale status by the gift voucher sales terminal 110 corresponds to a situation in which the voucher is useful / stolen. Situations that have been useful / stolen have been described above.

If it is determined that the gift voucher sales situation corresponds to a situation in which it is useful / stolen, the security measurer 213 1) the communication unit 211 to perform recording and recording of the situation occurring in the PC room 10. Control the CCTV camera 130 through, 2) to patrol the PC room 10, to the security company server 310 through the communication unit 211, and 3) to sell the gift certificate to the PC room owner Guide by SMS.

4. Variant

4.1. gift card

There is no restriction on the type of gift certificate mentioned in the above embodiment. The technical spirit of the present invention may be applied to a cultural book gift certificate as well as a department store gift certificate or a petrol gift certificate.

4.2. PC room

In the above embodiment, it is assumed that a gift certificate is sold in a PC room, but this is also merely an example for convenience of description. Of course, the present invention can be applied to a case where a gift certificate is sold at a place other than the PC room. In other words, the present invention can be applied to a case where a gift certificate seller other than the PC owner sells the gift certificate.

4.3. barcode

In the above example, it is assumed that the barcode is recognized by scanning a barcode printed on the sold coupon. However, it is a matter of course that the voucher number can be recognized in a non-contact manner other than barcode scanning. For example, it is also possible to scan the character code or graphic code other than the barcode to recognize the gift certificate number, or to implement the recognition of the gift certificate number through RF reading.

4.4. Internet

In the above embodiment, it is assumed that the devices in different locations are connected to each other via the Internet, but this is only an example for convenience of description. Thus, it is of course possible that these devices are connected to each other via a network other than the Internet.

4.5. Security measures

In the above embodiment, the gift certificate management server 210, it is determined whether the gift voucher useful / theft situation, it is assumed that the security measures are performed for the PC room 10, but this is merely exemplary.

It is also possible to determine whether the gift voucher terminal 110 other than the gift voucher management server 210 is a situation where the gift voucher may be useful or stolen, and perform security measures for the PC room 10.

In addition, some of the security measures are performed by the voucher for sale terminal 110, and other portions may be implemented to be performed by the voucher management server 210, of course.

For example, the control of the CCTV camera 130 for photographing and recording the PC room 10 and the action of guiding the gift voucher sales situation to the PC shop owner by SMS are performed by the terminal 110 for the gift voucher sale, and the PC room 10 The patrol request to the security company server 310 may be implemented by the gift certificate management server 210.

In addition, while the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described above, the present invention is not limited to the specific embodiments described above, but the technical field to which the invention belongs without departing from the spirit of the invention claimed in the claims. Of course, various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art, and these modifications should not be individually understood from the technical spirit or the prospect of the present invention.

10: PC room 20: Gift certificate issuer
30: security company 110: terminal for the sale of gift certificates
111: barcode scanner 113: display
115: control unit 117: user input unit
119: communication unit 120: gaming PC
130: CCTV camera 210: gift certificate management server
211: communication unit 213: security measures
215: control unit 217: DB management unit
219: authentication unit 220: gift certificate management DB
230: account management DB 310: security company server

Claims (12)

Receiving gift certificate information recognized in a contactless manner from the sold gift certificate;
Registering a gift certificate containing the gift certificate information received in the receiving step to be usable; And
And notifying the gift voucher vendor of the gift voucher sale status if the gift voucher sale status corresponds to a specific situation.
The method of claim 1,
The above specific situation,
The par value of the voucher sold exceeds the set par value, the voucher sale rate exceeds the set sale rate, the voucher sale value exceeds the set sale amount, and the voucher sale quantity exceeds the set sale amount. Gift certificate management method comprising one.
The method of claim 2,
And wherein the set par value, the set sale speed, the set sale amount, and the set sale quantity are set by the gift certificate vendor.
The method of claim 2,
The set amount of par value is a par value of the total sales less than a certain proportion,
The set selling rate is a specific multiple of the past average selling rate,
The set sales amount is a specific multiple of the past average sales amount, or
The set selling quantity is a specific multiple of a past average selling quantity.
The method of claim 1,
And performing a security measure on the place where the gift certificate is sold if the gift certificate sale situation corresponds to the specific situation.
6. The method of claim 5,
The security measures,
And at least one of a recording action for a situation occurring at the voucher selling place and a patrol request for the voucher selling place.
The method of claim 1,
The contactless,
Gift voucher management method characterized in that the scanning of the barcode printed on the voucher sold to recognize the gift certificate information.
The method of claim 1,
The registration step,
If it is determined that the gift certificate containing the gift certificate information received in the receiving step is effectively issued, the gift certificate management method characterized in that for registering to use the gift certificate containing the gift certificate information.
The method of claim 1,
Receiving gift certificate information requested for use;
Using the gift certificate containing the gift certificate information received in the receiving step; And
And registering the used gift voucher extinct.
Receiving gift certificate information recognized in a contactless manner from the sold gift certificate;
Registering a gift certificate containing the gift certificate information received in the receiving step to be usable; And
And performing security measures on the place where the gift certificate is sold if the gift certificate sale situation corresponds to the specific situation.
A communication unit which receives the gift certificate information recognized in a contactless manner from the sold gift certificate;
A management unit which registers to use the gift certificate containing the gift certificate information received through the communication unit; And
And a security measure unit for notifying the gift voucher vendor of the gift voucher sale status if the gift voucher sale situation corresponds to a specific situation.
A communication unit which receives the gift certificate information recognized in a contactless manner from the sold gift certificate;
A management unit which registers to use the gift certificate containing the gift certificate information received through the communication unit; And
And a security measurer that performs a security measure on the place where the gift certificate is sold if the gift certificate sale situation corresponds to the specific situation.

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