KR20120087750A - Information Providing System And Method Thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A real time discount information providing system and a method thereof are provided to set up a discount rate in real time by considering the present condition of customers, thereby supplying discount information. CONSTITUTION: An interface module(210) permits a connection of a member store terminal(10). The interface module provides an interface for discount information registration. The interface module provides an application for using a service to client terminal(30). The interface module permits the connection of the client terminal. A discount information managing module(220) registers and manages real time discount information registered by the member store terminal. The discount information managing module provides the registered real time discount information to the client terminal.

Description

Real-time Discount Information Provision System and Method {Information Providing System And Method Thereof}

The present invention relates to a real-time discount information providing system and method, and more particularly, by providing the customer with real-time discount information in a location-based service to the customer can be used at a discounted price from the customer's point of view can be reduced costs In the aspect of the merchant, the present invention relates to a real-time discount information providing system and a method of benefiting both the customer and the merchant because the customer can attract the customer during a time when the service is not available.

With the development of information and communication networks and the spread of smartphones, social commerce, which is an e-commerce using social media and online media, is widely used.

The social commerce is operated by a social commerce company contracting with a particular merchant to provide a product or service to a customer at a discounted price.

However, the conventional social commerce allows a customer to apply for the product or service at a discounted price for a certain period of time regardless of time, so the same discount is applied to the customer who purchased the product or service pass through the social commerce regardless of time. do.

Thus, for example, if the franchise is a restaurant, the same discount must be applied without distinguishing between peak time when customers are flocked and idle time when customers are not squeezed, and customers who have purchased a discount pass can easily use the pass at peak time. There was a problem that the concentration of the idle time is very low due to the concentration of the peak time.

In other words, merchants can secure their customers even if they don't have a discount in peak time, even if there is no discount, but in the case of idle time, it is desirable to attract customers even if they provide a large discount rate. It is necessary to operate by giving differential.

In order to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide customers with real-time discount information based on the customer's location-based service, attracting customers during idle time rather than peak time for the merchant, The present invention provides a system and method for providing real-time discount information that can receive a product or service at a discounted price.

The real-time discount information providing system according to the present invention allows the merchant terminal to input the real-time discount information of the merchant and the merchant terminal, receives and registers the real-time discount information, and provides the registered real-time discount information to the customer It may be configured to include a management server and the customer terminal to confirm the real-time discount information provided from the management server.

The management server allows access to the affiliated store terminal, provides an interface for registering discount information, provides an application for service use to a customer terminal, and registers from the affiliated store terminal and an interface module for allowing access to the customer terminal. And a discount information management module for registering and managing the discount information and providing the registered discount information to a customer terminal having the application, and storing and managing the affiliate information and discount information of the registered affiliate store. It is done.

The affiliated store information may include detailed information for promoting the affiliated store to customers such as an industry type, a location, an internal photo, and the size of the affiliated store.

The discount information management module generates location information data in which location of affiliated stores providing the registered discount information is mapped to internal map data or external map data, and generates the generated location information based on the current location of the customer terminal. The affiliate store discount information mapped to the data may be provided, or the affiliate store discount information may be provided based on a location designated by the customer.

The discount information management module extracts the location of the current customer terminal from the IP information when the customer terminal is a computer terminal and extracts the location from the GPS information when the customer terminal is a mobile terminal.

In addition, the discount information management module sets a search area for the discount information from the reference location, the setting interface for providing discount information by classifying the affiliated stores in the search area by type of business and the customer who wants to make a reservation for the provided discount information And a reservation interface for setting a reservation.

The reservation interface is characterized in that the reservation is completed when the payment for the set amount of small deposit is completed.

As described above, the system and method for providing real-time discount information according to the present invention operate by allowing the customer to be attracted even in the idle time when the customer has little use by providing discount information by setting the discount rate in real time in consideration of the customer status of the merchant. There is an excellent effect to increase profits.

In addition, since the service can be used at a low price from the customer's point of view, there is an excellent effect that benefits both the merchant and the customer.

1 is a system configuration diagram schematically showing a system for providing real-time discount information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of FIG. 1.

Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 is a system configuration diagram schematically showing a real-time discount information providing system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a detailed block diagram of FIG.

1 and 2, the real-time discount information providing system according to the present invention allows the affiliated store terminal 10 to input real-time discount information of the affiliated store and the affiliated store terminal and receives and registers the real-time discount information. It may include a management server 20 for providing the registered real-time discount information to the customer and the customer terminal 30 for confirming the real-time discount information provided from the management server.

Here, the merchant is a restaurant, catering such as pubs, hotels, lodgings such as inns, hair salons, nail arts, services such as massages, implants, plastic surgery, medical services such as oriental medicine, sales businesses selling various goods, movies, plays, It will be defined as a concept that includes all industries that provide goods or services, such as the performance service industry such as musicals.

In addition, the real-time discount information refers to discount information that is temporarily applied at the merchant at idle time, which is the off-season business hours of the day.

If the merchant is a lodging service business, if a loss occurs immediately after the time limit (for example, check-in boundary time) has elapsed without the use of the customer, it will be temporarily applied in consideration of the current vacancy rate and the time remaining until the time limit. Means discount information.

For example, if the current vacancy rate of Company A is 50% or more, and 12 pm is set as the limit time, it is very unlikely that 50% of the vacancy rooms will be closed within 2 hours if the current time is 10:00. It is necessary to provide the customer with the discounted amount as much as possible, and the temporary discount information applied within the two hours is the real-time discount information.

In addition, in the case of the performance service industry, the performance of the performance should be performed even if the customer's seat occupancy is low, even if the occupancy rate is low. The discount information provided at a greatly discounted amount is the real time discount information.

In other words, the real-time discount information applied in the present invention is a concept that includes all the discount information that is applied for a limited time during the difficult time to secure the customer of the merchant.

The affiliated store terminal 10 and the customer terminal 30 may be any terminal capable of accessing the Internet, such as a computer terminal such as a PC or a laptop, a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone, a PDA, and a smartphone.

The management server 20 allows an access of the affiliated store terminal, provides an interface for registering discount information, provides an application for service use to a customer terminal, and permits access of the customer terminal. And a discount information management module 220 for registering and managing registered discount information from the affiliated store terminal and providing the registered discount information to a customer terminal provided with the application, the affiliated store information, and discount information of the registered affiliated store. It may be configured to include a database 230 for storage management.

The management server 20 may further include a payment management module 240 for processing payment for discount information selected by the customer.

The affiliated store information may include all detailed information for promoting the affiliated store to customers such as an industry, a location, an internal photo, and the size of the affiliated store.

The customer terminal 10 may download and install an application from the management server, and access discount information by accessing the management server through the application.

The application is installed in the customer terminal 10, and when activating the application is connected to the management server serves to provide an interface for searching and selecting the real-time discount information of the affiliate store provided by the management server.

The discount information management module 220 generates location information data by mapping locations of affiliated stores that provide the registered discount information to internal map data or external map data.

Here, the map data may be provided in the server itself and stored and managed in a database, and may be used by purchasing or renting from an external map providing server.

The discount information management module 220 may provide affiliate store discount information on the basis of the location of the current customer terminal, and may provide affiliate store discount information based on a location specified by the customer.

First, when a customer executes an application and requests affiliate store discount information based on the location of the current customer terminal 30, when the customer terminal is a computer terminal, extracts the location information of the customer from the IP address, and when the mobile terminal is a smart phone. Extract the customer's current location information from GPS information.

The application provides the location information of the customer to the discount information management module, the discount information management module 220 maps the location information of the customer to the map data, real-time discount information of the merchant around the current location of the customer Provided to the terminal.

Here, the discount information management module 220 may provide an interface for selecting an area to be searched from the current location of the customer. That is, the customer can set the search area such as 500M, 1KM, 2KM radius from the current position.

When the search area is set, the discount information management module 220 extracts real-time discount information of the affiliated store in the search area from the database 230 and provides it to the customer terminal 30.

Here, the discount information management module 220 may provide real-time discount information of the affiliated stores in the search area for each industry type. Therefore, the customer may select a specific industry and receive real-time discount information of the specific industry in the search area.

In addition, when requesting affiliate discount information based on a specific location designated by the customer, the discount information management module 220 may select a desired specific location from the customer and provide discount information of affiliate stores around the specific location.

More specifically, the discount information management module 220 provides the map data to the customer terminal, the customer can select the desired location through the map data search, if the desired location is selected from the customer, the real-time affiliated shop around the location Discount information is extracted from the database 230 and provided to the customer terminal 30.

The customer may view real-time merchant discount information around the corresponding location, and request a reservation or prepayment for the specific merchant discount information.

More specifically, the discount information management module may not only provide real-time discount information of the restaurant but may provide a reservation interface for receiving a reservation for using the restaurant.

For example, the merchant may register the number of tables or the number of people available with the real-time discount information, and the customer may check the available number of tables or the number of people, and the number of people and the reservation information of the party to attend. You can set a reservation by typing.

In addition, in order to prevent a customer from making a reservation, a method of receiving a small deposit may be used.

More specifically, the discount information management module 220 may provide an interface for making a small payment at the time of booking, and set the reservation to be completed only when the small payment using the mobile phone (for example, 100 won per head) is completed.

When the reservation is set as described above, the reservation information is transmitted to the affiliated store terminal of the corresponding restaurant, and real-time discount information obtained by subtracting the available number of tables or the number of persons is provided to other customer terminals.

When the customer requests a prepaid payment rather than a reservation, the payment management module 240 specifies a desired payment target in a service menu of a specific merchant and selects a payment method, and the payment management module 240 processes payment for the selected payment target service.

Here, the payment method may be one of credit card payment, mobile phone payment and real time account transfer.

If credit card payment is selected, payment management module 240 provides an interface for credit card payment, and receives a credit card number and password (credit card information) from the customer. Here, the certification may further include a certification process for safe payment.

When the credit card information is entered, the payment management module requests the payment by transmitting the entered credit card information and the payment amount (accumulation amount) to the credit card company server, and the credit card company server determines whether the credit card number and the password match. Confirm and process payment.

When the payment is completed, the credit card company server transmits the payment completion information to the customer terminal through the payment management module to complete the payment processing.

And when the mobile phone payment is selected, payment management module 240 provides an interface for mobile phone payment, and receives a mobile phone number from the user.

When the mobile phone number is input, the payment management module 240 transmits the input mobile phone number and the payment amount to the mobile communication company server to request a payment, and the mobile service provider server generates an authentication number according to the payment request, thereby generating the mobile phone number. Send the authentication number to.

The user inputs the authentication number transmitted to his mobile phone to the terminal and transmits it to the payment management module 240, the payment management module transmits the received authentication number to the mobile communication company server, and the mobile communication company server generates the authentication number. Checks whether the transmitted authentication number matches and performs authentication and processes payment.

If bank transfer is selected, payment management module 240 provides an interface for real-time account transfer, and receives account information (bank and account number, security code) from the customer.

When the account information is input, the payment management module 240 requests the payment by transmitting the input account information and the remittance amount (the money amount) to the bank server, and the bank server secures the account number in the account information according to the payment request. Check whether the codes match, and the payment management module 240 transfers the amount to the specified account to complete the transfer. When the transfer is completed as described above transmits the transfer result to the user terminal.

When the payment is processed through the above process, the payment management module 240 issues a coupon for a product or service of the affiliated store and transmits the coupon to the client terminal.

The issued coupon may include information such as location information of the affiliated store, a target service or product, and a usable time zone.

Here, the coupon issued by the payment can be used only in the discountable time zone set by the merchant, so when visiting the merchant outside the discountable time zone, the coupon is paid by an additional fee according to the discount rate at the time of use. Can be used.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of providing real-time discount information for a specific service industry will be described.

<Restaurants>

In the case of restaurants, the peak time is mainly lunch time and dinner time from 12 to 2 o'clock, and 6 to 8 o'clock, and it is difficult to secure the guests at the children's time before and after the lunch and dinner time.

Therefore, during the idle time, it is preferable to attract and operate the customer at a greatly discounted amount considering the cost, rather than operating without the customer.

For example, a 50% discount may be applied to a customer entering the room from 3 to 4 o'clock, and the discount information may be registered in the management server to attract the customer. In the case of customers, it is profitable to eat a late or early meal because it is possible to eat a discounted amount.In the case of a restaurant, even if a meal is provided at a 50% discount, the restaurant can be rotated, so even if a margin is low, Both customers and restaurants can provide a win-win business model.

<Hotel>

Accommodations such as hotels and inns are service businesses that rent sleeping spaces, so it is more profitable to attract customers at a significantly discounted price than to operate in low season.

Therefore, when the vacancy rate is very high in the current state, when customers register a greatly discounted information on the management server in consideration of the cost (cleaning, used goods, etc.) to manage one room, the nearby customers confirm it and have a low price. Can be used for

Through this, it is possible to increase the operating profit by lowering the vacancy rate for the lodging property, and the lodging facility can be used at a very low price for the customer.

For example, if the current time is 11:30 and the current vacancy rate is high, customers who use after 12 pm can register the real-time discount information of 50% discount on the management server, and the customer terminal reports the real-time discount information. Reservations and payments are available.

<Beauty salon>

In the case of beauty salons, there is also a peak time and idle time, so in the case of idle time, it is an operational benefit to attract customers even at a greatly discounted price than without customers.

Therefore, if the current salon does not have a client in idle time, the owner of the salon may register a discount information on the management server that discounts 50% of the service fee to the customer who uses it within one hour from the present time. Attract customers.

If a lot of customers are attracted to the beauty salon in peak time, the registered discount information may be deleted to provide the service at the regular price.

Therefore, in consideration of the peak time, idle time, and the state of securing the customer, the merchant can set the discount rate in real time and register the management server, thereby increasing the operating profit, and the customer can also receive the service at a low cost.

<Performance Service Industry>

In the case of the performance service industry, such as theatrical and musicals, when the performance starts, the performance should be performed regardless of the customer's share. It is preferable to proceed.

Therefore, if the reservation rate for a particular performance is too low, and if the performance start time is imminent, providing a ticket at a significantly discounted price can increase the customer's share, thereby increasing the performance of the performance. You can watch.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be practical exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

10: merchant terminal 20: management server
30: customer terminal

Claims (8)

A real-time discount information providing system for providing a real-time discount information to the customer terminal for a limited time is applied in the merchant at idle time during the off-season business hours input from the merchant terminal,
An interface module for allowing access of the affiliated store terminal, providing an interface for registering discount information, providing an application for service use to a customer terminal, and allowing access of the customer terminal;
A discount information management module for registering and managing real-time discount information registered from the affiliated store terminal and providing the registered real-time discount information to a customer terminal equipped with the application;
Real-time discount information providing system comprising a database for storing and managing the registered merchant information, the discount information of the registered merchant.
The method of claim 1,
The real-time discount information providing system further comprises a payment management module for performing a payment process for the discount information of the selected merchant among the real-time discount information.
The method of claim 1,
The merchant information is
Real-time discount information providing system comprising the details for promoting the merchant to the customer, such as the type of business, location, interior photo, scale, service items, and reviews.
The method of claim 1,
The discount information management module
Generating location information data by mapping locations of affiliated stores providing the registered real-time discount information to internal map data or external map data;
The real-time discount information providing system, characterized in that to provide real-time discount information of the merchants mapped to the generated location information data based on the location of the current customer terminal, or to provide the merchant discount information based on the location specified by the customer.
The method of claim 4, wherein
The discount information management module
Extracting a location of the current customer terminal from IP information when the customer terminal is a computer terminal;
If the customer terminal is a mobile terminal, the real-time discount information providing system, characterized in that for extracting the location from the GPS information.
The method of claim 1,
The discount information management module
A setting interface configured to set a search area for discount information from the reference position, and provide discount information by classifying affiliated stores in the search area by type of business;
And a reservation interface for setting a reservation of a customer who wants to make a reservation for the provided discount information.
The method according to claim 6,
The reservation interface is
Real-time discount information providing system, characterized in that the reservation is completed when the payment for the set deposit.
The method of claim 2,
The payment management module
Providing an interface for payment for real-time discount information of a specific affiliated store selected from the customer;
Real-time discount information providing system, characterized in that the payment is processed by one of the selected methods of bank transfer, mobile phone payment and credit card payment issuing and providing a coupon that can be used in the merchant.

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