KR20150104545A - Coupon issue method and system interworking intergrated payment service - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are coupon issue method and system interworking an integrated payment service. The coupon issue method interworking an integrated payment service includes: a step of maintaining information on an affiliate allowing the integrated payment system to sell products by using the integrated payment service of the integrated payment system; a step of generating coupon information on the product which the affiliate sells based on the information on the affiliate, and providing the coupon information to the affiliate; a step of receiving updated product information based on the coupon information from the affiliate; and a step of transmitting the received product information and the generated coupon information to a shopping relay system, and exposing the product information and the coupon information through the shopping relay system.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a coupon payment method,

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for issuing an integrated payment service interlocking coupon that enables a merchant to issue a coupon even when the merchant sells the product using only the integrated settlement service.

In general, a business operator operating a shopping mall has its own payment system so that the buyer can purchase the product. In addition, a shopping mall operator may provide benefits to the user by issuing electronic coupons to buyers through a shopping mall or issuing coupons printed on paper such as pamphlets to induce buyers to purchase more goods.

Meanwhile, a shopping mall operator may sell goods through a shopping mall site in addition to his or her own shopping mall in order to generate higher profit. In this case, the shopping mall operator can use the integrated payment service so that the purchaser can more conveniently purchase the goods.

The integrated payment service stores information necessary for payment such as name and address of the purchaser and information necessary for payment such as credit card number in advance so that the purchaser can easily purchase the goods or services by using only the ID of the buyer, It is a service that reduces the inconvenience of repeatedly inputting the information necessary for purchasing.

When a shopping mall operator wishes to sell a product by using the integrated payment service, the integrated shopping mall system provides an integrated payment system in which product information such as a product name and a product price is provided, To be performed.

In addition, when a coupon is issued for a product sold through the integrated payment service, the shopping mall operator provides information such as a product to which the coupon is applied and a product price when coupon is applied to the integrated payment system, City coupons should be applied.

Therefore, in the case of a company that sells a product using only the integrated payment service, there is no own payment system, so that it is difficult to actually issue a coupon for a product to be sold. Therefore, a method of simply issuing coupons is required even when a merchandise is sold using only the integrated payment service.

The present invention provides a method and system for issuing an integrated coupon service linked coupon which can easily issue a coupon even when a product is sold using only the integrated payment service.

A method for issuing a coupon in conjunction with an integrated payment service includes the steps of: maintaining information about an affiliate store that sells a product using the integrated settlement service of the integrated payment system; The method comprising the steps of: generating coupon information for a merchandise to be sold and providing the coupon information to the merchant; receiving updated merchandise information based on the coupon information from the merchant; And exposing the goods information and the coupon information through the shopping intermediary system by transmitting the goods information and the coupon information to the system.

According to one aspect, the product information may include at least one of an ID, a name, a price of the product, and information on a time at which the product information is generated.

According to another aspect, the merchandise information may be transmitted to the shopping intermediary system when the merchant receiving the coupon information agrees to issue the coupon.

According to another aspect, the coupon information may be generated based on the set issuance condition when the merchant sets a coupon issuance condition for the commodity.

The integrated payment system includes an affiliate shop information management unit that maintains information on an affiliate store that sells a product using the integrated settlement service, a coupon information generation unit that generates coupon information for generating a coupon information for a product sold by the affiliate shop, And a transmitter / receiver for providing the generated coupon information to the merchant and receiving updated merchandise information based on the coupon information from the merchant, wherein the transmitter / receiver transmits the received merchandise information and coupon information to the shopping intermediary system So that the goods information and the coupon information are exposed through the shopping intermediary system.

Generates coupon information for the merchandise sold by the merchant based on the information about the merchant selling the merchandise using the integrated settlement service, provides the coupon information to the merchant, receives the updated merchandise information based on the coupon information from the merchant The received merchandise information and the generated coupon information are transmitted to the shopping intermediary system so that the merchant who sells the merchandise using only the integrated payment service can easily issue the coupon.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Figure 1 is a schematic representation of the relationship between an advertiser, an advertising platform, a publisher, and a user in one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of issuing a coupon in conjunction with an integrated settlement service in an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a timing diagram for explaining a process of issuing a coupon in conjunction with an integrated settlement service in an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is an exemplary view showing a shopping intermediary site in which a coupon issued in conjunction with an integrated settlement service is exposed in an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is an exemplary view showing a screen displayed when a merchandise is purchased through the shopping intermediary site of FIG. 4 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating an integrated payment system for issuing coupons in conjunction with an integrated payment service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Figure 1 is a schematic representation of the relationship between an advertiser, an advertising platform, a publisher, and a user in one embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, an advertiser 110, an advertising platform 120, a publisher 130, and a user 140 are illustrated. Here, the advertiser 110 and the user 140 may substantially refer to a user terminal such as a personal computer (PC) or a smart phone used by the advertiser 110 or the user 140. That is, the arrows in FIG. 1 may mean that data is transmitted and received over a wired or wireless network between a user terminal used by the advertiser 110, an advertising platform 120, a publisher 130, and a user terminal utilized by the user 140 have.

The advertisement platform 120 may be a system for performing a bid for an advertisement of an advertiser 110, matching between an advertisement and a keyword, sorting an advertisement or an advertiser, providing an advertisement to the publisher 130, . Regarding general technical matters of the advertisement platform 120, the description of the matters that can be understood with reference to the prior art related to the search advertisement and / or the banner advertisement platform transmitted via the Internet will be omitted.

The term "publisher" herein may be used interchangeably with the term "site ". However, the description using the term "site " does not exclude the possibility of implementation of the present invention in an environment other than a general PC web site connection such as an application screen executed in a mobile terminal. Conversely, the term "site" may be used interchangeably with the term publishing site or the publisher referred to above. In other words, each site may correspond to an individual publisher (a first publisher, a second publisher, etc.) included in the publisher 130. At this time, the term "site" may include any kind of web site that can be exposed to an advertisement and can be provided to a user through a wired or wireless network, and may refer to a single web page constituting a web site as needed .

In addition, the "exposure" of an advertisement means that publicity contents such as text, images, sounds, videos, and hyperlinks associated with the advertiser through a site (publisher) are provided to a visitor (e.g., user 140) And the like. In addition, the "selection" for the exposed advertisements indicates a situation in which the advertiser is expected to achieve through the delivery of the publicity content by displaying a reaction (user event) of a mouse click or the like to the publicity contents provided by the users May occur. Here, for example, the situation induced by the advertiser may include a situation in which a page associated with an advertiser is exposed to a user who selected the advertisement, or a situation in which users join a member through a page exposed by selecting an advertisement.

At this time, the achievement of the situation induced by the advertiser can be expressed as "conversion ". For example, if an advertiser-derived situation is a "selection" (e.g., click) on an exposed ad, the "conversion" In another example, if the situation led by the advertiser is sales of the product through the exposed advertisement, the "conversion" may refer to the sale of the product to be sold through the exposed advertisement. As another example, if an advertiser-derived situation is a subscription on a site accessed by users via an exposed ad, the "conversion" may refer to a user's subscription.

The publisher 130 may provide the user 140 with his or her site, provide the pages included by the site to the user 140 through the site, or provide the search results for the search word to the user 140 through the site (140). At this time, the publisher 130 may receive advertisements for exposing through the pages from the advertisement platform 120 and provide the advertisements to the user 140. For example, the publisher 130 may deliver the keyword entered by the user 140 to the advertisement platform 120, receive the advertisement for the keyword from the advertisement platform 120, and provide the advertisement 140 to the user can do. As another example, the publisher 130 may determine an advertisement to provide as a search result using the keyword entered by the user 140, and may request the advertisement platform 120 for information on the determined advertisement. At this time, the publisher 130 may add information about the advertisement received from the advertisement platform 120 to the user 140 in addition to the search result.

The publisher 130 may provide a path (screen) in which the user 140 is directly provided with the advertisement. For example, in a typical online environment, advertisements may be provided to a user 140 via a web site. Here, each of a plurality of individual advertisement platforms (a first advertisement platform, a second advertisement platform, and the like) included in the advertisement platform 120 includes a plurality of individual publishers (a first publisher, a second publisher, Etc.) through the at least one individual publisher. In addition, at least one individual publisher of the plurality of individual publishers may provide the user 140 with at least one site, such as aggregate search, keyword search, blog service, mail service, social network service, etc., And can provide at least one of various services that can be provided through a wired or wireless network.

Such an advertisement platform 120 and the publisher 130 may be systems included in one system.

As an example, the integrated payment system according to the present invention may be one of the systems operating in the individual advertisement platforms or a system included in one of the systems operating in the individual advertisement platforms. In this case, the integrated system may receive and use information associated with the user from at least one of the systems associated with the individual publisher.

In another embodiment, an integrated payment system in accordance with the present invention may be a system of one of the systems associated with an individual publisher, or a system included in a system of one of the systems associated with an individual publisher. In this case, the integrated payment system can receive and use information related to the advertiser from at least one of the systems operating in the individual advertisement platform.

That is, the integrated payment system according to the present invention may receive relevant information directly from an advertiser or a user, but may receive related information through at least one of the advertisement platform and the corresponding publisher. Therefore, for convenience of explanation, the relationship with the advertisement platform or the publisher will be omitted, and a method of issuing coupons in conjunction with the integrated payment service and an integrated payment system using this method will be described.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of issuing a coupon in conjunction with an integrated settlement service in an embodiment of the present invention.

In order to issue a coupon for a product sold by an affiliate shop using only the integrated payment service, the integrated payment system first maintains information on an affiliate shop that sells the product using the integrated payment service in a database or the like (S210).

Here, the merchant may refer to an advertiser who agrees to disclose information about predetermined user benefits (for example, coupons, reserves, etc.) together with advertisements, or a site of the advertiser or advertiser who expressed his intention.

Then, the integrated payment system generates coupon information for the merchandise sold by the merchant based on the information on the merchant, and provides the coupon information to the merchant (S220).

The merchant who has received the coupon information can consent to the coupon issuance (S230) and can issue the coupon through the integrated payment system. The merchant information can be updated based on the received coupon information and transmitted to the integrated payment system (S240) . At this time, the commodity information may include information such as the ID of the commodity, the name, the price, and the time at which the commodity information is generated.

Upon receiving the updated product information from the merchant, the integrated payment system transmits the generated coupon information and the product information received from the merchant to the shopping intermediary system (S250), so that the updated merchandise information and coupon information are exposed at the shopping intermediary site .

If the merchant receiving the coupon information does not agree to coupon issuance, the coupon issuance may be canceled (S260).

On the other hand, the merchant can set coupon issuance conditions by setting coupon type, coupon name, discount type, discount condition, issue date, validity period, application unit, and person to be paid through a predetermined site provided by the integrated payment system. In this case, the integrated payment system can generate coupon information based on coupon issuing conditions set by the merchant.

3 is a timing diagram for explaining a process of issuing a coupon in conjunction with an integrated settlement service in an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, the coupon issuing process will be described in more detail with reference to FIG.

In order to allow the merchant using only the integrated payment service to issue the coupon, the integrated payment system 310 first generates coupon information for the merchandise sold by the merchant based on the information about the merchant (S310) And transmits the coupon information to the corresponding merchant 320 (S320). At this time, the generated coupon information may be information about the discount coupon, the product discount coupon, the shipping discount coupon, and the like.

The merchant 320 can change the merchandise information based on the received coupon information (S330) and provide the changed merchandise information to the integrated payment system 310 (S340). At this time, the product information provided to the integrated payment system 310 includes, for example, information on a new product, information on an updated product, information on an out of stock product, information on a product whose outcome has been repaired, and the like .

When the integrated payment system 310 is requested to update the merchandise information from the merchant 320, the integrated payment system 310 transmits the coupon information generated together with the changed merchandise information to the shopping mediating system 330 (S350) May be updated and the coupon information may be exposed (S360).

FIG. 4 is an exemplary view illustrating a shopping intermediary site in which coupons issued in conjunction with an integrated settlement service are exposed in an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. FIG. 8 is an exemplary view showing a screen displayed when a product is purchased through a site; FIG.

4, the merchandise information 410 sold by a plurality of merchants may be exposed to the shopping brokerage site provided from the shopping brokerage system. Each of the products can be sorted by the category provided by the shopping intermediary site, by the order of the recommended product, by the low price, by the date of registration, and in the case of the product in which the coupon is issued, the coupon information 420 is exposed to one side of the product image It is possible to induce the user to purchase the product.

When the user selects to purchase the exposed goods with the coupon information 420, information on the immediately discounted price and actual retail price can be displayed by applying the coupon for the corresponding product as shown in FIG.

When the user purchases the product to which the coupon is applied, the integrated payment system can settle the payment for the merchandise of the merchant at the sale price of the merchandise based on the coupon information and the merchandise information.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating an integrated payment system for issuing coupons in conjunction with an integrated payment service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.

The integrated payment system 610 allows the merchant 620 to more easily issue a coupon and exposes the information on the coupon to the shopping intermediary site of the shopping intermediary system 630, A coupon information generation unit, and a transmission / reception unit.

The merchant store information management unit maintains information on the merchant store 620 that sells the merchandise using the integrated settlement service. Although only one merchant 620 is shown in the figure for convenience of explanation, the consolidated settlement system 610 can maintain information on a plurality of merchant subscribed to the integrated settlement service.

The coupon information generation unit can generate coupon information for the merchandise sold by the merchant based on the information about the merchant store held in the merchant store information management unit. However, when the coupon issuing condition is set by the merchant 620, the coupon information may be generated according to the set conditions.

The transceiver unit provides the coupon information generated by the coupon information generation unit to the corresponding merchant and receives the updated merchandise information based on the coupon information from the corresponding merchant. Then, the received merchandise information and coupon information are transmitted to the shopping intermediary system 630 so that the merchandise information and the coupon information are exposed through the shopping intermediary system 630. At this time, the commodity information transmitted / received by the transmitting / receiving section may include information such as the ID of the commodity, the name, the price, and the time at which the commodity information is generated.

If the merchant agrees to issue the coupon, the transmission / reception unit transmits the coupon information generated by the coupon information generation unit to the shopping intermediary system. If the merchant does not agree with the coupon issue, the coupon information is not transmitted to the shopping intermediary system, Only the agreed coupon information can be exposed on the shopping intermediary site.

Accordingly, the method and system for issuing an integrated payment service linked coupon can generate coupon information for a merchandise to be sold by the merchant based on information on the merchant that sells the merchandise using the integrated settlement service, provide the coupon information to the merchant, The updated merchandise information is received based on the coupon information, and the received merchandise information and the generated coupon information are transmitted to the shopping intermediary system, so that the merchant who sells the merchandise using only the integrated settlement service can easily issue the coupon .

While the invention has been shown and described with reference to certain preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. This is possible.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined by the equivalents of the claims, as well as the claims.

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How to issue a coupon in conjunction with the integrated payment service.

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