TWI395159B - Register method and system for displaying related information on monitor instantly - Google Patents

Description

Cash register method for displaying related information on the screen and its cash register system

The invention relates to a cash collecting method and a cash collecting system thereof, in particular to a cash collecting method for instantly displaying related information on a screen and a cash collecting system thereof.

In the cash register system of the prior art, although the consumption information can be output through the screen to inform the consumer such as special products or store activities, the consumption information is often broadcasted in a circular manner or in a random manner, and the content is not targeted to the consumer. The preference is chosen, so it is more difficult to attract the attention of consumers, resulting in lower advertising effectiveness. Similarly, in the prior art, invoices or receipts provided to consumers are often accompanied by various consumer information, however, this consumer information has the same problem.

Therefore, it is necessary to provide a cash register method for displaying related information on the screen and a cash register system thereof, which can improve the problems of the prior art by executing a software program to screen out personalized consumption information that meets consumer preferences.

The object of the present invention is to provide a cash register method for instantly displaying related information on a screen.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a cash register system for instantly displaying associated information on a screen.

In order to achieve the above object, the cash register method for displaying related information on the screen in real time is used for a cash register system, and the cash register system includes a screen. The method includes the following steps: receiving consumption information, the information obtained by the cash register system when the consumer performs the consumption behavior; screening at least one related information, and at least one associated information system and the consumption information are in accordance with the correlation feature; And displaying at least one associated information on the screen.

To achieve the above other objects, the cash register system of the present invention includes at least one processor, a memory and a screen. The memory includes a software program, and the processor executes a software program of the memory to achieve the following mechanism: receiving consumption information, the information obtained by the cash register system when the consumer performs the consumption behavior; screening at least one association The information, at least one of the associated information system and the consumer information, is associated with the feature; and displays at least one associated information on the screen.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the consumer behavior is a shopping behavior; the association feature is a product name; and at least one related information is at least one preferential product information.

The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more <

Please refer to FIG. 1 first, which is an architectural diagram of the cash register system of the present invention. The cash register system 1 of the present invention comprises at least one processor 10, a memory 20, a screen 30, a printer 40 and a sound amplifying device 50, wherein the processor 10, the memory 20, the screen 30, the printer 40 and the sound amplifying device 50 are electrically connected to each other. Memory 20 The software program 22 is included, and the software program 22 of the memory 20 is executed by the processor 10 to achieve the purpose of displaying the related information on the screen 30 in real time.

2 is a flow chart of a cash registering method for displaying related information on the screen in real time according to the present invention. Next, please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 together to explain the detailed steps and embodiments of the present invention "the method of displaying the cash register on the screen immediately."

Step 200: Prepare the step.

In this step, the input device of the cash register system 1 is used to transmit the consumption information 80 generated by the consumer during consumption, and the consumption information 80 is mainly the product barcode, the number of products, and the like of the product that the consumer wants to purchase. For example, the input device may be a "keyboard", a "barcode machine" and/or a "touch screen" or the like to transfer the consumer information 80 to the cash register system 1. It should be noted that the type of input device is not limited to the above.

In the present embodiment, the "input device" is mainly a screen 30, which is a touch screen. When the consumer wants to shop, in addition to directly obtaining the desired product on the shelf of the product, the product can also be selected from the touch screen. The screen 30 displays a plurality of items to be selected, and the consumption information 80 can be obtained by pressing the screen 30. Due to the wide variety of products for sale, in order to facilitate the search for the products to be purchased in the screen 30, the plurality of items to be displayed displayed on the screen 30 are arranged in a hierarchical manner according to the product category, that is, the screen 30 first displays the categories of the products, and then The categories that are selected by the consumer then display the relevant sub-categories that match the broad category. For example, when a consumer wants to buy a certain brand of juice, he can click on the different display pages to select drinks, juices, orange juice, and then Choose the brand and capacity of orange juice. When the consumer determines the product by operating the touch screen, the store clerk picks up the goods in the locker, which not only enhances the efficiency of the consumer to select the product, but also saves some of the goods for sale directly on the open shelf (such as games). The space for the card placement rack, battery rack, etc.).

Step 201: Receive consumption information 80.

The cash register system 1 receives consumer information 80 when the consumer conducts "consumer behavior". For example, the consumer behavior can be "shopping behavior" of purchasing goods, "paying behavior" when paying various bills or ordering goods, and "value-adding behavior" of increasing stored-value card points. When the consumption behavior is different, the items of Consumer Information 80 will also be different.

When the consumer behavior is a "shopping behavior", the cash register system 1 can receive the consumer information 80 of the product barcode, the product name, the commodity price, the number of the commodity, the consumption area, and/or the consumption period of the commodity that the consumer wants to purchase. The product name and the product price are obtained by comparing the bar code of the product to the product database 24 stored in the memory 20.

When the consumer behavior is a "contribution behavior", the cashier system 1 can receive the bill code, payment type, payment amount, and payment area of the consumer who wants to purchase and pay various bills (such as utility bills, credit cards, telecommunications charges, etc.). And/or consumer information such as payment time slots.

When the consumption behavior is "value-added behavior", the cash register system 1 can receive the consumer information 80 such as the card number, the added value, the value-added area and/or the value-added period of the value of the stored value card.

It should be noted that the "consumption behavior" is not limited to the above three types, and the items of the consumption information 80 are not limited to the above, and may be determined according to actual usage requirements.

After receiving the consumer information 80, the cash register system 1 does not display all the consumer information 80 on the screen 30, but only displays some of the consumer information 80 closely related to the consumer on the screen 30. Please refer to FIG. 3 together to display an embodiment of the screen 30 provided to the consumer after the cash register system 1 receives the consumption information 80. In this embodiment, the "shopping behavior" is taken as an example. The consumer wants to purchase "shampoo". At this time, the consumption information 80 displayed on the screen 30 is the product name and the product price.

Step 202: Filter at least one associated information 90.

At least one associated information 90 is screened by executing the software program 22 of the memory 20 of the cash register system 1. The at least one associated information 90 may be at least one preferential product information, at least one lottery information, at least one game information, or at least one gift information (such as redemption gifts or points).

At least one of the associated information 90 and the consumer information 80 must conform to the "association feature". The so-called "association characteristics" are the product name, commodity price, consumption amount, consumption quantity, consumption area, consumption time period and/or consumer group. It should be noted that the content of "associated features" is not limited to this.

In this embodiment, the "association feature" is "product name", and at least one associated information 90 is at least one preferential product information, indicating that the associated information 90 and the product name to which the consumer information 80 belongs must belong to the same type for the consumer. At least one preferential product corresponding to at least one preferential product information 90 is purchased at a preferential price. The so-called "preferential goods" is to provide consumers with the price of the commodity. Special price, discount or purchase price lower than the general price. Here are three modes:

(1) Related goods of the same attribute

The associated information 90 has the same attributes as the consumption information 80. For example, when the consumption information 80 is the information for purchasing the correction tape, the related information 90 is the promotion information of the notebook, both of which belong to the stationery category; when the consumption information 80 is the information for purchasing the water and water, the related information 90 is the SARS. Promotional information, both of which are carbonated drinks.

(2) Related products that match each other

For example, when the consumer information 80 is the information of the Walkman, the associated information 90 is the promotional information of the battery that conforms to the Walkman specification.

(3) Different products from the same manufacturer

This approach is based on the recognition of the brand to attract consumers to buy different products from the same manufacturer.

When the "association feature" is "commodity price", the filtered related information 90 and the item to which the consumer information 80 belongs must have the same range of prices. For example, when a consumer purchases a high-priced item, the filtered related information 90 is also a high-priced preferential item.

When the "association feature" is "consumption period", the related information 90 is changed according to the consumption period. For example, the unrelated information 90 of the unpopular period provides a high discount rate of the preferential merchandise to attract consumers to shop at this time.

When the "association feature" is "consumer group", the consumer information generated by the consumer behavior 80 pushes back the consumer group. For example, if the purchase of goods is mostly household items (such as dishwashing detergent, salad oil, etc.), you can infer consumers. May be a housewife; if the purchase of goods is mostly lunch, coffee, newspapers, etc., it can be inferred that consumers may be office workers. Then, based on this characteristic, at least one related information 90 that matches the purchase ratio of the ethnic group is selected.

The source of at least one associated information 90 is described below. In this embodiment, at least one associated information 90 is obtained by the cash register system 1. At this time, the action of screening at least one associated information 90 is performed by the cash register system 1. It should be noted that at least one associated information can also be obtained through the Internet connection. At this time, the action of screening at least one associated information 90 is performed through an external network server.

Step 203: Display at least one associated information 90 on the screen 30.

At least one associated information 90 filtered in step 202 is displayed on the screen 30. Referring to FIG. 4 together, an embodiment of displaying at least one associated information 90 for the screen 30 is provided. In this embodiment, the consumer information 80 of the consumer's purchase of the product is "shampoo", and the selected related information 90 is "edible oil", "laundry", "soy sauce", etc. Item information for the consumer to choose whether to purchase. Since the related information 90 is selected according to the user's consumption habits, it is more in line with consumer needs.

It should be noted that when the processor 10 reaches a certain processing speed or higher, since the time for filtering the related information 90 is extremely short, the screen display screen of FIG. 3 may not be needed, and FIG. 4 may be directly displayed.

In this embodiment, the screen 30 is an integrally formed double-sided screen, including two display screens facing in opposite directions. For example, the two display screens are oriented at 180 degrees for the clerk to view one of the displays. In the curtain, and let the consumer watch another display screen, the screens displayed by the two screens can be different to meet the information required by the clerk and the consumer. At this point, the consumer can Keep track of the checkout process and instantly respond to interactions with related information90. It should be noted that the structure of the screen 30 is not limited to the above, and it is also possible to use a conventional single-sided screen or use two separate screens.

In addition to displaying the associated information 90 on the screen 30, in order to increase the effect of displaying the associated information 90, the cash register system 1 may further include a sound amplifying device 50 for playing a voice (such as a voice advertisement) coordinated with at least one associated information 90 or Music (such as brand or product theme songs).

If the consumer determines to purchase the preferential product during the shopping, proceed to step 205; if the consumer does not need to purchase the preferential product during the shopping, but still wants to reserve the opportunity to purchase the preferential product, proceed to step 204 .

Step 204: The printer 40 prints at least one associated information 90.

When the consumer does not decide to purchase the preferential product at the time of checkout, but still wants to retain the opportunity to purchase the preferential product, at least one related information may be printed by the printer 40 of the cash register system 1 after the selected related information 90 is selected. 90, as a voucher to purchase the discounted goods in the future. Among them, the printer 40 can be a commonly used thermal printer, which uses hot paper for printing. The at least one associated information 90 printed by the printer 40 is the same as the at least one associated information 90 displayed on the screen 30, and can be presented in text or in a pattern.

Please refer to FIG. 5, which is a screen display embodiment after the user clicks on the related information 90. In this embodiment, at least one associated information 90 printed by the printer 40 is selected by pressing a touch screen. For example, when the consumer selects the related information in the screen display screen of FIG. 4 as "soy sauce", and then clicks the print button 76 in the screen display screen of FIG. 5, the preferential product can be printed as soy sauce. Discount roll.

When the associated information 90 is "draw information" or "game information", at least one associated information 90 listed by the printer 40 may be a voucher for a game, an activity, a questionnaire, and the like, and the consumer may further follow the certificate. Instruct the activity.

Subsequent billing operations are continued, and since this section is a prior art, it will not be described again.

Step 205: Accept the message that the consumer purchases at least one preferential product.

Please continue to refer to Figure 5. In this embodiment, the user wants to purchase the soy sauce, so the purchase confirmation button 72 is clicked, and the cash register system 1 immediately accepts the message that the consumer purchases the preferential product.

Step 206: Display the summed consumption amount on the screen 30.

Please refer to FIG. 6 together to show an embodiment of the summed consumption amount for the screen 30. The cash register system 1 aggregates the original purchases and purchases, and displays the summed consumption amount on the screen 30. If the confirmation is correct, the checkout button 74 is clicked, and after the general subsequent checkout operation, all the checkout processes are completed.

In summary, the present invention exhibits features that are different from conventional techniques in terms of purpose, means, and efficacy. It is to be noted that the above-described embodiments are merely illustrative of the principles of the invention and its advantages, and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. The scope of protection of the present invention should be as described in the scope of the patent application to be described later.

Cashier system ‧‧1

Processor ‧‧10

Memory ‧ ‧ 20

Software program ‧‧22

Commodity database ‧ ‧ 24

Screen ‧ ‧ 30

Printer ‧‧40

Amplifiers ‧ ‧ 50

Confirm purchase button ‧‧72

Checkout button ‧‧74

Print button ‧‧76

Consumer Information ‧‧80

Related information ‧‧90

1 is an architectural diagram of a cash register system of the present invention.

2 is a flow chart of a method for displaying associated information according to the present invention.

3 to 6 are screen display embodiments of the cash register system of the present invention.

200‧‧‧Preparatory steps

201‧‧‧ Receiving consumer information

202‧‧‧Screen at least one related information

203‧‧‧Show at least one related information on the screen

204‧‧‧Printer printing related information

205‧‧‧Receiving consumers to purchase preferential products

206‧‧‧ shows the total amount of consumption on the screen

Claims (38)

A cash register method for instantly displaying related information on a screen is used for a cash register system, the cash register system includes a screen, and the method comprises the following steps: (A) receiving a consumer information, the consumer information is for a consumer to consume (B) screening at least one associated information, the at least one associated information and the consumer information conforming to an associated feature; and (C) displaying the at least one associated information The screen. The method of claim 1, wherein the consumer behavior is a shopping behavior, the association feature is a product name; and the at least one related information is at least one preferential product information. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one associated information is at least one preferential product information for the consumer to purchase at least one preferential product corresponding to at least one preferential product information. The method of claim 3, after the step (C), further comprises: (D) accepting the information that the consumer purchases the at least one preferential product. The method of claim 4, after step (D), further comprises: (E) displaying a sum of one of the consumption amount on the screen. The method of claim 1 or 3, wherein the associated feature is selected from the group consisting of: a trade name, a commodity price, and a The amount of consumption, the amount of consumption, a consumption area, a consumption period, and a consumer group. The method of claim 1 or 3, wherein the consumer behavior is a shopping behavior, a payment behavior or a value-added behavior. The method of claim 1, wherein the cash register system further comprises a printer, and after the step (C), the method further comprises: (F) printing, by the printer, the at least one associated information. The method of claim 8, wherein the printer is a thermal printer. The method of claim 8 or 9, wherein the screen is a touch screen, and the at least one associated information printed by the printer is selected by pressing the touch screen. The method of claim 1, wherein the screen is a touch screen. The method of claim 11, wherein the screen displays a plurality of items to be selected, the consumer information being selected by pressing the screen. The method of claim 12, wherein the plurality of items to be selected displayed on the screen are hierarchically arranged according to their categories. The method of claim 1 or 11, wherein the screen comprises a first display screen and a second display screen, the first display screen being different from the second display screen. The method of claim 14, wherein the first display screen is different from the screen displayed by the second display screen. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one associated information is obtained by the cash register system. For example, in the method of claim 1, the at least one related information is obtained through a network connection. In the method of claim 1, the at least one related information is at least one preferential product information, at least one lottery information, at least one game information, or at least one gift information. The method of claim 1, wherein the cash register system further comprises a sound amplifying device for playing a voice or music associated with the at least one associated information. A cash register system for displaying consumption information on a screen, the cash register system comprising: at least one processor; a memory, the memory comprising a software program; and a screen electrically connected to the memory by the processor; The software program of the memory is executed by the processor to achieve the following mechanism: (A) receiving a consumer information, which is information obtained by the cash register system when the consumer performs a consumer behavior; Filtering at least one associated information, the at least one associated information and the consumption information conforming to an associated feature; and (C) displaying the at least one associated information on the screen. The system of claim 20, wherein the consumer behavior is a shopping behavior, the association feature is a product name; and the at least one associated information is at least one preferential product information. The system of claim 20, wherein the at least one associated information is at least one preferential product information for the consumer to purchase at least one preferential product corresponding to at least one preferential product information. The system of claim 22, after the mechanism (C), further comprises: (D) accepting the message that the consumer purchases the at least one preferential product. For example, the system described in claim 23, after the mechanism (D), further includes: (E) displaying a sum of one of the consumption amount on the screen. The system of claim 20 or 22, wherein the associated feature is selected from the group consisting of: a trade name, a commodity price, a consumption amount, a consumption amount, a consumption area, and a consumption period. With a consumer group. The system of claim 20 or 22, wherein the consumer behavior is a shopping behavior, a payment behavior, or a value-added behavior. The system of claim 20, wherein the cash register system further comprises a printer, and after the mechanism (C), the method further comprises: (F) printing, by the printer, the at least one associated information. The system of claim 27, wherein the printer is a thermal printer. The system of claim 27 or 28, wherein the screen is a touch screen, and the at least one associated information printed by the printer is selected by pressing the touch screen. The system of claim 20, wherein the screen is a touch screen. The system of claim 30, wherein the screen displays a plurality of items to be selected, the consumer information being selected by pressing the screen. The system of claim 31, wherein the plurality of items to be selected displayed on the screen are hierarchically arranged according to their categories. The system of claim 20, wherein the screen comprises a first display screen and a second display screen, the first display screen being different from the second display screen. The system of claim 33, wherein the first display screen is different from the screen displayed by the second display screen. In the system of claim 20, the at least one associated information is obtained by the cash register system. In the system of claim 20, the at least one associated information is obtained through a network connection. In the system of claim 20, the at least one associated information is at least one preferential product information, at least one lottery information, or at least one game information. The system of claim 20, wherein the cash register system further comprises a sound amplifying device for playing a voice or music associated with the at least one associated information.