Cashier system and transaction control method thereof

Abstract

A cashier system and a transaction control method thereof are disclosed, and can reduce the situation that shortage or surplus of cash for settlement and can reduce the transaction processing time of each customer. A currency processor is provided with a coin slot and a paper currency slot for the advance payment for customers. A POS cashier is provided with an input and output part for manually inputting the sum of the advance payment, and an input and output currency control part which calculates the balance between the input advance payment and the purchase sum of a customer and then give changes and indicates the output money for the output of the currency processor, a storage device which can store the advance payment sum, a check indication control part which can indicate the check starting time for the currency processor, and a check control part which can accept the temporarily stored advance payment and count the sum, and count whether the advance payment sum is identical to the total value of the input advance payment sum so far.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a cash register system and a transaction control method thereof capable of reducing cash shortage or surplus at the time of settlement and shortening transaction processing time with each customer. Background technique [0002] Recently, in stores such as supermarkets and convenience stores, due to stricter customer management and cash management, money handling machines are installed as automatic change machines. This currency processing machine is usually connected with a host device such as a POS (Point Of Sales) cash register, and performs deposit and withdrawal processing of money such as coins or banknotes according to instructions from the host device. [0003] Here, the transaction processing of the cash register system composed of the POS cash register device and the currency processing machine includes pre-processing of incoming money and pre-processing of change. In the incoming preprocessing, when the purch...

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[0004] In the pre-processing of the incoming money, the difference between the amount of the advance payment and the purchase amount automatically counted by the money processing machine as change can be accurately calculated. However, since the automatic statistical processing of the advance payment takes time, As a result, the transaction processing time with customers becomes longer

On the other hand, in the change preprocessing, the money processing machine does not automatically count the amount of advance payment, but pays out the difference between the amount of advance payment entered by the cashier and the purchase amount as change. Therefore, the transaction processing with customers can be shortened. time, however, since the prepayment amount is the amount entered by the cashier, errors in the manual entry of prepayments sometimes occur

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