Advance payment apparatus, advance payment system, and advance payment method

Abstract

To properly process a plurality of bills.SOLUTION: An advance payment apparatus includes: bill information acquisition unit which acquires multiple pieces of bill information related to bills issued from a requester to payers; a control unit which selects bill information for a specific payer out of the multiple pieces of bill information acquired by the bill information acquisition unit; an output unit which outputs the bill information selected by the control unit; an acquisition unit which acquires information indicating whether to make advance payment, according to the bill information output by the output unit; and a transfer execution unit which executes transfer processing based on the bill information for which the advance payment is to be made. The acquisition unit further acquires, when advance payment is selected, information on payment status for the bill information. The control unit associates the information on payment status acquired by the acquisition unit, with the bill information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

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