School teaching materials sales system

Abstract

To provide a school teaching material selling system, by which a teaching material distributor is able to create advertising materials while easily constructing an EC site.SOLUTION: A school teaching material selling system 10 comprises: a registration processing section 14 for registering, in an EC site section, a plurality of teaching materials handled by a plurality of teaching material manufacturers 1 with which a teaching material distributor 8 has transactions; a creation processing section 16 which creates a website for schools or a website for areas by categorizing the teaching materials desired to be sold for each of a plurality of primary schools 3 or for each of a plurality of areas from the plurality of teaching materials registered in the EC site section, and creates advertising materials with identification codes assigned for each school or area; and a purchase processing section 18 for allowing children 4, students, or associates of the children and the students to purchase desired teaching materials using the identification codes, by accessing a website for sales using the identification codes and IDs or passwords.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

[Technical Field]

[0001] The present invention relates to a school teaching material sales system. [Background technology]

[0002] The traditional business model for selling educational materials to schools, such as elementary schools, is for educational material retailers to distribute application envelopes made by educational material manufacturers to schools in their area, where students and parents select the educational materials they want, put the necessary cash in the application envelope, and take it to the school.The educational material retailers then collect the application envelopes with the cash inside, place orders for the products with the educational material manufacturers, and deliver the educational materials sent to the educational material retailers to the schools.

[0003] As a technology related to the present invention, for example, Patent Document 1 discloses a product and service information providing system configured to be able to provide information about products and services to users via an information and communication network, characterized in that the product and service information providing system comprises a homepage management means for managing a homepage that provides the information about the products and services, a user-side homepage processing means that is capable of outputting the information about the products and services on the homepage managed by the homepage management means to a display means of a user-side terminal, and a store-side homepage processing means that is capable of outputting the information about the products and services on the homepage managed by the homepage management means to a display means installed in a store. [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]

[0004] [Patent Document 1] Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2006-323566 Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0005] A teaching materials retailer does business with multiple teaching materials manufacturers, and their sales area spans multiple schools and multiple areas. It would be ideal to sell each teaching material on an e-commerce site, but registering each teaching material on the e-commerce site and creating different flyers for each school or area requires specialized knowledge.

[0006] An object of the present invention is to provide a school teaching materials sales system that allows teaching materials retailers to easily build e-commerce sites and create advertising materials. [Means for solving the problem]

[0007] The school teaching material sales system according to the present invention comprises a teaching material dealer that sells a plurality of teaching materials only to children or students belonging to a plurality of schools or a plurality of areas that have been previously determined as the sales destinations of the teaching materials. , controlled by an information processing device in which a school teaching material sales program executed by a computer is recorded. A school teaching material sales system for selling the plurality of teaching materials on an EC site section, wherein the plurality of teaching materials handled by the plurality of teaching material manufacturers with which the teaching material dealer does business are The teaching material information is uploaded in a CSV format to the storage unit of the information processing device in a lump sum. a registration processing unit that registers with the EC site unit; Acquire the teaching material information stored by the registration processing unit; Sold for each of the multiple schools or each of the multiple areas Target Classify the teaching materials , by school or area Multiple sales sites Automatically generated and compatible with retail sites Advertising materials with identification codes Generate print data for a creation processing unit for creating the Accepting input of the identification code and ID or password by the person concerned, verifying the information to authenticate access to the corresponding sales site, accepting purchase information for the educational material selected on the sales site, and recording the information in a storage unit. and a purchase processing unit.

[0008] Furthermore, the school teaching material sales system according to the present invention preferably comprises a price setting unit that can set different prices for the same teaching material for each school or area.

[0009] In addition, the school teaching material sales system according to the present invention preferably further comprises a masking processing unit that masks personal information on an invoice attached when delivering the teaching materials purchased by the purchase processing unit.

[0010] In addition, in the school teaching material sales system of the present invention, it is preferable that the advertising material has a plurality of paper flyer sections and is equipped with a registration mark processing unit for printing registration marks for cutting each paper flyer section to a finished size.

[0011] In addition, it is preferable that the school teaching material sales system of the present invention further comprises an identification code acquisition unit that transmits the unshortened URL of the sales entrance site that serves as the entrance to the plurality of sales sites to a shortened URL generation site, and acquires the identification code generated using the shortened URL converted by the shortened URL generation site. [Effects of the Invention]

[0012] According to the present invention, educational material retailers can easily create advertising materials while easily building an EC site. [Brief explanation of the drawings]

[0013] [Figure 1] 1 is a diagram showing a school teaching material sales system according to an embodiment of the present invention; [Figure 2] 1 is a diagram showing the flow of purchasing and delivery of goods in a school teaching material sales system according to an embodiment of the present invention. [Figure 3] 1A and 1B are diagrams showing examples of a paper flyer and an invoice in a school teaching material sales system according to an embodiment of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0014] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following, similar elements in all drawings will be designated by the same reference numerals, and duplicate explanations will be omitted. Furthermore, in the description below, previously described reference numerals will be used as necessary.

[0015] Fig. 1 is a diagram showing a school teaching material sales system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 2 is a diagram showing the flow of purchasing and delivery of products in the school teaching material sales system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0016] 3A and 3B are diagrams showing an example of a paper flyer 30 and an invoice 40 in the school teaching material sales system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 3A shows a state in which a registration mark 34 for cutting the paper flyer 30 to a finished size is printed, and Fig. 3B shows an invoice 40 delivered together with the product.

[0017] The school teaching materials sales system 10 is a system for a teaching materials retailer 8 to sell multiple teaching materials on an e-commerce site only to children 4 or students belonging to multiple elementary schools 3 or multiple areas that have been pre-determined as the sales destinations of the teaching materials.

[0018] The school teaching material sales system 10 includes a registration processing unit 14, a creation processing unit 16, a purchase processing unit 18, a price setting unit 20, a masking processing unit 22, a registration mark processing unit 24, an identification code acquisition unit 25, and a storage unit (not shown). The school teaching material sales system 10 is connected to a teaching material store 8, a shortened URL generation site 11, a student 4, and a parent / guardian 6 via a network 2.

[0019] The memory unit has the function of storing data to be processed by the registration processing unit 14, creation processing unit 16, purchase processing unit 18, price setting unit 20, masking processing unit 22, registration mark processing unit 24 and identification code acquisition unit 25 using their respective functions.

[0020] The registration processing unit 14 has a function of registering in the EC site unit a plurality of teaching materials handled by a plurality of teaching material manufacturers 1 with which the teaching material dealer 8 does business. The registration processing unit 14 uses, for example, formatted product information of each teaching material manufacturer 1, outputs the product information to a CSV file, and then imports the product information all at once on a CMS (content management system) screen and registers it in the EC site unit.

[0021] The educational material manufacturer 1 is a company that manufactures and sells educational materials used in elementary schools, etc. Examples of educational materials will be explained as calligraphy sets, sewing sets, art supply sets, carving knife sets, etc., but of course other educational materials may also be used.

[0022] There are multiple educational materials retailers 8 at each elementary school 3 or in each area, and they sell educational materials manufactured by educational materials manufacturers 1. The educational materials retailers 8 do business with multiple educational materials manufacturers 1 and sell multiple educational materials. There are many educational materials retailers 8 throughout the country, but they only sell educational materials in the sales area of ​​the educational materials retailer 8.

[0023] The EC site department is a site that sells a company's own products (or, in a broader sense, other companies' products) and services on an independently operated website on the Internet; in this case, it is a site for selling educational materials handled by educational materials retailer 8.

[0024] The creation processing unit 16 has the function of creating a sales entrance site and also creating a school site or an area site by classifying the teaching materials to be sold by multiple elementary schools 3 or multiple areas from among the multiple teaching materials registered in the EC site unit. Here, the "sales entrance site" is a site that serves as an entrance before entering the school site or area site, and is created, for example, by dividing the teaching materials into categories that the teaching material retailer 8 wants to sell. In the above example, there are different sales entrance sites for calligraphy sets, sewing sets, art supply sets, and carving knife sets.

[0025] Here, the "school" is explained as an elementary school and the teaching materials are purchased by the child 4, but it can also be applied to cases where students purchase teaching materials at a school other than an elementary school, for example, a junior high school. Also, the "area" is explained as being, for example, a city, town, or village, but of course, this can be changed as appropriate.

[0026] The educational material store 8 sells educational materials to a plurality of elementary schools 3 or a plurality of areas, and the educational material store 8 handles educational materials from a plurality of educational material manufacturers 1.

[0027] For this reason, the creation processing unit 16 extracts the teaching materials to be sold from among the plurality of teaching materials registered in the registration processing unit 14, and creates a school site (an EC site for a school) that is easy to view for the children 4 of the elementary school or their parents 6. Alternatively, an area site (an EC site for an area) that is easy to view for the children 4 who belong to an area such as a city, town, or village, instead of a school, may be created.

[0028] The creation processing unit 16 also has a function of creating advertising materials with an identification code assigned to each teaching material store 8. The identification code is a two-dimensional code or the like that records a URL or the like for accessing the aforementioned sales entrance site. For example, the identification code printed on advertising materials for selling art supply sets contains a code that directs the user to a sales entrance site that sells only art supply sets, and is designed to prevent the user from reaching sales entrance sites for products other than art supply sets.

[0029] Specifically, for example, a paper flyer 30 is created on which multiple paper flyer sections 32 are printed, each displaying a set of art supplies and an identification code (two-dimensional code), as shown in Fig. 3(a). Here, the explanation is given assuming that the flyer is for each elementary school, but it is also possible to create flyers for each area.

[0030] The purchase processing unit 18 allows the child 4, the guardian 6 of the child 4, and other related parties to use an identification code to access the sales entrance site corresponding to the identification code. Then, the purchase processing unit 18 has a function of inputting an ID or password previously notified to the child 4, the guardian 6 of the child 4, etc., to access the sales site (school site or area site) and purchase the desired teaching materials.

[0031] Specifically, the child 4 or guardian 6 can read this identification code using, for example, a smartphone or tablet device and access the sales entrance site. In this case, however, it is necessary to enter an ID or password prepared for each school or area and notified in advance to the child 4 or guardian 6 to access the school site or area site, so other people cannot view the site.

[0032] When a child 4 or parent / guardian 6 selects the educational material of their choice and pays by credit card or the like, a notification that the order has been completed is sent to the educational material store 8, and then the educational material store 8 sends a manufacturing request to the educational material manufacturer 1. Note that although the payment method using a credit card has been explained here, other payment methods are also possible, such as convenience store payment, bank transfer, carrier payment, electronic money payment, or other payment services using a mobile device.

[0033] The price setting unit 20 has a function of setting different prices for the same teaching materials for each elementary school 3 or area. In consideration of circumstances such as the cost required for sales differing depending on the distant elementary school 3 or area, it is possible to set multiple prices for the same teaching materials, such as selling the same art supplies set for 5,000 yen in the area of ​​City A, 4,500 yen in the area of ​​City B, and 4,000 yen in the area of ​​City C.

[0034] In the above example, an identification code displayed on the paper flyer 32, which is an advertising material distributed at elementary school 3, can be used to access a sales entrance site for purchasing, for example, an art supplies set, and the sales site can be accessed using a password assigned to each area (City A, City B, City C). Furthermore, children 4 or guardians 6 cannot access sales sites outside their area because the passwords are unknown to them. The school teaching materials sales system 10 does not require prior membership registration; instead, purchasers can access the sales entrance site using the identification code displayed on the paper flyer 32 distributed as described above, and by entering their ID or password, they can be directed to the page that the teaching materials retailer 8 wants them to view.

[0035] The masking processing unit 22 has a function of masking personal information on an invoice 40 that is attached when delivering the teaching materials purchased by the purchase processing unit 18. The masking processing unit 22 can create, for example, an invoice 40 as shown in FIG. 3(b).

[0036] Here, masking refers to a process of covering up the name portion of the delivery note 40 shown in Fig. 3(b) so that it cannot be identified. For example, as shown in Fig. 3(b), it may be possible to cover up the name by symbolizing some of the characters, such as "XX Uta," or it may be possible to symbolize the entire name.

[0037] The reason why masking the information does not pose a problem is that the purchased teaching materials are delivered to the elementary school to which Child 4 belongs, and even if the name cannot be identified, the homeroom teacher can identify the purchaser if the grade, class, and attendance number are known. In light of this, personal information such as names can be omitted to prevent unnecessary disclosure.

[0038] The register mark processing unit 24 has a function of processing the paper flyer 30 on which each paper flyer section 32 is printed so that register marks 34 for cutting to the finished size are displayed. When generating data for the advertising material created by the creation processing unit 16, the register mark processing unit 24 generates data for printing the paper flyer 30 with register marks 34 attached as shown in Figure 3(a).

[0039] The identification code acquisition unit 25 has the function of transmitting the unshortened URL of a sales entrance site, which serves as the entrance to multiple sales sites, to the shortened URL generation site 11, and acquiring the identification code and shortened URL generated using the shortened URL converted by the shortened URL generation site 11.

[0040] Specifically, the identification code acquisition unit 25 transmits the unshortened URL assigned to the sales entrance site of the educational material store 8 as described above to the external shortened URL generation site 3 via the network 2. At this time, it sends a command to shorten the unshortened URL and generate an identification code using the shortened URL. The identification code is generated using the shortened URL, which is shortened by the shortened URL generation site 3, which has the function of converting the input URL into a shortened URL with a shorter character string length. The identification code acquisition unit 25 then receives the shortened URL and the identification code. The identification code generated in this manner is placed in a part of the advertising material by the function of the creation processing unit 16, as shown in FIG. 3.

[0041] Next, we will explain the operation of the school teaching materials sales system 10 configured as above. Conventionally, teaching materials stores 8 distribute application envelopes produced by each teaching materials manufacturer 1 to schools in their sales area, and children 4 and parents 6 select their preferred teaching materials, put the necessary cash in the application envelope, and take it to elementary school 3. Then, the products manufactured by each teaching materials manufacturer 1 are delivered to elementary school 3 via teaching materials stores 8.

[0042] In this traditional business model, cash must be placed in an application envelope for exchange, which can lead to various problems, including security. Therefore, it is desirable to sell the product through an e-commerce site, but building an e-commerce site requires specialized knowledge.

[0043] Furthermore, educational material retailers 8 do business with multiple educational material manufacturers 1 and sell to multiple elementary schools 3 and areas. As a result, the products they want to sell vary from elementary school 3 or area to area. This means that they need to create flyers for each elementary school 3 or area, and creating all of the flyers takes time. In response to these issues, the school educational material sales system 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention provides a significant effect.

[0044] Each educational material manufacturer 1 provides product information about educational materials to educational material retailers 8, as indicated by the flow of arrow 5 in Figure 2. The educational material retailers 8 then use the product information using the functions of the registration processing unit 14, output the product information to a CSV file, and then import it all at once on a CMS (content management system) screen and register it in the EC site section. This allows products to be registered all at once, even if no special expertise is required.

[0045] In addition, the teaching materials store 8 uses the functions of the creation processing unit 16 to extract teaching materials that it wishes to sell to the selected elementary school 3 from among the multiple teaching materials registered by the registration processing unit 14, and creates an e-commerce site for the school that is easy for students 4 or parents 6 of the elementary school 3 to view.

[0046] Furthermore, the educational materials retailer 8 uses the functions of the creation processing unit 16 to create an e-commerce website for the school selected by the educational materials retailer 8 and to create a paper flyer for the school. For example, it is possible to create a paper flyer 30 that displays multiple art supply sets and an identification code (two-dimensional code) as shown in FIG. 3(a). This allows a user to create a flyer for the selected school with simple operations, even without special expertise.

[0047] As shown in Figure 3(a), it is possible to generate printing data for printing a paper flyer 30 with a registration mark section 34 displayed, and this printing data can be used to print and cut out the required number of paper flyer sections 32, which can then be distributed to elementary schools 3 as shown by the flow of arrow 5 in Figure 2.

[0048] The flyers are then distributed to children 4 at elementary school 3, and as shown by the flow of arrow 5 in Figure 2, children 4 or their guardians 6 select the teaching materials at home. Specifically, the identification code displayed on paper flyer section 32 is read using a smartphone or tablet device to access the sales entrance site.

[0049] Here, an identification code for accessing the sales entrance site is printed on the paper flyer portion 32 distributed to the child 4. The child 4 accesses the sales entrance site using this identification code and enters the ID or password that has been notified to the child 4 in advance. This allows access to, for example, an e-commerce site for a school. Note that a third party who does not know the ID or password cannot access the site.

[0050] Then, when a child 4 or parent 6 accesses the e-commerce site for schools, selects the teaching materials of their choice, and completes the application by paying by credit card or other means, the information about this completed application is notified to the teaching materials retailer 8 as shown by the flow of arrow 7 in Figure 2.

[0051] The educational material retailer 8 that receives the order transmits order information such as the requested educational material to the educational material manufacturer 1 as shown by the flow of arrow 7 in FIG.

[0052] Based on the order information sent from the educational materials retailer 8, the educational materials manufacturer 1 prepares the educational materials and delivers them to the educational materials retailer 8 as shown by the flow of arrow 9 in Figure 2. The educational materials retailer 8 prepares an invoice 40 for the child 4 who ordered the educational materials, attaches it to the educational materials, and delivers them.

[0053] As shown by the flow of arrow 9 in Figure 2, educational materials retailer 8 delivers a delivery slip 40 along with the educational materials to elementary school 3. The educational materials are then handed over to each child 4 by the homeroom teacher or other person at elementary school 3. At this time, because delivery slip 40 displays the grade, class, and attendance number of each child 4, it can be handed over by the homeroom teacher even if the name of each child 4 is masked, and the child 4 can take it home.

[0054] If a teaching material is purchased using the school teaching material sales system 10, the teaching material will be delivered to the school and not to a private residence, etc., so there is an advantage in that there is no need to enter more personal information than necessary.

[0055] As described above, the school teaching materials sales system 10 allows users to build an EC site and conduct commercial transactions without having specialized knowledge about building and operating an EC site. This has the significant effect of enabling safe and secure commercial transactions, as it is no longer necessary to place cash in an application envelope as in the past.

[0056] Furthermore, according to the school teaching material sales system 10, different prices can be set for the same teaching material for each elementary school 3 or area, which has the advantage of easily dealing with situations where it is necessary to set multiple prices, such as double or triple prices, in consideration of circumstances such as the cost required for sales varying depending on the distant elementary school 3 or area.

[0057] Furthermore, according to the school teaching materials sales system 10, if the sales site has a URL with a long character string when it is created, the function of the identification code acquisition unit 25 acquires a shortened URL and the corresponding identification code. This allows the child 4 and the guardian of the child 4 to access the sales entrance site using the identification code, and also has the advantage of allowing for easy access since it is sufficient to enter the shortened URL when manually entering the information. [Explanation of symbols]

[0058] 1 Educational material manufacturer, 2 Network, 3 Elementary school, 4 Children, 5 Arrow, 6 Parents, 7 Arrow, 8 Educational material retailer, 9 Arrow, 10 School educational material sales system, 11 Shortened URL generation site, 14 Registration processing section, 16 Creation processing section, 18 Purchase processing section, 20 Pricing section, 22 Masking processing section, 24 Registration mark processing section, 25 Identification code acquisition section, 30 Paper flyer, 32 Paper flyer section, 34 Registration mark section, 40 Delivery note.

Claims

1. A school teaching material sales system in which a teaching material dealer sells a plurality of teaching materials only to children or students belonging to a plurality of schools or a plurality of areas that have been previously determined as sales destinations of the teaching materials, on an EC site unit controlled by an information processing device in which a school teaching material sales program executed by a computer is recorded, a registration processing unit that collectively uploads, in CSV format, educational material information relating to the plurality of educational materials handled by the plurality of educational material manufacturers with which the educational material retailer does business, to a storage unit of the information processing device, and registers the educational material information in the EC site unit; a creation processing unit that acquires the educational material information stored by the registration processing unit, classifies the educational materials for sale by the plurality of schools or the plurality of areas, automatically generates a plurality of sales sites for each school or area, and generates printing data for advertising materials having identification codes corresponding to the sales sites; a purchase processing unit that accepts input of the identification code and ID or password by the person concerned, collates the information to authenticate access to the corresponding sales site, accepts purchase information for the educational material selected on the sales site, and records the information in a storage unit; A school teaching material sales system comprising:

2. 2. The school teaching material sales system according to claim 1, A price setting unit is provided that can set different prices for the same teaching material for each school or area. A school teaching materials sales system characterized by the following:

3. 3. The school teaching material sales system according to claim 1, The purchase processing unit will mask the personal information on the delivery note attached when delivering the purchased teaching materials. A school teaching material sales system comprising a masking processing unit for masking.

4. 4. The school teaching material sales system according to claim 1, The advertising material has a plurality of paper flyer portions, A registration mark for printing a registration mark for cutting each paper flyer part to a finished size A school teaching material sales system comprising a processing unit.

5. 5. The school teaching material sales system according to claim 1, The URL before shortening of the sales entrance site that serves as the entrance of the plurality of sales sites is called a shortened URL. The shortened URL is then sent to the shortened URL generation site. and an identification code acquisition unit that acquires the identification code generated by the Teaching material sales system.

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