Accounting device and program

Abstract

To provide an accounting device and a program, which are capable of efficiently accounting for a transaction using a coupon.SOLUTION: A commodity information acquisition unit acquires commodity information about a commodity involved in a transaction with a customer. An input unit accepts an input of customer identification information that identifies the customer. A reception unit receives an instruction to end the acquisition of the commodity information by the commodity information acquisition unit. Upon reception by the reception unit, a registered coupon information acquisition unit acquires registered coupon information for indicating a coupon previously registered by the customer identified by the customer identification information which is inputted to the input unit. A privilege processing unit performs privilege processing based on the registered coupon information provided that the commodity indicated by the commodity information acquired by the commodity information acquisition unit is a target commodity of the registered coupon information acquired by the registered coupon information acquisition unit. An accounting processing unit performs accounting processing based on the commodity information acquired by the commodity information acquisition unit and the results of privilege processing by the privilege processing unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 10

Claims

1. A product information acquisition unit that acquires product information related to transactions with customers, An input unit that accepts customer identification information to identify the customer, A receiving unit that receives instructions that the product information acquisition unit has finished acquiring product information, Upon receiving the information from the reception unit, the registered coupon information acquisition unit acquires registered coupon information indicating a coupon previously registered by the customer identified by the customer identification information entered into the input unit, When there are multiple registered coupon information entries, and the scope of the coupons indicated by the multiple registered coupon information entries overlap, a determination unit determines the priority by comparing the priority levels associated with the registered coupon information entries with overlapping scopes according to a predetermined standard. A reward processing unit executes reward processing based on registered coupon information, provided that the product indicated by the product information obtained by the product information acquisition unit is a product covered by the registered coupon information obtained by the registered coupon information acquisition unit, and does not use the registered coupon information that the determination unit has determined to have a lower priority among the registered coupon information whose scope overlaps in the reward processing. An accounting processing unit that performs accounting processing based on the product information acquired by the product information acquisition unit and the result of the benefit processing by the benefit processing unit, A display control unit causes the display unit to display the registered coupon information, which is deemed to have a low priority by the determination unit and therefore not used for the reward processing, at a time before the accounting processing unit executes the accounting processing. An accounting device equipped with the following features.

2. The system further includes a coupon information acquisition unit that acquires coupon information indicating the coupon presented by the customer between the start of the transaction and the time the reception unit receives instructions. The aforementioned benefit processing unit executes benefit processing based on the presented coupon information, provided that the product indicated by the product information acquired by the product information acquisition unit is the product covered by the presented coupon information acquired by the presented coupon information acquisition unit. The accounting device according to claim 1.

3. The registered coupon information acquisition unit receives registered coupon information corresponding to the customer identification information entered into the input unit from a coupon server that stores the customer identification information and the registered coupon information in association. The accounting device according to claim 1.

4. A program for controlling accounting equipment with a computer, The aforementioned computer, A product information acquisition unit that acquires product information related to transactions with customers, An input unit that accepts customer identification information to identify the customer, A receiving unit that receives instructions that the product information acquisition unit has finished acquiring product information, Upon receiving the information from the reception unit, the registered coupon information acquisition unit acquires registered coupon information indicating a coupon previously registered by the customer identified by the customer identification information entered into the input unit, When there are multiple registered coupon information entries, and the scope of the coupons indicated by the multiple registered coupon information entries overlap, a determination unit determines the priority by comparing the priority levels associated with the registered coupon information entries with overlapping scopes according to a predetermined standard. A reward processing unit executes reward processing based on registered coupon information, provided that the product indicated by the product information obtained by the product information acquisition unit is a product covered by the registered coupon information obtained by the registered coupon information acquisition unit, and does not use the registered coupon information that the determination unit has determined to have a lower priority among the registered coupon information whose scope overlaps in the reward processing. An accounting processing unit that performs accounting processing based on the product information acquired by the product information acquisition unit and the result of the benefit processing by the benefit processing unit, A display control unit causes the display unit to display the registered coupon information, which is deemed to have a low priority by the determination unit and therefore not used for the reward processing, at a time before the accounting processing unit executes the accounting processing. A program that makes it function as such.

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