Centralized Multi-Store Accounting Using Customer ID Registration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Customers face inconvenience when purchasing commodities from multiple stores in a facility as they need to wait for accounting at each store, and existing systems do not efficiently handle purchases across multiple stores.
Innovation Solution
An accounting processing system that includes registration devices in each store to generate and transmit transaction data to a central server, which is then managed and accessed by an accounting device to perform consolidated accounting for all purchases, allowing customers to account for multiple stores simultaneously.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If customers perform accounting at each store individually, then each store can accurately process transactions, but customers experience long wait times and inconvenience when purchasing from multiple stores
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual store accounting operations into a single centralized accounting process. The centralized accounting server consolidates transaction data from multiple stores and processes accounting in one unified operation, allowing customers to complete purchases across multiple stores without waiting at each register sequentially.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a centralized accounting server as an intermediary between individual stores and customers. This server collects transaction data from multiple stores, manages the accounting process centrally, and returns consolidated results, eliminating the need for customers to interact with each store's accounting system separately.
2Productivity
If a centralized accounting system is implemented to allow simultaneous accounting across multiple stores, then customer convenience improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the accounting system into independent modular components: individual store terminals that generate transaction data, a centralized accounting server that processes data, and a database system that stores information. This segmentation allows each component to function independently while contributing to the overall system, managing complexity through modularity.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized accounting server performs multiple functions: collecting transaction data from various stores, processing accounting calculations, managing customer information, and generating consolidated receipts. This multi-functionality consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate systems into a single versatile platform.
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AI summary
An accounting processing method executed by an accounting device includes a receiving step of receiving an input of a customer identifier for identifying a customer who performs accounting, an acquiring step of acquiring, from a storage device that stores registration data by store including transaction data indicating details of a purchase target commodity, a customer identifier of the customer who purchases the commodity, and a store identifier for identifying a store that sells the commodity, the registration data by store including the customer identifier received in the receiving step, an accounting step of executing accounting processing for the purchase target commodity based on the registration data by store acquired in the acquiring step, and an output step of outputting the details of the purchase target commodity for each the store identifier based on the registration data by store acquired in the acquiring step.