Patent ID: 7437315
Filing Date: 2008-10-14
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A merchandise sales system which sells, through a network, merchandise produced by printing image data on a printing medium, the system including a supporting server apparatus, a creator server apparatus and an orderer terminal, said supporting server apparatus comprising: a merchandise information receiving unit which receives, from said creator server apparatus, merchandise information about a location of the image data on the network and a printing form for printing the image data to the printing medium; a generating unit which generates a merchandise address for each of pieces of the merchandise information; and an address transmitting unit which transmits the merchandise address to said creator server apparatus, and said creator server apparatus comprising: a creating unit which creates a sales window display file containing the merchandise address; a file sending unit which sends the created sales window display file to the orderer terminal; and a registering unit which registers, with said supporting server apparatus, remittance destination information, as a payment destination to be paid for merchandise produced by printing the image data according to merchandise information corresponding to a merchandise address selected by said orderer terminal which displays the sales window based on the sales window display file, wherein said supporting server apparatus receives the merchandise address, which is selected from the sales window display file, from said orderer terminal, downloads the image data according to the merchandise information corresponding to the received merchandise address, executes print processing of the downloaded image data based on the merchandise information corresponding to the received merchandise address so as to produce the merchandise and notifies payment for the merchandise based on the remittance destination information registered by said registering unit.