Patent ID: 7162435
Filing Date: 2007-01-09
Classification: G06Q,G07G

Abstract:
1. A transaction managing apparatus used for a POS terminal, comprising: a transaction defining unit which defines a deferred delivery transaction on a principle of occurrence and a deferred delivery transaction on a principle of completion, the transaction defining unit defines the deferred delivery transaction on the principle of occurrence by setting sum-up of a transaction amount with other transaction amounts to upon start of the transaction, prepayment of the total amount to necessary, and delivery of goods to postdelivery with respect to payment, and the transaction defining unit defines the deferred delivery transaction on the principle of completion by setting sum-up of the transaction amount with other transaction amounts to upon completion of the transaction, prepayment of a total amount to necessary, and delivery of goods to postdelivery with respect to payment; and a management control unit, in a case where said deferred delivery transaction on the principle of occurrence is selected as an unsettled transaction, the management control unit, upon payment, issues an incomplete transaction slip number, receives as an input a delivery date of goods, receives as an input a registration of goods, receives as an input a registration of an amount of payment, confirms payment of a total amount, outputs data for a customer copy with said slip number, and outputs data that indicates that the transaction amount is to be summed-up with amounts from other transactions, and upon delivery, outputs incomplete transaction information after receipt of an input of the slip number, receives as an input a registration of a delivery, and outputs data that indicates that the unsettled transaction is complete, in a case where said deferred delivery transaction on the principle of completion is selected as the unsettled transaction, the management control unit, upon prepayment, issues an incomplete transaction slip number, receives as an input a delivery date of goods, receives as an input a registration of goods, receives as an input a registration of an amount of payment, confirms payment of a total amount, and outputs data for a customer copy with said slip number; and upon delivery, outputs incomplete transaction information after receipt of an input of the slip number, receives as an input a registration of a delivery, outputs data that indicates that the transaction amount is to be summed-up with amounts from other transactions and outputs data that indicates that the unsettled transaction is complete.