Patent ID: 8321282
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: G06Q,G07G

Abstract:
1. An article sales data processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit which stores, for respective articles sold in one transaction, sales data including at least an amount of the respective articles, information indicating a payment method, of plural payment methods, prohibited for the respective articles, and a payment completion flag which identifies whether payment processing for the respective articles is completed; a selection acceptance unit which accepts selection of a payment method from the plural payment methods; a confirmation unit which confirms, based on the information indicating the payment method prohibited for the respective articles, whether articles sold in the one transaction include an article for which payment by the payment method selected via the selection acceptance unit is prohibited; and a payment processing unit which, if the confirmation unit confirms that the articles sold in the one transaction include the article for which payment by the payment method selected via the selection acceptance unit is prohibited, calculates a sum of prices of a subset of the articles sold in the one transaction for which payment by the payment method selected via the selection acceptance unit is not prohibited based on the sales data stored in the storage unit, displays a screen for selecting whether payment of the one transaction is to be continued if the sum is equal to or less than an amount payable by the payment method selected via the selection acceptance unit, executes payment for the subset of the articles for which the payment method selected via the selection acceptance unit is not prohibited, using the payment method selected via the selection acceptance unit, in response to a selection to continue payment via the screen, and changes payment completion flags stored in the storage unit for respective articles sold in the one transaction for which the payment processing is executed to states indicating completion of payment processing, wherein the selection acceptance unit, the confirmation unit, and the payment processing unit continue processing the one transaction until all payment completion flags associated with the respective articles sold in the one transaction are changed to states indicating completion of payment processing.