Patent ID: 8456672

Claim:
A document submission management system provided with a memory, for managing processing related to printing processing according to an order from a user through a client terminal, the system comprising: a calculating unit configured to calculate, from image data, a predicted value of the amount of consumption of a consumable used for printing the image data; a registering unit configured to calculate, using the calculating unit, a predicted value of the amount of consumption of a consumable used for printing form data available for the order from the user and registers the calculated predicted value and an ID for identifying the form data in the memory as log data; a user interface providing unit configured to provide information for providing the client terminal with a user interface screen for performing setting regarding the order from the user; an estimating unit configured to, when an order for printing processing using first form data is placed by the user through the user interface screen provided by the user interface providing unit, estimate a cost for the printing processing according to the order from the user based on the predicted value as an estimated value, by utilizing the log data registered by the registering unit, without calculating by the calculating unit, the predicted value of the amount of consumption of the consumable used for printing the first form data selected by the user; a form acquiring unit configured to acquire second form data from an image forming device connected via a network in a case where an ID of the second form data selected by the user through the user interface screen provided by the user interface providing unit is not registered as the log data and the second form data has been registered in the image forming device; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the estimated value obtained by the estimating unit to the client terminal, wherein the estimating unit estimates the cost for the printing processing according to the order from the user based on a predicted value of the amount of consumption of the consumable used for printing the second form data by utilizing calculating by the calculating unit, when the ID of the second form data is not registered as the log data.