Patent ID: 7610368

Claim:
A commercial item sales system for selling, via the Internet, a commercial item manufactured by printing image data on a printing medium, the commercial item sales system comprising: a first information processing apparatus; a second information processing apparatus; and an orderer terminal, wherein the first information processing apparatus comprises: a presentation unit configured to produce web page data and present the web page data to the orderer terminal, and an upload unit configured to upload, to the second information processing apparatus, image data and commercial item information including information related to designation of the image data and the printing medium, and wherein the second information processing apparatus comprises: a register unit configured to receive, from the first information processing apparatus, the commercial item information, and register the commercial item information in association with identification information that uniquely identifies the first information processing apparatus, a setting unit configured to set an address on the network for the commercial item information registered by the register unit, a request receiving unit configured to receive, from the orderer terminal, a request based on an URL including the identification information as argument, a generating unit configured to acquire, in response to the request, the address set for the commercial item information associated with the identification information included as argument in the URL used for the request, and generate a sales screen including the acquired address, a transmitting unit configured to transmit the sales screen generated by the generating unit to the orderer terminal, an order receiving unit configured to receive, from the orderer terminal, an order based on the address included in the sales screen, and an instruction unit configured to instruct a printing apparatus to print the designated image data uploaded by the uploading unit on the designated printing medium based on the commercial item information for which the address is set.