Patent ID: 7020691

Claim:
A promotion system comprising: a plurality of automatic vending machines for selling commodities; a center unit; and a portable telephone carried by a user who purchases a commodity through the automatic vending machine and capable of communicating with the center unit, wherein each of the automatic vending machines comprises: point information generating means for generating point information including a point acquired by the user by a purchase of the commodity in sales processing of the commodity; management information adding means for adding management information of the automatic vending machine to the point information within a range of a communication charging unit content when a data content of the point information generated by the point information generating means is smaller than the communication charging unit content of the portable telephone; and point information issuing means for issuing the point information to which the management information is added by the management information adding means to the user; the portable telephone comprises: sending means for sending the point information issued by the point information issuing means while adding identification information of the user to the point information; the center unit comprises: receiving means for receiving the point information sent by the sending means; separating means for separating the management information from the point information received by the receiving means; automatic vending machine managing means for the management information segmented by the separating means corresponding to each of the automatic point information managing means for managing the point information corresponding to the user identification information.