Patent ID: 7281654

Claim:
An order management system comprising a client computer and a server computer that are capable of communicating with each other, said client computer including: an installing device for installing order software stored on a recording medium, which has an identification code associated therewith, into said client computer; an identification-code reader for reading the identification code for identifying a specific physical store; and an identification-code transmitter for transmitting the identification code, which has been read by said identification-code reader, to said server computer; and said server computer includes: a search device for searching a database, in which identification codes and addresses of store computers associated with specific physical stores have been stored in correspondence with each other, and retrieving an address of a store computer located at a specific physical store that corresponds to an identification code that has been transmitted from said identification-code transmitter of said client computer; and an address-data transmitter for transmitting data, which represents the address retrieved by said search device, to said client computer; wherein said client computer further includes: an order-information input device for inputting order information; and an order-information transmitter for transmitting order information, which has been input from said order-information input device, to a store computer having an address specified by address data that has been transmitted from said address-data transmitter of said server computer based upon the order software installed by said installing device.