Patent ID: 8564404

Claim:
A franchise add-on system including a sales processing device which is installed at a position of cash register in a franchise shop so as to execute sales processing of over-the-counter commodities by commodity ID (identification) data attached to said over-the-counter commodity, comprising: a store front stock shelf installed in the vicinity of said sales processing device at said position of cash register, and housing at least a part of said over-the-counter commodities in a freely pickable manner; and a user operation terminal which includes a touch panel allowing thereon enter operation by an ordinary user, and installed in the vicinity of said sales processing device at said position of cash register, said store front stock shelf including a stock detection unit which detects a stock status of said over-the-counter commodities housed therein and produces store front stock data, said user operation terminal including a media storage unit which stores a hypermedia which makes said user operation terminal output, in a displayed form, a commodity selection screen allowing thereon step-wise selection among said over-the-counter commodities housed in at least said store front stock shelf, in response to the enter operation by said ordinary user; a media display unit which makes said touch panel display, in a switchable manner, said stored commodity selection screen in response to the enter operation by said ordinary user; and a stock confirmation unit which makes use of said commodity ID data of said over-the-counter commodity selected on said commodity selection screen displayed in a switchable manner, so as to acquire a correspondent said store front stock data from said store front stock shelf, and said media display unit making said touch panel display, in a switchable manner, said commodity selection screen presenting “in stock”, if said acquired store front stock data represents an in-stock status.