Agent purchase method, agent purchase system and record medium containing transaction management program

An agent purchase method for agent purchasing via communication lines comprising the steps of:

• a step to register the sellers selling the merchandise,
• a step to open the information about the merchandise sold by the registered sellers on communication lines,
• a step to receive request for selling of the merchandise the user desires to purchase from the user terminal,
• a step to deliver the applicable merchandise to said user for selling and
• a step to manage charging of the applicable merchandise price to said user and charging of the agent purchase service to said seller and
• being used for provision of the agent merchandise purchase service to the users of the Internet connection service by an Internet provider.

An agent purchase system to provide the agent purchase service where the merchandise requested by the user is purchased for the user comprising:

• a terminal of the user and
• a server to manage the agent purchase service and
• said server comprising
• request acceptance means which receives the specification of the purchased merchandise and the specification of the seller selling said merchandise via communication lines as the supplier of said merchandise so as to accept the request for agent purchase,
• recording means to record, references and updates the credit level information about each of said sellers selling the merchandise via communication lines,
• judgment means to judge whether to execute the requested agent purchase based on the credit level record of said seller, and
• charge management means to manage charging of the agent purchase service rendered to the user.

A server which manages the agent purchase service via communication lines comprising:

• request acceptance means which, by receiving from the user terminal the specification of the purchased merchandise and the specification of the seller selling said merchandise via communication lines as the supplier of said merchandise, accepts the request for agent purchase;
• recording means to record, refer to or update the credit level information about each of the sellers selling the merchandise via communication lines,
• judgment means to judge whether or not to execute the requested agent purchase based on the credit level record of said seller and
• charge management means to manage charging for the agent purchase service provided to said user.

A computer readable memory containing the transaction management program for the agent purchase service via communication lines wherein

• the transaction management program for the agent purchase service comprises
• a request acceptance step which, by receiving from the user terminal the specification of the purchased merchandise and the specification of the seller selling said merchandise via communication lines as the supplier of said merchandise, accepts the request for agent purchase;
• a recording step to refer to or update the credit level information about each of said sellers selling the merchandise via communication lines,
• a judgment step to determine whether or not to execute the requested agent purchase based on the credit level record of said seller and
• a charging management step to manage charging for the agent purchase service provided to said user.