Money depositing apparatus and checkout system
AssigneeGlory Ltd.
InventorNaoyuki NISHIDA
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Abstract
A speedy and efficient checkout process at a checkout counter in a store is realized by a deposit machine that receives deposited money from a customer and issues a pre-deposit receipt with which a pre-deposit amount is associated, and a POS register that scans a barcode of a commodity to calculate a checkout amount and reads a pre-deposit receipt to specify a pre-deposit amount. The POS register performs a checkout process for the checkout amount by using the pre-deposit amount, calculates, as change, a difference between the pre-deposit amount and the checkout amount, and causes a change machine to dispense money corresponding to the change.
Claims10
A checkout method performed by a checkout system including a money depositing apparatus, a POS register, a money handling apparatus and a management device, the method comprising a pre-deposit process, and a checkout process to be performed after the pre-deposit process has been performed, wherein
- the pre-deposit process comprises:
- receiving money from a customer by the money depositing apparatus;
- acquiring, by the money depositing apparatus, identification information from a predetermined medium carried by the customer, wherein the customer carrying the predetermined medium is capable of being identified based on the identification information acquired from the predetermined medium;
- generating, by the money depositing apparatus, association information in which a pre-deposit amount of the money received by the money depositing apparatus is associated with the identification information acquired by the money depositing apparatus;
- transmitting, by the money depositing apparatus, the association information to the management device;
- and
- registering, by the management device, the association information transmitted from the money depositing apparatus in a pre-deposit table, and
- the checkout process comprises:
- acquiring, by the POS register, the identification information from the predetermined medium carried by the customer;
- transmitting, by the POS register, the identification information acquired by the POS register to the management device;
- reading out, by the management device, the pre-deposit amount associated with the transmitted identification information out of the association information registered in the pre-deposit table;
- transmitting, by the management device, the pre-deposit amount read out from the pre-deposit table to the POS register;
- and
- performing a checkout of a commodity that the customer purchases, by the POS register and the money handling apparatus, with using the pre-deposit amount transmitted from the management device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.