JP5589438B2 - Deposit machine and cash management system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a depositing machine and a cash management system having a closing function for counting sales proceeds in a store or the like.

  Conventionally, in cash management systems, the sales proceeds at the store are received at the store, and the amount is sent to the management center via a communication line for total management, and the cash received at the store is a specialized security company. It comes to collect by.

  According to such a cash management system, the store manager can automatically collect the sales proceeds to the deposit machine in the store without going to the bank itself, and the collection is also a specialized security company. And is finally deposited at a predetermined bank or head office.

  In the above conventional cash management system, since the deposit machine is provided corresponding to each individual store, it is good when used in a specific supermarket or convenience store, but in a shopping center or the like having a plurality of tenants. There was a problem that it would be very uneconomical when used.

  That is, in the shopping center, a depositing machine is provided for each individual tenant, and each depositing machine must individually communicate with the central management center. Therefore, a communication line such as a telephone line is provided for each depositing machine. There was a problem that a lot of expenses were required for the equipment.

  In order to avoid this problem, the management server is notified of means for inputting tenant information for identifying the tenant to each depositing machine, information on the cash received and tenant information of the tenant who received the cash. In addition, there was a technology that allowed each tenant to deposit sales with an arbitrary deposit machine.

  In this technology, as the closing process of each tenant, the amount of bills and coins inserted is stored as deposit information, and the stored deposit information is summed and sent to the remote management center as a closure information via a communication line. It is supposed to be.

  In this tightening process, an automatic tightening time is set for each tenant, an automatic tightening instruction is generated at a predetermined time, and the management center is notified as tightening information summing up the deposit amount for each tenant. (For example, see Patent Document 1).

Japanese Patent No. 3546138

  However, in the conventional cash management system, since the automatic closing is performed at the set time, the closing process cannot be started immediately when a predetermined operator or the like completes the payment, and the end of the counting is delayed. There was a problem of becoming.

The present invention employs the following configuration in order to solve the above-described problems. That is, a depositing machine system including a depositing machine to which a plurality of tenants deposit, a depositing machine management server that manages depositing information of the plurality of depositing machines, and a management server that manages depositing information of the plurality of depositing machine systems. from now, these a cash management system connected by a network, each of the plurality of deposit machine, with shared information storage unit mutually stores through to completion of payment information tenant another operator the network, by the tenant When setting the conditions for performing the closing process in the depositing machine, setting the conditions for performing the closing process in the depositing machine management server, and when the deposit of the tenant operator is completed with the certain depositing machine, the payment completion information of the operator Is stored in the shared information storage unit of the depositing machine and stored in the shared information storage unit of the other depositing machine. The performed depositing machine refers to the shared information storage unit, determines whether the input process of a specific operator is completed as a condition for performing the tightening process set in advance for each tenant, and determines that it is completed. In this case, the automatic closing process of the tenant is performed at the time of the determination, and a closing notice is transmitted to the deposit machine management server .

According to the cash management system of the present invention, a depositing machine system comprising a depositing machine to which a plurality of tenants deposits, a depositing machine management server for managing deposit information of the plurality of depositing machines, and a plurality of the depositing machine systems. A cash management system comprising a management server for managing deposit information and connecting them via a network, wherein each of the plurality of deposit machines stores the deposit completion information of each tenant operator via the network. An information storage unit is provided, and a condition for performing a tightening process in the depositing machine is set for each tenant, and a condition for performing the tightening process in the depositing machine management server is set, and when the depositing of the tenant operator is completed with the certain depositing machine The payment completion information of the operator is stored in the shared information storage unit of the depositing machine and stored in the shared information storage unit of the other depositing machine. The depositing machine where the deposit is performed by the operator refers to the shared information storage unit, determines whether the input process of a specific operator is completed as a condition for performing the tightening process set in advance for each tenant, When it is determined that it has been completed, the automatic closing process of the tenant is performed at the time of the determination, and the closing notification is transmitted to the deposit machine management server, so that the predetermined operator has completed the deposit Sometimes it is possible to start the tightening process immediately and finish the final tightening process quickly.

It is a block diagram of the cash management system of Example 1. It is a block diagram of the deposit machine of Example 1. FIG. It is an operation | movement flowchart figure of the cash management system of Example 1. FIG. It is a time chart figure of the deposit machine of the cash management system of Example 1. FIG.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the element common to drawing.

(Constitution)
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of the cash management system according to the first embodiment, and FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of the depositing machine. As shown in FIG. 1, the cash management system according to the first embodiment includes depositing machine systems NS <b> 1 to NSn including depositing machines 2 a to 2 n and a depositing machine management server 3 connected by a LAN (Local Area Network) 5, and these The depositing machine systems NS1 to NSn are connected to the management center 4 by the communication line 6.

  The depositing machines 2a to 2n have a function of notifying the depositing machine management server 3 together with the information of the tenant who deposited the cash information, and the depositing machine management server 3 notifies each depositing machine 2a to 2n. It has a function of collecting and managing the received cash information and tenant information, and notifying the management center 4 of the payment information for each tenant via the communication line 6.

  The management center 4 includes a management server 4a that aggregates the payment information for each tenant from the deposit machine systems NS1 to NSn for each tenant, and the aggregated result and cash for each aggregated tenant are full and need to be collected. It is composed of a management information storage unit 4b for storing information on the deposit machine 2 that requires a guard's request.

  Next, the configuration of the depositing machine 2 provided in each of the depositing machine systems NS1 to NSn will be described in detail with reference to FIG. As shown in the figure, the depositing machine 2 is provided with a main control unit 20 that controls each unit, which will be described later, and an operation unit 4 that an operator operates according to displayed guidance. Note that the operation unit 4 is configured by integrating an LCD that displays an operation screen during a deposit operation and a touch panel for selecting a process and appropriately inputting a personal identification number and a deposit amount.

  Furthermore, the control system of the automatic transaction apparatus according to the first embodiment includes a card processing unit 21 that reads / writes the operator's ID recorded on the card, a voice guidance unit 22 that outputs operation guidance and the like by voice, A statement processing unit 23 that prints out the counting results, a deposit box 24 that stores coins and banknotes, a deposit processing unit 25 that counts and counts the received cash, and another depositing machine 2 via the LAN 5. A shared information storage unit 26 for storing the payment completion information is provided.

  Furthermore, a power supply unit 27 that supplies power to each unit, a memory unit 28 that is a storage unit of the main control unit 20 and that can store a control program and various parameters, and an interface unit 29 that controls the interface of the LAN 5 Is provided.

(Operation)
With the above configuration, the cash management system according to the first embodiment operates as follows. This operation will be described in detail below with reference to an operation flowchart of the cash management system in FIG. 3 and a time chart of the deposit machine 2 in FIG.

  First, a tightening condition, which is a condition for performing tightening, which will be described later in detail, in the deposit machine 2 is set (step S01). For example, in the tenant A, a condition is set that the automatic closing process of the tenant A is started when the operator X, the operator Y, and the operator Z complete payment. Similarly, the depositing machine management server 3 sets a tightening condition, which is a condition for performing a tightening described later in detail (step S21). For example, a condition is set that the automatic closing process is started when the closing process of tenant A, tenant B, and tenant C is completed.

  Then, as a depositing operation, each tenant deposits sales using an arbitrary depositing machine 2a to 2n. At this time, tenant information for identifying each tenant is input (step S02). The tenant information may be input by inputting a predetermined ID number using the operation unit 19 or reading each tenant information recorded on a card or the like by the card processing unit 21.

  Next, the operator of each tenant, for example X, inserts the cash to be deposited and counts the amount (step S03).

  Next, the tenant information and the counted deposit information are transmitted to the deposit machine management server 3. The deposit machine management server 3 that has been waiting for the deposit information receives the receipt information including the tenant information and the deposited amount information from any deposit machine, for example, 2a, and receives the received receipt information for confirmation. The received information is returned to the depositing machine 2a, a deposit log for each tenant and for each depositing machine is created, and stored in the storage unit of the depositing machine management server 3 (not shown) (step S22).

  The depositing machine 2a receives the deposit information returned from the depositing machine management server 3, confirms that it matches the transmitted deposit information, stores the inserted cash in the deposit box 24, and details Is printed out by the statement slip processing unit 23 (step S04). Then, it is confirmed whether or not the deposit by the operator X has been completed (step S05). If there is something to be deposited by the operator X and the deposit has not been completed, the process returns to step S02, and the remaining deposit by the operator X is performed. To continue. On the other hand, when the depositing by the operator X is completed by the depositing machine 2a, the process proceeds to step S06, and processing for storing the deposit completion person information in the shared information storage unit 26 is performed.

  By the way, since the deposit machine management server 3 creates and manages a deposit log for each tenant and for each deposit machine, each tenant deposits sales using an arbitrary deposit machine 2a to 2n. In addition, it is possible to manage deposits by tenant. It should be noted that the creation and management of the above-mentioned deposit log is created and stored on the side of each deposit machine 2a-2n instead of the deposit machine management server 3, and when the tightening conditions are met, The deposit log may be transmitted to the deposit machine management server 3.

  Next, the payment completion person information indicating that X has completed the payment by the depositing machine 2a is stored in the shared information storage unit 26a of the depositing machine 2a, and the other depositing machines 2b to 2n are notified via the LAN 5, , The depositing machines 2b to 2n store the deposit completion person information in the shared information storage units 26b to 26n, respectively (step S06).

  Next, in each of the depositing machines 2a to 2n, the shared information storage units 26a to 26n are respectively referred to, and it is determined whether or not the tightening conditions set in step S01 are satisfied (step S07). In this example, the closing condition is that the operator X, the operator Y, and the operator Z complete the deposit. Therefore, in the example of the time chart of FIG. 4, the timing Tz when the deposit by the operator Z is completed. The tightening conditions will be met.

  Since the tightening condition is not met before the timing Tz, the process returns to step S02 and the deposit process is similarly performed. On the other hand, after the timing Tz, the operator X, the operator Y, and the operator Z have completed the deposit and the tightening conditions are met, so each deposit machine 2a to 2n performs the automatic tightening process to manage the deposit machine. A notification of closing is transmitted to the server 3 (step S08, timing Ta).

  The depositing machine management server 3 that has received the closing notification determines whether or not the closing condition on the depositing machine management server 3 is met (step S23), and if it matches, tightening is performed at this timing.

  In this example, when the tightening process for tenant A, tenant B, and tenant C is completed, the tightening conditions are met. After the automatic closing process by the machine management server 3 is started and finished, a closing notice is transmitted to the management center 4 (step S24).

  When the management server 4a of the management center 4 receiving the closing notice from the depositing machine management server 3 receives the closing notice from the depositing machine management server 3 of the depositing machine system NS1, the management server 4a stores a deposit log for each depositing machine system in the management information storage unit 4b. Store and terminate the process (step S41).

(Effect of Example 1)
As described above, according to the cash management system of the first embodiment, a deposit machine system including a deposit machine that deposits a plurality of tenants and a deposit machine management server that manages deposit information of the plurality of deposit machines, A cash management system comprising a management server for managing the deposit information of the deposit machine system, and connecting them via a network, wherein the deposit machine stores deposit completion information of operators for each tenant via the network Since there is a shared information storage unit for each tenant, when the payment completion information of the shared information storage unit for each tenant meets a preset tightening condition, the automatic closing process of the depositing machine is started for each tenant. When the operator or the like completes the deposit, the tightening process can be started immediately and the entire tightening process can be completed quickly.

  As described above, the present invention can be widely used for a depositing machine and a cash management system having a closing function for counting sales proceeds in a store or the like.

NS Deposit machine system 2 Deposit machine 3 Deposit machine management server 4 Management center 4a Management server 4b Management information storage unit 5 LAN
6 communication line 20 main control unit 21 card processing unit 23 statement slip printing unit 24 deposit box 25 deposit processing unit 26 shared information storage unit 29 interface unit

Claims (3)

A depositing machine system comprising a depositing machine for depositing by a plurality of tenants, a depositing machine management server for managing the depositing information of the plurality of depositing machines, and a management server for managing the depositing information of the plurality of depositing machine systems. , A cash management system that connects them via a network,
Each of the plurality of depositing machines includes a shared information storage unit that stores deposit completion information of operators for each tenant via the network,
Set the conditions for performing the closing process in the depositing machine for each tenant, and set the conditions for performing the closing process in the depositing machine management server,
When the deposit of the tenant operator is completed at a certain deposit machine, the deposit completion information of the operator is stored in the shared information storage unit of the deposit machine and also stored in the shared information storage unit of the other deposit machine. ,
The deposit machine where the deposit is performed by the operator refers to the shared information storage unit, determines whether the input process of a specific operator is completed as a condition for performing the tightening process set in advance for each tenant, and completes. A cash management system , wherein, when it is determined, the tenant automatic closing processing is performed at the time of the determination, and a closing notification is transmitted to the deposit machine management server . Upon receipt of the closing notification, the depositing machine management server determines whether or not a closing process for a specific tenant has been completed as a closing condition set in advance on the depositing machine management server side, and determines that it has been completed. 2. The cash management system according to claim 1 , wherein a closing process as a depositing machine system is performed at the time of the determination . Counts cash received by multiple tenants, obtains deposit information, stores the cash in the deposit box, notifies the deposit information management server together with tenant information, and connects to other deposit machines via the network A deposit machine,
A shared information storage unit that stores payment completion information of operators for each tenant via the network,
Set conditions for tightening by tenant,
When the deposit of the tenant operator is completed, the payment completion information of the operator is stored in the shared information storage unit of the depositing machine, and is stored in the shared information storage unit of the other depositing machine,
When the payment is made by the operator, the shared information storage unit is referred to determine whether or not the input process of a specific operator is completed as a condition for performing the tightening process set in advance for each tenant. When it is determined, a depositing machine that performs automatic closing processing of the tenant at the time of the determination and transmits a closing notice to the depositing machine management server .

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