KR20140021111A - Sailing method for online item using code and recording-method recorded program thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A method of selling online goods using a code and a recording medium on which the method is recorded are disclosed. According to an aspect of the present invention, a product selling method using a code performed in a device coupled with a communication network may include: issuing a code corresponding to a promoter; Providing the code to the promoter so that the promoter can use the code on the media; When a purchase request for a sale product using a code is received from a user terminal coupled through a communication network, processing a payment for the sale product; And allocating a reward according to a predetermined rule according to the payment to the promoter.

Description

Selling method for online item using code and recording-method recorded program etc.

The present invention relates to on-line merchandise sales, and more particularly, to a method of performing merchandise sales using a code corresponding to a merchandise and a recording medium on which the method is recorded.

Recently, not only the purchase of goods through offline stores, but also the purchase of goods through online markets has been actively performed. The online market using the Internet is getting more and more popular because it can compare and purchase many products through the computing device.

Therefore, in recent years, a large number of online markets have been opened and operated. Each online market has invested a large amount of money in advertisements for recruiting members, such as banner advertisements and portal site keyword advertisements. It is difficult to measure.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, the present invention by distributing the sales revenue to the publicity promoting the product using the code, the product is promoted more effectively using the code that can increase the sales volume It is to provide a product sales method.

In addition, the present invention is to provide a product selling method using a code that can be easily processed by the purchase of the product by using a code set on the product.

Other objects of the present invention will become more apparent through the following preferred embodiments.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a method for selling goods using a code performed in a device coupled to a communication network, the method comprising: issuing a code corresponding to a promoter; Providing the code to the promoter so that the promoter can use the code on a media; When a purchase request for a sale product using the code is received from a user terminal coupled through a communication network, processing a payment for the sale product; And a method of allocating a product according to a predetermined rule according to the payment to the promoter, and a recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method.

The method may further include providing the seller with a purchase history according to the payment including the user information of the user terminal by using the information on the seller who registered the sale product.

In addition, the step of distributing the code may be performed by posting the code on the promotional medium, which is an online medium registered from the promoter.

In addition, the method may further include providing a right as a publicity to a user who has made a purchase for the sale product.

In addition, the compensation may be determined to correspond to an amount of money less the original selling price set by the seller who registered the sale product from the actual selling price set by the promoter.

In addition, some or all of the rewards may be applied to the selling price of the selling product at the time of the settlement according to a selection previously performed by the promoter.

In addition, the code may be issued as a content including information on the product purchase reviews by the publicity or sale price information of the sale product.

In addition, a product selling method using a code performed in a device coupled to a communication network, the method comprising: issuing a code corresponding to a promoter; Providing the code to the promoter so that the promoter can use the code on a media; And when a purchase request for a sale product using the code is received from a user terminal coupled through a communication network, processing a payment by applying a discount by the promoter at a price set in the sale product. And a recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method.

Here, the promoter may be a member who purchased the sale product.

According to the present invention, a user can easily purchase a corresponding product by using a code corresponding to the product, and the seller pays an advertisement fee (part of the sales revenue) only when the seller actually promotes the product and leads to the purchaser's purchase. Therefore, more efficient and active products can be advertised and sold.

In addition, according to the present invention, in the user's position, acquaintances can purchase the products purchased by their acquaintances, and in the seller's position, the sales volume can be increased due to voluntary promotion of users.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing the entire system for the sale of online goods using a code according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating an online product selling process using a code according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is an exemplary view showing a promotional medium in which a code used to sell a product is promoted according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a product selling process using a code according to another embodiment of the present invention.

While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof are shown by way of example in the drawings and will herein be described in detail. It should be understood, however, that the invention is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments, but includes all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the like elements throughout the specification and claims. The description will be omitted.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing the entire system for the sale of online goods using a code according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the entire system according to the present embodiment includes a user terminal 10, a promotional media device 30, a code management device 50, and a payment server 70.

The user terminal 10 is a device capable of communication through a communication network. For example, the user terminal 10 may be a general personal computer, as well as a computing device including a portable terminal device such as a smart phone or a tablet PC. Hereinafter, it is assumed that the user terminal 10 is a smart phone for convenience of explanation.

The promotional media device 30 refers to an online media on which a sale product is promoted. For example, the promotional media device 30 may be a blog, an online shopping mall, a game platform, an SNS platform, or the like. As an easy example, for convenience of understanding, information about a product (banner, etc.) may be promoted on one side of a screen of a blog or on an online medium such as a user registration post according to an SNS such as Facebook. An apparatus for providing such an online medium is a promotional media device 30.

A code is used as information about the sale product posted on the promotional media device 30. The code is identification information for identifying a promoter and / or a sale product, and according to an example, the code may be implemented as a serial number consisting of a combination of numbers, letters, symbols, or the like. It may be implemented as a QR code (quick response code), a barcode (barcode) and the like. QR code is a plaid two-dimensional code that can hold much more information than a bar code. Recently, due to the spread of smart phones that can easily read code information of QR codes, a service that provides various information using QR codes It is used a lot. However, hereinafter, a serial number is used as a code for convenience of description.

Therefore, the user terminal 10 can perform the purchase process of the sale product using the code provided through the promotional media device 30, the processing method will be described in detail later.

The code management apparatus 50 generates and issues and manages the code as described above. The code management apparatus 50 manages a specific member as a promoter, issues a code for identifying the promoter, and provides it to the corresponding promoter. According to an example, the code management apparatus 50 may provide the code in a file in an image or flash form to which the code is exposed so that the code acquired by the public may be used for a purpose such as a banner. Alternatively, the code management apparatus 50 may provide a code directly to the promoter, but according to another exemplary embodiment, a promotion medium preset by the promoter (for example, a specific area of a webpage or a specific game application according to a specific blog) may be provided. Or a specific area of the game screen according to the present invention. In the second case, the promoter may not be required to post the code directly on the promotion medium, thereby providing convenience.

In summary, the code management device 50 issues a code to a publicity provider and provides it, and the publicity person posts the acquired code to various promotional media (email, blog, homepage, Facebook account, etc.) related to the user. Using the posted code as described above is to access the code management device 50 and to purchase the sale products accordingly.

Here, according to an example, one sale product may be set in the code. That is, the user can use the corresponding code to purchase a sale product set in the code. According to another exemplary embodiment, a plurality of sales products may be set in the code, or a specific online market may be set. According to this, a user may purchase any one or more of a plurality of sales products using a code, or may purchase a product by accessing a specific online market through a code. In other words, the code is used as a means to promote a particular product or online market. Hereinafter, for convenience of description, one coded product is set in the code.

In addition, the code management apparatus 50 provides the payment service for the product sold to the user terminal 10 requesting the purchase of the product using the code in association with the payment server 70 according to the payment method selected by the corresponding user. That is, the code management device 50 provides a payment service so that users can purchase the corresponding sales product using the code.

According to one example, the code management device 50 provides a specific reward to the promoted when the product purchase of the users using the code distributed to the promoted is made. That is, a reward (for example, mileage or prize) corresponding to the sold product is provided to the promoter who performed the promotion of the sold product. Therefore, the promoters will be rewarded each time a product is purchased through the code issued to them.

According to another example, the code management apparatus 50 provides a product buyer with a discount corresponding to the promoter when the user purchases the product using the code distributed to the promoter. In other words, when a user purchases a product using a code, the user may receive a discount set in a promoter corresponding to the corresponding code.

That is, the promoter may be rewarded every time a product is purchased using the code distributed to him, or a discount may be applied when others use the code to purchase the product. Each can be set. As an easy example, if 500 won is paid as a reward for each purchase of the product as a reward for the promoter, the promoter may set 300 won as a reward and 200 won as a discount. Therefore, according to the present exemplary embodiment, whenever a promotional product is sold by the public, the publicity person may acquire a compensation amount, and at the same time, allow the users who purchase the product to receive a partial discount.

Hereinafter, a product selling process using codes in the entire system according to FIG. 1 will be described.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an online product selling process using a code according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an illustration showing a promotional medium in which a code used for selling a product is promoted according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is also.

Referring to FIG. 2, when the promoter requests registration as a promoter to the code management apparatus 50 (S210), the code management apparatus 50 registers the corresponding promoter and issues a code according to the promoter for the sale product. By providing (S215) to the promoter (S220). According to an example, the promoter may be a member having a history of purchasing the sale product. In other words, the code management apparatus 50 grants a member who purchased a product to be sold as a promoter for the corresponding product. This will soon increase the sale of goods by allowing the buyer of the goods to be a promoter of the goods. In addition, when the promoter is a buyer who purchases the corresponding product, a code may be issued to include product purchase review information input by the corresponding promoter. According to an example, the code may be provided to the public as it is, but according to another example, the code may be produced and provided as content (image, flash, video, etc.) including the code. If a code is provided as the content, the content may include information about a product purchaser's review of the product.

Here, the promoter may set the compensation to be paid when the product is sold using the corresponding code. As described above, the promoter sets the ratio and the ratio of whether the reward for the sale of the product is to be paid as a reward or whether the price of the product can be discounted when the buyer pays the product using the corresponding code.

In addition, according to another embodiment, the promoter may set a selling price for a product (hereinafter referred to as a code product) corresponding to the code. This will be described later in detail with reference to another drawing (FIG. 4).

In addition, the code provided to the publicity may include the sales amount of the product. Referring to FIG. 3, as described above, the code is provided as a content such as an image including code information (hereinafter, referred to as code content), and price information as well as code information 312 may be displayed on the content. Can be.

The promoter promotes the code provided from the code management apparatus 50 through various promotional media (S225). For example, if the promoter is a company that operates the online game A, the code may be exposed in the game screen of the users according to the game A. As another example, as shown in FIG. 3, when the publicity person is a public person, the code may be exposed to his or her Facebook account. By posting 310 on Facebook, it allows other Facebook users to purchase shoes through the image.

By promoting the code of the promoter, a certain user checks the code, so that the user terminal 10 of the user acquires the code information (S230). As described above, when the code is a QR code, the user terminal 10 may read the code to read the code information, or may receive code information such as a serial number directly from the user.

When the user terminal 10 requests the purchase of goods using the code to the code management device 50 (S235), the code management device 50 recognizes the promoter and the sale product according to the code (S240), and checks the dimension. As to provide information about the product requested to purchase to the user terminal 10 (S245).

For example, the user terminal 10 installs and executes an application program (hereinafter, referred to as an App) provided from the code management apparatus 50, and when code information such as a serial number is input, the code management apparatus 50 immediately. ), You can request to purchase the product.

According to another embodiment, the code may be set to the access information (URL) for accessing a specific webpage (webpage) of the code management device 50, accordingly, the user terminal 10 is connected to the access information set in the code Through the code management device 50 through the will be able to purchase the product.

When the payment request for the product purchase is input from the user terminal 10 (S250), the code management apparatus 50 processes the payment in association with the payment server 70 (S255). Here, the code management device 50 may store the member information for the user of the user terminal 10 in advance. As the member information, payment information for payment as well as personal information such as name, address, social security number ( Card, bank transfer, mobile phone payment, etc.) and the corresponding payment details (card number, card password, etc.).

Therefore, the code management apparatus 50 first performs a member authentication procedure (for example, a login procedure) for the user terminal 10 and, when authenticated as a member, the payment server 70 based on previously stored member information. And settles the payment for the purchase of goods.

When the payment is completed, the code management device 50 performs a product sale process (S260), according to one example is to process so that the product can be delivered to the purchased member.

In addition, the code management apparatus 50 provides a reward to the promoter corresponding to the code identified in S240 (S260). As described above, the reward may be provided to the promoter as mileage, cash, or the like, or may be provided to a buyer who has made a purchase using the code. If the above reward is provided to the buyer as a product purchase discount, the payment will be processed with the discounted amount in S255.

Here, the code management apparatus 50 may set a period for providing the reward in the sale of the product using the code provided to the publicist. That is, compensation is provided only for a preset period (eg, one month) after the code is issued. According to one example, the above-described period or the degree of compensation may vary according to the degree of sale of the product by the code. For example, if the sale of a product by a code is made to exceed a certain threshold (eg, 10) for a period of time, the period covered by the reward may be extended in a period of time (eg, a month). have. In addition, if more than a certain number (for example, 100) of the product is sold by the code, a higher reward may be given to the promoter according to the code.

In addition, although not shown in the drawing, the code management apparatus 50 may provide the member who purchased the product as a new promoter for the corresponding product and issue and provide a new code according to the member.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a product selling process using a code according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to Figure 4, the code management device 50 sets the original selling price when registering the product from the seller (S410). That is, a seller who wants to sell a product may set a selling amount, which is called an original selling price.

The code management apparatus 50 registers the corresponding product as a product for sale (S420), and stores seller information, product information (product name, product content, product price, etc.).

When a code issuance is requested for the product from the public in the future (S430), the code management device 50 issues a code for identifying the publicity (S440), and provides to the publicity (S450). At this time, the promoter can actually set a price to sell the product, and this is called the actual selling price. Of course, the actual selling price may be set higher than the original selling price. According to one example, the amount of the original selling price minus the original selling price may be allocated to the promoter as compensation. For example, if a seller wants to sell a product for 10,000 won, the publicist receives and promotes a code that is sold for 12 thousand won, and the code management device 50 receives 10,000 when the product is sold due to the code. The payment is made at 2,000 won, and 2,000 won (or a part of 2,000 won) is paid to the public as a promotional cost for sale.

Subsequently, when the sale of the product according to the purchase request of the product using the code from the user terminal 10 is completed (S460), the rewards as described above are provided to the promoter (S470), and the proceeds from the sale of the product Provide to the seller (S480).

The online merchandise selling method using the code according to the present invention described above can be embodied as computer readable codes on a computer readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording media storing data that can be decoded by a computer system. For example, it may be a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), a magnetic tape, a magnetic disk, a flash memory, an optical data storage device, or the like. In addition, the computer-readable recording medium may be distributed and executed in a computer system connected to a computer network, and may be stored and executed as a code readable in a distributed manner.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims. It will be understood that various modifications and changes may be made.

10: user terminal 30: promotional media device
50: code management device 70: payment server

Claims (10)

In the merchandise sales method using a code performed in a device coupled to a communication network,
Issuing a code corresponding to the promoter;
Providing the code to the promoter so that the promoter can use the code on a media;
When a purchase request for a sale product using the code is received from a user terminal coupled through a communication network, processing a payment for the sale product; And
And allocating a reward according to a pre-set rule according to the payment to the promoter.
The method according to claim 1,
And providing the seller with the purchase details according to the payment including the user information of the user terminal by using the information on the seller who registered the sale product.
The method according to claim 1,
Distributing the code,
And selling the code on the promotional medium, which is an online medium registered by the publicity.
The method according to claim 1,
And providing the user as the publicity authority to the user who has made a purchase for the sale product.
The method according to claim 1,
The compensation is a product selling method characterized in that the actual selling price set by the promoter corresponding to the amount less the original selling price set by the seller registered the sale product.
The method according to claim 1,
Part or all of the compensation is applied to the sale price of the sale product at the time of the payment in accordance with the selection made in advance by the promoter.
The method according to claim 1,
The code is a product selling method, characterized in that issued as a content containing information on the product purchase reviews by the publicity or the sale price information of the sale product.
In the merchandise sales method using a code performed in a device coupled to a communication network,
Issuing a code corresponding to the promoter;
Providing the code to the promoter so that the promoter can use the code on a media; And
And receiving a purchase request for a sale product using the code from a user terminal connected through a communication network, and processing a payment by applying a discount by the promoter at a price set in the sale product.
The method according to claim 8,
The promotional method is a product selling method characterized in that the member who purchased the sale product.
A recording medium readable by a digital information processing apparatus, wherein a program for performing the method of any one of claims 1 to 9 is recorded.

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