Sales system utilizing electronic communication system

• US 20030046106A1
• Filed: 08/28/2002
• Published: 03/06/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2001
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation (NEC Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NEC Infrontia Corporation (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsunoda, Shinya
• Application Number:
  US10/229,166
• Publication Number:
  US 20030046106A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A sales system is disclosed capable of effective afterward use of service data once obtained with a customer in a shop. Service members in the shop have their own portable data terminal units 3a to 3c for inputting data corresponding to contents of business talks with customers to form service data satisfying predetermined items. The service data is radio transmitted and stored in a shop computer 1. An initial business talk with a customer visiting the shop may not produce sales, but the service data obtained at that time are stored in a shop computer. The stored service data is made use of for transmitting purchase promotion data to the customer to thereby produce a change of a transaction with the customer.

Claims

1. A sales system utilizing shop service data to organize a tie-up relationship among a shop, an agent dealer, a bank and a delivery dealer such that data concerning predetermined items are mutually transmitted and received via electronic communication means for sales of a product dealt with by the shop by the agency of the agent dealer to the customer, wherein:

the agent dealer functions to receive, from the shop, service data containing contents of business talk having been made in the shop, transmit, based on the service data, data for promoting customer'"'"'s purchase for producing a business chance concerning a transaction with the customer, transmit, in response to a purchase order of a product concerning the service data from the customer, a transfer request data instructing the transfer of the price of the product and a predetermined fee to the bank to the customer, and after receiving, from the bank, a transfer notice that the transfer by the customer has been made, transmit, to the shop, an order issuance contact data indicative of the conclusion of sales concerning the service data and also indicative of the promotion of the product delivery;

on the basis of the order issuance contact data the shop commands the delivery dealer to deliver the product to the customer; and

when the agent dealer receives a delivery completion notice indicative of the completion of the delivery from the delivery dealer, it transmits, to the bank, a price payment command data instructing the payment of the price of the product transferred by the customer to the shop.

2. The sales system utilizing shop service data according to claim 1, wherein the agent dealer transmits the purchase promotion data by electronic mail to the customer.

3. The sales system utilizing shop service data according to claim 1, wherein the agent dealer transmits data containing data of a different product relevant to the product concerning the service data as purchase promotion data to the customer.

4. The sales system utilizing shop service data according to claim 1, wherein the agent dealer permits purchase order acceptance of a product concerning the service data from the customer with electronic communication means.

5. The sales system utilizing shop service data according to claim 1, wherein the agent dealer transmits the transfer request data by electronic mail to the customer.

6. The sales system utilizing shop service data according to claim 1, wherein in the shop each service member inputs data corresponding to contents of business talk with a customer to the own portable data terminal unit, whereby the service data is formed as data satisfying predetermined items and transmitted to be stored in a computer, the data stored in the computer being transmitted by the electronic communication means to the agent dealer.

7. The sales system utilizing shop service data according to claim 6, wherein the portable data terminal unit is of such specifications that the data can be radio transmitted from the site of the business talk to the computer.

8. A sales system utilizing shop service data, wherein each service member in the shop has an own portable type data terminal unit, inputs data corresponding to contents of business talk made with a customer in the shop to the portable data terminal unit, service data containing the contents of the business talk with the customer is performed as data satisfying predetermined items and is transmitted for storage in a computer, service activity to the customer is made with electronic communication system based on the data stored in the computer at an instant after the business talk to produce a business chance concerning the customer, and a purchase order of a product concerning the service data from the customer is accepted with the electronic communication means.

9. The sales system utilizing shop service data according to claim 8, wherein the service data includes as the predetermined items the name, address, telephone number and electronic mail address of the customer, data specifying a product concerning the business talk and desired purchase conditions concerning the product.

10. The same method utilizing shop service data according to claim 8, wherein electronic mail is utilized as the electronic communication means.

11. The sales system utilizing shop service data according to claim 8, wherein at an instant after the business talk has once been made, sales concerning the business talk can be made without need of waiting for the visit of the customer to the shop by utilizing the electronic communication means.