Point management apparatus, commodity and service providing apparatus, settlement mediating apparatus, and network point-settling system

摘要

A customer terminal (1) obtains points from online shop set up by a store server (2). The customer terminal (1) requests the store server (2) that the points be used for payment to a business entity server (3). Having received this request, the store server (2) calls a Web page of the business entity server (3). The business entity server (3) receives the point use request by the customer terminal (1), and charges an amount of money corresponding to the allotted points to the store server (2). Thus, the present invention realizes a new form of point service in which points given as customer service can be also used in another store.