AUTOMATIC SELLING METHOD AND VENDING MACHINE SYSTEM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vending machine system capable of realizing an authentication function at low cost even with a large number of vending machines.

SOLUTION: The automatic selling method performed by the vending machine 10 system including a vending machine 10 selling a commodity to a user who used a medium and a front end server 30 authenticating whether or not to sell the commodity to the user of the vending machine 10 is characterized by executing the procedure that the vending machine 10 reads a medium ID; the procedure that the front end server 30 acquires data of the user from a storage means by use of the medium ID as a key to authenticate whether or not to sell the commodity; and the procedure that the vending machine 10 permits to sell the commodity to the user in a case that to buy the commodity is determined in the authentication.

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