GIFT CERTIFICATE DISTRIBUTION MANAGING METHOD AND GIFT CERTIFICATE

摘要

To make it possible to judge the genuineness of a gift certificate more reliably, and to prevent the gift certificate efficiently from being used fraudulently. There is used a gift certificate mounting therein an electronic circuit chip having specific identification data stored in a nonrewritable area. When a distribution managing center 5 receives an issue completion register request containing identification data of the electronic circuit chip from an issue procedure terminal 2, the distribution managing center 5 registers the gift certificate specified by the identification data, in a database as an issue-completed gift certificate. When the distribution managing center 5 receives a receipt completion register request containing the identification data of the electronic circuit chip from a receipt procedure terminal 3, the distribution managing center 5 checks whether or not the gift certificate specified by the identification data is registered in the database as the issue-completed gift certificate, and only if registered, updates the registered contents of the gift certificate in the database from the issue completion status to the receipt completion status. Then, the result of the updating is reported to the receipt procedure terminal 3.