| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a commodity vending system by an automatic vending machine capable of vending commodities without cash. SOLUTION: The commodity vending system by the automatic vending machine connects the automatic vending machine and an automatic vending machine management server. A customer specifies his/her authentication information and a commodity to be purchased by using the automatic vending machine. The automatic vending machine sends them to the automatic vending machine management server, checks whether or not the commodity can be purchased and then carried away the commodity when it is vendible. Also, the automatic vending machine management server authenticates the customer by the authentication information transmitted from a plurality of the automatic vending machines connected through a network, decides whether or not vending is possible of commodity information desired by the customer, reports the result to the automatic vending machine, and when vending is possible, registers a vending history for the customer in a vending history data base and charges each customer corresponding to the vending history within a predetermined period. |
