PREPAID ELECTRONIC MONEY-ASSOCIATED SYSTEM AND ITS CONTROL PROGRAM

摘要

PURPOSE: To enable a virtual store to handle even a low-priced article and to improve services to a user side. CONSTITUTION: When there is a payment indication for one article from a user terminal 1, a paying method presenting means 21 of a virtual store 2 presents a paying method using prepaid electronic money sold on a network 6. When payment using prepaid electronic money is indicated from the user terminal 1, an electronic money buying means 22 buys the prepaid electronic money by using a settlement means on the network, subtracts the payment amount of the article from the amount of the bought prepaid electronic money, and informs the user terminal 1 of the result.