摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent accidents beforehand and also to reduce risk in electronic commercial transactions with a deferred payment method. SOLUTION: A message including order data S11, including information about the price of merchandise desired by a purchaser and personal information, such as a credit card number that becomes troublesome if leaked to anyone other than a person involved, is given to a computer 10 belonging to a settlement representative agent from a computer 30 used by the purchaser. The computer 10 performs processing that decides whether or not to pay some price of merchandise to a dealer, instead of the purchaser according to the order data S21 and the personal information. In the case of paying, the computer 10 transmits settlement permission information showing payment to a dealer side computer 20 used by the dealer, while concealing the personal information. Thus, settlement is finished before shipping the merchandise, and also the dealer will not be notified of the credit card number, etc. |