ACCOUNT SETTLEMENT MEDIATION PROCESSING METHOD, ACCOUNT SETTLEMENT MEDIATION PROCESSOR, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING ACCOUNT SETTLEMENT MEDIATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND ACCOUNT SETTLEMENT MEDIATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the ratio of an authorization charge and a communication network using charge occupied in an account settlement money amount by a credit card, to accelerate the utilization of small amount account settlement and to prevent excessive burdens on a communication network even when the credit card account settlement of a small amount is frequently performed. SOLUTION: In the case of receiving an authorization request for a prescribed credit card number from a trader device 302, authorization request and reply are executed with a credit card company 201 and the result is stored in a storage device 103b. Thereafter, in the case of receiving the authorization request for the prescribed credit card number from the trader device 302, the propriety of order approval is judged by retrieving the result of the authorization reply stored in the storage device 103b and transmitted to the trader device 302. Also, in the case of transmitting account settlement information to the credit card company 201 as sales data, the account settlement information is summed up by a prescribed unit and then transmitted.