SERVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, SERVICE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, SERVICE MANAGEMENT NETWORK SYSTEM AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a rational service management system to charge cost in accordance with a consumption time limit of a distributing article for a service recipient without bein required to purchase the extra distributing article under a service management method to provide the distributing article to the service recipient. SOLUTION: A terminal 12 to be managed by a service provider 10 constitutes of a memory part 124 to register information of the distributing article 6 to supply to a contractor 1 and consumption time limit information of the distributing article 6, an input part 123 to input a using status of the distributing article 6 or a communicating part 121 to detect the using status and an arithmetic processing part 122 to compute an accounting amount in accordance with effective date information of the distributing article 6 with the distributing article 6 the using status of which is input out of the supplied distributing articles 6 as an object.