METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING DISTRIBUTION OF ORDERED COMMODITY BY ELECTRONIC COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To notify a consumer that a commodity ordered by the consumer has been delivered to the recipient almost in real time without putting any burden on the consumer. SOLUTION: In an ordered commodity management database 82, the electronic mail address of the consumer is registered together with a unique distribution number that the distributor requested to deliver the commodity ordered from the consumer previously assign. When the distribution number of the commodity having been delivered is reported from the distributor, retrieval from the ordered commodity management database 82 is performed to obtain the electronic mail address of the consumer corresponding to the reported distribution number and specific delivery completion mail indicating that the ordered commodity has been delivered to the delivery destination is sent to the electronic mail address.