FRANCHISE ADD-ON SYSTEM AND USER OPERATION TERMINAL AND MANUFACTURER MANAGEMENT DEVICE THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR THE USER OPERATION TERMINAL AND MANUFACTURER MANAGEMENT DEVICE

摘要

A user operation terminal 100, which has a touch panel allowing thereon enter operation by an ordinary user, is disposed in the vicinity of the sales processing device 200. When enter operation is made by an ordinary user on a commodity selection screen TSG, which is output in a displayed form to the user operation terminal 100, with the aid of a hypermedia HPM supplied by a manufacturer's management device 500, an over-the-counter commodity STP is selected. Commodity ID data TID of the over-the-counter commodity STP thus selected is sent from the user operation terminal 100 to the sales processing device 200. Accordingly, even over-the-counter commodities STP not readily accessible by the ordinary users, such as cigarette packs, may be sold in a simple and quick manner, and thereby the sales chance of newly-released products, for example, may be prevented from losing sales opportunities. In this way, a franchise add-on system which allows more simplified and quick purchase of commodities not readily accessible by ordinary users, such as cigarette packs, and thereby improves LTV and retention, may be provided.