RENTAL BUSINESS SYSTEM, RENTAL BUSINESS Web SERVER, RENTAL BUSINESS POS SYSTEM AND RENTAL BUSINESS METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a customer to rent and return a rental commodity to be rent in a store convenient for the customer.;SOLUTION: A Web server has the function of receiving the providing of stock information for rental commodities from a POS system and providing an environment for performing the retrieval of rental commodities, the order of a rental commodity and the designation of the store for receiving the ordered rental commodity; and the function of transmitting the order information of the rental commodity to the POS system. The POS system has the function of transmitting the stock information of rental commodities; the function of receiving the order information of the rental commodity; the function of updating the stock information of rental commodities on the basis of the received order information of the rental commodity; the function of urging the shipping of the ordered rental commodity to the designated store on the basis of the received order information of the rental commodity; and the function of updating the stock information of rental commodities on the basis of the information related to a returned rental commodity.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO