Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a RF recognition-based merchandise purchasing system and method and more particularly, to a system and method which is capable of implementing a service for allowing a user to create a merchandise purchasing wish list through an application installed in a user terminal, performing a payment process for a merchandise on the purchasing wish list when a user enters a store selling the merchandise, and delivering the merchandise to the user.
Description of the Related Art
With recent rapid spread of mobile terminals, a certain number of purchasing/payment services using mobile terminals have been introduced. In particular, high convenience in interlock with store sales systems (for example, POS (Point Of Sales) systems) is of main concern.
A POS system is a sales management system which manages sales information intensively by recording information on sold merchandises in-situ. That is, the POS system is a general sales management system which doubles the client reaction ability by integrating, analyzing and evaluating POS information in real time by connecting a store ordering system and an administer server on-line.
In general, the POS system is driven to calculate prices for merchandises and collect all information on the merchandises by scanning barcodes or OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tags attached to the merchandises.
However, since most POS systems are operated starting from a payment phase after decision of purchase by clients, even when a client enters a store after deciding merchandises to be purchased, it takes a long time to wait payment, make an order and deliver the merchandises to the client.
Therefore, there is a need of a more advanced sales management system which is capable of alleviating the above-mentioned client inconvenience. The present invention suggests a merchandise purchasing service which is capable of allowing a user to select a merchandise to be purchased through a merchandise purchasing application installed in its own terminal, detecting a signal output from a RF device installed in a store, and making payment for the selected merchandise when the user terminal acquires information related to the store.