Abstract: A system for managing a selling system for shipping out an item from a warehouse or a nearest base associated with a delivery destination, includes an instruction unit configured to, before receiving an order placement for an item from a customer, transmit, to a warehouse server associated with the warehouse or a relay base server associated with a relay base, a transportation instruction for transporting the item to the nearest base from the warehouse or the relay base, and to, after receiving the order placement for the item from the customer, transmit, to a nearest base server associated with the nearest base, a submission instruction for submitting the ordered item to the customer.

Abstract: A group commodity purchasing system for performing a purchasing operation by causing a commodity list to be downloaded and displayed onto a user terminal, the system includes a database of the server contains a commodity master in which at least a commodity code and a price are associated with each other, and a group commodity table for registering a group of commodities selected arbitrarily by a specific user as a group commodity. The server reads a group commodity code from the group commodity table and registering the group commodity code as one of the commodity codes on the commodity master. The group commodity code registered on the commodity master is indicated within the commodity list.