Abstract: According to one embodiment, a stocktaking system includes a customer terminal and a store server for tracking commodity inventory at a store. The store server include a processor, a communication interface, and a data storage device. The customer terminal is configured to display a customer stocktaking request button and send a stocktaking request to the store server if the customer presses the stocktaking request button. The processor of the store server is configured to transmit a stocktaking location to the customer terminal in response to the stocktaking request. The customer terminal is configured to indicate the stocktaking location on a touch panel display screen, receive a data input from the customer a indicating the total number of a commodity at the stocktaking location, and then transmit the data input about the total number of the commodity to the store server.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a shopping support apparatus includes a reader, a memory, and a processor. The processor causes the reader to read a data code, obtains store-specific setting information, and causes the memory to store control mode information included in the obtained setting information. The processor determines, on the basis of the control mode information of the setting information stored in the memory, whether to set a first mode for shopping support at the store as the control mode of the processor or set a second mode for a task restricted to an operation of an authorized person as the control mode of the processor.

Abstract: An electronic receipt system comprises a first storage module that stores receipt data indicating contents of a transaction in association with a unique management code for specifying the receipt data; a notifying module that provides the unique management code to a target person associated with the transaction; an acquiring module that acquires a member code for specifying an electronic receipt member and a management code input including the unique management code from the electronic receipt member; a second storage module that stores the receipt data stored in the first storage module in association with the unique management code acquired by the acquiring module in association with the member code acquired by the acquiring module; and an output module that outputs a receipt image generated according to the receipt data stored in the second storage module in association with the member code included in a request for an electronic receipt in response to the request.

Abstract: A checkout system comprises a commodity registration apparatus including a generation module which generates settlement information for settling a purchased commodity in a carrying equipment, a first acquisition module which acquires an identification code of the carrying equipment, and a control module which stores the settlement information in a memory device in association with the identification code acquired by the first acquisition module, and a settlement apparatus including a second acquisition module which acquires an identification code of the carrying equipment moved from the commodity registration apparatus to the settlement apparatus, a settlement module which executes a settlement processing for the purchased commodity in the carrying equipment based on the settlement information stored in the memory device in association with the identification code, acquired by the first acquisition module, which is the same as that acquired by the second acquisition module.