An object of the present invention is to provide a POS terminal for making a package discount with respect to commodities previously purchased. The POS terminal for making a package discount intended to allow a discount through a combination of specified commodities, includes an input unit for inputting information concerning a commodity available for a package discount previously purchased; a determining unit for determining whether or not a package discount is provided by analyzing the informa...

A point of sale system designed to read information from a consumer's check, credit card, or manual input with a subsequent debiting of a consumer's account and crediting a merchant's account for the goods or services provided. Point of sale terminals are designed to accept a form of credit card with a consumer's bank account information encoded thereon or in the alternative to read the MICR number from a consumer's check in order to verify that a consumer has an appropriate balance to conduct t...

A credit transaction system is disclosed for use with cards (carrying machine-readable identification of the user) and sales records (bearing a recording medium). The system receives a card along with a blank sales record for processing an anticipated sale or other transaction. The value of the transaction, and identification of the subject thereof, the date, the location of the system, and so on are supplied to the system for the development of representative electrical signals. The signals rep...

A point of sale unit is disclosed comprising a platform which supports an actual product on sale. The platform has a horizontal support panel, a front panel and side panels. A pictorial sculpture is on the front panel having a theme related to the product. A plurality of lights mounted in a line along part of the pictorial sculpture are repeatedly flashed in sequence by a light flashing circuit. The pictorial sculpture comprises a photo print of a subject related to the product which is screen p...

A point of sale display station for holding products to be sold, includes a peripheral wall which forms an enclosure for the products, the peripheral wall having a front open area for removal of the products from the enclosure; a roof secured to the peripheral wall, the roof extending substantially to a front surface of the display station; a cover pivotally mounted at a top front section of the peripheral wall for movement between a first position in covering relation to the front open area and...

A point-of-sale (POS) terminal is provided with a control device for sending control and/or print data to a printing apparatus. The control device includes a general purpose processor controlled by a general purpose operating system and a control device connector for connecting the control device to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus comprises a first connector connecting the printing apparatus to the control device through the control device connector. A second connector connects th...

In a contents sale system, original contents data are encrypted into encryption-resultant contents data in response to original playback key data. The original playback key data are encrypted into first encryption-resultant playback key data. The first encryption-resultant playback key data are encrypted into second encryption-resultant playback key data in response to an ID of a sale destination terminal apparatus. The encryption-resultant contents data and the second encryption-resultant playb...

A point-of-sale merchandiser for merchandising products adjacent a cashier counter. The merchandiser includes a housing having a top opening and a product dispensing rack disposed upright in the housing. The dispensing rack is positioned in the housing so that products supported thereon are accessible through the top opening. The dispensing rack has a bottom surface and includes a plurality of base plates and vertical guides. Each base plate is configured to support a plurality of vertically sta...

The invention includes systems, methods and program products for providing real-time point-of-sale paper currency, i.e., bill, authentication and recordation. The invention provides a point-of-sale terminal capable of real-time authentication and recordation of paper currency, a currency monitoring system for tracking paper currency usage and conducting paper currency authentication relative to a currency issuing entity's database, and a reconciliation system for reconciling a point-of-sale term...

A point of sale device (20) is provided comprising a base unit (22) and a cover unit (34) connected to one another by a hinge mechanism (38). The base unit has a front surface (24) and an exterior casing (25) which define an interior volume. Transaction appliances, for example, a card reader (26), receivables storage drawer (28), a currency storage drawer (30), and a bar code scanner (32), are mounted in the interior volume and accessible from the front surface of the base unit. The cover unit i...