To provide an application service providing system by associating preliminary comprehensive approval authority as preliminarily set specific authority without designating a specific person in charge with a specific person in charge after the event.

The application service providing system is provided with: an approval code generation part (136) for generating an approval code; a preliminary comprehensive approval authority setting part (134) for setting the preliminary comprehensive approval authority as specific authority without designating the identifier (ID) of a user; a database (138) for storing the set preliminary comprehensive approval authority together with the generated approval code in association with each other; an authentication part (104) for authenticating the user with ID, and for associating the preliminary comprehensive approval authority associated with the approval code received from the terminal (12) used by the authenticated user with the ID of the user; and an application providing part (108) for executing an application program on the basis of the authority and the preliminary comprehensive approval authority associated with the ID of the user.

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