To provide a payment machine reservation system capable of using the payment machine safely without waiting in front of the payment machine by making a reservation with the payment machine in advance which a payer uses.
In the payment machine reservation system, a plurality of payment machines, a reservation terminal, and a management center server are connected to one another via a communication network. The reservation terminal is provided with: an input means for allowing a user to input a sum of money to be paid; a transmitting means for transmitting data of the sum of money to be paid to the management center server; a receiving means for receiving data of a reservation result from the management center server; and a display means for displaying the reservation result. The management center server comprises: a user managing means for storing the sum of money to be paid of the user and his/her location transmitted from the reservation terminal; a payment machine managing means for storing a location of the respective payment machines and cash housing states of the respective payment machines; a decision means for deciding a payment machine to be used by the user when the data of the sum of money to be paid received from the reservation terminal are received; and a transmission means for transmitting the decided payment information to the reservation terminal.
TAKAOKA MINORU
TODA NOBUTAKA
Satoshi Katabe
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