To enable a customer himself to arbitrarily select gifts, which he wants to exchange points with, in the range of accumulated points from many kinds of gifts different by exchange points.
A member file 14 where accumulated points of service points are stored correspondingly to the member's number of each member and a gift file 15 exchange points preliminarily set corresponding to gift numbers of various gifts are stored are provided. Accumulated points corresponding to the member's number inputted from a card reader 24 are read out from the member file 14, and exchange points corresponding to the gift number inputted from a keyboard 5 are read out from the gift file 15, and accumulated points and gift points are compared with each other, and exchange of the gift having the inputted gift number is permitted when the number of exchange points is equal to or smaller than that of accumulated points, but it is not permitted when the number of exchange points is larger than that of accumulated points.
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