To provide a distribution information management system capable of promoting users' willingness to return consumables in conformity to the form of actual commerce.

The distribution information management system comprises information processing terminals 11-51 arranged in at least three distribution bases along a distribution route of products and connected to two-dimensional code readers 12-52, respectively, and a server 100 connected to a database 90, the server being connected to the terminals through a network. The server 100 includes a means calculating, based on the distribution state of products recorded in the database 90 and information related to the recovery state of used containers, a recovery rate of the used containers in each distribution base; and an incentive calculation means calculating, with respect to an optional distribution base, an incentive according to the recovery rate of used containers at this distribution base and the recovery rate of used containers at all the distribution bases present closer to a distribution destination.