To provide a point management system and method for preventing the illegal acquisition of points by the lending or transfer of the points without requiring a user to own a card or a coupon being a paper medium or the like.
A management server 12 generates a customer ID for identifying a customer using a portable telephone 11, and a web server 13 transmits the customer ID prepared by the server 12 to the telephone 11. At the time of adjustment, a POS terminal 14 receives the customer ID from the telephone 11, and after recognizing the customer on the basis of the received customer ID, performs adjustment and calculates adding points based on the adjustment. Then the telephone 11 or the server 12 adds the adding points calculated by the terminal 14 to the customer's points accumulated up to now and stores the accumulated number of points.
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