Sony Corporation

Makiko Hara

Takayuki Sakurai

An object is to restrict the giving of points according to an object of payment for which payment was made with electronic money. An electronic money server (FIG.) receives transaction information in which a breakdown of the amount of payment of an electronic money card used in one payment processing is recorded and breakdown information in which a breakdown of the amount of payment for each object of payment in this payment processing is recorded. The breakdown includes a normal item into which general products are classified, a tax-free item into which tax-free articles such as a postage stamp are classified, and a collected item into which public utility rates collected by an agency payment service are classified. Among these breakdown items, points are given to the amount of payment made for a normal item, and no points are given to the others. The electronic money serveridentifies the amount of payment used for paying for a normal item product in the amount of payment made with the electronic money card by checking the breakdown information against the transaction information, and calculates the number of points for the amount of payment.

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Makiko Hara