Assistance method for assisting in provision of EC abroad, and program or assistance server for assistance method
Provided is a method for assisting provision of EC abroad, and for encouraging cross-border EC by making delivery abroad easier. The method includes the steps of: sending, by the assisting server 100 , display information of at least one of articles included in article information for an existing EC site to a user terminal 120 of a foreign user (S 201 ); receiving, by the assisting server 100 , a notice that a displayed article was selected from the user terminal 120 (S 202 ); and further includes the steps of: sending, by the assisting server 100 , a purchase cost of the selected article to the user terminal 120 (S 203 ); and receiving, by the assisting server 100 , a notice to purchase the selected article from the user terminal 120 (S 204 ).
1. A method for assisting provision of EC abroad, comprising the steps of:
determining a country of a foreign user who accessed an EC site, and
causing a button or a banner to be displayed, for forwarding a web-browser of a user terminal of the foreign user from the EC site to a website provided by an assisting server different from a server providing the EC site, which handles article information of the EC site,
wherein the forwarding is performed in response to a click or tap by the foreign user of a portion of the button or the banner, and
wherein one or more articles displayed on the user terminal are recommended based on (a) an access history to the EC site or the website by one or more other users from the same country with the country of the foreign user or (b) an access history to the EC site by one or more users from a target country of the EC site.
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the forwarding is performed after displaying the fact that delivery abroad is available to the foreign user by a pop-up.
3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the forwarding is performed after the foreign user has input or selected a country in which the foreign user resides on the pop-up.
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the forwarding is performed in response to a click or tap by the foreign user of a portion of a banner placed on an upper or lower area of a webpage of the EC site.
5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the forwarding is performed when the country is included in the countries to which delivery is not available at the EC site as result of the determination.
6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein the forwarding is not performed when the country is included in countries to which sales is not available at the EC site.
7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the forwarding is not performed when the country is included in countries to which delivery is available at the EC site as result of the determination.
8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the determination is performed based on an IP address allocated to the user terminal.
9. A computer readable storage storing a program for causing a server to perform a method for assisting provision of EC abroad, the method comprising the steps of:
determining a country of a foreign user who accessed an EC site, and
causing a button or a banner to be displayed, for forwarding a web-browser of a user terminal of the foreign user from the EC site to a website provided by an assisting server different from a server providing the EC site, which handles article information of the EC site,
wherein the forwarding is performed in response to a click or tap by the foreign user of a portion of the button or the banner, and
wherein one or more articles displayed on the user terminal are recommended based on (a) an access history to the EC site or the website by one or more other users from the same country with the country of the foreign user or (b) an access history to the EC site by one or more users from a target country of the EC site.
10. A server assisting provision of EC abroad which determines a country of a foreign user who accessed an EC site, and
causes a button or a banner to be displayed, for forwarding a web-browser of a user terminal of the foreign user from the EC site to a website provided by an assisting server different from a server providing the EC site, which handles article information of the EC site,
wherein the forwarding is performed in response to a click or tap by the foreign user of a portion of the button or the banner, and
wherein one or more articles displayed on the user terminal are recommended based on (a) an access history to the EC site or the website by one or more other users from the same country with the country of the foreign user or (b) an access history to the EC site by one or more users from a target country of the EC site.