SERVER, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR SUPPORTING PURCHASE THROUGH INTERNET

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for performing processing/packaging corresponding to an order of cooking material just before a time when a customer receives the material in a store in accordance with the time when the customer reserves the cooking material in the store that can receive a reservation on the Internet to receive the material at the store and for simultaneously checking whether the purchase is sufficient at a POS(point of sales) cash desk. SOLUTION: A purchase supporting server in the store for managing work in the case a customer uses the Internet to do shopping, is provided with a receiving means for receiving customer information, the information of desired merchandise and a receiving time inputted from a customer terminal, a storing means for storing merchandise information about the merchandise, material information about material necessary for the merchandise and processing information about processing of the material, an extracting means for extracting the material information necessary for the merchandise and the processing information of the merchandise from the storing means in accordance with the inputted merchandise information, and an instructing means for calculating the processing start time of each material on the basis of the inputted receiving time and the extracted material information and processing information to perform a prescribed processing instruction to a store terminal.