To provide the safe and efficient charging method and system simplified in the procedure for purchasing articles on a network.

This charging server which acts for a customer's access request and receives a request to purchase contents on the network receives a request for contents from a customer at a request to access the contents, specifies who the customer is and the owner of the contents requested to be accessed, the resource locator, the price, and the sale working destination, and accesses the contents instead of the customer having made the access request. Then the server sends the contents sent from the content server to the charging server to the customer, subtracts the price from the customer information in the charging server, and increase information on the sale working destination by the price.