A system for processing value documents, in particular bank notes, wherein the system comprises: a multiplicity of bank-note processing machines (32, 34, 42, 52, 62, 64) which can communicate via a communication network and which respectively have stored therein configuration data which define the operating configuration of a respective bank-note processing machine, wherein at least a first bank-note processing machine (32, 34, 42, 52, 62, 64) is logically associated with a first local access service module (37, 47, 67), and at least a second bank-note processing machine (32, 34, 42, 52, 62, 64) is logically associated with a second local access service module (37, 47, 67); and the first and/or second local access service module (37, 47, 67) is adapted for managing information about the first and/or the second bank-note processing machine (32, 34, 42, 52, 62, 64) and for controlling the flow of data from and to said first and/or second bank-note processing machine (32, 34, 42, 52, 62, 64); and a central master access service module which has configuration data stored therein and which is in communication via the communication network with the first local access service module (37, 47, 67) and the second local access service module (37, 47, 67); wherein the central master access service module, the first local access service module (37, 47, 67) and the second local access service module (37, 47, 67) form a logical hierarchy of access service modules in the form of a tree structure, in which the central master access service module constitutes the root of the tree structure and is adapted such that a change of the configuration data stored in the central master access service module leads to the changed configuration data being automatically transferred via the hierarchy of access service modules to the first and the second bank-note processing machine (32, 34, 42, 52, 62, 64), and leading there to a change of the configuration data of the first and the second bank-note processing machine (32, 34, 42, 52, 62, 64). a multiplicity of bank-note processing machines (32, 34, 42, 52, 62, 64) which can communicate via a communication network and which respectively have stored therein configuration data which define the operating configuration of a respective bank-note processing machine, wherein at least a first bank-note processing machine (32, 34, 42, 52, 62, 64) is logically associated with a first local access service module (37, 47, 67), and at least a second bank-note processing machine (32, 34, 42, 52, 62, 64) is logically associated with a second local access service module (37, 47, 67); and the first and/or second local access service module (37, 47, 67) is adapted for managing information about the first and/or the second bank-note processing machine (32, 34, 42, 52, 62, 64) and for controlling the flow of data from and to said first and/or second bank-note processing machine (32, 34, 42, 52, 62, 64); and a central master access service module which has configuration data stored therein and which is in communication via the communication network with the first local access service module (37, 47, 67) and the second local access service module (37, 47, 67); wherein the central master access service module, the first local access service module (37, 47, 67) and the second local access service module (37, 47, 67) form a logical hierarchy of access service modules in the form of a tree structure, in which the central master access service module constitutes the root of the tree structure and is adapted such that a change of the configuration data stored in the central master access service module leads to the changed configuration data being automatically transferred via the hierarchy of access service modules to the first and the second bank-note processing machine (32, 34, 42, 52, 62, 64), and leading there to a change of the configuration data of the first and the second bank-note processing machine (32, 34, 42, 52, 62, 64).