Patent ID: 8851367

Claim:
A money processing device that processes money, comprising: an inlet that receives deposited money; an outlet for dispensing money; a plurality of storage units that store money therein; an escrow unit that escrows money; a transport unit that can transport the deposited money from the inlet either directly to the storage units or to the storage units through the escrow unit, and can transport dispensing money either from a storage unit directly to the outlet or through the escrow unit to the outlet; a recognition unit that recognizes fitness of money; a mode setting unit that sets an operation to be performed in a deposit process to any of an escrow mode and a non-escrow mode; and a control unit that controls the transport unit based on settings set by the mode setting unit, wherein in the escrow mode, the control unit exerts control so as to transport the deposited money received in the inlet to the storage units and store therein after escrowing the deposited money in the escrow unit, and in the non-escrow mode, the control unit exerts control so as to directly transport the deposited money from the inlet to the storage units and store therein without escrowing the deposited money in the escrow unit wherein, in the non-escrow mode, the control unit exerts control so that unfit money recognized by the recognition unit is stored in the escrow unit.