Patent ID: 8645214

Claim:
An electronic system for facilitating a financial transaction, comprising: a drop safe disposed at a retailer location, the drop safe having a currency acceptor, an internal cassette, a processor and a communication device, the currency acceptor accepting and authenticating currency fed into the currency acceptor and transferring authenticated currency into the internal cassette, the processor producing deposit reports identifying contents within the sealed cassette, and the communication device capable of transmitting information; a point-of-sale (POS) terminal disposed at the retailer location, the POS terminal being portable and including a processor, an input device, a display, and a communication device capable of communicating with the communication device of the drop safe, the processor of the POS terminal programmed to: commence a drop function upon receipt, via the input device, from a user of the POS terminal of a commence drop function instruction, control the communication device of the POS terminal to transmit a drop request to the drop safe, the processor of the drop safe programmed to: accept the drop request, transmitted by the communication device of the POS terminal and received by the communication device of the drop safe, after carrying out a verification of an appropriateness of the drop request, control the communication device of the drop safe to transmit, upon acceptance of the drop request by the drop safe, a unique Drop ID to the POS terminal, the Drop ID representing the respective drop to be carried out; control, after acceptance of the drop request, the currency acceptor of the drop safe to receive currency fed into the currency acceptor, ascertain a total amount of currency received and authenticated by the currency acceptor, and control the communication device of the drop safe to transmit to the POS terminal, the ascertained total amount of currency received and authenticated by the currency acceptor.