Patent ID: 7366681

Claim:
A system for controlling storage and distribution of money tills, the system comprising: a housing having a front side and a back side and substantially defining an interior space, the interior space being partitioned to provide a plurality of compartments, with at least one of the compartments being adapted to receive and store at least one of the money tills, an input device operable to accept an input of an employee identifier for identifying a particular employee; and a computing device operable to receive the input, record the employee identifier and a current time at which the input is received, and control access to the plurality of compartments based upon the input, wherein the computing device is interfaced with a point-of-sale system and receives therefrom information pertaining to a time at which the particular employee logged into or logged out of a cash register, and wherein the computing device is adapted to determine and record a difference between the current time at which the input of the employee identifier is received and the time at which the particular employee logged into or logged out of the cash register.