Patent ID: 8175970

Claim:
A method of currency handling, comprising: receiving an amount of currency by a currency recycler system located at a place of business, wherein the currency recycler system stores currency for the place of business, wherein financial account information of at least one employee of the place of business is pre-registered with the currency recycler system, and wherein the received amount of currency includes at least one physical currency note; determining, by the currency recycler system, the amount of currency received; receiving, by the currency recycler system, input specifying an account of an employee of the place of business to which the currency is to be deposited, wherein at least a portion of the stored financial account information corresponds to the specified account and wherein the specified account belongs to the employee; electronically transmitting a request, to a financial institution different from the place of business, to transfer the received amount of currency from an account of the place of business to the specified account of the employee, wherein the request includes the at least a portion of the pre-registered financial account information, wherein the account of the place of business is held by the financial institution and the specified account of the employee is held by one of: the financial institution and another financial institution different from the place of business; receiving, by the currency recycler system, an acknowledgement that the amount deposited has been added to the specified account; providing, by the currency recycler system, physical withdrawal access to the at least one physical currency note from the currency stored for the place of business at the currency recycler system; and electronically requesting, by the currency recycler system, a deposit of the amount of currency received to the account of the place of business.