Patent ID: 7644041

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) operating an automated banking machine to receive from an authorized user of the machine, an order identifier corresponding to an order for at least one item previously selected sans the machine through a web site of an online merchant; (b) responsive to the order identifier received in step (a), operating the machine to access a purchase price associated with the order; (c) operating the machine to receive from the user on behalf of the merchant, payment for the order, wherein the payment includes at least one of a check and cash; (d) responsive to the payment received in step (c), operating the machine to determine an amount of the payment; and (e) responsive to the amount determined in step (d) being at least as great as the purchase price accessed in step (b), operating the machine to cause a cash value corresponding to the purchase price to be allocated to the merchant as payment for the order.