Patent ID: 7747482

Claim:
A method of facilitating the reconciliation of revenue in a cash drawer, the method comprising the steps of: (a) prompting a user to remove currency of a particular denomination from a first cash drawer which has been used and to place the currency into a second cash drawer which is initially empty; (b) determining substantially automatically an amount of the currency that was removed from the first cash drawer and placed into the second cash drawer; (c) repeating steps (a) and (b) for currency of each denomination present in the first cash drawer in order to determine substantially automatically an actual total amount of currency removed from the first cash drawer; (d) if the actual total amount of currency from the first cash drawer does not meet a target amount of currency for the second cash drawer, prompting the user to add supplementary currency to the second cash drawer from an inventory of currency until at least the target amount of currency has been placed into the second cash drawer, wherein the inventory of currency contains a known amount of currency; (e) determining substantially automatically an amount of the supplementary currency removed from the inventory of currency and placed into the second cash drawer, and updating substantially automatically a record of the known amount of currency contained in the inventory of currency; and (f) providing a point of sale system, the point of sale system generating a transaction record, and reconciling substantially automatically at least the actual total amount of currency from the first cash drawer with the transaction record obtained from the point-of-sale system.