Patent ID: 6896177

Claim:
A method of constructing a new cash drawer using, at least in part, a coin inventory of at least two different coin denominations, the method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving and storing an input regarding an initial number of each of the different coin denominations in the coin inventory; (b) prompting a user to place the new cash drawer on a scale; (c) prompting the user to remove coins of a particular coin denomination from the coin inventory and deposit the coins into the new cash drawer; (d) determining automatically, based on a weight of the coins deposited into the new cash drawer, a total number of the coins of the particular denomination deposited into the new cash drawer; (e) updating automatically the stored initial number of coins in the coin inventory in light of the coins removed therefrom in step (c); (f) determining automatically, based on a pre-established target number of coins of the particular denomination, any deficiency in the total number of the coins of the particular denomination in the new cash drawer; (g) correcting the deficiency determined in step (f) by repeating steps (c) through (f); and (h) repeating steps (c) through (g) for each of the different coin denominations.