Patent ID: 8601771

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: at least one processor; and memory operatively coupled to the at least one processor and storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to: receive a plurality of bills; dispense, in response to receiving a request from a user, at least one bill of the received plurality of bills; collect bundles of funds, wherein each of the bundles of funds includes a plurality of undispensed bills of the received plurality of bills; determine that a number of the bundles of funds has reached a predetermined threshold number of bundles of funds; responsive to determining that the predetermined threshold number of bundles of funds has been reached, automatically initiate an automatic bagging process; automatically transfer the predetermined threshold number of bundles of funds to a bagging area; automatically bag the predetermined threshold number of bundles of funds in at least one bag; and automatically transfer the at least one bag to a storage area.