Patent ID: 8474699

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine, wherein the machine includes at least one input device and at least one dispenser device, wherein the at least one input device includes at least one user data reader operable to read user data usable to identify a financial account on which financial transactions can be carried out, wherein the at least one dispenser device includes a cash dispenser and a gift card dispenser, wherein the machine is associated with at least one computer in operative connection with at least one remote data store including unused gift card codes that were provided in electronic greeting cards and are respectively correlated in the at least one remote data store with a respective monetary value, wherein responsive to the at least one input device receiving from a user of the machine, a gift card code stored in the at least one remote data store, the machine is operable to cause the gift card dispenser to dispense a non-currency gift card having the monetary value correlated in the at least one remote data store with the gift card code received, wherein the non-currency gift card dispensed is redeemable at least one merchant for at least one of goods or services for an amount corresponding to the monetary value, wherein the machine is operable to cause the at least one remote data store to be modified to reflect use of the gift card code received.