Patent ID: 8464854

Claim:
A money handling system comprising: a plurality of money handling machines, each money handling machine being configured to recognize and count money, and a management device configured to assign first recognition information for recognizing a transaction to the money for one transaction, assign second recognition information for recognizing a group to each of a plurality of groups provided by dividing the money for one transaction, associate the first recognition information with the second recognition information, and manage such associated first and second recognition information, wherein each money handling machine receives the second recognition information inputted thereto, counts the money of each group corresponding to the second recognition information, associates this count result with the second recognition information and transmits such associated count result and second information to the management device, and the management device manages the count result, for each group, based on the association between the first recognition information and the second recognition information as well as on the count results and second recognition information, respectively received from the plurality of money handling machines.