Patent ID: 7273167

Claim:
A method of balancing non-cash revenue items in a cash drawer of a cash register, the method comprising the steps of: (a) tracking receipt of the non-cash revenue items, including an expected monetary amount associated with each of the items, with a point-of-sale system coupled with the cash register; (b) when balancing the cash drawer, substantially automatically displaying the expected monetary amount of at least a first one of the items that was received in the cash drawer based on information provided by the point-of-sale system; (c) prompting an operator to review the items and to indicate whether an actual monetary amount of the first item received in the cash drawer equals the displayed expected monetary amount; and (d) if the operator indicates that the actual monetary amount equals the expected monetary amount, repeating steps (b) and (c) for each additional item until all of the items received in the cash drawer have been verified.