Money handling machine, money handling system and money handling method

A money handling system comprising:

• a money handling machine that includes a coin-roll storage unit configured to store coin rolls and a loose-banknote storage unit configured to store banknotes in a separate state,
• an authentication unit configured to authenticate an operator,
• and a controlling unit configured to calculate a total number of coin rolls required to replenish each of a plurality of settlement places based on an electrical communication received by the money handling machine remotely located from a plurality of settlement places, the controlling unit further configured to control the loose banknote storage unit to dispense the banknotes when the operator has been authenticated by the authentication unit as part of a first group having a first predetermined authority providing access to dispensing of the banknotes stored in the loose banknote storage unit and to control the coin-roll storage unit to dispense the coin rolls to replenish the plurality of settlement places only when an operator has been authenticated by the authentication unit as part of a second group having a second predetermined authority, wherein the second predetermined authority is different from the first predetermined authority and provides access to the coin rolls of the storage unit;
• a plurality of settlement apparatuses, one settlement apparatus of the plurality of settlement apparatuses being installed in each of the plurality of settlement places and configured to be replenished by the coin rolls and banknotes dispensed from the money handling machine;
• a plurality point of sale (POS) registers, a POS register being installed in each of the plurality of settlement places and configured to manage a corresponding settlement apparatus of the plurality of settlement apparatuses;
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• a judging unit configured to judge whether the total number of the calculated coin rolls to replenish each settlement apparatus coincides with the number of coin rolls dispensed from the money handling machine.

A money handling method performed by a money handling machine that includes a coin-roll storage unit configured to store a coin roll and a receiving unit configured to receive information on the coin roll to replenish each of a plurality of settlement places remotely located from the money handling machine, and a loose-banknote storage unit configured to store banknotes in a separate state, the method comprising:

• authenticating, by an authentication unit of the money handling machine, an operator as part of a first group having a first predetermined authority providing access to dispensing of the banknotes stored in the loose banknote storage unit or as part of a second group, different from the first group, having a second predetermined authority providing access to the dispensing of the coin roll stored in the coin-roll storage unit when a dispensing process of the money that is to be replenished from the money handling machine to a plurality of settlement places is performed, wherein the second predetermined authority is different than the first predetermined authority;
• calculating a total number of the coin rolls to replenish each of the plurality of settlement places based on the information received by the receiving unit from an electrical communication received from the plurality of settlement places;
• controlling the coin-roll storage unit so as to dispense the coin roll to replenish the plurality of settlement places at a time, only when the operator is authenticated by the authentication unit as part of the second group having the second predetermined authority and to dispense the number of banknotes at a time when the operator is authenticated by the authenticating unit as part of the first group having the first predetermined authority;
• detecting the number of coin rolls dispensed from the coin-roll storage unit;
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• judging whether the number of coin rolls dispensed from the coin-roll storage unit based on the detected number of coin rolls dispensed from the coin-roll storage unit coincides with the calculated total number of the coin roll to replenish each of the plurality of settlement places.

A money handling machine comprising:

• a coin-roll storage unit configured to store a coin roll;
• an authentication unit configured to authenticate an authority of an operator;
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• a controlling unit configured to control the coin-roll storage unit so as to dispense the coin roll to replenish a plurality of settlement places at a time only when the authority of the operator authenticated by the authentication unit is a predetermined authority;
• a receiving unit configured to receive information on the coin roll to replenish each of the plurality of settlement places;
• a cassette mounting unit on which at least one of a plurality of storage cassettes is detachably mounted, each of the plurality of storage cassettes stores money in a separate state and feeds out the money to be stored, wherein
• the controlling unit calculates a total number of the coin roll to replenish each of the plurality of settlement places based on the information received by the receiving unit,
• each of the plurality of storage cassettes corresponds to each of the plurality of settlement places,
• each of the plurality of storage cassettes is provided with a storage medium for storing the information on the coin roll to replenish the corresponding settlement place, and
• the receiving unit receives the information on the coin roll to replenish each of the plurality of settlement places based on the information read from the storage medium of each of the plurality of storage cassettes.