Money handling apparatus, money handling system, and money handling method

A money handling apparatus which is configured to operate in an operation mode selected from either a settlement mode or a left cash retaining mode, and is used for self-checkout in which, when the money handling apparatus operates in the settlement mode selected as the operation mode, a customer settles in cash for a total price of commodities which the customer purchases, the money handling apparatus comprising:

• an inlet for depositing cash by the customer, the inlet through which the cash to be deposited is fed into the money handling apparatus;
• an outlet for dispensing, as change, cash of which an amount is difference between an amount of the deposited cash and the total price of the commodity being purchased by the customer, the outlet through which the change is fed out from the money handling apparatus and from which the customer is capable of taking out the change;
• a detector provided at the outlet and configured to detect that the change remains at the outlet as left cash which the customer does not take out from the outlet when the change is fed out through the outlet;
• a memory configured to store left money management data;
• a controller configured to control the money handling apparatus
• such that, when the detector detects the change remaining at the outlet as the left cash, the operation mode is shifted from the settlement mode to the left cash retaining mode in which a clerk deposits the left cash into the money handling apparatus to store therein the left cash, and
• when the money handling apparatus operates in the left cash retaining mode, the controller stores, in the memory, the left money management data including information on an amount of the left cash deposited by the clerk through the inlet, and information on the date and time when the left cash is deposited by the clerk through the inlet, the information on the amount of the left cash being associated with the information on the date and the time.