CASH PROCESSOR

摘要

Provided is a cash processor that achieves simplification of the settlement processes of a cash register. The cash processor (100) sorts and counts injected cash according to the kinds of currency, holds the cash into cash cartridges provided for the respective kinds of currency or into a cash cartridge of mixed kinds of currency, decides kinds of currency and numbers of bills and/or coins based on payout instruction from a host control part, and pays out the change from the cash cartridge(s). The cash processor (100) described herein comprises a first memory (103a) for storing data of numbers of held bills and/or coins; operation keys (104a) for instructing an amount of cash to be kept in the cash cartridge(s); a second memory (103b) for storing the numbers of bills and/or coins to be kept, based on the amount of cash instructed by use of the operation keys (104a), in the cash cartridges provided for the respective kinds of currency; and a calculating part (105) that compares the data stored in the first and second memories (103a, 103b) with each other and decides, based on a result of that comparison, numbers of bills and/or coins to be withdrawn from the cash cartridges provided for the respective kinds of currency.