A point of sale system uses change from cash transactions to, upon the approval of a customer, purchase a lottery stake. The system generates a receipt for both the point of sale transaction and the lottery stake purchase. The receipt indicates when the customer has won. In particular the receipt has imprinted a list of items purchased and a lottery indicator imprinted on the receipt for indicating whether the receipt is a winner. Ideally, the receipt is printed on paper and includes a subtotal, a tax line item, a total, and a change line item. At least a portion of the change line amount represents the lottery stake. In one embodiment of the invention, the receipt includes the statement: You Won!.

A coin storage device includes: storage compartments that store therein coins by denomination; and screw-type conveying members, installed for the respective storage compartments, each of the screw-type conveying members including a shaft having an elongated shape and having an outer circumferential surface provided with a blade portion that protrudes radially outwards in a spiraling shape, and conveying coins toward a front side by being rotated in one direction about a central axis of the shaft. Further, each of the screw-type conveying members includes an actuating portion to move center of gravity of coins accumulated on the actuating portion up and down periodically as the screw-type conveying member is rotated about the central axis of the shaft.

A first money handling apparatus (for example, money change machine) has a first writing unit that writes information on an inventory amount of money in the first money handling apparatus, in a storage medium disposed at a storage cassette. A second money handling apparatus (for example, money depositing/dispensing machine) has a second reading unit (for example, reading unit) that reads information from the storage medium disposed at the storage cassette, and an inventory amount management unit that manages an inventory amount of money in the first money handling apparatus based on the information read by the second reading unit.

In various embodiments, a method may include receiving an indication of a price of an item to be purchased by a person from a merchant, receiving an indication of an amount tendered by the person, determining an amount of change due to the person based on the price and based on the amount tendered, determining the rules of a game, generating a first outcome of the game using a random number generator, determining based on the rules whether the first outcome is winning or losing, authorizing, if the first outcome is winning, that the amount tendered be returned to the person and that the person be allowed to keep the item, and authorizing, if the first outcome is losing, that the amount tendered be kept by the merchant.

In various embodiments, a method may include receiving an indication of a price of an item to be purchased by a person from a merchant, receiving an indication of an amount tendered by the person, determining an amount of change due to the person based on the price and based on the amount tendered, determining the rules of a game, generating a first outcome of the game using a random number generator, determining based on the rules whether the first outcome is winning or losing, authorizing, if the first outcome is winning, that the amount tendered be returned to the person and that the person be allowed to keep the item, and authorizing, if the first outcome is losing, that the amount tendered be kept by the merchant.

The present invention makes it possible to allow a customer to insert money into a payment device without the customer giving the money to a sales clerk. Provided is a POS device, including a product registration device (10) and a payment device (20). Registration of products is carried out with the product registration device (10). Payment for the products which are registered with the product registration device (10) is carried out with the payment device (20). The payment device (20) further comprises a first insertion port (212a) and a second insertion port (212b). It is possible to insert coins into the first insertion port (212a). It is possible to insert coins into the second insertion port (212b).

The present invention makes it possible to allow a customer to insert money into a payment device without the customer giving the money to a sales clerk. Provided is a POS device, including a product registration device (10) and a payment device (20). Registration of products is carried out with the product registration device (10). Payment for the products which are registered with the product registration device (10) is carried out with the payment device (20). The payment device (20) further comprises a first insertion port (212a) and a second insertion port (212b). It is possible to insert coins into the first insertion port (212a). It is possible to insert coins into the second insertion port (212b).

This currency processing method is implemented by a currency processing device having first and second currency storages for storing currency in a dispensable manner, and involves: receiving a dispensation instruction regarding a selected transaction and based on the type of said transaction; executing a dispensing process regarding the transaction by using the first currency storage when the type of the transaction is a first type; and executing the dispensing process regarding the transaction by using the second currency storage when the type of the transaction is a second type.

The present invention relates to a spare change saving system and a method therefor and, more particularly, to a spare change saving system for enabling a user to save, in an allocated user account of a saving server, spare change remaining after using money, wherein the saving server receives deposit information when the spare change is put into a saving device, the user receives, from the saving server, a saving code corresponding to the deposit information and can save spare change in the allocated user account using the saving code anytime and anywhere, and spare change remaining after using money is saved as cyber money and can be freely converted into the type of currency desired by the user and used in future.

A mobile consumer device with a display, processor(s), and memory: identifies a merchant device in proximity to the consumer device based on broadcasted information transmitted by the first merchant device, the broadcasted information including a first identifier corresponding to the first merchant device; transmits the first identifier to a server and receives from the server an electronic communication including identification and transaction information associated with the merchant; displays the identification information, receives user selection of the merchant identification information; and in response, displays the merchant transaction information, receives supplemental user information, and transmits the supplemental transaction information to the server for completion of the transaction.