Cash Counters

Many people who are unfamiliar with cash counters imagine that these are machines whose sole purpose is that of counting money. The truth of the matter is that these tend to be much more complex machines. They play multiple roles. As it turns out, some of the roles played by cash counters include:

1. ‘Authentication’: It emerges that there are many countries where counterfeit/fake money is a real problem. Often, the people who make fake cash do it with so much sophistication that one can’t tell what is real from what is fake cash through the use of bare eyes alone. The detection of the counterfeit cash requires the use of a machine. And many of the cash counters come with that capability: whereby, before processing bills any further, they first check them for authenticity.
2. Discriminating Bills: Many of the machines are capable of discriminating torn, tattered or otherwise messed up notes, which can subsequently be removed from circulation. This functionality is important to bankers, who are often the people faced with the task of ‘retiring’ notes, once that becomes necessary.
3. Sorting Bills: The most sophisticated cash counters are capable of taking input in the form of mixed bills. These are bills they count, before directing the different denominations into different pockets, hence effectively ‘sorting’ them.
4. Counting Bills: This is the primary role of cash counters. Having established that the bills are genuine by way of authentication, they proceed to count them, ultimately giving the people using them grand totals as well as the various (required) subtotals.