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CASH HANDLING
Cash handling
Flexible friends
Rowan McIntyre looks at a selection of great product from cash handling
experts catering for the casino industry
N
ever is cash handling technology such an Designed for the
important part of the casino operators’ European slot
arsenal as during turbulent economic machine market, it
times. As customers around the world feel not only acts as a
the pinch of the global economic crisis, a traditional bank
number of alternative strategies have been suggested note validator, but
for ensuring revenue levels are maintained. also recycles the
One approach that has been suggested in some notes to make
circles is a greater flexibility in minimum and them available as
maximum bets on gaming machines. The idea goes either change or
that if the minimum bet is lowered – rather than as more importantly,
being seen as a low-rent alternative, players will look a payout option. of
upon the machine as providing greater value. This banknotes in
means that client may spend more time on the either 5, 10 or 20
machines, potentially increasing machine-take, but euro
certainly offering a greater opportunity to raise their denominations.
non-gaming spend. It’s been reported that this This means that
approach has already led to positive results in some in markets such as
European casinos. Germany and
Whether there is long-term value in the plan is, as far Spain where hand
as the remit of this article is concerned, irrelevant. payouts are not
What is important is that casino operators are aware of allowed and the
the products offered by the cash-handling sector, which ensuing refilling of
– together with the increasingly adaptable software coin hoppers by
produced by the slot manufacturers – offer them the hand for payout
flexibility to experiment with their revenue streams. purposes has had
There follows a round-up of the latest products on quite a negative
the market for use in a variety of roles within the cash- impact due to
handling sector. Even in a necessarily limited survey machine
such as this, what is still encouraging is the sheer range downtime. The
of products on offer. There are ticket in/ticket out ability to pay out
solutions – mainly still for the US market (a situation notes, in
that seems to be changing as European casinos denominations up
gradually embrace ticket-based systems) – as well as all to 20 in a cost
cash devices. Then there are machines that combine effective manner
previously diverse applications: cash and ticket reduces or even eliminates hopper depletion, that
dispensing, note validating and recycling, cash counting many operators experience today. In addition, the
and sorting. And finally there are offerings to suit all product saves on labour costs. Operators do not need
budgets and locations; there’s something for everybody. to visit and replenish cash dispensers since the unit
is self-replenishing.
Cashcode In addition to this dispensing scenario, the machine
can also be set up to provide
change.re a maximum
The r2 Recycler and Payout Dispenser is the result play amount is implemented, the machine can provide
of a joint venture between Crane Payment Solutions change back in the form of bills so that the slot
partners CashCode and National Rejectors Inc. machine can still accept higher denomination bills. So
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