In my business I handle a lot of cash. I use an electronic bill verifier at the register but in the backroom, we use a counter. I have had various automatic currency counters over the years, and all worked well. But all lacked currency demonization detection. In other words, most counters just count the bills put through (and verify if they are real) but don’t know if it’s counting a bunch of dollar bills, twenties or a hodge podge of mixed denominations. We will count our cash out and bundle like denominations into $1000 bundles for bank deposit. I have had occasions that when the bundles are taken to the bank, and they recount and verify them, there was an errant dollar mixed into a bundle of twenties for example. I needed something better, so I thought this machine would be an improvement to our internal processes and accuracy. And it was. This machine is robustly built and feels “bank grade” as the description states. The controls are a bit daunting to figure out at first, and I by no ways used all the features but I did manage to set it up to detection county with counterfeit screening. The hopper is well designed and lets you feed the bills into the counter by essentially laying them flat into a feed chute on top of the machine. This is so much easier that how the back loading machines work. I was able to load more bills much quicker and easier with near zero feed issues. I have had staff get their fingers “bit” by the rollers in the back feed machine I previously used. This will not happen with this machine’s bill feed design. How does it work? Very well. It eats through all denominations of bills, checking and counting with accurate total displays. I tested it with all denominations thoroughly mixed up and, but for a few very raddy bills that did not feed correctly, every time the count displayed on this machine exactly matched what was fed in. Just for fun I slipped a few personal sized checks into a batch of bills, as I wanted to check the counterfeit detection, and each time the machine registered them as fake. This is a larger machine that my previous one and does take up more space. It is a bit complicated to initially set up and use. But once you have the settings down it makes counting cash much easier, quicker and with a level of accuracy not available with hand counting or traditional non-denomination identifying machines.