Abstract: A check verification system for providing customer-operated verification of checks at point-of-sale locations. The present system enables a customer to verify several possible kinds of checking functions, including verification of payroll or government checks as well as certain types of personal checks for cash, and sets limits on the number of times each checking function will be verified in a period of time. The system utilizes a number of local point-of-use terminals which are operated by the customer, and which communicate with a remotely-located transaction processor including a positive file of customers who are entitled to verify checks with the present system. The positive check verification files do not require the current bank balance of the customer, and the present system is designed to include persons who are merely the payees of checks and have no checking account or other established relationship with any bank.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a verification system of the type which affords authorized persons access to check cashing facilities, private buildings, or the like. The verification system comprises a plurality of sets of switches, each set including a plurality of switches comprising a first group of switches and a second group of switches, coupling means coupling the first group of switches for each but one set of switches to all of the switches of the next succeeding set for serially coupling the sets of switches, indicating means coupled to the first group of switches of the one set and disabling means coupled to the second group of switches of each set for disabling the system responsive to any one of the second group of switches. As a result, when one of the first group of switches of each set is closed, the indicating means provides a verification indication and when any one of the second group of switches is closed, the disabling means disables the system indicating non-verification.