Abstract: An airborne money exchange and point of sale system including a support located within an aircraft and containing at least one good for sale which is associated with a machine readable product code, and multi-purpose financial services apparatus mounted on the support including a computer including a display, the computer being programmed to perform money exchange and point of sale functions, the computer including a user input interface enabling a user to select money exchange and point of sale functions, a product code reader suitable for reading the product code and providing a product input to the computer, and a banknote acceptor operative to accept banknotes in a plurality of currencies and providing a payment input to the computer, the computer being operative in response to the product input and the payment input and to user selection of the product input function for computing change due to a purchaser of a product in a first currency, and the computer also being operative in response to the payment

Abstract: This invention discloses a roll-on, roll-off financial services system suitable for use on transportation facilities comprising an enclosure which is mounted on wheels and which encloses at least one banknote acceptor, a card reader, a computer interfacing with at least one banknote acceptor and the card reader and at least one banknote dispenser for dispensing banknotes in response to control inputs received from the computer.