Abstract: A vending apparatus has a plurality of cash-less vending machines installed in guest rooms and meeting rooms and at any other suitable places in hotels and supermarkets, and any customers who want to use the vending machines may have their own memory holders from a front or cashier. Upon insertion of the memory holder into the vending machine and depression of a merchandise selection button or the like, a selected merchandise is discharged from the vending machine while sales information such as a code and price of the sold merchandise is stored in memory element in the holder, and when the memory holder is returned and inserted into an accounting machine, the sales information is read out from the memory holder to prepare a bill. The vending machines and the accounting machine are enabled in response to the output from a sensor which detects the insertion of the memory holder.