Count On Us Blog

If your business is often subject to long lines of queueing customers who sigh in frustration and tap their feet, perhaps you need to come up with a better solution. There’s more to queueing than just, well, standing in a queue. A queue management system can help you serve people more quickly, efficiently and fairly, resulting in happier customers… who are more likely to come back!  Read more...

There are several types of banknote counter, all of which offer different benefits to your business, but they all have one thing in common: they’re able to count your banknotes accurately – and fast. Banknote counters are a useful tool because they can save an incredible amount of time; many machines are able to count up to 1000 notes per minute, and some are even faster.  Read more...

Do you have a collection of coins building up down the back of the sofa? Or an abundance of them weighing down your purse because you hate fishing around for the right change in the shops? Then perhaps we can find another use for those pesky coins of yours. Here are a few quirky ideas for putting your spare change to good use.  Read more...

There have been murmurs of the famed US dollar bill being replaced with a coin – something England did almost 30 years ago. One dollar coins do already exist, but they’re not in widespread use.  Read more...

Coins are a part of our everyday lives. We use them for bus money, trolleys at the supermarket, placing donations in charity boxes and, of course, digging around in the bottom of our wallets looking for the exact change for that chocolate bar.  Read more...

At the beginning of the month, Canada stopped producing 1 cent coins, with plans to completely remove them from circulation eventually. It’s not the first country to do so: Australia, Brazil and Sweden have all ditched their cheapest coins in the past, and New Zealand’s been without 1, 2 or 5 cent coins for twenty years, to no ill effect.  Read more...