ZZap CS30

Does exactly what I need it to do. Quick, efficient and makes counting charity fundraising tin proceeds a much easier to process for us

Sturdy. Great that its reports are already sorted out in descending order (easier to account). Bare in mind that many othe machines do not have this function. So far works perfectly fine (few kilos of coins every week). I have found 3 downsides only:The design of the bottom coin containers is totally brainless - you have to check it before re attaching as one to few coins can easily stuck inside. The good thing about those containers is that the are 'high' ensuring no coin can flip from one container to another (it happened to me few times with other machines). I find transparent containers more functional, but... probably for antithetical reasons they made them solid black... I personally want this kind of machines to be more practical than 'cool', but that is me (and I know that solid colour is a bid cheaper, but it is not the low price option (much cheaper ones do decent job as well (had few already) but usually the do not report in descending order I find very useful -thus came back to zapp after few years of successfully using 'no-names'.The other disadvantage are the buttons - they were a bit irresponsible at the beginning , you have to press them precisely at the middle. Either I got used to them now, or the cover got softer, but it is becoming a lesser issue for me with each use.Final downside is a silly function, you cannot programme - dimming the display. For what sake? Saving energy? I work slowly and often before I put values on my spreadsheet the display dims and I have to 'wake it up' (any button probably, but I always press report - playing safe with money is my habit :) ). Totally, useless function or it should be optional (I can see a use for it at very , very specific scenario, but most of us just sorts coins at the end of the day, week, month - no need for the display t switch off itself.Finished with moaning.It does the job, feels (and probably is for the price) solid and sturdy. Slightly better than the budget ones (though most of the budget ones have better coin drawers (bottom containers). See if the fact that it has slightly better software (convenient reporting) is enough reason for you to spend few pounds more. It is not perfect, but so far, I am quite happy with the product.

Excellent Product for a retailer !! Blessing in disguise when most of the time is spent counting coins this machine simply makes life lot more easier. Only feedback would be if you could start selling a package deal with machine some coin bags too ?

Bought one years ago and the screen was faulty. This was on ebay, the seller managed to wiggle out of giving me a refund as I was outside the refund window. Here on Amazon I've already returned one unit as sporadically and randomly one coin would be double the requested amount. Now the 3rd Machine fails to release the gate allowing the coins to drop. It seems there is no Quality control on this product at all.

Awesome piece of kit. As the new Treasurer, I convinced the PTA Committee to buy this after having spent almost a week counting and sorting the proceeds of our Christmas Fair. It was a complete nightmare! All subsequent event proceeds have been a dream - it even separated an old large Penny and some euros from the stash!My children love to help too by pouring the coins into the top so it's a win win all round!

Have only used the machine for one large count of approx £500 of mixed change. Was a real time saver, fast counting, easy to use and accurate. I checked almost every bag, brought to bank to exchange for paper notes, the bags of change were 100% accurate.**only thing to be careful about is it does not distinguish foreign currency. In my situation there were two 5 cent euro coins in the mix, the machine put them through as 20 pence pieces. It's easi checked, just flick through the counted coins to ensure they are all the same.Great machine! !!, can highly recommend.I cannot give 5 stars because of the inability to distinguish foreign coins, apart from that the machine is excellent! !!!

I bought this machine in Sept / Oct 2016.. treated myself for my birthday. The first problem I had was when the new pound coin arrived the following spring. Despite saying it only needed a minor adjustment to cope with the new coin, it turns out this minor adjustment needed to be done back at the manufacturer, which meant returning the machine at my expense AND paying for the adjustment!Now the little trap-door that allows the money to drop in small quantities has decided to jam open, which meant it was rubbing against the machinery parts and shaving off bits of plastic.I have managed to jam the trap-door half open and have to feed the coins through a few at a time. And sometimes the coins drop into the wrong coin slots (eg 2p into 50p; 1p into 20p)Whilst it worked it was great... but now it's not that reliable and I have to recheck manually the money is correct. Think for the money I paid I would expect it to last a bit longer, and not sure I would recommend it. (it does not filter out foreign coins, you need a much more expensive machine to get that facility)