Method for identifying a
shopping basket, recorded at a goods
receipt unit and having a
shopping basket identifier, at a
payment terminal with a housing in which a cash input and output module and / or a card reading module and in which a
receipt unit for recording the customer's
shopping basket, comprising at least one item, are arranged, wherein the shopping basket identifier is integrated in a
receipt issued by the goods receipt unit, with a receipt placement element facing the customer side of the receipt unit, at least partially transparent and having a recording area, and with a display unit for displaying a price to be paid by the customer for the shopping basket, wherein, - the document detection unit (5) comprises at least one lighting element (14) for illuminating the detection area (17) of the document placement element (15) and a camera (13) for optically detecting the detection area (17) of the document placement element (15), and - that at least one lighting element (14) and the camera (13) are arranged on a side of the document placement element (15) facing away from the customer, and - a recording document (11) provided by the goods recording unit (9) can be placed flat on the document support element (15), and - the recording document (11) can be recorded by means of the camera (13), wherein the shopping basket includes goods with a
product identifier and at least one information carrier with an identification field containing identification information is placed on the recording area of the document placement element of the document recording unit, characterized in that - Individual images of the detection area (17) of the document placement element (15) are continuously captured as an
image sequence by the camera (13), - the
image sequence is further processed in such a way that a
single image having an identification field (22) of an information carrier is separated, and - the separated
single image is processed in such a way that the identification information of the information carrier is read out to assign the information carrier to the shopping basket recorded at the goods recording unit (9).