I found this toy extremely annoying. The noises and talking are loud and unnecessary. After about 30 seconds of no activity, it shuts off automatically, so when kids are playing with it and in the middle of pretending, they have to turn it back on and any numbers entered are gone. And every time this voice says, “welcome.” Every button talks. It’s too much! It looks like a nice toy cash register, and the working microphone is cool.. but we also thought it would be better with a scanner. We returned it.