To provide a card-shaped medium handling device capable of quickly processing many card-shaped media without making the next customer wait when the previous customer has inputted a lot of cards to the device for performing exchange transaction.

When all card-shaped gifts P at a gift input port 3 have been already conveyed to a primary storage part 9, and the card-shaped gifts P at a secondary storage part 11 have not yet been conveyed to a stacker 15, the card-shaped gift handing device 1, stops temporarily the conveyance of the card-shaped gifts P from the secondary storage part 11 to the stacker 15, shifts the card-shaped gifts P from the primary storage part 9 to the secondary storage part 11, makes the primary storage part 9 empty, and conveys the card-shaped gifts P from the secondary storage part 11 to the stacker 15.