To provide a storage medium processing device, a storage medium processing method, and a storage medium processing system capable of storing, reissuing and recovering cards.

When the frequency balance is zero at the press of a return button 3d, a conveyor belt 214 is restarted to convey a non-member IC card 31 into a position to face a card storage part 204, and the non-member IC card 31 is stored in the card storage part 204. When a limit detecting part 231 of the card storage part 204 detects that the amount of non-member IC cards 31 stored has reached an allowable storage amount, the non-member IC card 31 is dropped into a card discharge part 217 and recovered into a card recovery part.