This came well packaged with steel padded corners and doubled cardboard. The instruction manual is very brief and not very detailed, but adequate enough. You can open the safe with two included keys, or with the fingerprint scanner, which can hold up to 30 different fingerprints. It comes with an external battery pack in case the 4 AAA batteries die, but this seems kind of pointless, since the batteries are accessible from the exterior. It would have made more sense for the batteries to be secured inside the safe. Setting up the fingerprints was easy and effective. There's a very brief delay when using the scanner to open the safe. Another odd feature is the dial, which turns slightly in either direction, but seems to serve no purpose.