Leipzig, 12.09.2023. ALVARA | Digital Solutions, as a leading European provider for track & trace and POS software solutions, focuses on efficiency, transparency, and security with its products. Smart alternatives today must also consider another aspect: sustainability. With the ICC App, the addition to the proven and widely used Interactive Cash Control platform, the company meets this requirement and creates a win-win situation. Besides the environment, the involved cash players - primarily retailers and cash-in-transit companies (CIT) - also benefit.
The PC- and paper-free back office has long been considered a forward-looking solution in retail. “We have also identified potential and implemented solutions in the processes around cash logistics. With our ICC App, retailers receive a user-friendly application that digitally maps all common cash processes of a branch, emphasizing more efficiency and security in cash ordering and depositing - for retailers and cash-in-transit companies,” explains Steven Schwarznau, Managing Director at ALVARA | Digital Solutions.
The topic of sustainability is brought into play through the digital receipt, a feature of the ICC App. All receipts for cash receipt and delivery can be digitally signed and stored in the mobile application. The often double printing of a paper receipt can thus be completely eliminated. At the approximately 35,000 points of sales already using the digital receipt with the ICC App, about 150,000 digital receipts are generated per month today. This can avoid up to 37.5 km of thermal paper per month.
"The proof is provided: the seemingly inconspicuous paper receipts are no longer contemporary today. Digital solutions like our ICC receipts become real alternatives to avoid using toxic thermal paper as a retailer or CIT. Already with the first users, up to 450 km of environmentally harmful paper can be saved per year. This corresponds to the distance from our headquarters in Leipzig to the Bavarian capital Munich," says Steven Schwarznau.
However, the advantages of digital receipts go far beyond more sustainability in the process. With ICC, archiving can be mapped automatically, quickly, and easily. With the help of existing metadata, users can find relevant ICC receipts much more time-efficiently. Physical receipts, on the other hand, were mostly filed away or collected loosely in boxes and faded over time at the expense of readability. By saving on the printing of the receipt and eliminating manual archiving, the digital receipt with the ICC App primarily brings one thing for the daily work of branch employees and CIT cash messengers: time savings.
In conjunction with further solutions from the house of ALVARA | Digital Solutions, CIT, retailers, and financial institutions further optimize their processes - for more efficiency, security, transparency, and sustainability. The digital driver authentication from ALVARA, for example, brings data protection advantages by eliminating paper lists and saves paper again. On the other hand, the new process leads to faster, easier, and safer handling of driver authentication. A branch employee simply scans the QR code on the CIT driver's scanner with their smartphone and immediately receives the information whether they are authorized to collect the cash.
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ALVARA | Digital Solutions is a brand of ALVARA Holding GmbH. The corporate group sees itself as a leading European provider of track & trace software solutions around the cash cycle and logistics - from cash processing to monitoring and process automation to clearing. With their tailored solutions for recording and tracking payment flows, the corporate group enables retailers, cash-in-transit companies, and financial institutions to optimize their cash management processes and reduce their process costs. ALVARA | Digital Solutions' customers include companies from the retail, cash-in-transit, and banking sectors worldwide.
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