Digital Receipts: A Viable Replacement For The Printed Receipts on Thermal Papers

The business done with help of Information Technology helps reducing manual work and gives high returns. Here we discuss about the prevailing billing system and how to incorporate the Digital Receipt system in the present scenario. We here discuss four specific ways to implement digital receipts. The Bluetooth, available in most mobile phones and customer gets receipts on the spot. The SMS/MMS service can be used to deliver the receipt in the SMS format of in image type via MMS. The E-mail could be sent to the customers Id with the receipt attached in PDF or image format. The receipt in any format could also be shared over the cloud. These ways to implement the digitalization are discussed in the sections later in detail. The main advantage of the digital receipts is to reduce the use of Paper in this day by day degrading environment. Also this reduces the regular cost of paper rolls involved in billing for the company. The customers get a safe and long lasting receipt. Advantages of implementation of digital receipts have also been mentioned of in the sections later.