Why We Need To Find Alternatives For Thermal Paper Sales Slips

We all have to deal with receipts all the time. With every purchase, it is single-strand goods that we either dispose of directly, or crumpled into our pockets to complain about later as an expense for our business - so the big search starts to find the receipt again. Entrepreneurs who have to spend cash receipts as part of their business are just as frustrated by the mountains of notes. Most of their customers simply leave the receipt in the shop and don't need it at all. Business owners are the ones who can fight against receipts made of environmentally harmful thermal paper...

The storage obligation

Founders in particular must first get used to paying attention to receipts. As proof of expenditure, for example when shopping in the supermarket for a team party, when purchasing printer cartridges in a specialist shop or as a catering receipt for a customer appointment at a restaurant, they must be stored in Switzerland, sorted and numbered by date, for 10 years. So much care for a small piece of paper is extremely complex!

In addition, founders soon find out that the color on receipt extremes quickly fades. The Numarics app helps here. By scanning DenkAssenzettel directly via your mobile phone and storing it in the app, storage is digitally secured in such a way that the receipt can be thrown away directly. But be careful! Unfortunately, the receipt does not belong in the waste paper!

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With the Numarics app, you can access your smartphone directly in the shop when purchasing materials. You scan the document and, thanks to artificial intelligence, the app recognizes the data relevant to the booking. The FinTech from Numarics will then arrange the issue in your accounting accordingly. At the same time, the document is included in the DocuBox, your digital document storage, stored and digitally available to you at any time.

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Umweltsünde thermal paper

The fact that the color is fading is due to the fact that the receipt is printed on thermal paper. This should save toner. This is a chemical coating that makes the receipt unsuitable for recycling. The note must therefore be disposed of in residual waste. There are also receipts with bisphenol A coating in circulation in Europe, which are confirmed to be highly toxic when they come into contact with humans - which is the case. The receipt is therefore a real environmental sin and can even become a direct health hazard.

New alternative blue receipts

The blue receipt has only been slowly entering the market for about more than a year. This is a recyclable alternative that — shockingly — is considered non-toxic for the first time. Until now, for example, receipts were not allowed to come into contact with food. There are currently mostly health food stores, but the environmentally friendly choice can be seen in the grey-blue color, which is due to the new process for thermal printing. The feel is completely different, and after scanning with the Numarics app, the note finds its way into the waste paper for recycling.

We recommend that entrepreneurs who issue receipts in their daily business choose the new blue receipt as an alternative.

Electronic receipts

Another option is electronic receipts, where the business owner offers the option of sending the receipt via email or storing it in the customer login app. These can then be dragged directly into the Numarics DocuBox as a digital file. This 100% digital solution is the best option.

We recommend that business owners consider this solution from 2022. Customer loyalty can be extremely strengthened if electronic receipts are a reason for customers to create a customer account. Alternatively, it should also be possible to send it via email if you do not want to store any private data.

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The umarics app automatically processes receipts or electronic receipts. This means that the value added tax shown on the document is also correctly processed and correctly taken into account in the next VAT report. The edition itself is also accounted for accordingly. You get an immediate overview of your cash flow. This all happens immediately after you have scanned the receipt and your booking has been reconciled via your business account or credit card or paid in cash[1] [2].

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