In a few weeks, barring another postponement, paper until the receipt should say goodbye in stores. His disappearance was first recorded for January 1 and then postponed to April 1 and August 1, due to inflation.
Some brands have already taken the plunge by automatically sending receipts to shoppers’ mailboxes. But the French company KillBills wants to make this process even more secure, sending this digital receipt not to the mailbox but to the customer’s bank space, accessible in the application or on the website.
“The safest and most logical space”
Specifically, when paying with your credit card, the customer will be able to automatically receive your receipt in your bank space. The need to always have this receipt at hand lies in the need to sometimes be reimbursed for a purchase or to check expenses.
3 second pot life
KillBills began managing expense reports with partnerships with banks for professionals. The company’s current goal is to create as many partnerships as possible with cash register software, retail banks, and large retailers to cover as many customers as possible.
“It is easier for a brand to integrate with an actor that has access to everything than to ally one by one with all the banks,” stresses Sid-Ahmed Chikh-Bled, who indicates that the company’s long-term goal is To be the European leader in the field of digital receipt management.
The end of the paper receipt is, above all, the end of a huge environmental problem: 2.5 million trees were felled every year for the production of these receipts, not to mention the billions of liters of water needed for a receipt. which has an average lifetime of about… 3 seconds.
Source: BFM TV
