How Merchants can save ~50% billing costs with Beejek Receipts?

Receipts are an important part of the customer shopping experience, but they can also be a burden for both customers and merchants. Customers have to carry around a physical receipt and deal with the hassle of storing or discarding it.

For brick-and-mortar merchants, paper receipts are a hassle to manage. You will need to procure paper rolls and make sure the printers and other hardware are working at all times. This leads to lost or misplaced receipts. Today, your customers are impatient and you need a quick and effective solution to send your receipts.

Note: Paper receipts started nearly 130 years ago. It's about time we make this digital shift with Beejek Receipts.

What are Beejek Receipts?

Beejek is a web/mobile platform that allows merchants to send digital receipts to shopping customers. Customers can receive and store their beejek receipts on the customer app. This eliminates the need for paper receipts with shopping transactions. Beejek intends to provide an alternative sustainable choice to help with global warming and climate change.

How is Beejek unique?

Beejek is a single platform for all shopping receipts. Whether you go shop in a pizza store, a bookstore, or buy yourself some great shoes, you get all your shopping receipts in a single Beejek application. Merchants can send Beejek receipts to any of their customers.

This is different from paper receipts or even the SMS/email digital option. Beejek provides an organized interface for customers and merchants. With paper receipts, SMS, and email, there is still clutter in accessing a previously generated invoice. Beejek does all this with a click!

What digital receipt formats are available with Beejek?

We encourage any digital format other than paper. You can send your receipts based on your Customer’s preference. With Beejek, you have an option and so does your customer.

Three ways in which Beejek supports digital receipt transactions:

1. You can send Beejek digital receipt directly in the Beejek application:

When your customer signs up for Beejek, they can start receiving their receipts directly in the Beejek Customer application and dashboard. The sign-up process for Beejek customers is simple and straightforward and it takes around 15 seconds to register.

2. You can send a Beejek digital receipt through SMS

When your customer does not sign-up for Beejek yet, You can send the receipt directly through SMS. It’s the easiest way to process and all you need to take is their phone number. However, SMS has some challenges in terms of deliverability from network providers and country-specific guidelines.

3. You can send a Beejek digital receipt through WhatsApp

The best alternative to SMS is WhatsApp. It has fast deliverability and ensures a swift transaction to complete.

Why Merchants should start sending Beejek Receipts to Customers after Shopping:

1. Beejek provides the receipt capability with zero operation change for your business.

The only change is the click of a different button. Earlier, you would click a button to print the invoice. Now you click a button to send the Beejek receipt. All of this happens from your existing PoS software.

You can send SMS receipts when the customers have not yet registered with the Beejek app. You can also continue to send paper receipts.

2. Beejek is a ~50% cheaper alternative to your current paper receipts.

With Beejek you save by not having to use paper rolls, printers, and regular cartridges. This is a recurring cost-saving alternative. It's a pay-per-receipt model, so you only pay for receipts that you have sent.

If you are a new store, you also get to save all the hardware costs upfront.

3. Beejek is hassle-free procurement and billing.

You do not have to spend your hard-earned cash to procure paper rolls. Your printing cartridges are also not required. All you would need to do is recharge your Beejek receipts with a plan that fits your needs for the year and you are good.

You do not have to replace paper rolls with your partners when your customers are waiting in line.

Tip: You can replace your bulky hardware at the cash counter with fast-selling impulse purchase items.

4. Beejek provides the only valid legal connection with your customer with a dynamic digital receipt

You and your customer have a valid transaction after shopping. A receipt is the only document that officially connects you to your customer. Usually, a paper receipt is discarded.

Why not leverage your digital presence with your customer? Beejek provides you with the capability to make your receipt dynamic. Here's how:

You can add your social media accounts on the receipt

Your customers can directly Whatsapp you from the receipt.

Your customers will recognize your store with powerful receipt branding.

Beejek receipt is the only valid connection between you and your customer. Use it dynamically!

Tip: When you send marketing offers to customers via SMS, 91% of them report it as SPAM. It's always a good idea to let your customers reach out to you.

In all the later releases, Beejek will provide means for customers to find you and reach out to you.

5. You can send Beejek Digital receipts without taking any personal customer data

Usually, customers are hesitant and reluctant to share their mobile numbers with merchants. This is mainly due to privacy and SPAM issues. With Beejek digital receipts, your customers can share their unique Beejek code to get the receipt transaction successful.

A customer can share their mobile number or Beejek Code to get their receipts.

With a full PoS integration, your customers have an option to either share their mobile number or their Beejek customer code to get their Beejek digital receipts.

Note: Beejek Customer Code is only available with a full PoS integration and not a partial one. You would need to request your PoS to complete the full integration set up.

6. Beejek allows you to keep a track of receipts generated across all your stores

You can share your receipts, store them, and organize the across all stores. Beejek provides you with a real-time view of all transactions happening across all your stores.

By default, you have a bird's eyes view of transactions happening across all your stores. Your store manager for a particular store can also view receipts from their store.

7. Beejek can help you access any previously generated receipt from a customer in an instant

There was an incident where I was waiting in the queue for billing at a famous apparel store. When my turn was about to come (after a long wait of around 10 minutes), a customer popped out for a return of a product purchased some time back. The product appeared to be defective!

The customer didn't have the receipt.

It turned out into a ruckus with a customer demanding the return and the merchant blaming the customer for not having the receipt. The customer was under the impression the merchant would have a record. It wasn't pleasant for a lot of customers in the queue.

Customers can appear for returns at any point in your business. With Beejek, you can access any receipt transaction generated by a customer in an instant.

8. Every Beejek receipt sent to a customer saves the environment from 2.5g of carbon

Most likely, every time a customer shops from your store, you send a receipt made out of paper. However, 93% of people say that when they do need to use paper receipts, they’re usually already lost, faded, or binned, and 77% of receipts are thrown away unused.

This is causing EXTREME environmental hazards and every one of us is contributing to it:

A single paper receipt emits around 2.5g of carbon during its lifetime - from production, to transport, to landfill

If we left the trees we use for receipts in the ground, they’d remove over 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from our environment every year

An average thermal receipt is estimated to contain at least 60micrograms of BPA per square cm

Estimated 56,000 receipts is one Tree

With Beejek, we are creating a collective sustainable solution. We are on a mission to help reverse climate change by replacing every single paper receipt with a Beejek receipt alternative. Beejek is primarily focused to help battle climate change with an alternate sustainable digital solution.

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Pre-requisites for a merchant to start using Beejek:

Beejek provides a simple API integration with your existing Point of Sale (PoS) software to work. If you would like your PoS company to have Beejek Receipts add-on implemented for you, contact us and we will kickstart your implementation.

Once the API integration with PoS is complete, you would need to register with Beejek.