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Retailers, financial service providers, banks, and the IT and security industries - EuroShop in Dusseldorf is opening its doors to professionals from various sectors from February 28 to March 2 2023. EuroCIS is just one part of this initiative. A leading industry fair for retail technology in Europe, its theme ...

Electronics retailer Gravis has drawn a clear line in the sand: around 40 branches of this German chain will no longer be accepting cash. The company’s decision has been met with great surprise, as coins and bills are still very popular in Germany. So, most retailers haven’t considered whether to ...

One topic has become more and more prevalent over recent years: sustainability. But German lawmakers don’t make things easy for retailers. From January 1st 2020, checkouts have to produce receipts – whether the customer wants one or not. Many businesses use classic paper receipts. ITR checkout software provides an alternative: ...

We’re getting back in touch with our best wishes for a successful and hopefully peaceful new year. We hope you were able to enjoy the holidays and find some peace before everyday life really gets going again. In the meantime, most of our staff here at ALVARA are back to ...

Leipzig, 11.30.2022. Many banks have been using digital cash management solutions for several years now. Among other things, banks use Pecunia Cash Center Software from ALVARA | Digital Solutions to complete their coin disposal processes – benefitting from increased efficiency. The software facilitates the automatic counting of coin safe bags ...

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” This has been a mantra for retailers lately. Because the retail situation worsened during the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war and crisis. The situation has required some rethinking in many respects. Cash logistics is one topic that always calls for new solutions. ...

Leipzig, 19/10/2022: In the past, GWS Sicherheitsservice GmbH Magdeburg used its proprietary software to handle its cash processing and logistics. As part of the evolutionary further development of processes, new requirements from customers and the associated further development of the software solution, GWS was faced with a “make or buy” ...

Leipzig, 05/10/2022: With the ALVARA Interactive Cash Control platform (ICC), ALVARA | Digital Solutions offers a strong solution for financial service providers, cash-in-transit companies and retailers. Taunus Sparkasse also joins the ranks of customers who have already had good experience with sustainable cash management. It is thanks to this that ...

Leipzig, 31/08/22. With Pecunia 7, ALVARA | Digital Solutions has taken the solution for cash processing to a new level as a cloud application that efficiently supports financial institutions and cash-in-transit service providers in their day-to-day business. The Group is thereby responding to the growing demand for solutions that help ...

Leipzig, 03/08/2022. ALVARA | Digital Solutions invites you to CashCon in Leipzig on September 7th and 8th, 2022 - together with GS1 Germany, the EHI Retail Institute and the BDGW. Countless cash industry experts will report on the latest developments. The venue is Felix im Lebendigen Haus in the old ...

Leipzig, 27/07/2022. As a result of a project, in 2021 the Sparkasse Fulda decided to rely on the Safebag procedure in the future when customers deposit coins. The aim of the project was to optimize cash processes by increasing security and simplification while also avoiding redundant manual tasks. Within the ...

Digitization and monetization expert Prof. Dr. Lutz Anderie takes over as CEO of the Group Executive Board Leipzig, 13/07/2022. ALVARA | Digital Solutions expands its management team and appoints Prof. Dr. Lutz Anderie alongside Steven Schwarznau as the second managing director of the corporate group, which specializes in digital payment ...

Leipzig, 08/06/2022. ALVARA | Digital Solutions successfully supports retail companies to handle their cash management. The corresponding processes of preparation, counting and processing are usually not only complex for retailers, but also time-consuming and cost-intensive. They also deal with the challenge of reliably protecting cash from theft and fraud at ...

Leipzig, 04/05/2022. ALVARA | Digital Solutions successfully supports Stadt- und Kreissparkasse Leipzig and its subsidiary HEROS in process optimization in the area of cash collection and processing. The volume of coins and banknotes remains high, and with it the additional costs for processing, storing and transporting money. That is why ...

Leipzig, 30/03/2022. ALVARA | Digital Solutions actively promotes an inclusive working environment. Together with Kassen Merkl GmbH, Europe's leading provider of software solutions for cash logistics and POS has now developed a POS display that can also be operated perfectly by people with impaired vision without the need for complex ...

Leipzig, 23/02/2022. ALVARA | Digital Solutions is further paving the way for a paperless, computer-free back office for all cash processes in retail: in future, tried and tested solution ALVARA ICC (ALVARA Interactive Cash Control) will also be available to cash-in-transit businesses as an app. Cash-in-transit companies will then be ...

Leipzig, 02/02/2022. ALVARA | Digital Solutions continues to look towards the “future”. It is part of the strategy behind this leading European provider of cash logistic and POS software solutions to strengthen the companies in the group on their path to success in the long term. To this end, the ...

Leipzig, 26/01/2022. ALVARA | Digital Solutions, together with GS1 Germany, the EHI Retail Institute and the BDGW, invites you to the next CashCon in Leipzig. After the originally scheduled event date in January had to be postponed due to Corona, the new date for this year's CashCon has now been ...

12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days or 8,760 hours. No matter how you do the math, it was a year of big events, exciting projects and new ideas. Now it's time to wind it down in peace. We wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a good start ...

Leipzig, 24/11/2021. The leading European provider of track & trace software solutions, ALVARA | Digital Solutions, is introducing retail to its new ICC module “Notify Insurer” to optimize cash processes. From this point on, retailers, cash-in-transit companies and insurers alike can benefit from the extended functions of the industry solution ...

Leipzig, 04/11/2021. ALVARA | Digital Solutions is restructuring its management team. The Leipzig company is reacting to increasing demand for future-oriented software solutions in cash logistics. “Our teams and software solutions form a solid foundation so we can impress with our future-oriented, high-quality solutions under one roof on the national ...

Leipzig, 07/10/2021. ALVARA | Digital Solutions is offering a smart and sustainable alternative to printed paper receipts with the eBon. Since 1 January 2020, the Kassengesetz (cash register law) has stipulated the requirement for receipts to be issued for even the smallest amounts, allowing the leading European provider for track ...

Leipzig, 08/09/2021 ALVARA | Digital Solutions offers a solution for inspecting technical security system (TSS) to increase data and manipulation security at cash registers. “Challenges for companies in the retail industry have considerably increased over recent years: whether it’s the new Cash Register Regulation (KassenSichV), the Cash Register Act (Kassengesetz), ...

Leipzig, 01/09/2021 ALVARA | Digital Solutions is participating in this year’s ESTA conference. The event with the theme “Cash is cool“ will take place in Sevilla, Spain from 24 to 26 October. Important cash stakeholders from all over Europe will come together to share the latest industry developments. ALVARA | ...

Leipzig, 14/07/2021. Götz Geld- und Wertedienste GmbH in Dresden has been successfully using the ALVARA | Digital Solutions Logistic App since 01/06/2021, setting a course for the future-oriented digitization of their cash logistics processes. The company is part of the Europe-wide Götz Group, and currently employs 75 employees at its ...

Leipzig, 30/06/2021. Part of the ALVARA | Digital Solutions Group since this year, it relations GmbH is sure to impress as a provider of innovative and easy-to-use checkout systems. With ITR POS solution retail branches and chains optimize their checkout processes. And all ALVARA | Digital Solutions customers can now ...

Driver verification is one of the most security-critical phases of money transport for banks and cash-in-transit providers. However, intelligent software often gives way to paper lists at this point. The reasons are clear to see: data protection guidelines are easier for both market participants to uphold thoroughly and with the ...

Leipzig, 10/06/2021. ALVARA | Digital Solutions is now making the envelop deposit process via deposit safes at bank branches even easier for customers, retailers and financial institutions. The new digitized deposit management process saves costs, time, and increases security for all cash stakeholders involved. Whether by envelope or safebag, deposits ...

Leipzig, 26/05/2021 ALVARA | Digital Solutions has decided to successively move its successful solutions for cash-in-transit companies (CIT) into the cloud. “There has seldom been this much pressure on all players in the cash sector,” explains ALVARA | Digital Solutions Managing Director Thomas Vietze. “Many framework parameters, such as increasing ...

Leipzig, 12/05/2021 For many companies, cash device management is a time-consuming and costly process. It’s not uncommon to manage several types of machines from various manufacturers across different locations. The Smart Monitoring Platform (formerly Universal Cloud) by ALVARA | Digital Solutions lets users link their cash management systems, such as ...

Leipzig, 04/28/2021 ALVARA | Digital Solutions and INSYS locks provide automated and certified Cash Management as a service - from high-security locks to generating one-time codes. The latter are used by companies from the retail and banking sector to successfully optimize access to their valuable goods or recycling devices. This ...

A large number of companies in retail still rely on paper driver identification lists. This public presentation of personal data should be viewed critically in terms of data protection guidelines, both for clients and contractors. Digital driver legitimation can resolve this issue and shift the legitimation process exclusively to the ...

Leipzig, 14.04.2021 ALVARA | Digital Solutions uses cash centre software Pecunia to offer the option of managing all cash and valuables handling tasks. Whether that’s transporting cash and valuables, cash processing, ATM services, material provision or direct cash supply: Pecunia has proven itself a reliable tool that has grown with ...

Leipzig, 7 April 2021. ALVARA | Digital Solutions (a brand of ALVARA Holding GmbH) continues to grow. It relations GmbH is new to the corporate group of specialists for track & trace software solutions for the cash cycle and logistics. ALVARA | Digital Solutions adds an IT specialist that has ...

Leipzig, 24.03.2021. ALVARA | Digital Solutions is shifting the focus of its solution development even more towards digital efficiency in order to meet the needs of retailers, financial institutions and cash-in-transit companies for a digitalisation offensive in the cash sector. Due to external influences such as the COVID-19 pandemic, changing ...

Leipzig, 10.03.2021 ALVARA | Digital Solutions now offers the possibility to manage cash recyclers even more efficiently with the new “POS Connector”. Whether it is automating cash handling, reducing risk or giving cashiers more time to serve customers: Cash recyclers have long since become a must-have in retail. Integration into ...

The demands for efficiency and adherence to schedules in the logistics sector also affects specialists who are primarily involved in the transport of money and valuables - such as ZIEMANN SICHERHEIT. Now banks can know where the consignment is at all times using a platform through which all the necessary ...

Leipzig, 17.02.2021. ALVARA | Digital Solutions offers “ALVARA Interactive Cash Control” (ICC), an online platform that makes it possible to efficiently control and track the entire cash process. From the deposit at any cash point to the lodging at the Bundesbank, the cash cycle between financial, trading and value service ...

Leipzig, 09.02.2021 Together with GS1 Germany and the EHI Retail Institute, ALVARA | Digital Solutions held CashCon 2021 virtually for the first time on the 27 and 28 January 2021. The discussion among approximately 150 representatives from the world of politics, financial institutions, retail, the cash-in-transit sector and associations primarily ...

Leipzig, 21.01.2021. ALVARA I Digital Solutions is bringing a new paying-in machine version of tried-and-tested application ‘CashPoint Smart-safes’ to the market with ‘CashPoint Recycler’. The tailor-made user interface for smart deposit safes is now officially in use in more than 100 businesses after successful implementation over the last six months. ...

Leipzig, January 6, 2021 - True to their slogan ‘Always an idea ahead’, ALVARA I Digital Solutions is beginning the new year with a strong concept. Its three subsidiaries (ALVARA Cash Management Group AG, IT Kompetenz GmbH, Safelogy / MLSA) have been very successful with their software solutions up to ...