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Secure and efficient cash logistics - this is still the dream of many cash handlers today. Complex processes and manual efforts around counting, sorting, checking authenticity or documenting cash transactions burst this pipe dream like a bubble. The fact that digital processes and automatically exchanged data have long been able ...

Leipzig, 12.09.2023. As a leading European provider of track & trace and POS software solutions, ALVARA | Digital Solutions focuses on efficiency, transparency and security with its products. In today's world, however, smart alternatives must also take another aspect into account: sustainability. With the ICC App, the addition to the ...

Whether online banking, payments via smartphone or with the giro card – cashless payment methods have long been taken for granted. The European Central Bank (ECB) has also been thinking for some time about how the euro can be transferred to the digital world. The result of these considerations: a ...

Efficient cash logistics: For many retailers and financial institutions, these terms are still incompatible today. The reason: numerous processes related to counting, sorting and depositing cash are largely manual - and demand financial and human resources. DWSI Geld- und Wert-Logistik GmbH & Co has now impressively demonstrated that cash-in-transit companies ...

Leipzig, 07.08.2023. For over 30 years, ALVARA | Digital Solutions, as a leading European provider of track & trace and POS software solutions, has been offering products to make cash management, logistics and checkout systems more efficient, transparent and secure. These many years of experience have now prompted the group, ...

Whether or not cash has a future has been the subject of much debate in recent years. However, it is clear that coins and bills are still very popular in Germany. As a result of the closure of bank branches and the abolition of numerous ATMs, one question has become ...

The corona pandemic has acted as a driver for digitization in most companies. Important points have now been set almost everywhere. Now it is important not to slacken efforts, because new tasks are already waiting. Based on a survey of around 1,000 managers, the Bank Blog has identified challenges that ...

Leipzig, 10.07.2023. Increasing competition, changing customer requirements as well as time and cost pressure have been weighing on the shoulders of value service providers for quite some time. To meet these challenges and remain competitive, secure, transparent and efficient logistics are essential. It is no secret that digitalization can make ...

Bakeries, butchers, fruit and vegetable retailers, unpacked food stores and many other retailers weigh their goods during the sales process. To ensure that the values can be immediately incorporated into the payment process, a certified interface is needed between the scales and the POS system. ALVARA I Digital Solutions has ...

Leipzig, 22.06.2023. Interactive Cash Control, or ICC in short, has for some time been the leading and established industry solution for the effective and transparent control of the cash cycle between financial, retail and cash-in-transit companies. This summer, the success story continues. The ICC app - as a mobile supplement ...

On average, Germans went to a retail store 215 times in 2022 to make purchases. Looking at the entire population, this figure adds up to 17.9 billion transactions, according to a study by the EHI Retail Institute e. V. The economy is thus slowly leaving the crisis year of 2021 ...

In Germany, a reliable cash supply would be inconceivable without cash-in-transit companies (CIT). A regular exchange between customers and cash-in-transit companies is therefore essential. However, this still takes a lot of time and requires a great deal of effort on both sides. Automation and system-supported communication can help here. Hurdles ...

A world without cash - barely conceivable for many people. To ensure that cash does not disappear, a national initiative has been launched in Switzerland to preserve coins and bills. The concern that cash will be suppressed and that part of personal freedom will be lost is too strong. At ...

On May 4 and 5, ALVARA once again organized the spring CashDialog for Retailers. With representatives from retail companies, we focused on the topic of cash and related challenges in Leipzig. The result of the productive dialogues: current insights, many great suggestions and inspiring digital ideas for the future. ALVARA CashDialog ...

Improved efficiency at the POS - with integrated merchandise management system Purchasing, deliveries, warehousing and sales - to prevent an overview of inventories from being lost, more and more companies are relying on merchandise management systems. The software solutions enable individual processes to run more efficiently and, above all, reduce ...

Sustainability is becoming increasingly important for the economy. According to a survey of companies in Germany conducted by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, 84 percent of those responsible consider this topic to be important. If we take a look at the implementation, about half already state that sustainability is "fully" or "predominantly" ...

Whether in private life or at work, data is playing an increasingly important part. Retailers also want to benefit from the data trove, strengthen customer loyalty and make processes more efficient. This brings one question into focus: How can large amounts of data be systematically managed and used ? Only ...

In the past few years, the daily press has increasingly reported on towns, communities and small cities that offered only limited service hours. However, it was not enough to run locations profitably. As a result, financial institutions closed branches completely and ATMs were also dismantled. The question that arises in ...

Inefficient cash processing and supply, immense cost pressure, and regulatory requirements - banks and savings banks, as well as cash-in-transit companies, have been struggling with these challenges for some time. Software solutions such as our Pecunia cash center software provide relief. For years, cash handlers have been using this tool ...

It is no secret that relying purely on instinct in business is hardly effective. Reporting, on the other hand, helps retailers make important decisions based on data. Aspects such as store sales, access to company data in real time, and various comparisons are essential. It is only when all the ...

Greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, resource consumption, and the destruction of ecosystems - the impact of our actions on nature is huge. This also applies to the cash cycle. The production and disposal of receipt paper, the energy consumed in the processing of coins and banknotes, and the transport routes all ...

Cost reduction, innovative services and more customer orientation – cash-in-transit companies (CIT) benefit from the implementation of application programming interfaces (APIs). With these, they can increase the value of their services and products, gain sustainability and, above all, a competitive advantage. APIs are therefore the next important step on the ...

Security risk, time waster or cost driver : cash often has bad reputation among retailers, banks and saving banks as well as cash-in-transit companies. However, non-cash alternatives have not yet reached the stage where they can easily overtake coins and banknotes from the throne of payment methods. Companies and financial ...

Leipzig, 03.06.2023. In Fakturio, ALVARA | Digital Solutions has long provided retail, financial institutions and cash-in-transit companies with a solution to make automated billing easier. What's so special about this software? It gives stakeholders a clear overview of all services rendered. This software provider has also set its sights on ...

For years, politicians, financial institutions, retailers and society at large have all been discussing the future of cash. Often, the prognosis is less than rosy. Younger generations in particular have been taken in by mobile payments via the likes of PayPal and Apple Pay. Coins and bills are gradually disappearing ...

Cash-in-transit companies are being faced with a variety of hurdles: constantly increasing amounts of coins, customers with ever more specific demands, and rising competition. Then there’s the immense cost pressure on stakeholders. But cash-in-transit and valuables-in-transit companies can face these challenges with modern - and, above all, future-proof - cash ...

Leipzig, 02.13.2023. More and more commercial enterprises are pursuing the goal of digitizing their branches, making a computer-free, paperless back office reality. One important consideration is digital collaboration and interfaces with cash-in-transit companies. ZIEMANN SICHERHEIT Holding GmbH has long been aware of this necessity, and has been relying on the ...

Growing pressure to compete, so much becoming available online and changing customer needs - direct producers now have to find ways to keep up with their competitors and meet their customers’ needs more than ever. The first step? When you integrate a holistic ERP system, you can automate and optimize ...

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 ...

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 ...