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Shop Pal

Shop-pal is a Smart Card that saves the receipts of buyers whenever a purchase is made, anywhere. This is will eliminate the need to give a printed receipt by the Vendor.

The end customer need not put any effort in saving the receipts/guarantees for future use, and has ready access to our online system which helps in daily/monthly book keeping.

If one considers the amount of paper and printing resources consumed to produce the millions of receipts printed every day, this product will have a huge economic and environmental impact. The Economic impact is in terms of huge savings the vendors make on receipt paper, printer resources and waste disposal. The Environmental impact is in saving the large number of trees that would be cut down to make that receipt paper and the amount of waste generation that can be avoided.

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Category : Consumer Products, Technology & Communication

Comments

kmk Bangalore wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 18:52

Super Idea. I really this IS one of the ideas which does make a very good Business Sense while doing its bit saving the Environmental Resouces

ravikiran.sunrays Hyderabad wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 21:17

wow its really awesome idea...

shop-pal Boston wrote on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 13:12

Thanks Ravi

kirrendo Hyderabad wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 21:46

Wow...!!!!
very nice one.., best of the lot.....

kausi Chennai wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 21:50

Excellent if this can be implemented asap. I vote for this idea

shop-pal Boston wrote on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 13:12

Thanks for your support

edookati Hyderabad wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 21:55

Need to be executed

Vijay Kumar Muscat wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 22:13

This is a fantastic idea, even so relevant in the current environmental challenges.. and on a personal front i shall be really happy if the bills are saved online for me to retrieve later, i am so messy when it comes to filing my bills and would never be able to find them at the needed time.. Imagine the amount of invoices that are generated by the suppliers and the messy job of filing, we have automation happening in the internal budget approval process and issuance of L.P.O however not much is done in invoice or receipt management.

shop-pal Boston wrote on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 13:13

Thanks for your comments and support vijay

Srinivas Vajape... Bangalore wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 22:30

Wow... this is a cool idea!! Idea something like this which helps in cost cutting particularly during this recession time, its something really innovative.

Vivina Hyderabad wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 22:38

i agree with Vijay--Very innovative!!

sreedhar hyderabad wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 22:54

Nice "1" ..and it would really help the people who do the online shopping..

karthup wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 22:58

Ideas like these will definetly change the world we live in .. , Need to be executed ,

Cheers
Karthik ..

sundernagesh Hyderabad wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:02

things like these will definitely change the way we have perceived our shopping experience. Storing our bills and checking them on a regular basis will also help everyone in tracking their spending and of course, the paper - we shall save it for better purposes than for generating a bill (useless almost).
Yay to the idea!!

akk0106 Secunderabad wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:02

Great idea... Go for it
we r wid u

jita Bangalore wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:03

It is a change for the better

ananth Hyderabad wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:26

awesome:)

susheelvaj Hyderabad, A.P wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:27

highly appreciated idea!

Kurt Hyderabad wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:30

very much releavant in today's times.

satya.thota Hyderabad wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:37

Cool Idea.

hannugadu Hyderabad wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:46

cool concept. loved it

Varanasi Hyderabad wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:50

excellent

smalina Hyderabad wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:52

nice one..!!!

sharath Hyderabad wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:56

creative idea.

meghna10 Mumbai wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:56

Great Idea !!!

phani Bangalore wrote on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:58

I think instead of storing the details online, which would be a huge privacy problem, it would be better if the data was stored inside the card itself, like a memory card. The user can insert the card in his/ her computer and check their purchases. Storing online would mean that they could be used to know your buying patterns and would raise big privacy issues.

Alfredkingsly wrote on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 05:58

Excellent idea. 5 stars...

ravikiran.sunrays Hyderabad wrote on Sun, 12/27/2009 - 23:24

wow its really awesome idea...

ravikiran.sunrays Hyderabad wrote on Sun, 12/27/2009 - 23:24

wow its really superb idea...

vikram9us wrote on Tue, 01/05/2010 - 17:14

its a good idea but it is not practically possible.the reason being that visa or mastercard would not allow a new system to intervene in their merchandise and it also raises a lot many security concerns and privacy issues too.It would corrupt their systems as it needs constant monitoring.

instead many shopping places these days have started giving an option of email receipt which is a better feasible idea.

i've just given a fair opinion.