The digital receipt for retail
With anybill, your customers receive their receipt digitally via QR code, in your app, or by email. It runs through your existing POS system, and you are already prepared for the digital receipt obligation planned in Germany from 2028.
In use at leading retail companies
Digital receipts are more than an obligation
For the obligation planned from 2028, a PDF instead of paper would be enough. But you build the connection to your POS anyway, and with the right digital receipt it creates a customer contact that did not exist before.
Legally compliant
The digital receipt meets the German receipt issuance obligation under Section 146a AO and is archived automatically.
App-free for every customer
A scan at the customer display via QR code or NFC is all it takes. The receipt opens in the browser, with no download and no sign-up.
Loyalty and purchase data
Points, coupons, and loyalty cards run through the same receipt, and every purchase delivers analyzable data down to item level.
Flexible integration
Via the anybill API directly in your POS software, or with anyConnect POS alongside your existing system. More than 60 POS systems are already connected.
Recognize customers
When customers receive their receipt via your app, their loyalty card, or a linked payment card, an anonymous purchase becomes a known customer.
How the digital receipt works with anybill
Four steps from connecting your POS to the customer contact that every digital receipt can create.
Digital receipts from your existing POS system
anybill is already connected to more than 60 POS systems. If yours is one of them, the digital receipt runs through the existing interface. Alternatively, anyConnect POS extends your checkout without any changes to the POS software.
More than 60 POS systems
anybill API and POS SDK
anyConnect POS
Three ways the receipt reaches the customer
The simplest is a QR code or NFC at the customer display: customers scan and have their receipt in the browser, no app needed. If they show their loyalty card or your app at checkout, the receipt lands in their customer account automatically. And anyone who has linked their payment card once receives every further receipt on its own.
QR code & NFC
Loyalty card or app
Linked payment card
No app, no sign-up
The receipt becomes a customer contact
After the scan, customers save the receipt as a PDF or in their wallet, forward it by email, or find it again later via the receipt finder. For you, the same moment is a touchpoint: this is where you gain opt-ins, bring customers into your app or loyalty program, and place offers after the purchase.
Recognize customers
Gain opt-ins
Offers after the purchase
Receipt obligation today and from 2028
Since 2020, every electronic POS system in Germany has had to issue a receipt, which may also be digital with the customer's consent. Under the draft law adopted by the German federal cabinet on September 23, 2026, receipts are to be provided digitally as a rule from 2028. The Bundestag and Bundesrat still have to approve it.
Receipt obligation met
Automatically archived
E-invoices
Hospitality receipts
Success story
How ROSSMANN turns the receipt into a digital touchpoint
"With anybill, we are bridging brick-and-mortar retail and the digital world. Our app is a central element for us, and the digital receipt feature makes it even more attractive."
Petra Czora, Head of Marketing, ROSSMANN
Connected to the partners you already work with
anybill works with more than 90 software and MarTech partners. Your POS provider, payment service provider, or loyalty system is therefore often already connected, and rollout runs through partners who know your systems.
POS
More than 60 POS systems are connected. The digital receipt is often set up directly by your POS vendor or POS reseller.
Payment
Payment service providers and terminals are connected, so card payers also get their receipt digitally, automatically via the linked card if they wish.
MarTech
Loyalty, CRM, and couponing tools from the partner network use the receipt as a point of contact with the customer.
What retailers achieve with us
How strong the four effects are depends on store network, purchase frequency, and data quality. Documented figures from live projects are in the success stories.
Recognize more customers
Significant growth in addressable, identifiable offline shoppers.
Generate higher ROAS
Avoid wasted spend through highly precise campaign steering.
Build real loyalty
From transactional business to recurring, steerable revenue.
Reduce paper & costs
Fewer paper receipts mean less printing and less effort at checkout.
FAQ: Frequently asked questions about digital receipts
What is a digital receipt?
A digital receipt is the electronic proof of a purchase. It contains the same mandatory information as a paper receipt and reaches the customer via QR code, app, or email instead of being printed.
Are digital receipts legally permitted in Germany?
Yes. The receipt issuance obligation under Section 146a (2) of the German Fiscal Code allows electronic provision if the customer agrees. Scanning the QR code at checkout can count as that consent.
Do I have to offer digital receipts from 2028?
That is what the draft law adopted by the German federal cabinet in September 2026 provides: receipts are to be available digitally from 2028, with paper only on request. The law has not been passed yet, the Bundestag and Bundesrat still have to approve it.
Do my customers need an app?
No. The digital receipt works without an app: after scanning the QR code, it opens in the browser. You only need an app if receipts should also appear in your own retailer app.
Which POS systems are supported?
anybill is connected to more than 60 POS systems, and the full list is in our partner directory. Further systems can be connected via the SDK.
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