Pocketslip

3 minutes (one of a series)

Produced for CNN African Start-Up

It’s a downside of retail therapy – not being able to find your receipt when wanting to return a product. And sales receipts cause needless clutter. They aren’t very friendly to the environment either. Now one South African start-up says the time for paper receipts may just be reaching the end of its roll.

Pocketslip is a mobile app that enables stores to send digital till slips directly to an app on your phone.

Entrepreneurs Francoise Liebenberg and Ryno Coetzee are the duo behind the paperless platform. Initial trials proved successful. This led to financial backing totaling $320 000 from investment company Zamgroup holdings.