All across the world, businesses that rely on getting people through the door – be it restaurants, theatres, art galleries, or hotels – have been keeping their doors closed during lockdown. And while retail outlets could try to keep the revenue flowing by pushing their online sales even harder, for others that option either did not exist or could not be expected to get even close to bridging the gap.
Now, as lockdown begins to lift, at different rates across different sectors and countries, further challenges are facing literally thousands of smaller independent businesses, who have seen revenues collapse but now need to invest in new technology and new measures if they are to emerge from their sales hibernation.
As a starting point, for track and trace systems to work, much more data is required to be collected from those customers stepping inside small commercial premises. Customers will need to be reassured about how that data will be handled, and also how easy it is to share safely.
At ensygnia, right from the start, we developed our Onescan solution to be a simple to use, safe and speedy way to exchange vital bits of data with complete security using an ordinary smartphone. Our global collection of patents for the Onescan process is testimony to that development work and our market foresight.
For small businesses, pubs, restaurants and independent retail premises, Onescan can provide a low-cost, easy to use registration and payment system that is secure for customers and easy to implement. Potential customers could register in advance online – say on a business website or Facebook page – or on arrival at a store or outlet.
All the required details are entered onto the customer’s own phone and shared via Onescan. Anyone who had registered in advance would be able to signal their arrival on site simply by scanning one of our specially generated ‘tokenised’ QR codes on arrival. These can be displayed on screens or simply on posters in the doorway.
At the till or at the table in a pub or restaurant, scanning one of our codes would trigger a payment process on the phone screen and automatically deliver an emailed receipt. All completely contactless from start to finish. To maintain completely security, all Onescan payments use ‘tokens’ to authorise a payment – the customer’s card details are not stored centrally on our platform so there is no central point for hackers and fraudsters to attack.
It’s easy to get started with Onescan for payments and registration, and we partner with some of the biggest names in the payment industry for added security. Onescan also meets all the new European Banking rules for Strong Customer Authentication for transactions above €30. Importantly, all the customer needs to starting using Onescan is a smartphone with a camera.
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