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14.06.2018

Smartphones instead of cash registers

In Ukraine, 107.6 thousand entrepreneurs use cash registers (PTRs) for payment transactions. It is very costly to purchase and maintain them. But today, the Government approved two important decisions, on which the BRDO Office has worked together with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. These decisions will simplify the registration of PTRs and provide business owners with an opportunity to use smartphones or tablets as cash registers. They can register a PTR in one day. This will reduce business costs by about 30%.

From now on, the procedure of using cash registers is simplified and the process of implementing innovative PTR models is launched. This will allow to introduce the recent developments, significantly expand the list of models and functions available, simplify the conditions for using PTRs and reduce business costs of purchasing and maintaining. Today, there are developments allowing to build fiscal memory on a flash drive and connect to a cell phone through a USB cable.

In addition, the draft resolution “On Amendments to the Maintenance and Repair Procedure for Payment Transaction Recorders” adopted significantly improves the information exchange mechanisms with commissioning, maintenance and repair of PTRs in service centers.

The automation of these procedures will create a convenient environment for cooperation between entrepreneurs and supervisory bodies.

We hope that owners of cash registers will reduce mandatory visits to the SFS significantly, and it will be possible to use cell phones, tablets, laptops and other communication options in a couple of months.

We expect that many sellers of goods will soon have electronic devices, payment transactions will be made on a non-cash basis and cash receipts will be sent to buyers by e-mail or other paperless method.