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Automating the Bill Collection Process for Newspaper Distribution

In this era of technology, current news is available anywhere anytime, but the traditional newspaper is still the most preferred mode of news. In most Indian households, even today, a typical day starts with a cup of tea with newspaper. There are a whole process and system that works to ensure that you get your newspaper every morning with your morning tea. However, running this process smoothly is quite a challenge for newspaper distributors. 

The whole process includes delivery and bill collection which are done manually and requires a lot of time and sufficient manpower. Though delivery cannot be automated, bill collection can be automated to reduce time, effort, manual errors and to improve collection. BluPrints Smart Thermal Printers provide the best solution for automating the bill collection process, making the process simple and quick.

BluPrints Smart Thermal Printers for Newspaper Distributors in Bill Collection – How it works

Newspaper distributors add all customers’ details in the Android-based apps and the app generates a monthly bill as per customer’s subscription and usage. This feature eliminates manual calculation of bills and rules out any manual errors. These apps help the vendor in managing all their customer accounts from their mobile phones and generate bills at the end of every month. These bills are printed on the spot using BluPrints smart thermal printers which are able to fetch bill wirelessly from the mobile phones. The customer account is immediately updated, by the vendor, when the bill is generated and paid, thus reducing a lot of time as well as errors.

Some of the requirements for this automation are an internet-enabled mobile phone and BluPrints Bluetooth enabled thermal printer. The billing person carries an internet-enabled mobile phone instead of a calculator and this mobile phone is able to connect with a thermal printer through a Bluetooth interface.  One more feature of this app and thermal printer based billing system is that when the bill is generated, the customers receive an SMS with a link for online payment. Thus enabling customers to make payments through online modes leading to further digitization of the process.

Benefits of using BluPrints Smart Thermal Printers for Automation of Bill Collection

  • These printers do not require any additional accessory and are compact and lightweight, so easy to carry around.
  • BluPrints Printers have compatibility with various devices (Android, iOS, Windows, Linux) including, Desktop, Tablets, Laptops etc.
  • Their low maintenance costs
  • Long battery life

To know about the product and application areas write to us at [email protected]

How Digitalization is changing the face of Rural Healthcare in India: Healthcare App for Rural Health Camps,On Spot Prescriptions & Medical Reports

The government initiative of Digital India aims to develop a smart healthcare system for the benefit of the rural Indian population. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is taking a number of e-governance initiatives for the digitization of the healthcare sector in India, and has thus started a division called e-Health India.

e-Health India includes initiatives like Mobile Health or m-health which uses mobile apps to educate people about preventive healthcare measures, disease management, disease surveillance and treatment support. Remote monitoring is another initiative which allows health service providers to monitor patient’s health outside health care center through telemonitoring, wearable biosensors  which track changes in a patient’s health, record data to his health records and print on spot prescriptions through BluPrints thermal printers.

Benefits of Digitization in Rural Healthcare

The new digital technologies are able to share many of the responsibilities performed by doctors. Biosensors and mobile apps help patients to get regular updates about their health. These devices increase the rural population’s access to healthcare services through point-of-care diagnostics, teleconsultation and e-prescription facilities, thus benefiting the rural healthcare in many ways:

  • Saves time and help doctors to attend to more patients.
  • Regular monitoring can help in early diagnosis of serious conditions and thus timely treatment can be provided.
  • Provide real-time patient information and support symptom-based diagnosis 
  • Reduces the cost for both healthcare service providers and patients.
  • Sharing of patient records and medical history becomes simple thus making it easier and faster for doctors and insurance providers to understand medical history. 
  • Medical consultations provided remotely brings healthcare to remote areas with no basic healthcare facilities.
  • Help healthcare providers to take timely measures based on an analysis of vitals recorded remotely using wearable biosensors.

BluPrints thermal printers supporting rural healthcare digitization through on spot prescriptions and medical reports 

Mobile technology is helping to change the delivery of healthcare services in India because it is a powerful information transmission tool which connects the rural patients with healthcare provider. 

The healthcare delivery model consists of a phone/tablet/desktop,diagnostic devices and BluPrints smart thermal printers for printing on spot prescriptions, collection receipts, referral notes and medical reports that can be printed in local languages. 

These devices along with the healthcare app assist local healthcare representatives in collecting medical information, providing medical support and updating this information on a web based system which can be remotely accessed by the doctors to provide diagnosis and treatment. This model is also linked with financial services which provide micro insurance. 

This system resolves many issues like access, affordability and quality of healthcare. BluPrints has been an active participant of this healthcare delivery system with features like multilingual printing, customizable design, long battery life, low maintenance and high print quality. 

For more information on BluPrints products, contact at [email protected].

Kavita Aggarwal, CEO, BluPrints speaking at the 4th Edition of empoWer – India’s First Tech Accelerator for Women Entrepreneurs.

Ms Kavita Aggarwal, CEO & Founder of BluPrints has bee invited to speak at t the 4th Edition of empoWer. empoWer is India’s First Tech Accelerator for Women Entrepreneurs

empoWer 2019 will be supporting 15 women entrepreneurs in the technology space through a 3-day Bootcamp, out of which 10 selected startups will go on to be a part of the 4-week accelerator program. Indian Clearing Corporation Limited (ICCL), a wholly owned subsidiary of BSE Ltd. (BSE), is the industry sponsor for the program.

Speaking at the 4th Edition Delhi Launch on the Topic – The technological curve: how its impacting the startup ecosystem in this age she will be joined by feloow industry leaders

  • ​Joy Devgourev Sharma, Head Investment, GoMassive
  • Prajakt Raut, Founder of Applyifi & The Growth Labs

About empoWer –

Established in 2016, empoWer is India’s 1st tech accelerator for women entrepreneurs. We started with a hypothesis, in 2016, that it is a program/ecosystem much needed for women entrepreneurs; and the response received in the form of applications from across India, and repeated feedback from many quarters to expand the cohort size, or hosting multiple cohorts in the year is a major validation for us.

Over the past 3 years, 65 women entrepreneurs have been a part of 4 cohorts, and 1 bootcamp. Each cohort is a 6-week accelerator program comprising 15 women entrepreneurs selected from a PAN-India application pool. We have disbursed INR 2.1 Cr in grants, and post-program, a large majority of startups have raised further funding amounting a cumulative of ~ INR 32 Crores. We help startups scale by providing mentorship, industry connects, peer network, investor meets through a  2 months accelerator program, followed by a 1-year support program.

Kavita Aggarwal presented with Prestigious HCFI Shashi Bala Excellence Award

Kavita Aggarwal Singh, CEO & Founder BluPrints was presented with the prestigious HCFI Shashi Bala Excellence Award on 20th October 2019 for her contribution as leading women entrepreneur of a proud Make in India company an innovative mobility solution. 

The award was presented to her by Union Secretary of Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Radheyshyam Julaniya (IAS) & Dr K K Aggarwal, Padma Shri Awardee & President of HCFI- Heart Care Foundation of India at Perfect Health Mela (18-20 Oct 2019) a one-of-its-kind event organized by the Heart Care Foundation of India (HCFI) held every year with a mission to generate all- round awareness on health.

BluPrints Smart Thermal Printer range is widely used in health tech sector to support health camps, instant prescriptions & report generation to name a few.

Financial Services

Financial services (banking and non-banking) entail collection of interest/EMI installments, which require companies to devices fool-proof mechanisms to minimize defaults.

India’s varied demographics and diverse customer segments, poses a challenge when it came to servicing the heterogeneous customer-base. The vastness of the Indian market resulted in heavy dependence on the field agencies for debt collections. Financial sector is transitioning from traditional methods to more technologically advanced customer-friendly practices, which, in addition to ensuring timely collection, are aimed at improving customer relationship and improve collection efficiency.

The use of handheld devices for “On the spot receipt generation�? in such areas adds immense advantage to the value-propositions to their customers of doorstep banking. The added advantage of such door-to-door collections for companies is reduced credit loss, improved manpower utilization & reduced turnaround time

More over with new banking services such of cash withdrawal at POS through retail stores to ease the pressure on ATM and BluPrints handheld printer are perfect for providing proof of transaction for these transactions.

Health Care

Increased usage of new technologies is enabling doctors and healthcare providers powerful means to not only log prescriptions, but also, print them using mobile portable printers. Doctors are increasingly adopting technology to ease the way prescriptions are being printed and logged, using smart phones.

This new way of ‘Smart Printing’ is now being adopted by doctors for penning down the prescriptions, diagnostic information and other directions directly on their Tablets. Coupled with other information from relevant websites, diagrams and disease references available online, doctors are able to create real-time reading material and prescriptions for their patients during the examination itself. This consultation reference is thereafter, uploaded on to the cloud where doctors are maintaining the patient databases, and also printed directly from the phones in real-time, to hand over to patients.

This means of printing is especially being adopted in health check-up camps in remote areas, where, battery enabled mobile handheld printers and smart phones are able to adequately replace expensive and bulky office equipment, while increasing the reach of healthcare to rural areas. A huge advantage comes from the fact that the latest printers now support multi-lingual printing for the prescriptions to be printed in regional languages, helping break the communication barrier.

Toll, Ticketing & E-Challan

Toll Collection:
With over 459 tolling plaza in India the toll collections method are mostly manual resulting in large queues, increased wait time. To avoid such issues and upgrade the tolling system automatic process of toll collection to save time, effort, and man power are being extensively deployed. This way of low cost and efficient technique called Electronic Toll Collection using RFID modules that automatically collects the toll from moving vehicles when they cross the toll plaza.

BluPrints new Product range BluTap a first of its kind Bluetooth enabled NFC Reader/Writer handheld device which can seamlessly communicate with Android Phones/Tabs to read RFID Card data (MiFare Cards – operating at 13.56 MHz frequency). A highly compact battery operated device, BluTAP is a rugged and cost effective card reading applicance that when paired with a Mobile app, can enable critical business applications such as cashless and paperless ticketing and toll collection.

Ticketing:
Ticketing in public transport is now headed towards implementation of RFID/NFC-enabled mobile ticketing. BluPrint has developed devices that would enable transport operators conveniently host, manage and deploy transport ticketing.

E challan:
In 2017 around 6.4 million challans with 99.5 Cr paid in fines in Delhi alone. The e challan system is being implemented across cities to automate the process and make it both cost & time efficient plus bring in transparency both at frontend and backend.

BluPrints rugged handheld printers are highly compatible with e Challan modules and are being used in the field for receipt generation. These printers are wirelessly connected to a tablet /phone through a ticketing application that will calculate and record the penalty amount. The mobile printer prints the e challan with all details such as rule violated and the penalty amount.

Utility Billing

India’s Bill Payment market has seen a rapid growth – CAGR of 15.5% during FY’2010 to FY’2015 in terms of volume of bills paid.

The rise in penetration of internet, smartphones and advent of new technologies is driving this growth. In a market like India where regulations are still evolving, the urban segment is already moving to digital payments but the rural segment comprising of 66.5% of country’s total population is still in transition. Majority of the nation is still relying on offline utility bill payments modes. The offline utility bill has revamped and build solutions to make the process easy and reliable to enable fast transactions and provide adequate protection to customer’s money. Utility billing being the major contributor comprises of bill collection agencies, distributors & retail-cum-payment outlets .

BluPrints easy to use mobile printers provides on the spot receipt generation solution-a quick, hassle free proof of payment. Our mPOS receipt printers supports all billing applications being used in India for recording the data, generating bill and instant update of company’s record. This system has not only financially benefited the utilities to increase their collections but also ensure timely payments & reduced miscommunication regarding late payments.

Logistics

Logistics is the backbone of any economy, providing cost effective and efficient flow of goods. India’s logistic industry is evolving rapidly, attributed to change in technology, infrastructure and entry of new types of service providers. The upgrade in business process transformation defines if the logistic industry can help its customers reduce their costs and provide effective services.

BluPrints is a trusted printing solutions provider for various operation such as warehouse management, proof of delivery, logistics operations, streamlining supply chain through automation.We have aligned our products to the unique requirements of the logistics industry- be it RFID enabled barcode printer or handheld receipt generation, our products can not only maximize ROI are also future proof printing solutions.

The versatile & rugged printers by BluPrints ensure wide applicability of receipt, ticket and label printing in the segment. Affordable, reliable, ultra compact, fast print speed, flexible connectivity through USB, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi fits in easily with all applications being used in the segment.

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