Every retailer knows how important cash remains to their business. Margins are wafer thin, while competition is tough already and getting tougher by the day.

So, retailers aim to maximise their income by all legal means, and in most markets that includes making the most of cash. The trouble is that, without careful and efficient management, the value of cash tends to diminish as it moves from point of sale to the bank.

Some of the money tendered turns out to be false. Some of it is lost, genuinely lost, through accident, miscounting or carelessness as it moves from point of sale to the bank. And some of it, of course, disappears in a non-accidental manner. That fine retail euphemism “shrinkage” is used to describe the tiny but still significant percentage of cash received that ends up in the pockets of unscrupulous employees, customers and others with access to the Retail Cash Chain.

All retailers want to identify quick wins that will infallibly lead to additional profit on their bottom lines. We think the best way to make money fast is to save money fast. Prevent the losses due to forgery, accident and theft: that is the key to fast and easily-achievable profit.