Digital receipt generation for customers

Purpose

1. Enable instant, accurate, and compliant digital receipt issuance after each customer transaction in Algerian restaurants specializing in Algerian cuisine.

2. Ensure every transaction is properly logged for fiscal records, VAT calculation, and compliance audits.

3. Streamline post-sale documentation for both dine-in and delivery services, supporting integration with restaurant POS systems.

4. Improve customer satisfaction by providing prompt, digitally accessible receipts via multiple channels, reducing paper usage and manual effort.

Trigger Conditions

1. Transaction completion at POS (e.g., payment received, order closed).

2. Online order fulfilled and payment confirmed.

3. Delivery confirmation logged in ordering system.

4. Manual request by customer via app, email, or SMS.

Platform Variants

1. Square POS

• API: Transactions endpoint — configure webhook on "payment.completed" to trigger receipt generation and delivery module.
  

2. Toast POS

• Integration: Auto-export receipt data via "Receipt API" after each closed order, format as PDF, push to email/messaging layer.
  

3. Shopify (Restaurants using Shopify POS)

• Feature: Use Order API — trigger "order_paid" webhook, generate receipt, email via SMTP/SendGrid.
  

4. Stripe

• Endpoint: "payment_intent.succeeded" webhook — auto-create digital receipts using Stripe Receipts API, forward to recipient.
  

5. PayPal

• Endpoint: "Sale completed" webhook — configure notification setting to include digital receipt attachment or automated email.
  

6. Lightspeed Restaurant

• Setting: Connect via "Receipt Printing API" — auto-send PDFs to customer email after bill settlement.
  

7. Revel Systems

• Webhook: "Order finalized" — generate and dispatch receipt via configured third-party mail API.
  

8. SumUp

• API: "Transaction webhook" — auto-generate receipt, trigger email or SMS sending via third-party messaging service.
  

9. Clover

• Feature: Sales API — on "order payment", pass data to connected receipt generation microservice, auto-send.
  

10. Zapier

• App connection: "Stripe > Email by Zapier" — "New payment" triggers formatted receipt email.
  

11. Make (formerly Integromat)

• Scenario: "Order paid" triggers PDF generator, routes through Gmail/Outlook email module.
  

12. Twilio

• Feature: Use Programmable SMS/MMS — after receipt generation, API call dispatches receipt link to customer's phone.
  

13. SendGrid

• Feature: "Transactional Email" setup — integrate with POS webhook, auto-send PDF or HTML receipt as attachment to customer.
  

14. Gmail API

• Setting: Scripted "send email" endpoint with attached/inline receipt post-payment webhook.
  

15. Outlook Mail API

• Feature: Automated "send mail" event, triggered by new order or payment completion webhooks from POS.
  

16. Firebase Cloud Functions

• Function: RESTful trigger on payment, generates downloadable receipt, pushes notification link to user app/email.
  

17. QuickBooks Online

• API: "Sales Receipt" endpoint — auto-log transaction and setup auto-email of digital copy upon record creation.
  

18. Xero

• Feature: "Invoices API" — on settlement, auto-email digitally formatted receipt through Xero configured template.
  

19. Zoho Books

• Setting: "Automation rule" — triggers on payment recorded, sends customized digital receipt to customer email.
  

20. WhatsApp Business API

• Endpoint: Programmatically send generated receipt as media/document via WhatsApp API after sale completed.
  

21. Mailgun

• Feature: Transactional message API — submit email request on receipt trigger, handle attachments/HTML receipts.
  

22. DocuSign

• Setting: Send completed receipt as sealed PDF for signature/record via API when compliant documentation needed.
  

Benefits

1. Fully automated digital receipt delivery reduces manual oversight, minimizes human error, and enhances compliance.

2. Multi-platform, omni-channel receipt transmission increases customer convenience and satisfaction.

3. Environmental impact lowered by eliminating paper use and logistical delays.

4. Creates easily retrievable, secure digital audit trail, streamlining financial reconciliation and tax processes.

5. Supports regulatory requirements for Algerian fiscal documentation and data privacy, reducing risk of noncompliance.