In August we told you about Shahryar Faraji, the Melbourne founder who built 1receipt to send a digital receipt straight to your phone at the till, so the shiny thermal docket never needs printing at all. This week his team launched the next piece, and it is a lovely bit of common sense. More and more self serve kiosks and checkout screens now offer a QR code in place of paper, but those receipts tend to wander off and vanish. With receiptGrab, shoppers open 1receipt, tap "Scan Digital Receipt QR", point the phone at the code, and the receipt lands in the app, even when the store is not yet a 1receipt partner. No paper is printed, and no email address or phone number changes hands. "More checkouts are offering a QR instead of paper, but those receipts usually end up lost," Shahryar says. "receiptGrab gives shoppers one place to keep them."

The 1receipt app on a phone, with its Scan Digital Receipt button, in front of a checkout QR code
The Scan Digital Receipt button in the 1receipt app. Photo: 1receipt.

By 1receipt's own figures, if half of Australia's retailers made the switch, the country would keep more than six hundred thousand trees standing, save seven billion litres of water and skip more than two thousand tonnes of paper waste every year. Most receipts are thermal paper, printed with heat through a special coating, and that coating is why councils ask for receipts to go in the general bin rather than the recycling.

It is a small change at the checkout with a big reach, because every QR scanned is one more docket that never needs to exist. 1receipt already works with Clover payment terminals and keeps Coles receipts in one place, and this month the team heads to Singapore as part of Team Australia at the Singapore FinTech Festival, from 17 to 20 November. Next time a checkout screen offers you a QR, there is now a very easy way to take your receipt home with nothing printed at all.

An Earth to Sea News follow up. Shahryar Faraji wrote to us with the news on 4 November 2026; quotes and launch details are from 1receipt's release. Photographs: 1receipt.