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The Cost You See vs. The Cost You Don’t On paper, cash automation looks like a new expense. You see the quote, the project, the hardware. What you don’t always see is what manual cash handling is already costing you in: 🔸Store labor 🔸Shrink and discrepancies 🔸CIT and banking fees 🔸Deposit delays and friction Using one common example: $15,000/week in cash per store ≈ $1,350/month per store in manual handling cost Across 100 locations, that’s $1.6M+ every year You don’t have to guess what this looks like in your world. Sesami’s Retail Cash Management Savings Calculator does the math for you, based on your store count and cash volume. If you’ve ever wondered whether automation would actually pay off, plug your numbers into the calculator and see your estimated annual savings: https://lnkd.in/gSGAXsmJ

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In most retail organizations, cash is still the one process that depends heavily on manual effort from store teams. Tills are counted by hand, deposits are prepared in the back office, and leaders hope end of day balances match what the system says should be there. That might work for a handful of locations. It starts to break when you scale. Manual cash routines make it harder to train new staff, harder to spot patterns in shrink, and harder for operators to get a clean view of what is happening across the estate. Retail cash automation changes this by turning cash into a closed, repeatable process. From drawer to safe to deposit, each step is standardized and tracked. Store teams spend less time counting and reconciling, regional leaders see issues earlier, and finance gains confidence that the cash position they see is real, not a lagging estimate. If you are looking for the next place to relieve pressure on your stores, cash is often where the gap between how work happens today and how it could work with automation is the widest.

Many multi-site retailers have modernized digital payments and ecom, but in-store cash still often moves on a slower timeline. It sits in tills, in safes, and in transit to the bank while finance and operations are expected to manage liquidity and risk in near real time. That gap shows up as pressure on store teams to reconcile manually, limited visibility into true cash positions, and working capital that is effectively trapped in the system instead of supporting growth. It affects regional chains and fast-growing banners just as much as national brands. A connected cash automation strategy closes that gap. When in-store devices are integrated with CIT and banking, cash positions become visible daily, and in many cases you can move toward credit-like speed for cash. Store teams gain closed cash handling and predictable end of day. Finance gains timely data and the ability to treat cash as an active lever, not a blind spot. The goal is not simply to add more hardware. It is to make cash behave more like your digital channels: standardized, visible, and fast enough to support better decisions across every location in your network.

Most retailers have modernized loyalty, ecommerce, and payments, yet in many store networks, cash is still counted by hand in the back office at the start and end of every shift. That manual layer does not scale. It ties up your most experienced people in low-value tasks, creates inconsistent store routines, and introduces shrink that only shows up days or weeks later. Retail cash automation is not just about putting in a smart safe. It is about standardizing how cash moves from checkout to deposit, closing tills the same way every time, and giving operations real visibility into what is happening across locations. When cash is automated and closed at the point of sale, you get cleaner audits, fewer surprises after close, and more staff time on the floor where revenue is actually created. If cash is still the most manual process in your stores, that is usually where the next efficiency gain is hiding.