Retail & Commerce · Emerging Application

Proof of ownership shouldn't depend on a slip of paper you were told to keep forever.

A receipt is the only proof that a high-value item is genuinely yours — and it's also the thing everyone loses first. Digitag replaces the paper slip with a tag on the item itself: scanned once at purchase, permanently tied to the buyer, impossible to misplace because there's nothing separate to misplace.

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How It Would Work

The proof of purchase lives on the item, not in a drawer.

  1. A tamper-proof tag is applied to the item at the point of sale — on the box, or on the item itself.
  2. The buyer scans it at checkout, or right after, on their own phone.
  3. Their name is tied to that unique code — permanently, and only once.
  4. A digital receipt is issued immediately, with no paper slip required to prove it later.
  5. If the item is lost, stolen, resold, or claimed against a warranty, the record already exists.

This is a pilot-ready application of the mechanism described on Digitag's patent page — describing how a rollout would work for a retailer, not a named customer already running it.

An Adjacent Use Case

The same mechanism, one step past the sale.

Warranty & Product Registration

Registration that happens automatically, not "mail in this card."

Scanning the tag at purchase doubles as warranty registration — no separate form, no serial number to type in from memory months later when something breaks.

Tracking what a business owns rather than what it sells is its own application — see Asset & Equipment Custody →

Why It Matters

For the Retailer

Fewer disputes at returns and warranty claims.

Ownership and purchase date are on record the moment the item leaves the store — not reconstructed later from a card statement.

For the Buyer

Nothing to file, nothing to lose.

The proof of purchase is tied to the item and their name — not a slip that has to survive years in a drawer to matter.

For a Recovered Item

A stolen or recovered item can prove who it belongs to.

A permanent, tamper-evident ownership record — scanned once, standing on its own, long after any paper trail would have disappeared.

Where This Stands Today

Ready to pilot — not yet a deployed product.

The core mechanism has run in production for years in a different industry (see Travel & Hospitality →), and powers ScreenSync's live in-store network today. Applying it at the point of sale for retail is a direct extension of the same tag-scan-receipt sequence — we're describing how it would work for a retailer who wants to pilot it, not a named customer already running it.

Pilot Digitag at the point of sale.

The mechanism is proven elsewhere. Let's talk about what a pilot would look like for your stores.

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