GLS Germany has upgraded its mobile app enabling customers to create a digital parcel label with a special QR code from everywhere without having to print it out.
With the new upgrade, users of the GLS mobile app, available for iOS and Android devices, can now generate the parcel label with a QR code on their smartphones and save it.
Once customers hand in their parcel at one of the GLS parcel shops in Germany, the parcel shop employee scans the QR code of the mobile parcel label and prints it. In case the address is not correct or another recipient is needed, the data on the label can still be changed before printing.
“With the GLS mobile parcel label, we offer occasional shippers convenient preparation for their shipments, independent of location and printer,” explained Christian Herrlich, Managing Director GLS IT. “In addition, the address data are machine-readable and transferred safely to the label without any errors.”
At the beginning of this year, GLS created the necessary conditions for the introduction of the mobile parcel label with modern and flexible IT equipment deployed across all its parcel shops nationwide. This includes an android smartphone with a special parcel shop app and a Bluetooth printer.
