4 Factors to Consider When Buying a Smart Security Safe

Many cash intensive businesses are switching to smart security safes from their regular safes to reduce the losses arising due to lack of proper cash management, and to increase the productivity of their employees. Businesses that install security safes are not only able to recover the cost of installation in less than an year, but are also able to save a lot of money over and above their initial investment costs. If you run a cash intensive business and are looking to upgrade your existing cash management system or install a new cash management safe, here are the points you must consider when buying one.

1. User Interface

When purchasing a smart safe choose a safe with a durable and easy to access user interface. User interface is subject to extreme environments such as spills, scratches, impacts,and others. Therefore, it needs to be durable and robust to survive those conditions. Similarly, the user interface must be easy to access so that anybody accessing the smart safes does not need extensive training for using it.

2. Cost of Maintenance

Smart safe maintenance helps  prevent lockouts and keep the downtime as low as possible.It is, therefore recommended that businesses must go for periodic maintenance of their smart safes to avoid any complications that may hamper their operational efficinecy, and might also lead to customer dissatisfaction. Before finalizing a smart safe ensure to find out about the maintenance costs as these may vary from one safe to another.

3. Availability of Parts

Talk to more than a few smart safe manufacturers and vendors, to find out about the availability of spare parts of the safe you are planning to buy. It’s advisable to avoid safes with limited availability of spare parts or if their parts are exorbitantly priced; no matter how less they might cost you. Remember, limited availability of spare parts also means that businesses will have to face a substantial downtime, something that businesses with high volumes can’t even imagine.

4. Savings

Security safes help businesses save money in more than a few ways. For instance, they help reduce cash shrinkage, avoid counterfeit bills, reduce the number of armored car pickups, require a lesser number of employees for cash handling and many more such ways. When buying a cash safe you must check how efficient it is and what are the savings it can provide. For example, higher the counterfeit detection ratio of a smart safe, lesser the number of counterfeit notes that will pass through the system.

Conclusion

Though cost is one of the most important determinants when purchasing a smart safe, it should not deter you from buying a safe that best suits your business needs and fits all criteria mentioned in this blog. The reason is simple, your saving while using the security safe would be much more compared to any other safe that may not be the apt match for your business.