With credit card in the service: Here's how the digital bell bag works

DOMRADIO.DE: Does the new digital bell bag really look like what you know?

Markus Dröge (Bishop of the Protestant Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesia of Upper Lusatia): Yes, that is true the great. It looks like a bell bag, just with this cloth bag and a handle. It's a bit more mbadive and in this grip is a display. At the end of the handle is a wheel that you can turn

DOMRADIO.DE: Need a cell phone to manage it?

Dröge: No, you do not need anything except a bank card for contactless payment. You turn the wheel, choose an amount on the screen between one and 25 euros, press once and confirm. Then they hold the control card and it is deduced with a little tone.

DOMRADIO.DE: So you do not need a PIN or something?

Dröge: No, up to 25 euros you do not need that.

DOMRADIO.DE: When should the bell bag be used? In the end, when are you going out?

Dröge: No, it goes well in the ranks like a normal bell bag. And the good thing is, who wants to donate with money, who can put in the bag even his money, so that no one – even the elderly – has to feel excluded.

DOMRADIO.DE: Why Needs Do you have such a digital bell bag at all?

Dröge: For various reasons. First and foremost, fewer and fewer people are carrying cash. In particular, banks often do not take any more money. If the collection had to be removed, there were problems or more and more fees, so we had to find something.

DOMRADIO.DE: And you really found something very technical. If I am properly informed, does the bell bag come from the 3D printer?

Dröge: Yes, exactly. The handle is made with plastic 3D printer

DOMRADIO.DE: When you donate by card, it 's not like the supermarket at the checkout, where the l'. you are often asked if you have something to take off. Dröge (laughs): No, you can not take anything away

DOMRADIO.DE: Are there reactions from church members?

Dröge: Yes. At the April synod, a congregation had already asked how they were to handle this with their collection, because they could not bring them to the bank. She had asked us to find something. Of course, our technicians have been a little longer, but now we have this offer.

I think it's a little strange at first. We will also start with some communities of samples in the fall. But the digital bell bag is so convincing and good that I think it will carry it.

DOMRADIO.DE: So in the fall, the collection begins with banknotes, coins or even a card. Do you think that the tinkling of coins in the bell bag will finally fall on the list of threatened sounds?

Dröge (laughs): That may be good, yes.

The interview was conducted by Heike Sicconi. ] This article was written by DOMRADIO.DE

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