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The newly built Zinal-Sorebois gondola lift has made the entrance to the resort via Zinal even more attractive and, with its extension, offers a direct connection to L’Espace Weisshorn.

The Zinal valley station was extended with the addition of a ski depot in the course of this modernisation. The good service as well as the easy and functional operation of the ski depot at the Grimentz mountain railway was key to the decision to turn once again to our digiCOM depotmaxx system solution and the depot lockers of our partner, the Thaler company.

This convenient ski depot boasts 70 quadruple lockers and 184 doubles, thus offering storage space for 648 sets of equipment. Access to the depot is controlled by a smart depot management system, and the depot offers energy-saving, location-specific drying using air circulation along with additional warming in the early hours using heating elements.

The Grimentz-Zinal ski resort boasts over 100 kilometres of slopes with guaranteed snow cover and, thanks to the expanded carrying capacity made available by the modern 10-seater gondola lift and the new ski depot, offers enhanced comfort and convenience for its guests at the entrance to Zinal.

With the reconstruction and extension of the Salvista gondola lift in Itter, a direct connection has been created to the lifts and slopes in Hopfgarten and new slopes added.

The new, modern ski and snowboard depot of our long-standing customer Intersport Okay is to be found right in the valley station of the Salvista gondola lift. The positive experience at the Stubai Glacier meant that the new building project could go ahead with our digiCOM depotmaxx system solution and the depot lockers offered by our partner, the Paroli company.

The spacious depot area features 138 luxury double lockers with twin-walled doors and direct drainage. The smart depot management system regulates the drying process with air circulation and the disinfection of the depot lockers in use. Additional convenience is offered by the integrated beauty area with washbasin, large mirrors, carpet and underfloor heating.

Alongside this depot, Intersport Okay also offers a complete service with its sports equipment shop and ski rental, providing the perfect introduction to the SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser Brixental.

Software and optimised processes in rental and sales call for individual and modern shopfitting concepts. This is where we work hand in hand with the company LEVA from Gantschier. LEVA is in a position to offer reliable quality from Austria thanks to its more than 40 years of experience in shop design, from planning to finished assembly.

Using an authentic, industry-specific shop design, LEVA will transform your shop into a unique experience, offering your customers an attractive alternative to online shopping and creating a pleasant and functional working environment for your employees.

The requirements of individual shops differ enormously in terms of shopfitting systems. Material, colour, shape and function should come together harmoniously and be in line with your products and customers. LEVA overcomes this challenge with creative ideas, practical solutions and the knowledge gained from many years of professional experience.

At the start of the win­ter sea­son, Intersport Bründl branch num­ber 26 in the Kaprun Cen­ter at the Maisko­gel­bahn val­ley sta­tion opened its doors. Cus­tomers can ex­pect top-lev­el sports ex­per­tise span­ning a sur­face of 2,000 m², along with a unique shop­ping am­bi­ence.

Pure com­fort for any fan of win­ter sports. Await­ing vis­i­tors on the ground floor are 1,300 state-of-the-art heat­ed de­pot spaces. Our in-house beau­ty area, in­clud­ing show­er fa­cil­i­ties, helps win­ter sports en­thu­si­asts shine not on­ly on the slope, but at the Après-Ski as well.

Along with our part­ner Paroli, we have sup­plied the ski de­pot of In­ter­sport Bründl for the val­ley sta­tion of the new Maisko­gel­bahn moun­tain lift. The spa­cious 2-set and 4-set ski lock­ers from Paroli have been equipped with our digiCOM depotmaxx de­pot sys­tem. An in­tel­li­gent dry­ing con­trol sys­tem us­ing a com­bi­na­tion of cir­cu­lat­ing air and heat en­sures par­tic­u­lar­ly high com­fort.

We have con­structed a new depot for Tatry Mountain Resorts (TMR), one of the largest ski resort ope­ra­tors in Slovakia, to­gether with our partner MRM. By the way, this isn't the first time that TMR has re­lied on us: 20 rental stations opera­ted by our major Slovak customer now also work with our rentmaxx Software.

The new func­tio­nal buil­ding in Jasna, which was built for the 2017/18 season, offers its ski-loving cus­tomers plenty of comfort. Since, of course, an inno­vative ski depot system could not be with­out our proven soft­ware and the func­tional lockers provided by MRM.

Espe­cially practi­cal: The 100 generously double lockers can be rented from five diffe­rent locations – such as the hotel or sou­venir shop. Guests can easily open and ope­rate the lockers using the GOPASS card, the region's ski and leisure pass, thanks to our user-friendly depotmaxx Client. Addi­tional security is provi­ded by the depotmaxx door control, which controls the access doors to the depot – and denies entry to un­wanted guests.

Good for the en­viron­ment: The lockers are dried using circu­lating air – and only those that are current­ly being occu­pied. This keeps the ener­gy con­sump­tion as low as possi­ble.

Sports enthu­siasts can now look for­ward to an out­standing shop­ping experience with floor space totalling 2,000 m² with a feel-good vibe not far from the en­trance to the Ziller Valley in the village of Fügen. Visitors here can now enjoy a very special shop­ping ex­peri­ence thanks to the "Magic Moments", such as "The Mountain Lounge" lounge & bar, a boot test track, a boul­der wall or a kid's ter­minal.

In ad­dition to an ex­ten­sive range of dif­ferent pro­ducts, eager fans of the slopes can also delight in over 2,500 rental items and 1,200 spaces in the ski depot.

Along with our part­ner Paroli, we have supplied the ski depot of Intersport Bründl for the valley station of the new Spiel­joch­bahn lift. The spacious 2-set and 4-set ski lockers from Paroli have been equipped with our digiCOM depotmaxx depot system. An intelli­gent drying control sys­tem using a combi­nation of circula­ting air and heat ensures parti­cular­ly high com­fort.

We at digiCOM IT solutions have double the reason to celebrate this year: our rentmaxx rental software is turning 20. But that’s not all! Our depot software depotmaxx is also celebrating its 10th birthday. Not only are company founders Thomas Brutscher and Florian Haidl happy about this - the remaining 10 digiCOM associates and hundreds of satisfied customers throughout Europe are also rejoicing.

It all started in 2007: at the Oberstdorfer Sports and Ski Shop belonging to Thomas Brutscher’s parents, the idea was born to develop software which would significantly simplify the rental and sales process. The original plan to bring a simple POS software for ski rental operations to the market quickly turned into a complete product portfolio, which now consists of POS, administration and billing, customer check-in, as well as an online booking and depot system.

Our solid customer base includes several hundreds of sports and ski rental shops in Germany, Austria, northern Italy and Switzerland. They range from small local rentals, which offer about 100 rental items, all the way up to major industry players with several thousands of products in their assortment.

Our anniversary year will be heralded in February at the ISPO in Munich. But that’s still not all: in 2017, you can additionally find us at the trade fairs ÖSFA in Salzburg, Prowinter in Bolzano/Bozen and INTERALPIN in Innsbruck.

After the newly introduced digiCOM rentmaxx software experienced a successful launch at Sport Lentsch in Jerzens in the Pitz Valley, the integration of the online booking platform Skirentalresorts.com soon followed suit. The shop for sports, fashion and ski rental, situated directly by the valley station of the Hochzeiger, has made a name for itself as a true ski boot specialist, among other things, and strongly focuses on service and quality. And that is exactly what digiCOM IT-Solutions has to offer.

The required interface was therefore implemented in a very short time and has been a reliable companion ever since. The clear benefit: the data from Skirentalresorts.com is automatically transferred to our software and can be used and further processed alongside the data from digiCOM rentmaxx online booking. This harmonisation of the individual workflows now facilitate the easy processing of all bookings made in the various online shops.

The free rentmaxx Z-Value App is being con­tinu­ously de­veloped and im­proved.

For the current season, we have im­ple­men­ted the printing feature well known from the Android^TM and Windows versions in iOS as well. The skier values cap­tured and ini­tial set­ting values (Z-value, DIN setting) cal­cu­lated for a ski binding can be sent di­rect­ly to any in­stalled printer. Cus­tomer names and addresses can also be provided.

But that’s not all – we have reworked the look and func­tio­nality of our App to ensure that you can receive the cal­cu­lated Z value for your binding on your smart­phone more quickly and easily.

For some time now, digiCOM IT Solutions has been working with SKIDATA, the worldwide leading supplier of Access Solutions & Visitor Management for ski resorts and mountain lifts. The aim of the cooperation is to better link the ski rental, ski depot and access respectively ticketing areas. Not only operators can benefit from this, as they will be able to work more efficiently, but also guests for whom a ski holiday will become that much more comfortable.

The first joint project has already been completed, and a universal interface between various depot systems like digiCOM depotmaxx, GANTNER Electronic or Metra Inženiring has been created. Thanks to the interface, free depot places can be sold directly at the SKIDATA cash desk and the SKIDATA OPOS solution and the data immediately and secure transferred to the ski depot systems.

The integration of additional interfaces in the winter sports sector has already been planned and will be implemented shortly.

Along with our partner Paroli, we have expanded the Sport Stock ski depot in Kaltenbach with 1,700 new and modern depot places. Thanks to the easy and intuitive usability of the depot, winter sports enthusiasts can enjoy their ski holiday in Hochzillertal completely stress-free.

The spacious 2-set and 4-set ski lockers from Paroli have been equipped with our digiCOM depotmaxx depot system. An integrated system to dry and disinfect deposited winter sports equipment ensures especially high comfort. The resulting wastewater is transferred directly to the sewer system through an innovative stainless steel water drain.

An additional important decision criterion from the client’s viewpoint was the user-friendly control of digiCOM IT solutions, which are perfectly compatible with the existing rental software. The large touchscreens on the locker front make using the solution particularly easy for customers. In addition, there is the option of remote operation via Smartphone or Tablet-App.

In December 2015, Sport 2000 Unterlercher opened its newest ski depot at the Spieljoch branch in Fügen, right next to the slope and the bottom station. The total package con­vinced the client all along the line: lockers by Paroli and our digiCOM depotmaxx depot manage­ment system.

The ge­ne­rous­ly de­signed double lockers with a width of 35 cm play a crucial role during the pur­chase deci­sion as well as drying and dis­infec­tion of the stored winter sports equip­ment, inclu­ding gloves and water drain directly into the sewer system.

An essen­tial feature was the possi­bility of gran­ting access to the depot area 24 hours a day using the autho­ri­sation manage­ment feature of depotmaxx door control. Depot lockers are rented out via the Wintersteiger soft­ware already being used by Sport 2000 Unterlercher. No problem thanks to our open inter­face.

The integrated rentmaxx online booking and SPORTS RENTAL software can now be launched after intensive collaboration. The first pilot customers have been testing the automatic transfer of booking details between the two systems since the beginning of the current winter season.

The booking data for transfer includes all relevant information on the customer, the booking subject and the method of payment. In relation to SPORTS RENTAL, the extensive mapping possibilities help in the individual allocation within the software.