At Popina, we're committed to making your day-to-day work as a restaurateur easier, and we know all the issues you face.
Your major challenge? To offer quality service, while improving your operational efficiency and therefore your profits.
This is where our new WebApp comes into its own, saving you precious time by simplifying your payment process.
How does it work?
Thanks to our new WebApp, your customers can pay directly at the table, by scanning their QRCode at the end of the meal, via their smartphone.
They can pay by CB, luncheon vouchers or Apple Pay, choose to split the bill between diners or pay the entire bill; leave a tip and receive their receipt/invoice by email.
What are the advantages of paying at the table?
Your customer's experience is enhanced: your customers feel free to enjoy the time they spend in your restaurant, and your table rotation is optimized. Traditionally, the process of paying your customers can be tedious and time-consuming. Customers wait, sometimes desperately trying to meet the eyes of a waiter under pressure, have to wait for him to arrive with the payment terminal, enter their PIN codes and wait for validation. All this takes time, and can cause restlessness among customers anxious to leave.
Ordering and cashiering errors are reduced: your customers can view their order and add additional dishes or beverages. Staff errors when entering amounts and managing equipment are reduced, guaranteeing accurate payments.
Table turnaround is faster: your waiters can concentrate on satisfying customers rather than processing payments, saving time and improving efficiency. What's more, table turnaround times are improved, so you can welcome more customers and increase your sales.
Inventory management made easy: Sales data are also automatically recorded by the application, making it easier for you to manage your inventory and finances.
Integration with Popina cash register
Like our many Popina cash register integrationsintegrations, it will be directly installed and integrated by our technical department on your cash register. You'll then be able to print your receipts with the QR Code you'll need to flash.
Tables paid for via your integration will disappear once payment has been made, and will be filed directly under paid tickets. How easy is that?
Adopt payment at table for your restaurant too! Book an appointment with our sales department to find out more!
In a nutshell, why should you adopt the pay-at-table system? If you're a restaurateur always looking for ways toimprove your customer service, the electronic payment solution will make you more productive!
Your customers can pay all or a fraction of their bill easily, via their smartphone: the WebApp supports payments by CB, Apple Pay, meal vouchers, without waiting for a waiter to come with the bill.
Your customers can also choose to add a tip to their payment, thus preventing misunderstandings or errors in cash payments.
By speeding up your customer flow, your table turnover is optimized, as is customer satisfaction. Detailed transaction reports are just a few clicks away, allowing you to better manage your finances.
Our WebApp is a complete digital payment solution that makes it easy to pay your bill from your smartphone, without having to wait for validation from a waiter or go to the cashier.
Modern, performance-oriented companies are definitely turning to online time clocks to maximize productivity, ensure optimum, efficient management of their employees' working time, and collect precise data on their actual work.
The Holy Grail: a complete, verified digital version of employees' schedules, leave and absences. Better management of working hours for employees who are happy in their jobs!
What's up? Got a team to manage? Looking for a time clock? Discover our new tool that will change your life! This comprehensive software package will make your day-to-day life easier by providing invaluable assistance in organizing your schedules and clocking in and out your employees, whatever your field!
Available on IOS or Android, this tool consists of 2 applications and 1 backoffice website reserved for managers. You can use it to program and manage a single facility, or several. Totally modular, both functionalities can be used at the same time, but it's also possible to use schedule management alone, without the time-clock system.
For each employee, find their personal and contractual information directly centralized in your back office. Each time an employee's contract comes to an end, their profile data can be manually archived, making it easy to find them if they need to return (as an extra, for example).
Directly from their mobile app, employees can send you documents for their contract, enter their availability, request time off, and simply consult their schedule.
Finally, every month you can access an accounting report containing all the information you need to prepare your pay slips.
In short, whatever the size of your company, with an ergonomic and intuitive online/virtual time and attendance solution, you can improve your personnel management and monitoring processes. In just a few clicks, summarize the hours worked by your employees, receive accurate activity reports, refine your HR strategy with a broader view of the performance of each member of your staff.
Put an end to the daily headache of scheduling!
An essential point that will facilitate your organization and save you precious time every week: creating a schedule!
From your back office, you can easily create schedules thanks to a fun, easy-to-use interface. All you need to do is list the schedules and unavailabilities of each of your employees, and you'll be able to draw up a schedule that takes account of the various constraints.
Each week, you can easily duplicate your schedule(s) to renew and modify them. You can also choose to create a schedule by department (e.g. service department, kitchen department, cashier department). cashing,...).
And on the employee side? Your employees can easily monitor their schedules from the mobile application to which they have access. They receive a notification each time a schedule is published, and when changes are made.
Your new 3.0 time clock!
This feature lets you clock in and out your teams with or without an internet connection. You can choose to provide a dedicated tablet for clocking in and out, or do it all from a single iPad.
Once again, this tool is as flexible as you like. You can choose to have your employees clock in and out at the beginning and end of each day, but you can also ask them to clock in and out at break times.
As far as scoring modes are concerned, there are 3 options, which may or may not be combined:
Pin code clock-in: this option is mandatory for each clock-in. When they sign in, employees simply enter a personal pin code to indicate their arrival.
These can be added to: Photo check-in: employees check in on the tablet by taking a photo of themselves, to validate their identity.
Time and attendance by signature: to reinforce time and attendance, the signature provides additional security for the employee's identity.
You can remotely monitor your employees' clocking-in and clocking-out times, and if they forget to clock in, you'll be automatically notified. In this way, you can check directly with the employee concerned the reasons for their absence, or clock in for them if they have failed to do so.
In short, this new solution is a considerable time-saver. So free up your time and focus on what's really important!
If you've been following us for a while, you can't have missed it. Popina has given itself a makeover: website, stands, clothing, goodies, global communication... the identity has changed radically. Why change your identity? What were the thought and creation processes involved? What's next for Popina? New look for a new life, we reveal all the reasons for this 360° turn 😉. Zoom in on our history, our desires, our needs, our inspirations and the major changes you've seen/will see.
Let's take the story back to the beginning: Popina was born in 2013. Nature" green is predominant, our customers are mainly restaurateurs, and the team consists of four people in a 30 m² apartment. We're deliberately overstating the case, but you get the idea! At the time, the identity had been imagined by one of Popina's dads, inspired by the fashion of the time. Our vision? A cool, minimalist visual identity for a modern, effective tool. Our mantra? Popina adapts to your needs, not the other way around. The green/white colors we chose are reassuring, technical and (almost) sanitized. We wanted our visual identity to be "forgotten" in favor of those of our restaurant customers. The logo, meanwhile, is designed to reflect their establishments. Minimalist, it's a typographic logo (with a twist of the dot on the "o") that represents a plate and a glass seen from above.
2019, redesign of the showcase site
A small leap forward in time: 2019, Popina is growing, its services are expanding. The Internet is changing, so we're adapting to all these evolutions by developing a new site. We started with the existing website to modernize it and extracted a few key words to tell our story better. The showcase site was redesigned, but the overall visual identity remained the same. Illustrations have been added and punctuate the pages to accentuate the storytelling*. The lighter tone reinforces the closeness we want to convey to our customers. *narration
State of Popina
4 years later: 2023, Popina in figures.
+ More than 5,000 customers, 40 employees, two offices (Paris and Barcelona), 5 trade shows a year, 11 new versions of the application, 4.5 stars on the App Store and 1,500 pool games later... it's clear that Popina is evolving fast!
It's time to completely rethink our identity and communicate differently. Without denying our former identities, this change is part of a desire to better reflect today's image and the image we want to project. Popina is evolving in a constantly changing digital world. We started out with a single product, but now we offer our customers over thirty connected products, services and accessories. CollectionHACCP hygiene,Hotel PMSpayment at table or even, dematerialized tip... so many features that can help you manage your business, and that had to be represented. The identity redesign process is underway!
Brainstorming & Brief
No redesign is possible without a brief and graphic research. And to start with, we had to define who we are.
Step 1: What is Popina?
For highlight our core values we asked our employees. Popina, in a few words, what is it for you? What do we do? What do we tell? Who is it for? For this project, we selected 17 Popina employees from the company's various divisions. Profiles were chosen to represent Popina as a whole (people with more seniority, and others more recently hired). What emerged enabled us to better target our needs and desires. Popina is a company in the tech**A young, family-oriented, dynamic and serious company offering constantly evolving digital services. Now it's time to create a tailor-made identity. **technology
Step 2: Draw up the brief
Our main focus was ongraphic identity (new typography, logo modernization, color research), resulting in a new overall visual identity, a redesigned site, and associated global communications. For Popina, we wanted above all to asserting our position, communicating our values, our innovation, from the app' to the development of our website. All with a dynamic, modern and serious visual identity.
Step 3: Our inspirations and graphic challenges
In our inspirations, several key words emerged: "streetwear", "sport", "tech/digital", "pop", "neo"... Concepts that we had to transform graphically, and associate with our issues, so that everything worked together. And by "issues" we mean the uses, the variations, the media where our visual identity should exist. Imagine bright red, choppy typography, angular pictograms... All these graphic elements shout the same thing: "caution, danger". These are all parameters that need to be taken into account when creating a new corporate identity. We reviewed our old visual identity. What do we keep as it is? What do we modernize or upgrade? What do we rework? In a nutshell: a little of the old, a little of the new, for a cheerful visual mishmash.
The logo
At Popina, we like our typographic logo. It represents who we are and how we started. We wanted to keep it simple, minimalist and effective. All the more so as our customers, partners and collaborators know it well. We wanted to modernize, yes, but without completely transforming ourselves.
Typeface
No secret between us, until now we'd opted for Myriad Pro. And if you're unfamiliar with the name, it's an all-purpose font. A "clear and perfectly neutral font", according to its Wikipedia entry. Not ideal when you want to make a statement: that's our first job!
The colors
And what about the choice of colors? It's crucial! They have to work equally well in print and on the web, stand out from our competitors, be visible from afar at trade shows, and not change according to the quality of the print... The ideas are launched, after determining the company's values, establishing the brief and carrying out the graphic watch (while keeping our issues in mind); our (incredible) team of graphic designers took over.
Visual identity changes
It's here, it's beautiful, you know it, you surf it. Welcome to our new websitewith our new visual identity! So what does Popina 2.3 look like?
A modernized logo...
... which takes up the codes of the old. We're no longer focusing solely on the restaurant and catering sector*. From now on, we want to represent all the sectors and trades we can equip. The logo is more distinctive. With the addition of the point on the "o" of the logo, we've given it more dynamism; it seems to move. The idea was to use it as much as possible, to make infinite use of it, to play with it as a motif, as on our office window decals, for example.
We played with the logo and its opacity. It brings light into some rooms, screening others. Our inspiration: street art. Arrow, rocket, adaptability - that's the energy we want to convey. Taking the concept further, we could even talk about Popina's future, the omnipresent innovation of our business and our ambitions for the future. 🚀
A singular typography
The typography we're using for the logo is SOFIA PRO, a sans-serif font designed by Olivier Gourvat. Straightforward and pragmatic, it brings modernity to the logo without changing its fundamentals. For the rest of our materials, we opted for SPACE GROTESK. Like Sofia Pro, it's a singular sans-serif font designed by Florian Karsten in 2018. With its "monospace" typeface, it reminds us of the digital, tech world. We wanted it to be reassuring and distinctive, yet adaptable and accessible. With both fonts, we're keeping the spirit of proximity alive!
Sharp colors
The colors have been rethought. Bye-bye "nature" green. Hello electric blue! We've opted for a "flashy" main color that works well on its own or in combination with black and beige, our secondary colors. Blue is dynamic, inspiring confidence and serenity. Black is directive, reassuring. Beige is our "stable" color, the neutral that soothes the eye.
A new identity for infinite possibilities
Visit site redesign was essential to explain our many products and services. We hope you'll be able to acclimatize yourself to these navigational changes and, more generally, to this new identity which is taking shape as you move through the pages. For exhibitionsOur stands are now blue & wood, for more warmth and conviviality! The graphic charter is used in every corner. The arrow on the ground takes up the point of our logo, and the goodies are marked "Popina". We've even had a cart made with skateboard wheels that moves as you please. It evokes our mobility and the "street" aspect we liked so much. Finally, because our employees are our best ambassadors, we designed a line of unisex streetwear for them, made from ecocert cotton. Sweatshirts and t-shirts, the collection is beige, to soften the blue of the stands. At Popina, seriousness, comfort & chill come first!
We can't wait to read or hear your reactions, as more surprises are on the way. Popina's new version: a successful bet? Convinced by our new identity? Want to know (more) about Popina?
Popina is delighted to have taken first place in the iPad cash register software rankings. That's great! We know we've produced quality software, we use it every day and our 3,500+ customers are happy with it! But is it enough to take first place? What's it all about? Are there specific ranking criteria? We'll try to answer these questions for you.
The weight of each criterion in the algorithm... a well-kept secret...
But not quite! An application's position in the Appstore is skilfully calculated using an algorithm that takes 3 criteria into account:
Daily download volume (around 30,000/day on the Appstore and 40-50,000/day on Android).
Frequency of use and session time
Quality, i.e. the average of user ratings: from 1 to 5 stars.
In all three criteria, it's clear that the user rating weighs heavily in the balance.
What's the real point of being Number 1 on the Appstore?
First of all, it's important to realize that being at the top of the rankings gives your application absolute visibility! It's visible to all users and future users accessing the "Rankings" page!
This has a very significant impact, as over 60% of users discover an application by searching in the Appstore or by looking at the rankings! Then it depends on the application, but in general, an application on the top of the podium generates 100% downloads! See for yourself! Objective achieved!
As you can imagine, first place on the podium means VISIBILITY, DOWNLOADS and NOTORIETY! The objective being to develop the audience while targeting its "core" users, which is the sinews of war, Popina, No. 1 on the Appstore, continues its momentum, heading for the stars!
