Popina

Popina is a French cash register editor for iPad, positioned on cafes, bars, bistros, restaurants, with a retail variant. The register centralizes in-store order taking, floor plan, bill management and splitting, payments, tickets, and performance reporting via its Popina Reporting module. The editor also markets its own payment terminal, the T-One, capable of offline payment processing and handling multiple payment methods. The site mentions three plans, Basic, Starter, and Premium, but no amounts are published: Popina has no pricing page and directs to a demo request or phone contact. Final pricing depends on the plan, the number of terminals, and equipment ordered, requiring a quote, and neither the software subscription nor the commission taken on card payments through the T-One is public.

Popina is certified NF525 and has updated its certificate to meet NF525 2.0 product requirements. NF525 is the French VAT anti-fraud certification that any register used for retail sales in France has to hold, so this point speaks to a business trading in France and to no one else: Popina is a French editor selling to French establishments, and the software, site, help center, and phone support are in French. Popina's main strength is its integration catalog, one of the richest on the French market: delivery (Deliveroo, Uber Eats), accounting (Pennylane, Cegid, Evoliz, Fulll, Inqom), payment (Zettle by PayPal, Payplug), reservation (Zenchef), hotel PMS (Mews, Octorate), scheduling (Skello, Esperoo), stock management (Inpulse, Koust, Fullsoon), and loyalty. That catalog is itself French, and most of those partners are of no use outside the country. On the other hand, the editor publishes no public API documentation or developer portal: connections must pass through this partner catalog. The complete absence of public pricing remains the main obstacle to comparison.