My Quitandinha launches to the market QPay, exclusive sales system for autonomous stores

A My Quitandinha retail technology startup that operates in the autonomous mini-market franchise model, launches to the market QPay, a software tailored for the autonomous stores sector. Operating in about 300 stores, the system, which has already registered more than 1.6 million purchases and transacted more than R$ 30 million, enables, through a fluid journey and an intuitive application, consumers to make purchases in less than 19 seconds. 

According to Guilherme Mauri, CEO of Minha Quitandinha, in all, the brand invested about R$ 5 million to develop QPay from scratch.“We received an investment of angel investors of R$ 1 million and, adding the value with the capital from the cash of Minha Quitandinha, we architect the system from scratch, from the first line of code. It was an extremely high investment also in terms of time, since, we made a big bet by running the software in real and adjusting it according to the feedbacks. Each new functionality we wanted to implement the best practices, we wanted to implement the best, obviously, it was a very calm, we wanted to implement the best practices, we wanted to have a very high quality, we wanted to have a great value, we have a great value, we have a great value and we have a great value, we have a great value, we have a great value, we have a great value, we have a great value, we have a great value, we have a great value, we have a great value, we have a great value, we have a great value, we have a great value, we have been able to implement the best value, we have a great value, we have a great value, a great value, we have been able to implement the best practices that we have

Operating in the 3 in 1 model, the software, which aims to improve the buying and selling journey for both the shopper and the retailer, can be used in totem (or POS), mobile application and management system mode for the seller. According to Mauri the great differential of QPay is to have been designed based on the segment of autonomous minimarket and not adapted from another segment. “Most of programs that are used today, are originally from other sectors, such as, for example, vending machines, resulting in non-assertive solutions, sometimes expensive, slow and complicated, without the focus required for the operation of stores with”.

Hosted on the AWS server Amazon Web Services, QPay can be customized according to the adherent brand and assists retailers with functions such as inventory, pricing, margin calculation by category and even the creation of discount coupons. And there is much more to come, through Artificial Intelligence, the operating system will also show which products to buy to replenish the stock, will help in managing working capital and can help with marketing. 

In a scenario in which it is estimated that there are between 15 and 20 thousand autonomous minimarkets in Brazil, in a universe of more than one million condominiums, without accounting for companies and other places that can install stores of this model, Mauri states that expectations are the best possible. “We always believe in the power of technology as a competitive differential, and for this reason we have developed our own software, tailor-made for the segment of autonomous stores.We have identified a gap in the market, which is dissatisfied with the programs currently available, Now, meeting the requests of entrepreneurs of the customer sector, we are making QPay available to all retailers who want to revolutionize the entrepreneurial journey to the business.