Q-HOP
A quick, contactless & hyper-personalised shopping experience.

Q-HOP creates a uniquely convenient digital experience for retail customers by allowing them to use a mobile application to scan the barcodes of items they wish to purchase, and then pay automatically using a variety of digital payment platforms including PayPal; BitCoin; Masterpass; Zapper; SnapScan, and mobile wallets.

At the back end, the Q-HOP solution collects and analyses customer data to enable real-time decision-making aimed at maximising profits for retailers through providing personalised real time promotions and continuously improving the customer experience. We use advanced proprietary artificial intelligence engines to provide unique insights into consumer purchasing patterns. 

This is an innovative solution, creating a world class digital shopping experience in a physical store environment....

Ramy Fares, Director Retail & Travel, Microsoft MEA

Benefits of Q-HOP

Q-HOP provides benefits for key stakeholder including Retailers, Customers and CPG Brands

Customers

  • Faster & convenient checkout – no standing in queues.
  • Hyper personalised promotions based on what you need.
  • Digital payments making it easy to pay.

This is really amazing! Cannot believe how easy it is to use the app and loved not standing in a checkout queue!!!Download today and use it

Hansa_shopper, iStore

Consumer Packaged Goods or brands

  • Unique real time data insights into shopper behaviour across multiple retailers.
  • Customer engagement in real time before checkout and fully GDPR compliant way.
  • Hyper focal marketing to specific demographic in a specific location.
  • Q-HOP has been internationally assessed by a leading global law firm and is fully GDPR Compliant.

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Many of our retail clients constantly seek innovative IoT solutions to help them create in-store and online experiences that build customer loyalty.  The strategic alliance with CIRT will provide our global clients with access to a stream of innovative IoT solutions,”

Tony Shakib, GM/Partner Microsoft Azure IoT

About Us

Q-HOP (Pty) Ltd., is owned by Consumption Information Real Time (CIRT), a successful leading-edge South African tech start-up and a global strategic alliance partner to Microsoft. Last year CIRT was identified by GSD Venture Studios as a potential unicorn and selected to join its Cohort 5 programme. In Oct 2021 CIRT won 2nd place at the prestigious Africa Cup Awards for its Q-HOP solution and Commerce Tech category winner at the Global Start-up Awards Africa 2021. Q-HOP also won Innovator of the Year by Brand South Africa and was a semi-finalist in the KPMG Tech Innovator in Africa competition.

Q-HOP addresses a $4.6t problem of abandoned baskets by providing a scan-as-you-shop app that has hyper personalised promotions using advanced AI, IoT and Fintech. It facilitates the use of a mobile application to scan the barcodes of items they wish to purchase, and then pay automatically using a variety of digital payment platforms including PayPal; BitCoin; Masterpass; Zapper; SnapScan, and mobile wallets. 

Our Exec Team

The executive team are highly experienced executives that have worked for Fortune 500 companies at a C-Suit level.

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Ajay Lalu

Co-Founder & Director

Ajay is a serial entrepreneur and has successfully started and exited companies with a combined value of over $60m…

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Sanjay Soni

Co-Founder & Director

Sanjay is an accomplished business strategist, transformation leader, entrepreneur & chartered accountant …

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Shainal Patel

CTO

Shainal is specialist IT Professional who has over 17 years strategic and operational ICT experience extending throughout …..

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Gary Hagel

CMO

Gary has worked for corporations from e-bay to Apple and Vodacom to BT in Europe and Africa.  His 25 year career he is a  …

OUR ADVISORY BOARD

Our advisory board includes tech heavy weights from Apple, Meta, eBay, ABI

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Rick Orloff

Advisory Board Member

Rick has developed and led critical security programs at one of the largest Fortune 5 companies in the    …

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Sameer Jooma

Advisory Board Member

Sameer is a specialist in strategic analytics, an excellent curator of innovative technologies & has demonstrated the ability to  …

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Suzy Monford

Advisory Board Member

Suzy Monford is the former Group Vice President of eCommerce for the Kroger Corporation. In her executive roles, she c  …

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John Agate

Advisory Board Member

John Agate is currently working on new product development at Meta (Facebook’s holding company). He previously led…

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Prof Dr Manoj Chiba

Advisory Board Member

Manoj has a Phd in Strategy and a qualification in Machine Learning from Stanford. He has over 15 years hands-on …

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Contact Us

1st Floor, Q-HOP, 116 Oxford Road, The Business Exchange, Rosebank, Johannesburg, 2196, South Africa