by Ronny | Apr 3, 2013 | features
GoPago LIVE is NOT an iPad POS. GoPago’s POS software is run on the Android operating system, not iOS, which differentiates us from virtually every other tablet-based POS in the market. We made this decision very deliberately; the Android platform enables GoPago to deliver the most secure multi-tasking solution possible. Since the point of sale is the central nervous system of a business, it needs to provide the most reliable merchant experience possible. A point-of-sale, like a central nervous system, benefits from continuous monitoring of health to guarantee a strong solution. An Android tablet enables system level access, allowing GoPago to remotely monitor uptime, automatically upgrade software, proactively troubleshoot and limit POS-only functionality. This hands-on approach is, for now, exclusive to GoPago LIVE and only possible on an Android point-of-sales system. iPad POS systems cannot directly and in real time, monitor the health of the POS or serve merchants to the same extent as GoPago LIVE, since the POS software is one of many apps on the iPad tablet. Our Top 7 Reasons to Choose an Android POS System 1. Proactive and Remote Monitoring: GoPago monitors all of its POS units constantly, ensuring continuous merchant uptime and proactive customer support. Through our Control Center, we monitor everything from POS tablet battery life, components plugged-in, CPU and memory. Our world-class customer support team calls merchants if the tablet’s battery is low, if they have a pending mobile order, or if the printer has a bad connection. Notifying our customers before they are aware of a problem sets GoPago LIVE apart: no one else has the ability to see this information...
by Ronny | Mar 27, 2013 | event, location, San Francisco
Blue Fog Market on Polk St. recently started serving up some cheese melts until 3 in the morning and we’re teaming up with them and their Gough St. location to bring you the Melty March Madness bracket tournament. We’ve set up a bracket to help you concoct your dream grilled cheese combination. For starters, you’re given aged cheddar and havarti cheese on grilled rustic white bread for $4.99 and then you could spiff it up with a plethora of different meat, veggie, spread options for a small additional price. With options ranging from flank steak to jalapeño to onion mayonaise to mango, your wildest dreams might become a reality. From now until March Madness is over (April 8th), we’ll be asking you to cast your votes on our Facebook and Twitter pages for your preferred toppings until we have a winner from each bracket (2 different veggies, 1 meat, 1 spread). Another way to vote is to just simply order a cheese melt for yourself through GoPago and whatever toppings you choose will also be counted as votes. To sweeten things up, there are deals in it for you too. Whenever a topping beats out its opponent, that winning topping will be discounted by 50% until we reach the final round of voting, which will determine the ultimate cheese melt. Then the winning ultimate cheese melt combination will be featured exclusively on GoPago for only $5 +tax (you’re getting some tasty toppings for free) until the end of April. Instead of having zero control over your favorite college basketball team’s outcome in March Madness, you’ve got the power in our Melty...
by Ronny | Mar 25, 2013 | event, news, video
Innovations in the payment industry are so widespread right now that Leo Rocco, our CEO and Founder, compares it to the credit card revolution a half century ago. It’s exciting to be in the company with others like LevelUp, Leaf, PayPal and ShopKeep; together, with GoPago LIVE, we are revolutionizing how business and customers interact and transact. Remember when we mentioned GoPago LIVE was nominated for the Best POS Transformation award at the 2013 PYMNTS.com Innovator Awards? Well, we took home the Bronze during the awards ceremony! PYMNTS.com is a real thought leader in this category who documents the revolution, facilitates discussions and just last week they brought together the biggest industry leaders for the Innovation Project 2013 and the Innovator Awards. Two of our innovators, Leo Rocco and David Herzog, VP of Partnerships and Alliances, attended the two day conference at Harvard University. While at the conference they had lunch with Rosie Rios, Treasurer of the United States. If you aren’t familiar with her, check your dollar bills. Another key (pun always intended) person in attendance was James Goodfellow, the man who invented the PIN in 1968. Some of the key learnings from the conference that we will take with us came from a panel with Don Kingsborough, VP of Retail and Prepaid Services for PayPal and Steve Levitt, author of Freakonomics. Kingsborough shared that open platforms win and ubiquity requires multi-pronged approaches, partnerships and collaboration. We feel fortunate to have such strong partnerships with JPMorgan Chase and Verizon Wireless as we work to make GoPago LIVE the leading cloud-based POS solution. The always thought-provoking economist, Steve Levitt, stated that people don’t change behavior unless you...
by Ronny | Mar 4, 2013 | event, San Francisco
There are a lot of things to put a spring in your step about the month of March: St. Patty’s Day, the beginning of Spring, International Earth Day and now an exclusive birthday party that we’re inviting you to! Lou’s Cafe is turning three and we’re inviting you to this birthday bash as our VIP guests. For four weeks, from now until March 23, 2013, a different Lou’s sandwich will be available for $4.99 exclusively on GoPago. On Lou’s actual birthday, March 19th, you can also get a free soda with your discounted Ami-Cado sandwich. The “Ami” comes from the pastrami and salami and the “Cado” is from avocado, talk about a party in your mouth. What’s the featured sandwich this week? The Veggie sandwich and we know what you’re thinking. But trust us, it isn’t Easter bunny food. It is a spring forward hearty sandwich with alfalfa sprouts, cucumber, avocado, tomato, roasted red peppers, pepperoncinis, swiss cheese and Lou’s special sauce on a 9-grain roll. With Spring just around the corner, a Lou’s sandwich is the perfect necessity for a day in the park. Make sure to GoPago and partake in the month-long special to get a very special sandwiches at a discount....
by Ronny | Mar 4, 2013 | event, San Francisco
There are a lot of things to put a spring in your step about the month of March: St. Patty’s Day, the beginning of Spring, International Earth Day and now an exclusive birthday party that we’re inviting you to! Lou’s Cafe is turning three and we’re inviting you to this birthday bash as our VIP guests. For four weeks, from now until March 23, 2013, a different Lou’s sandwich will be available for $4.99 exclusively on GoPago. On Lou’s actual birthday, March 19th, you can also get a free soda with your discounted Ami-Cado sandwich. The “Ami” comes from the pastrami and salami and the “Cado” is from avocado, talk about a party in your mouth. What’s the featured sandwich this week? The Veggie sandwich and we know what you’re thinking. But trust us, it isn’t Easter bunny food. It is a spring forward hearty sandwich with alfalfa sprouts, cucumber, avocado, tomato, roasted red peppers, pepperoncinis, swiss cheese and Lou’s special sauce on a 9-grain roll. With Spring just around the corner, a Lou’s sandwich is the perfect necessity for a day in the park. Make sure to GoPago and partake in the month-long special to get a very special sandwiches at a discount....
by Ronny | Feb 28, 2013 | event
Taking a dinosaur age cash register and transforming it into a sleek revolutionary GoPago LIVE system is something we take great pride in. We are extremely excited to announce that our POS innovation is being recognized by a thought leader in the industry. We are a finalist for the 2013 PYMNTS.com Innovator Awards in the Best POS Transformation category! The transformative before and after shots we have seen are on par with any extreme makeover. Imagine a business that uses a telephone, fax machine, calculator, credit card machine and cash box to accept payments. We’ve got all of the capability of numerous partial solutions, plus mobile ordering and reporting capabilities. Giving business owners the power to modernize is what makes work us so hard to provide the best technology and customer service in the industry. With your help, we can show the rest of the industry everything GoPago can do. Submit your vote and let’s keep on transforming! ...
by Ronny | Feb 12, 2013 | event, San Francisco
Did you ever think to yourself, “I would definitely eat a burrito everyday if they were less than $6 each”? Well, you stumbled upon the right blog post! 360 Gourmet Burritos at Crocker Galleria is giving you the opportunity to stuff your face with multiple burritos. Get ready to travel around the world without leaving your comfy little apartment in San Francisco. 360 Gourmet Burrito Crocker Galleria is bringing you a different flavored $3.60 burrito everyday this week, exclusively on GoPago. Take your taste buds to places like Japan, Thailand or even India if you please. From now until this Saturday (2/16/2013), the Cajun, Chipotle, Curry, Teriyaki, and Thai burritos will all be available for $3.60 each on different days of the week Here’s the schedule: (TODAY) Tuesday, 2/12: Cajun burrito Wedneday, 2/13: Chipotle burrito Thursday, 2/14: Curry burrito (get one for your lover too!) Friday, 2/15: Thai burrito Saturday, 2/16: Teriyaki burrito Check out the “Specials” tab and get ordering, jet-setter! ...
by Ronny | Feb 11, 2013 | event, San Francisco
Roses are red, violets are blue, lemons are sour and so are you! Actually, we don’t know if you are bitter, but if you are, we have a cure that comes in the form of 30 truffles and a bouquet of fresh local flowers. Valentine’s Day is supposedly the day of sweethearts, that’s cute and all, but we want the funny. We believe that sourhearts are the source of great humor and we want to see it. Create your own sourheart (template below) and share it with us by posting it on our Facebook wall, or tagging us (@GoPago) on Instagram and/or Twitter with hashtag #Sourhearts. The winner will be chosen at 5 p.m. PST on Valentine’s Day and will receive a special Valentine’s bouquet from Not Just Flowers and 30-pieces of gourmet truffles in a heart box from Five Star Truffles. We also have exclusive deals to make your Valentine’s Day sweet and affordable. Not Just Flowers is offering the Valentine’s Mix Bouquet using only the freshest flowers from local green farms in Half Moon Bay and Napa for a discounted price of $40 through GoPago. This special is for pick-up only and does not include the vase. However, it does include the best things blooming that have been artfully arranged to make your Valentine’s heart beat a little faster. Five Star Truffles serves up a variety of gourmet truffles in unique flavors including earl grey, cayenne dark, banana, cognac to many more. You can order gift boxes including 20, 30, 40 or 80 piece truffles. Also, with any gift box order you get a free hot chocolate...
by Ronny | Feb 11, 2013 | event, San Francisco
Roses are red, violets are blue, lemons are sour and so are you! Actually, we don’t know if you are bitter, but if you are, we have a cure that comes in the form of 30 truffles and a bouquet of fresh local flowers. Valentine’s Day is supposedly the day of sweethearts, that’s cute and all, but we want the funny. We believe that sourhearts are the source of great humor and we want to see it. Create your own sourheart (template below) and share it with us by posting it on our Facebook wall, or tagging us (@GoPago) on Instagram and/or Twitter with hashtag #Sourhearts. The winner will be chosen at 5 p.m. PST on Valentine’s Day and will receive a special Valentine’s bouquet from Not Just Flowers and 30-pieces of gourmet truffles in a heart box from Five Star Truffles. We also have exclusive deals to make your Valentine’s Day sweet and affordable. Not Just Flowers is offering the Valentine’s Mix Bouquet using only the freshest flowers from local green farms in Half Moon Bay and Napa for a discounted price of $40 through GoPago. This special is for pick-up only and does not include the vase. However, it does include the best things blooming that have been artfully arranged to make your Valentine’s heart beat a little faster. Five Star Truffles serves up a variety of gourmet truffles in unique flavors including earl grey, cayenne dark, banana, cognac to many more. You can order gift boxes including 20, 30, 40 or 80 piece truffles. Also, with any gift box order you get a free hot chocolate...
by Ronny | Jan 31, 2013 | San Francisco
In honor of the Super Bowl, we are celebrating the winning streak of our beloved 49ers with a collection of 49ers Rolls. We don’t know when or where the first 49ers Roll was served (Quora couldn’t help), but we do know that we like everything with the Niners namesake. Each 49ers roll is slightly different but is brought together through a bundle of seaweed and rice and above all, salmon. Whether it is accompanied by crab, lemon, or mint, our chopsticks are eager to pounce. With 25 merchants on the GoPago network serving up these rolls of team pride yearlong, we are highlighting five rolls that will be offered to you at a discounted price until Super Bowl Sunday, allowing you to save time, money and try as many rolls as possible. Here is the team line-up: u-sushi, Tokyo Express (Sacramento, Mission and Stonestown locations), We Be Sushi (at 16th St.), Naked Fish and Sushi Rocks (Pine and Polk locations) ...
