The Crubby tech stack

Built on technology you can rely on.

Stripe for payments, EU-based Supabase for your data, Cloudinary for photos, native Apple Pay and Google Pay. No hardware lock-in, no surprises.

Payments

Crubby Pay processes cards with PCI-DSS security, so you never have to handle sensitive data. Funds land straight in your bank account.

Stripe Connect

Stripe

PCI-DSS Level 1 certified payments platform. Accepts credit, debit and prepaid cards plus mobile wallets.

For you: Customers pay at the table via the QR code. Funds go straight to your IBAN (minus the Stripe fee). You never see card numbers.

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Apple Pay

Apple

Native payment on iPhone/Apple Watch via Touch ID or Face ID. No app to install.

For you: Customer opens the QR, taps "Pay", authenticates with Face ID. A 4-second experience start to finish, +30% checkout conversion.

Google Pay

Google

The Android equivalent of Apple Pay. Biometric or PIN authentication, on by default on every modern Android phone.

For you: The same experience as Apple Pay for 55% of smartphones in Italy. Zero friction.

Infrastructure

The European and global cloud services Crubby runs on. All GDPR-compliant, with enterprise SLAs.

Supabase

Supabase Inc.

Managed Postgres database + Auth. eu-central-1 region (Frankfurt) for European data residency.

For you: Your customer, order and billing data stays in the EU. Daily automatic backups, 7-day point-in-time recovery.

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Cloudinary

Cloudinary Ltd.

Global image CDN with on-the-fly transformations: resizing, format conversion (WebP/AVIF), automatic quality.

For you: Dish photos weigh a quarter of the original but look identical. Instant screen loading even on slow WiFi.

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Vercel

Vercel Inc.

Global edge-network hosting for Next.js. Auto-scaling, a preview deploy for every change.

For you: When a customer opens the QR in Rome, the page is served from an edge node in Milan. Under 50ms latency.

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Resend

Resend

API-first transactional email service. Welcome, payment-failed, team invites, password resets.

For you: Emails from "noreply@crubby.com" land in the inbox (not spam). Delivery logging plus automatic retry.

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Compatible hardware

Crubby runs on the hardware you already own: Android TVs, mini-PCs, tablets. No proprietary lock-in.

Smart TV Android

Samsung / LG / TCL / Hisense / Sony

The OS's native browser opens the Crubby player URL. Automatic updates, no app to install.

For you: Already have an Android TV from the electronics store? Crubby runs on it. No extra hardware investment.

Chromecast

Google

A €40 HDMI dongle that turns any non-smart TV into a Crubby-compatible display.

For you: Got an old TV with an HDMI input? Add a Chromecast and it becomes a handy menu display.

iPad / tablet Android per POS

Apple / Samsung

The Crubby Pay admin works in any modern tablet browser: take orders, the table bill, kitchen KDS.

For you: No proprietary fixed register — the tablet is your POS. If it breaks, you buy another for €300.

Stampanti termiche ESC/POS

Epson / Star Micronics

An intermediate print server to print kitchen tickets and courtesy receipts (non-fiscal).

For you: Compatible with industry-standard printers. Your current Epson TM-m30 works out of the box.

Analytics & monitoring

Services that help us understand how you're using Crubby and step in before you notice a problem.

PostHog

PostHog Inc.

Self-hostable, privacy-first product analytics, no advertising cookie tracking. EU instance.

For you: We learn which features you really use and which you don't, so we build what matters. Zero personal data sold to third parties.

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Sentry

Sentry

Automatic error tracking. If the app crashes, we get an alert with the stack trace before you call.

For you: Average response time to a critical bug under 30 minutes, because we see it before you open a ticket.

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AI (Premium)

Premium plan only. Assisted generation of dish descriptions, translations, and food-photography enhancement.

OpenAI GPT-4

OpenAI

Generative model for text: engaging dish descriptions, IT→EN→ES→DE translations, pairing suggestions.

For you: Got 200 dishes with no description? Generate the drafts in 5 minutes and refine them yourself. Savings: 8 hours of copywriting.

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Anthropic Claude

Anthropic

An alternative model focused on long-form. Ideal for wine-label descriptions and product provenance.

For you: For anyone with a serious wine list or cellar — deeper storytelling, accurate citations.

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