qlub: Engineering and Growth Work for the UAE's Leading Pay-at-Table Platform

DataHifel works with qlub, the Dubai contactless payments and digital menu platform trusted by 3,000+ restaurants and hotels across 14 markets.

Client Overview

qlub (Fast Technology Services FZCO), Dubai, UAE

  • Industry: Fintech & Hospitality Technology
  • Service: Software Engineering, Marketing & Growth Tech
  • Timeline: Ongoing Engagement
  • Status: Ongoing engagement across 14 international markets

The Challenge

qlub lets diners scan a QR code, see the bill, split it and pay from their phone in seconds. It is the number one restaurant payment platform in the UAE, used by more than 3,000 restaurants, hotels and hospitality businesses across 14 markets including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Australia, Singapore and the United States, and holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for information security.

What We Built

DataHifel works alongside qlub's product and growth teams from Delhi, with working hours overlapped to Dubai. The engagement covers delivery and growth-technology work supporting a platform that processes payments at scale and onboards venues across multiple countries and languages.

What It Does

  • Instant QR code scanning, digital menu browsing, and bill splitting in seconds
  • High-throughput multi-currency payment processing at international scale
  • Cross-country internationalization supporting 14 regional markets and multi-lingual flows
  • Delivery work that fits within qlub’s own ISO/IEC 27001:2022 information-security programme
  • Seamless multi-channel venue onboarding workflows

How We Worked

- Daily overlap window with the Dubai team, so decisions do not wait overnight - Work tracked in qlub's own tools and repositories; they own every line of code - Release discipline matched to a payments product: nothing ships without review, staging and a rollback plan

Stack

React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, QR Payments Engine, Growth Tech

Results

  • Trusted by 3,000+ restaurants and hotels across 14 global markets
  • Seamless daily engineering delivery with full time-zone alignment
  • qlub owns every line of code, kept in its own repositories

What This Shows

A Delhi engineering team can operate as part of a Gulf fintech's core team when the time zones, tooling and release standards are set up correctly from day one. This is the model we bring to every GCC engagement.