On July 31, 2026, the Popl pricing page did not publish prices. It describes what is included, says pricing is customised to your needs with uncapped usage, and asks you to book a consultation. The company explains this as making sure the product fits before quoting.
That is a legitimate way to sell enterprise software. It is also a full stop for a large number of people who search for a digital card product in India, because a shop owner or a five person firm is not going to sit through a discovery call to find out whether something costs more than a thousand rupees a month.
What Popl is actually built for
Read the page and the shape of the product is clear. It is aimed at companies that do events at scale.
- • Unlimited events and conferences, with campaigns and qualifying questions per event.
- • A badge scanner for conference badges, not just paper cards.
- • Contact and company data enrichment.
- • CRM and calendar integrations, and enterprise security certification.
- • Dedicated onboarding and a named customer success contact.
If your company runs a booth at six exhibitions a year and measures leads per event, this is a serious product and the sales call is a reasonable price to pay. This article is not arguing otherwise.
Why published pricing matters to a smaller buyer
For a small Indian business the calculation is different, and it is not only about the money.
- 1. You cannot compare. Three products with prices and one without means the one without gets dropped from the shortlist.
- 2. A call costs an hour you do not have, and it is a commitment you did not want to make yet.
- 3. A custom quote is a quote for you specifically, which makes it hard to know whether it is a good one.
- 4. Annual enterprise contracts do not fit a business whose good and bad months differ by half.
- 5. Currency. A dollar contract with a rupee income is a risk you carry, not the vendor.
A published price is a product saying it does not need to know your budget before it tells you the cost. That is worth something on its own.
Alternatives that publish a number
All figures below were read off each company own pricing page on July 31, 2026, and all are in US dollars unless stated.
| Blinq | Free with two cards. Premium $9.99 a month, or $7.33 a month billed annually, for up to five cards. Business $6.99 per card a month, or $4.99 billed annually, minimum five team cards. |
|---|---|
| HiHello | Free with four cards and five scans a month. Professional $6 a month or $72 a year. Business $5 per user a month or $60 per user a year, for 5 to 100 users. |
| Uniqode | Free for a first card. Team $6 per user a month billed annually. The page states there are no monthly plans. |
| Mobilo | Buy hardware first. Sale prices on 31 July 2026 were $5.00 branded, $10.00 custom, $15.00 wood and $20.00 metal, against regular prices of $19.99, $39, $59 and $139. Each includes 90 days of Pro. Pro is $3.00 a month after that. |
| Ahoyy | Free card, free QR code, free WhatsApp sharing. ₹299 and ₹799 a month for directory reveal plans, plus a ₹199 top up for 25 reveals. Billed in rupees. |
Every number on our pricing page is public, in rupees, and you can start without talking to anyone.
See Ahoyy pricingIf you do want the event lead capture workflow
Be honest with yourself about whether you need it. Event lead capture is a genuine specialism and the cheaper products do not replace it. Ask three questions.
- • How many exhibitions do you actually do in a year. If the answer is one, this is not the tool.
- • Does anybody in your company look at lead data after the event. If not, capturing it better changes nothing.
- • Do you have a CRM that somebody keeps up to date. Integrations are only worth paying for if the thing they integrate with is alive.
If all three answers are yes, take the sales call. If any of them is no, a simpler product and a shared enquiry inbox will do the same job for a fraction of the effort.
A shared inbox is worth explaining, because it is what most teams actually need when they think they need lead capture. It means an enquiry arrives somewhere a second person can see, and a manager can hand it to somebody. That single change fixes the commonest hole in Indian field sales, which is a lead that lived and died inside one person phone.
Everything past that point is refinement. Enrichment, scoring, campaign tagging and CRM sync are real features and they matter at a certain size. Below that size they are things nobody looks at.
What to ask any vendor who will not publish a price
If you do take the call, go in with your own numbers so the conversation is about your situation rather than theirs.
- 1. How many seats you need this year, and what happens to the price when somebody leaves.
- 2. Whether the contract is annual, and whether it renews automatically.
- 3. What currency you are billed in, and whether a rupee invoice with a GSTIN is possible.
- 4. What you can export if you stop, and in what format.
- 5. What happens to the QR codes you have already printed if the account closes.
The last one catches people out with every vendor in this category, not just this one. Ask it early.
The short version
Popl is an events and lead capture product sold through a sales conversation. If that is your world, it is worth the call.
If you want to see a price, start the same afternoon, and pay in rupees, look at a product that publishes its numbers. Ahoyy does, and it is newer and smaller than Popl, which is a trade off you should weigh openly rather than have us hide.