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Totem

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B2B office-snack delivery refining its order-flow ergonomics for hybrid-work realities.

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Current state
Totem is a France-based office-snack and grocery delivery service whose most recent visible product work centers on order flexibility for office managers — adjustment windows up to J-2 / J-3, holiday pause buttons, one-click reorder, and a quantity-per-headcount generator. The catalogue side is healthy with regular drops of new snacks and drinks. The product reads as a B2B SaaS supplemented by curated supply, not a pure marketplace.
Where it's heading
Product investment is going into reducing the friction of weekly snack ordering for the people who run office logistics — fewer fields to fill, more forgiveness on cutoffs, fewer orphan UI elements. The available changelog window is narrow and dated, so the longer arc is harder to read; what is visible is consistent steady-state polish of an established workflow rather than directional change.
Prediction
Available entries don't support a confident roadmap call. Continued ordering-flow polish and seasonal catalogue refreshes are the safe expectations; anything beyond that — international expansion, ESG/local-sourcing positioning, integrations with workplace platforms — would be speculation given the data on hand.

Recent moves

  1. 4y ago

    📣 Ajustez vos commandes jusqu’à J-2 !

    Order adjustment window extended to J-2 (two business days before delivery), giving office managers more leeway to accommodate last-minute headcount changes. Continues the pattern of removing rigidity from a weekly-cadence ordering flow.

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  2. 4y ago

    📣 Ajustez vos commandes jusqu’à J-2 !

    Identical announcement to the prior entry — same J-2 adjustment-window content republished. No new substance; this looks like a duplicate feed entry rather than a follow-up release.

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  3. 5y ago

    👉 Se préparer aux jours fériés l'esprit léger !

    A pause-orders feature for French public holidays: customers can suspend recurring orders with an estimated return date and a reason, helping Totem forecast inventory for the resumption. Solves a recurring annual pain in French office calendars where ponts (long weekends) disrupt routine deliveries.

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  4. 5y ago

    🤓 Nous vous avons entendus !

    One-click duplicate for any past order, including swapping a duplicated order in to replace a recurring one. Removes the most-requested workflow gap from the dashboard — recreating known-good orders without retyping a basket.

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  5. 5y ago

    🧹Ménage de printemps 🧹 Bon vent fil d'actualité et score TOTEM !

    UI cleanup release: home feed, activity stream, and the gamified Totem score (Bébé/Indien/Shaman tiers) are all retired in favour of a more direct path to the dashboard after login. Reads as a deliberate move away from consumer-app gamification toward a leaner B2B workflow.

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  6. 5y ago

    ✨ Un peu de magie et une commande simplifiée !

    A quantity generator that takes headcount and portions-per-person-per-week and pre-fills the basket, plus a per-item lock so manual tweaks don't blow up the auto-suggested quantities. Reduces the cognitive load of weekly snack ordering for office managers who don't want to think about ratios.

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