Olo Announces Partnership with FreedomPay and Deeper Collaboration with Stripe to Accelerate Adoption of In-store Payments for Enterprise Restaurants
05 February 2025 - 1:00AM
Business Wire
Olo Pay expands in-store capabilities to give
more brands access to unified transaction data
Olo (NYSE:OLO), a leading restaurant technology provider,
announced a new partnership with FreedomPay, an innovative leader
in Next Level Commerce™ technologies, to improve restaurant payment
experiences nationwide. The partnership also deepens Olo’s
relationship with Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for
businesses, which will include in-person transaction processing.
Olo Pay launched with Stripe as its original partner for digital
payments in 2022, and the partnership will now be updated for an
omnichannel world providing restaurants with a truly unified
solution.
This collaboration will accelerate Olo’s ability to process more
card-present transactions by leveraging FreedomPay's payment
gateway, which is processor-agnostic and already integrated with
over 1,000 Point of Sale (POS) and payment systems. Olo Pay can now
use Stripe’s payment processing on in-person POS transactions for
the majority of its 700+ customers, extending the
restaurant-centric benefits customers appreciate about Olo Pay’s
digital payments.
By integrating Olo Pay with FreedomPay's Commerce Platform, Olo
will be able to offer enterprise brands choice in how they
integrate in-store payment processing with Olo: either directly
through one of Olo Pay Card-Present partnerships announced in 2024
or through FreedomPay. Like the POS partnerships, integrating
FreedomPay and Stripe will enable brands to integrate Olo Pay’s
Card-Present solution with Olo Engage, the company’s guest
engagement suite. Aggregating both digital and in-store
transactions into a single guest data profile will create
opportunities for more personalized guest experiences and
data-driven decision-making.
"Currently, about 18% of restaurant transactions are digital,”
said Noah Glass, Founder & CEO of Olo. “By processing the
remaining 82% of on-premise transactions, we're uniquely positioned
to provide restaurants with a 360-degree view of their guests by
combining the newly captured in-store data with the digital order
data they already have from our online ordering. This visibility
will allow restaurants to better personalize interactions, making
every guest feel like a regular and driving superior
hospitality.”
In addition, this integration provides current Olo Pay
Card-Not-Present customers additional benefits:
- Consolidates payment processing with a single provider
- Eliminates reconciliation, reporting, and refund challenges due
to multiple processors
- Improves omnichannel tracking of guest purchasing history
- Enhances loyalty program and cross-channel promotion
effectiveness
"By combining FreedomPay's Next Level Commerce™ platform with
Olo's innovative payment solution purpose-built for restaurants,
we're creating a unified, secure, and seamless checkout experience
that will drive digital transformation," said Chris Kronenthal,
President of FreedomPay. “Our work with Olo Pay will help unify the
digital and in-store payment experience, improving reporting and
providing restaurants with clearer insights for better
decision-making.”
This partnership represents a step forward in Olo's strategy to
streamline commerce across all ordering channels, offering
restaurants more flexibility, efficiency, and guest engagement
capabilities to drive the industry toward a more personalized
future. To learn more about Olo Pay, visit
https://www.olo.com/pay.
About Olo
Olo (NYSE: OLO) is a leading restaurant technology provider with
ordering, payment, and guest engagement solutions that help brands
increase orders, streamline operations, and improve the guest
experience. Each day, Olo processes millions of orders on its open
SaaS platform, gathering the right data from each touchpoint into a
single source—so restaurants can better understand and better serve
every guest on every channel, every time. Over 700 restaurant
brands trust Olo and its network of more than 400 integration
partners to innovate on behalf of the restaurant community,
accelerating technology’s positive impact and creating a world
where every restaurant guest feels like a regular. Learn more at
olo.com.
About FreedomPay
FreedomPay’s Next Level Commerce™ platform transforms existing
payment systems and processes from legacy to leading edge and
enables merchants to unleash the power of pay. As the premier
choice for many of the largest companies across the globe in
retail, hospitality, lodging, gaming, sports and entertainment,
foodservice, education, healthcare and financial services,
FreedomPay’s technology has been purposely built to deliver rock
solid performance in the highly complex environment of global
commerce.
The company maintains a world-class security environment and was
one of the first payment solution providers in North America to be
validated by the PCI Security Standards Council. FreedomPay’s
robust solutions across payments, security, identity, and data
analytics are available in-store, online and on-mobile and are
supported by rapid API adoption. The award winning FreedomPay
Commerce Platform operates on a single, unified technology stack
across multiple continents allowing enterprises to deliver an
innovative Next Level experience on a global scale. Learn more at
www.freedompay.com
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