Zomato joins hands with Freecharge

NEW DELHI: India’s digital payments platform Freecharge has partnered with restaurant search and discovery platform Zomato to offer swift and secure digital payment option to food lovers.

Customers across 10 cities can now seamlessly pay for their Online Food orders, in less than 10 seconds using the Freecharge digital wallet - across all the platforms on Zomato. Through this partnership Freecharge will enable thousands of consumers who place an average of 32,000 orders a day, across over 11,000 restaurants on Zomato, to adopt digital wallet.

Speaking on the partnership, Sudeep Tandon, Chief Business Officer, Freecharge, said, “ We will continue to offer new avenues to our patrons to help them realise the need to go cashless for their daily payments.”

Talking about the partnership, Mukund Kulashekaran, Business Head, Online Ordering, Zomato said, “With online payments gaining a larger share of the overall transactions - we are excited to partner with Freecharge wallet, one of the leading wallet providers in the country, as an online payment option for our users, and look forward to a long term association with them.”

Zomato’s food ordering business has crossed the 1-million-order-a-month mark and customers across Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, and Jaipur leverage their services.

Freecharge’s endeavour is to influence the daily payment habits of consumers and offer an assortment of merchants to help them move away from cash. Through such associations, Freecharge is further winning the customer’s trust with 99% transaction success rate and is strengthening its partner ecosystem and expanding its footprint in F&B sector.