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Toast Inc. announced early Tuesday it is partnering with online grocery-delivery and-pickup service Instacart to connect restaurants to the Instacart Marketplace, an aggregator of food and beverage suppliers. The move will enable food-and-beverage retailers on the Toast platform to align their product catalog with in-store stock and provide restaurants with a real-time solution for last-minute orders, Toast says.
In addition, Toast will make Instacart Business available to its restaurant customers. Access to Instacart Business will enable Toast’s restaurant customers to order fresh produce and pantry staples for same-day delivery, usually within an hour. Instacart Business is a procurement platform within the Instacart app for small businesses, offices, restaurants, and coffee shops in the United States and Canada.
Restaurants will also be able to leverage Instacart Business offers, such as Instacart+ subscriptions, which allow businesses to share their subscriptions across team members and earn cash back on orders. Toast’s SmartScan for barcode optimization, together with Instacart’s enhanced catalog attribution workflows, will also help Toast retailers become e-commerce ready by simplifying the process of adding new items to their Instacart storefront, Toast says.
Toast plans to roll out the new services to its U.S. clients later this year.
“We’re enabling our retail and restaurant customers to tap into North America’s largest grocery delivery marketplaces—right from the Toast platform—giving our customers a powerful way to help grow their revenue streams and manage their businesses more efficiently,” says Toast Co-founder and President Steve Fredette, in a statement.
In related news, POS terminal maker Ingenico has launched the next-generation of its AXIUM devices and Ingenico 360, a cloud-based payments platform. The new AXIUM terminals support mobile, countertop, multilane, self-service, PIN pad, and SoftPOS form factors. The terminals are PCI PTS v7 certified and run the Android 14 operating system to ensure PCI compliance and security.
Ingenico’s 360 platform integrates device management, transaction services, POS connectivity, applications, merchant tools, data and analytics, digital receipts, and developer capabilities through a single platform. The platform also provides real-time monitoring, analytics, and remote-management capabilities. The platform is live in Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific region.
“AXIUM and Ingenico 360 were designed together as a single platform,” Erik Vlugt, chief product officer for Ingenico says in a statement. “With the next-generation AXIUM family, we deliver a unified, AI-ready payment foundation with shared certifications, upgrade paths, and extended capabilities.” Combined, the two technologies “enable our customers to scale globally, innovate faster, and launch new services without increasing operational complexity,” Vlugt says.
