Food Delivery

Food delivery payments built to keep orders moving

Customers expect quick ordering. Restaurants expect predictable payouts. Couriers expect immediate access to earnings. And during peak hours, every second matters. Behind each expectation is a payment flow that spans markets, currencies, and local methods. With the right system in place, you can support all three without disruption.

Make every order count

Food delivery payments built to keep orders moving

The challenge

Clearing payment challenges off the service line

Payments in the food delivery ecosystem come with their own unique challenges that can affect the customer, courier, and restaurant experience. A successful journey means addressing critical challenges head-on:

Managing high-volume, small-value transactions across multiple markets and currencies
Preventing fraud while ensuring fast, frictionless customer payments
Handling real-time payouts to restaurants and couriers with multiple settlement methods
Supporting local payment methods, from Boleto in Brazil and SPEI in Mexico to PayNow in Singapore
Ensuring compliance with new regulations across emerging markets
Processing fast refunds for canceled or incorrect orders
Supporting peak-hour spikes without payment failures

Payments built for the rhythm of food delivery

Food delivery platforms operate under constant load. Clean, reliable payment flows—from the customer's first tap to fast payouts for restaurants and couriers—have a direct impact on your platform.

Our solution supports this with an end-to-end setup that brings payins, payouts, Smart Routing, and fraud prevention into a single API. Transactions run on local rails and align with customers' preferred ways to pay, while automated compliance and real-time settlement keep your operations aligned across emerging markets.

Get your payments ready

Powering payments for food delivery platforms

dLocal solutions for food delivery operations

Simplify how your platform accepts payins, manages payouts, and scales across markets with one API built for high-volume, on-demand delivery.

Payins: Accept local payment methods and boost conversion rates

With dynamic FX conversion, cross-border transactions, no transfer limits, and support for multiple alternative and instant payment methods, allow your customers in high-growth markets to pay how they know, and unlock new growth opportunities.

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Payouts: Pay your staff, customers, and partners in the currency of their choice.

No more stress: payments with a simple integration.

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dLocal for Platforms: Unify your platform’s payment solution

Allows global marketplaces and platforms to onboard users and accept, send, and split funds between multiple users throughout high-growth markets.

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Defense Suite: Manage fraud effectively

A comprehensive fraud management solution that allows global eCommerce companies to compliantly minimize financial loss and enhance customer reputation.

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A payment stack for global food delivery

Power your food delivery operations with payments built for real-world scale. Smart Routing keeps transactions on local rails to support strong approval rates, while fast payouts and simple onboarding help you expand into new markets.

Secure card data for returning customers with network tokenization, and support local payment preferences with access to 900+ local and alternative payment methods. Integrated compliance, automated reconciliation, and real-time reporting help keep operations consistent across 40+ emerging markets.

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