Payments that power every shared ride and food order
In the world’s fastest-growing cities, mobility never pauses. Riders pay with whatever’s native to their market—Pix, mobile money, eWallets, cash. Couriers expect to be paid when a delivery ends. Restaurants and drivers rely on payouts to keep their day moving. When your payment infrastructure adapts to these rhythms, every trip and every order becomes a smoother part of the city’s flow.
Explore how we help Ride-hailing & Food Delivery companies thrive in emerging markets
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Ride Hailing
Simplify transactions for your ride-hailing platform with real-time payments and support for diverse payment methods.
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Food Delivery
Improve your food delivery operations with seamless payment solutions for quick, secure, and accurate order payments.
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The challenge
The pressure points behind every tap
Emerging markets bring incredible momentum and their own kind of complexity. Payments become a defining part of the experience for riders, customers, drivers, couriers, and restaurants. Common friction points include:
- Surge moments that strain payment performance (commute hours, dinner rush)
- Small, high-frequency transactions spread across multiple payment methods and currencies
- Cash-heavy or mobile-money-first user bases, depending on the city
- Instant payout expectations for drivers, couriers, and restaurants
- Local rails that vary widely in reliability and adoption
- Refund pressure when trips cancel, or orders change
- FX exposure when settling cross-border
- Fraud models that change quickly, especially in dense urban markets
Built for the speed of shared rides and deliveries
Access a payment infrastructure designed for mobility in emerging markets. Local-to-local acquiring improves approval rates in economies where alternative payment methods dominate. Real-time payouts keep drivers, couriers, and restaurants active. Smart Routing adapts to city-level performance, while compliance evolves with market regulations.
Through one API, mobility platforms can access 900+ local and alternative payment methods for payins and payouts—built for the speed and complexity of daily movement.
Build local, shine globalPowering payments for mobility leaders
dLocal solutions for ride-hailing and food delivery
A complete payment infrastructure designed to support every part of mobility flows across emerging markets
Payins: Offer your emerging market shoppers a seamless and secure payment experience.
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Payouts: Pay your sellers/stakeholders in the method and currency of their choice and streamline your payouts process.
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Defense Suite: Identify and mitigate fraudulent transactions with real-time monitoring.
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dLocal for Platforms: Unify your platform’s payment solution
Learn more about dLocal for PlatformsMade for platforms running at full speed
One API to keep your platform running. We handle payment complexity for high-traffic mobility businesses, improving approvals for small-ticket rides and food orders through local acquiring.
Drivers and couriers get paid in real time, helping them stay active. Tokenized payments make repeat trips easier, while access to 900+ local payment methods—from Pix and UPI to mobile money and SuperApps, helps improve conversion in mobile-first markets. Compliance, reconciliation, and real-time reporting are built in, so you can operate at scale across 40+ emerging markets.
dLocal’s coverage
dLocal launched in 2016 to connect global merchants with emerging market consumers and has since expanded to serve over 40 markets, adding more countries and payment methods based on merchant needs.
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40+
Countries
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900+
Local Payment Methods
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700+
Merchants
By ensuring instant access to funds and a reliable payment infrastructure, we are reaffirming our commitment to deliver qualitative service to our drivers, empowering them to thrive in their work.
A full stack of streamlined payments
Explore payment optionsLocal payment methods that keep rides moving and checkouts completed
Explore how we help Ride-hailing & Food Delivery companies thrive in emerging markets
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Ride Hailing
Simplify transactions for your ride-hailing platform with real-time payments and support for diverse payment methods.
Learn more -
Food Delivery
Improve your food delivery operations with seamless payment solutions for quick, secure, and accurate order payments.
Learn more
