Freecharge and foodpanda collaborates to offer digital payment option

Freecharge, India’s digital payments platform, has partnered with foodpanda, the food ordering and delivery platform, to offer swift and secure digital payment option to food lovers. Foodpanda customers across over 200 cities can now seamlessly pay for their food orders in less than 10 seconds using Freecharge as their digital wallet. Through this partnership Freecharge will enable over 10 million foodpanda customers to adopt digital wallet.

Speaking on the partnership, Sudeep Tandon, Chief Business Officer, Freecharge, said, “We are pleased to partner with India’s most popular food ordering platform foodpanda. Through this partnership, we will be able to offer our fast and secure digital payment expertise to the large customer base of foodpanda and gain wider acceptance as a payment option. At Freecharge, we aim to make every mundane transaction delightful for our customers, and integrating the Freecharge wallet on foodpanda is a perfect way to make customer’s payment experience frictionless and convenient. 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, Saurabh Kochhar – CEO, foodpanda said, “We're delighted to have partnered with Freecharge. The strategic partnership will allow us to offer an excellent and fuss free payment experience to our customers. With this association, we share a common goal of keeping a swift, clean and convenient experience at the fore front for our millions of users. We are hopeful that this endeavor is aligned to collectively help us transform and uplift the customer satisfaction through an effective utilization of technology.”

Foodpanda reaches out to over 10 million customers every month and has a restaurant partner network which is over 12000 strong.

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.