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Overview

What is Olo?

Olo in New York provides an on-demand interface for the restaurant industry, designed to drive digital ordering and delivery for restaurant brands.

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Olo has become a valuable tool for restaurant brands, offering seamless online ordering and payment options. Users have praised Olo for …
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OLO review.

8 out of 10
December 08, 2022
Incentivized
We use OLO to accept and manage online orders for our restaurants. The only issue I have with OLO is the credit card chargebacks. We have …
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Olo for the win!

10 out of 10
December 01, 2022
Incentivized
Olo assists me in daily averages, sales, and processing refunds for guests which can become complex if they have not ordered through our …
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Olo for the win!

8 out of 10
December 01, 2022
Incentivized
Olo is used as the platform for our online orders including 3rd party orders. It allows us to increase sales through online ordering.
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What is Olo?

Olo in New York provides an on-demand interface for the restaurant industry, designed to drive digital ordering and delivery for restaurant brands.

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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What is Square POS?

Square POS is a point-of-sale software solution with features such as accept credit cards with your iPhone, Android, and iPad along with the flexibility to accept credit card payments anywhere, from Square headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Product Details

What is Olo?

2M+ orders per day run on Olo’s enterprise SaaS engine, enabling brands to maximize the convergence of digital and brick-and-mortar operations by capturing demand and managing guest orders from every channel. With integrations to 100+ technology partners, Olo boasts a large and flexible restaurant commerce ecosystem where brands can build a digital experience. The vendor states that currently over 500 restaurant brands use Olo to grow digital sales, become more profitable, and preserve direct guest relationships.

Olo Features

  • Supported: Food Delivery Management
  • Supported: Restaurant Payment Solution (Olo Pay)
  • Supported: Online Ordering

Olo Screenshots

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Olo Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesUnited States of America, Canada
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Olo in New York provides an on-demand interface for the restaurant industry, designed to drive digital ordering and delivery for restaurant brands.

ChowNow, Toast Point of Sale, and Aloha Cloud are common alternatives for Olo.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.5.

The most common users of Olo are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Olo has become a valuable tool for restaurant brands, offering seamless online ordering and payment options. Users have praised Olo for its ease of use and ability to enhance the customer experience by providing timely pick-up options. The Olo Dashboard allows operators to manage all online ordering channels through one merchant portal, streamlining the order-taking process. With Olo Tablet and Expo software, operators can conveniently integrate their own point-of-sale systems, eliminating the need for separate tablets for each third-party delivery service. Furthermore, Olo's integration with third-party delivery companies bridges the gap and simplifies order acceptance and communication with merchants.

Olo also serves as an effective solution for managing orders across multiple locations, enabling order tracking, early firing of orders, refunds, and order throttling. For restaurant franchises, Olo Daily is an invaluable tool for tracking sales and ensuring operational accuracy across various units. Users have found Olo Rails to be a time-saving feature that seamlessly integrates third-party delivery platforms into the point-of-sale system, improving efficiency and accuracy. Additionally, Olo Pay simplifies payment processing for first-party orders and facilitates tasks like refunds.

The versatility of Olo extends beyond traditional online ordering; it also caters to additional needs such as mealtime ordering, catering services, and mobile teams. Users have found Olo Dispatch to be particularly useful in providing delivery options for customers while facilitating order tracking. Whether it's managing menus, implementing integrated concept kitchens, or troubleshooting any issues that may arise, Olo has established itself as a reliable platform for streamlining operations and enhancing sales in the fast-paced restaurant industry.

However, some users have encountered occasional disconnections and have expressed dissatisfaction with the user-friendliness of troubleshooting emails from Olo. There have been limitations noted in transferring orders to other locations within the same area. Some users have also reported issues with credit card chargebacks and concerns regarding Olo's security measures in detecting fraudulent activity. Nevertheless, overall, Olo has garnered favor among restaurant brands and operators for its ability to consolidate online ordering, simplify payment processes, and provide valuable insights into customer behavior.

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Olo to integrate our third-party delivery services for takeout. Olo is used to integrate Aloha, our POS system, Uber, DoorDash, Postmates and GrubHub for Online Ordering. Olo also helps us manage how many orders we can accept based on the number of items ordered as well as allow us to communicate with our third-party delivery merchants on items that are unavailable.
December 08, 2022

OLO review.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use OLO to accept and manage online orders for our restaurants. The only issue I have with OLO is the credit card chargebacks. We have multiple chargebacks, and OLO security does not do a very good job of stopping users from using multiple cards even when they are using the same name, address, and or phone number that has been flagged as fraudulent by us.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Olo as the nexus of all of our digital ordering across native and third-party platforms. Olo allows us to manage all external ordering contacts under a single plane of glass and allows us to push out changes such as menu changes, hour changes, and location availability to all platforms. It also allows us to manage multiple locations in one shot. Olo Pay allows us to also integrate the payment processing aspect of our first-party orders into the same platform making things like refunds even easier.
December 01, 2022

Olo for the win!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Olo assists me in daily averages, sales, and processing refunds for guests which can become complex if they have not ordered through our online service. Olo provide assistance with being able to process a refund outside of that. I typically use Olo daily and all day long. It provides insight into aspects of guests that I wouldn’t typically have which I find fascinating. Olo has become one of my favorite things to look forward to when resolving an issue.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We work primarily with Olo using the platform for online delivery, pickup, curbside and catering orders. I primarily work with the menus and implementation of integrated concept kitchens and their interaction with the POS systems at the locations. I maintain and troubleshoot when there are issues with menus and pricing discrepancies as well as maintain user access.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For our restaurants, Olo is used as our online ordering platform for our guests to place online orders for pickup orders and caterings. Now that it is integrated with our POS system, it makes things much easier for our guests to place their orders, have them pre-paid, and also already accounted for in our sales.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I oversee OLO on its entirety. From Menu to integrations, to new additions and updates.
For us, is more of updated on issues OLO needs to resolve, even thought they are few of these issues there is urgency on our end especially from the POS communication to OLO.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to taking orders from guests. It gives us a centralized system to combine all orders from all different carriers into one page. Some problems we have encountered are when it disconnects for its own reason. Also, the emails sent to us from OLO are not user-reader friendly. It is hard to figure out the problem from the email.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I own a restaurant and decided to try a Virtual Kitchen concept. The concept sent me a tablet with olo on it to use. We use it to get orders. The only problem is that I believe the company that does the Virtual Concept has limited our access to all of olo's service. In my experience, I can't change hours, menu, prices. I am aware of this and it has not effected my rating of Olo. The reason I only gave Olo a 6 is just trying to close my restaurant if there's an emergency is way to hard. Why can we not just do it on the tablet? Why does the tablet constantly need to be rebooted? Why does the tablet not update 100% of the time. Why will the tablet not stay on after and hour or so even though I allowed Olo permissions and control over turning the tablet on / off or putting it into sleep. Olo needs work. Olo needs a lot of work and is going to be left behind while all these POS companies start integrating online services. Do better or you will not be around in the future.
Ryan Swallow | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Olo to route pick-up and delivery orders to 15 locations. It allows us to track orders, fire orders early, issue refunds, throttle the speed orders come in, and turn off Olo orders when staffing or other restrictions require it.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
To managers are caterings and online orders. Problems are when we have to enter orders as a guest instead of store level. Tax-exempt, we have to enter, and it would be nice if the guest could enter instead. Also, they can't pay for it until they come to the restaurant.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Olo to manage our Online Ordering platform. It seamlessly allows guests to place and pay for online orders and automatically sends those orders to be made in a specific amount of time. It solves the issue of many guests placing orders via phone and being able to pay before arriving at the restaurant.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
OLO is used as our Online Ordering provider and integrated into Third Party delivery companies. It helps bridge the gap that previously we were unable to fill. We have also been partners with OLO For a very long time.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At LFR Chicken LLC, we utilize Olo as our middleware for mobile apps with loyalty and online ordering solution for delivery service providers. I find it helpful to manage all online ordering channels directly through one merchant portal on Olo Dashboard. Our brand has a disjointed POS system, with only about 50 percent of our stores on the same integrated POS system. However, the Olo Tablet and Expo software have been handy for operators still using their own POS.
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