Deliverect and DataCandy connect restaurant ordering and loyalty

The commercial question is what happens after a restaurant wins an order. Connecting the transaction to a recognisable customer gives the operator a basis for encouraging the next visit, while making the ordering and loyalty suppliers more closely connected to that relationship.

Two businesses with different parts of the transaction

Deliverect connects digital ordering with restaurant operations. Its company history dates its founding to 2018, and its founding team is led by co-founder and CEO Zhong Xu. Its role is the movement of orders between sales channels and the systems used to fulfil them. [S02]

DataCandy supplies branded gift cards, loyalty programmes and customer engagement tools. It belongs to Paystone: DataCandy's privacy policy identifies the name as a trade name owned by Paystone, while the parent's corporate history records the acquisition. The business therefore sits within a wider payments and merchant-software group, rather than operating solely as a consumer gift card shop. [S03] [S04]

Its gift card offering includes physical reloadable cards and electronic gifts delivered by email. The published product description covers point-of-sale balance checks, adding value and in-store redemption. Those are capabilities of DataCandy's platform; they do not by themselves establish what each partner connection supports. [S05]

What the integration actually connects

The announced connection matches orders from branded websites, apps, kiosks and in-store points of sale with DataCandy loyalty profiles. It is intended to support consistent points earning and redemption and reduce manual reconciliation. Ben Jackson, DataCandy's vice-president of direct sales, and Don MacMillan, Deliverect's head of partnerships for North America, presented it as a way to strengthen

Deliverect announced a partnership with gift card and loyalty provider DataCandy on May 14, 2026, connecting restaurant-owned ordering channels to customer rewards. The integration was available to customers of both businesses at the announcement, with quick-service and larger restaurant groups its stated audience. [S01] The commercial question is what happens after a restaurant wins an order. Connecting the transaction to a recognisable customer gives the operator a basis for encouraging the next visit, while making the ordering and loyalty suppliers more closely connected to that relationship. Two businesses with different parts of the transaction Deliverect connects digital ordering with restaurant operations. Its company history dates its founding to 2018, and its founding team is led by co-founder and CEO Zhong Xu . Its role is the movement of orders between sales channels and the systems used to fulfil them. [S02] DataCandy supplies branded gift cards, loyalty programmes and customer engagement tools. It belongs to Paystone : DataCandy's privacy policy identifies the name as a trade name owned by Paystone, while the parent's corporate history records the acquisition. The business therefore sits within a wider payments and merchant-software group, rather than operating solely as a consumer gift card shop. [S03] [S04] Its gift card offering includes physical reloadable cards and electronic gifts delivered by email. The published product description covers point-of-sale balance checks, adding value and in-store redemption. Those are capabilities of DataCandy's platform; they do not by themselves establish what each partner connection supports. [S05] What the integration actually connects The announced connection matches orders from branded websites, apps, kiosks and in-store points of sale with DataCandy loyalty profiles. It is intended to support consistent points earning and redemption and reduce manual reconciliation. Ben Jackson , DataCandy's vice-president of direct sales, and Don MacMillan , Deliverect's head of partnerships for North America, presented it as a way to strengthen

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