Online food ordering, restaurant listing and food delivery service Zomato has introduced online payments for ordering food in select restaurants in India, reports Inc42. The latest version of the iOS and Android applications allows users to pay for orders through debit cards, credit cards and net banking. The report added that Zomato has partnered with PayPal to enable online payments. Users can either scan their card details or enter them manually. The company also introduced Zomato Credits where users could get referral points and refunds. The report also added that Zomato could start introducing promotion codes. The Gurgaon-headquartered company launched a separate app for ordering food called Zomato Order in May. Note that currently, users can only pay through cash on delivery through this app and online payments doesn't show up on it yet. Zomato’s Pay with Cashless system was launched in Dubai in April this year, and was expected to be launched in India too. This online payment product allowed a user to open a tab by visiting the Cashless integrated restaurant’s page on the Zomato app and tapping on “Pay with Zomato Cashless”. MaplePOS acquisition: In April, Zomato acquired cloud-based restaurant point-of-sale (POS) product MaplePOS for an undisclosed amount. Zomato, which has a presence in 22 countries, has already renamed MaplePOS to Zomato Base. Base is an Android-based POS system that uses custom hardware and offers restaurants features such as menu and inventory management, and has a built-in payment solution to accept debit and credit card payments, recipe Management, customer relationship management, data analytics among others. Competition - Mumbai-based TinyOwl launched…
