Technology
Startup integrates vending machines with delivery services
May 3, 2022
A Turin, Italy-based software company called VADO (Vending Automatic Delivery Operations) has introduced an e-commerce solution that allows vending machines to sell products in delivery apps, according to the company's website. The delivery apps include UberEats, Deliveroo, Glovo and Just Eat.
VADO creates a menu in the delivery apps for products in a connected vending machine. The customer has access to this menu in the delivery app and creates an order from a vending machine.
A delivery rider then receives the order and travels to the machine and uses the order code to prompt the machine to dispense the order. The machine supplies the product in a bag that the rider then delivers to the customer.
Vending operators can sell their products in the app by installing the VADO software.
VADO -owns vending machines in four cities: Turin, Milan, Rome and Salerno, according to a report in innovationorigins.com, a European innovation news site. In addition, five customers have integrated VADO software into their vending machines.
