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title: "Square Partners with Postmates So Operators Can Offer On-Demand Delivery"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/810b9327-52f6-4e61-a87e-e545e1eb37b9
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/square-partners-with-postmates-so-operators-can-offer-on-demand-delivery-2709937
category: "Suppliers"
industry: "Franchise Industry"
segment: "Suppliers"
topics: ["Technology"]
published: 2019-05-11T00:19:54.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:30:25.060Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/2f63a8a3aa7496a9125dda166a8f233d7992.jpg
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# Square Partners with Postmates So Operators Can Offer On-Demand Delivery

**TL;DR:** Square partnered with Postmates to offer on-demand delivery services to retailers using Square's payments platform. The integration enables retailers of any size to offer customers the option of having items delivered.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2019-05-11. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/square-partners-with-postmates-so-operators-can-offer-on-demand-delivery-2709937).*

## Story

According to an article on Venture Beat, “Square is partnering with courier network Postmates to bring on-demand deliveries to more restaurants and retailers. The integration, which is rolling out today, will enable retailers—of any size—that use Square’s payments platform to offer customers the option of having any item delivered.”

Square is best known for its mobile purchase functionality, but “it has branched out into all manner of commerce-related verticals as it targets a bigger piece of the small business pie,” according to the article. Square already offers delivery services through Caviar, which it acquired in 2014, as well as other purchased platforms Fastbite and Entrees on-Trays, according to the article. However, “a Postmates partnership opens up Square’s delivery smarts significantly.”

“San Francisco-based Postmates, which recently expanded to more than 1,000 cities as it gears up for its impending IPO, now covers 70% of U.S. households,” the article said. According to the article, Postmates boasts about 300,000 couriers to “connect the dots between retailers and consumers” and help “brick-and-mortar merchants embrace online commerce.”

“Though Postmates does focus a lot on food delivery, it is open to delivering just about any product, which is why it may be a good fit for Square,” the article said.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Franchise Industry (sector)
- partnership (topic)
- Postmates (company)
- Square (company)
- on-demand delivery (topic)
- payments platform (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/square-partners-with-postmates-so-operators-can-offer-on-demand-delivery-2709937). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/810b9327-52f6-4e61-a87e-e545e1eb37b9).