TrustRadius Insights for Olo are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Business Problems Solved
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.
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.
Pros
Order Throttling
Availability of products
Managing Store Hours
Cons
How to adjust order throttling
Accessing the customer dashboard when inputting new orders
Cleaning up the customer database (multiple customer profile with the same information)
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for organizing online ordering and working with third-party merchants i.e. delivery service
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.
Pros
Provides information in a simplistic and non confusing way
Never has any issues or is “down”
Phenomenal customer support for any issues you do encounter
Cons
Just a personal preference but the color scheme could be better
Likelihood to Recommend
Olo always is easy to access, has a wide range of information you can use to find the answer to your question. The delivery of the answer is always simple and easy to read. No complaints here. Great job!!
VU
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (Food & Beverages company, 501-1000 employees)
Olo is used as the platform for our online orders including 3rd party orders. It allows us to increase sales through online ordering.
Pros
Streamlines orders
Easy to use
Easy to manage from the back end
Cons
Some descriptions (ie: "rails") don't always make sense. Use of simpler, more detailed descriptors would be good.
More visibility into data on the front end
Likelihood to Recommend
Olo allows us to incrementally increase sales during slow hours and slow seasons of the year. I think it's well suited for integrating with 3rd party delivery companies, which every restaurant should be doing.
VU
Verified User
General Manager in Customer Service (Food & Beverages company, 11-50 employees)
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.
Pros
Connection
Speed
Accuracy
Cons
If we need to adjust the subtotal, it would be nice to have the option to subtract or remove an item from the subtotal and not manually insert a price. Sometimes guests just want a refund for a single item.
Likelihood to Recommend
OLO is suited for fast pace high volume establishments. It makes it easier for all orders to go in one place versus having multiple tablets open and ringing in the background. However, if it’s a slower establishment with no that many orders, it may not be beneficial to use OLO.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Customer Service (Food & Beverages company, 201-500 employees)
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.
Pros
Very fast at receiving and orders.
Allows for easy refunds for guest transactions.
Allows us to turn on and off certain items if need be.
Cons
Menu editing is a little tedious.
Not allowing to set time limits according to the flow of the restaurant.
Likelihood to Recommend
Olo is well suited as a platform to manage online orders. It is great because it gives us time back to make sure the orders are properly done rather than taking the orders over the phone and having to receive payment at the restaurant. It does have its downfall when the times do not sync with the flow of the restaurant.
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.
Pros
Integrations.
Ease of Use.
Innovation.
Cons
Account Build-out time.
N/a
Likelihood to Recommend
OLO Is great for companies that need an easy way to channel online orders into one centralized place. If a company uses several third-party delivery companies, with each tablet on its counter, OLO helps cut down on the clutter and allows everything to flow through the POS properly. OLO has served us well since we started.
We use Olo to help with sending orders for our mobile team. It allows us to keep up with our ongoing customer base and keeps us on track with orders. It is also really easy to use for our crew members.
Pros
Ease of use
Speed
Efficiency
Cons
Access for everyone
More accessible functions
Likelihood to Recommend
Mobile ordering is a big one for us. There are many customers that will order really specific things on their orders. This is crucial to our customer satisfaction.