paived.io

paived.io · Drive-thru

Lane payments for drive-thru restaurants.

paived.io adds plate-based payment to your existing drive-thru POS. Order at the speaker, pull forward, the meal settles to the enrolled account before you reach the window. Your POS stays. Your loyalty program stays. Your franchisor stack stays.

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Order, pull forward. The meal is paid.

Order, pull forward. The meal is paid.

Lane payments for the drive-thru, above your existing POS.

Enrolled drivers pull into your drive-thru, place an order at the speaker, and the meal settles to their account before they reach the pickup window. paived.io recognizes the vehicle at the lane and matches it to the order on your POS — whether the driver placed the order at the speaker, in your mobile app, or through a partner ordering platform.

The driver

one identity · one account · one consent

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Your infrastructure

cameras · POS · pumps · gates

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How it works

Enroll. Arrive. Settle.

01

Enroll

A driver enrolls a vehicle and a payment method once. Optionally pairs the enrollment with their existing account in your app and loyalty program.

02

Order at the speaker

Your order-taking flow doesn't change. The order is built in your POS exactly as it is today; paived.io is the payment, not the ordering surface.

03

Pay at the lane. Drive to the window.

Your camera reads the plate. paived.io matches the vehicle to the enrolled account, settles the order with your processor, and signals paid to your POS. The driver pulls to the window for the bag.

Use cases

Every driver is one identity on the rail.

Mobile-order pickup

A driver who placed an order in your app pulls into a lane; the plate match closes the loyalty loop and settles the bag without a barcode or QR scan.

Loyalty-tied lane recognition

Returning loyalty members are recognized at the speaker. Their order history, preferences, and earned offers attach to the conversation — no card, no phone.

Fleet and delivery accounts

Delivery-driver or fleet plates ride on a single account. Every drive-thru on the network bills to that account, with itemized statements.

What stays

Your existing stack stays in place.

paived.io is the rail above whatever you run. It does not replace your POS, your KDS, your loyalty program, or your franchisor stack — and it doesn't ask you to migrate any of them.

Drive-thru POS (PAR Brink, Xenial, Toast, NCR)Mobile ordering (Olo, your own app)Loyalty (Punchh, your own)Voice / AI orderingCameras and LPRPayment processor and rates

Across the network

One enrollment. Every lane on the network.

A driver who enrolls at your sites doesn't enroll again the next time they wash, fuel up, drive through, park, or valet anywhere else on the paived.io network.

Car washes
Drive through. The wash is paid.
Fuel
Fill up. The pump is paid.
Parking
Drive in, drive out. The visit is paid.
Valet
Hand over the keys. The ticket is paid.

Further reading

The why behind the rail.

Mechanism
Lane payments, explained
Lane payments are vehicle-recognized transactions — authorized and settled by the vehicle's identity at the lane, not by a card, phone, or kiosk. Here's how they work, where they fit, and why they're the next payments category.
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Category
What is vehicle commerce?
Vehicle commerce is the category of transactions that happen because of or in proximity to a vehicle — wash, drive-thru, fuel, parking, valet. Here's how the category is defined, what makes it different from retail, and why it needs operator-neutral infrastructure.
9 min read →
Strategy
Why operator-neutral matters
Vehicle commerce works as a network only when no single operator owns the rail. Here's what operator-neutral means in practice, why every major payments network became one, and what paived.io's contractual neutrality terms look like.
8 min read →
Strategy
Cross-merchant identity: why one driver, every merchant changes the math
Most loyalty + payments systems lock identity to a single merchant. Vehicle commerce inverts that — the driver enrolls once, every merchant recognizes the same plate. Here's the network-effects argument, with the failure modes that every closed loyalty system has hit.
10 min read →
Comparison
Plate vs phone: why license plates beat mobile apps for vehicle commerce
Vehicle commerce already has a universal hardware token bolted to every car: the license plate. Here's why the plate wins on speed, friction, fairness, and infrastructure cost compared to mobile-app-based payments — and where phones still play a role.
9 min read →

Add lane payments to your drive-thru.

One store or two hundred, one franchisee group or a corporate chain — the conversation starts the same way. Tell us about your stores.

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