About Craver: Empowering independent restaurant growth

Craver is one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the restaurant industry. Their mobile app platform powers branded ordering, payments, loyalty, and rewards for hundreds of local restaurants worldwide. By bringing enterprise-grade digital ordering tools to independent and mid-sized restaurants, Craver helps small businesses offer modern convenience without sacrificing the personal connection they have with their communities.

The Problem: Scaling across fragmented payment stacks

As Craver scaled, their team faced a growing challenge: every restaurant customer came with a different mix of gateways, payment service providers, and existing integrations. Supporting this expanding list meant Craver’s developers were stretched thin building and maintaining dozens of bespoke payment connections.

At the same time, consumer expectations were shifting rapidly. Contactless ordering, fast checkout, and safe digital payments had become table stakes. Restaurants needed to modernize quickly while still keeping the payment relationships they already trusted. Craver needed a way to give their merchants flexibility, speed, and seamless onboarding—without overwhelming their engineering team.

The Solution: Accelerating onboarding with unified orchestration

Craver turned to Spreedly’s Payments Orchestration platform as the unified foundation for their payment strategy. With a single integration, Craver could support each restaurant’s preferred payment stack while maintaining a consistent, reliable payment experience within the Craver app.

Spreedly’s orchestration capabilities eliminated the need for Craver to build one-off connections to every gateway or PSP. Instead, Craver could “build once,” dramatically reducing onboarding time for new restaurants. Merchants could keep their existing payment providers, immediately go live with digital ordering and payments, and deliver the contactless convenience today’s customers expect.

The Results: Faster digital ordering and merchant flexibility

With Spreedly powering payments behind the scenes, Craver gives local restaurants a faster path to online ordering, digital payments, and contactless delivery. Merchants see value almost immediately: quicker integrations, preserved gateway relationships, and a checkout experience that keeps customers coming back.

Craver also helps restaurants understand the full cost of payments—not just rates, but the operational burden behind manual accounting and reconciliation. By removing much of that complexity, Craver lets restaurants refocus on what they do best: feeding their communities.

Craver’s CEO, Amin Yazdani, captures the partnership simply: “Payments Orchestration gives us an edge with a build-it-once approach that dramatically shortens the onboarding process for our merchants. Our goal is to help restaurants without forcing them to change how they serve their customers. We streamline the process so they can focus on growing their loyal customer base.”