Pingup Launches Food Ordering Bot on Kik

BOSTON, Oct. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Pingup, the leading local services transaction platform with access to over 250 million monthly searches across their online publisher network, today announced the launch of the OrderNow food ordering bot in the Bot Shop of Kik Interactive. Through this partnership Kik users can order food for delivery or pickup from over 100,000 local restaurants.

The OrderNow bot will allow users to choose their food category (such as pizza, sushi, thai, etc.), select a local restaurant, and order their food for delivery or pickup. The bot is available nationally.

"Pingup is focused on automating local commerce through buttons and bots," said Mark Slater, CEO, Pingup. "We are the leader in aggregating over 180,000 local merchants for native, real-time transactions on online publishers and social platforms. Kik's messaging platform and bots are the natural evolution for this digital utility. The OrderNow bot has the potential to become the teenage generation's go-to method for food ordering."

Pingup holds the patents in managing user chat experiences with businesses and is bringing its API-powered local transaction capability to a broad range of leading-edge consumer platforms and interfaces.

About Pingup
Pingup is the nation's largest transaction platform for local services businesses, using proprietary technology to connect hundreds of thousands of local merchants with leading publishers such as Bing, Yahoo, YP, Citysearch and Superpages that have over 100 million monthly users and 250 million monthly local searches. Pingup aggregates over 180,000 US businesses, more than triple OpenTable's quantity in the US and continues to add thousands of businesses each month. The company is headquartered in Boston's Innovation District and backed by Avalon Ventures. For more information visit http://pingup.com. Follow us on Twitter:@pingupapp.

About Kik Interactive
Kik Interactive, Inc., connects the world through chat. The company is the maker of Kik, a chat platform with more than 300 million registered users where people can chat with friends and connect with chat-based experiences. Founded in 2009, Kik Interactive, Inc. is headquartered in Waterloo, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Toronto. For more information, please visit: kik.com.

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