DoorDash Enhances Preferred Integrations Program for Better POS Reliability

DoorDash announced new enhancements to its Preferred Integrations Program, building on its 2025 launch, to help restaurants get more reliable, seamless performance from their point-of-sale (POS) and middleware integrations. As restaurants increasingly rely on POS integrations, inconsistencies can lead to cancellations, inaccurate menus, and time-consuming reconciliation. DoorDash’s updates are designed to address these challenges by setting a higher standard for integration quality and improving visibility into performance.

The 2026 cohort of DoorDash Preferred Integration Partners includes Checkmate, Chowly, Deliverect, Otter, PAR, Qu, Square, Stream, Toast, and UrbanPiper. DoorDash is introducing a new comparison tool to help merchants evaluate integrations. Additional updates include more consistent order flow through expanded standards to track real-time item availability, integrated reporting, and detailed error reporting; simpler reconciliation by showing who funded each promotion; and better integration visibility through new performance insights.

Ruth Isenstadt, Head of U.S. Restaurants at DoorDash, stated, “Integration quality plays a critical role in a restaurant’s growth and profitability... With these updates, we’re setting a higher bar for reliability, increasing transparency into performance, and giving restaurants clearer insight into how their technology impacts their business so they can operate with greater confidence.”

Partners must meet clear, measurable requirements to maintain their status. Lawrence Kam, Owner at L&L Hawaiian Barbecue, noted, “Integrating DoorDash and Square was so simple... Our menu items and pricing now sync automatically... DoorDash orders flow directly to our kitchen printers, which keeps operations running smoothly.” Restaurants can learn more by visiting the integrations resource hub. The 2026 DoorDash Preferred Integration Partners was generated based on performance and feature sets as of May 8, 2026.