Olo Integration
With Bluedot’s first-class arrival toolkit and Olo, you can offer your customers a great curbside or pickup experience. You can track customers’ arrival at your restaurant with Hello Screens, informing your staff when a curbside order has been placed, completed or cancelled.
How does it work?
When a customer places a curbside or pickup order, Olo fires a webhook event to Bluedot to track the order. Then you can follow the customer’s journey to collect the order. You’ll get customers’ live updates using the Point SDK in your mobile app or our pre-built web-based experience: Now Ready.
Configure the Olo Webhooks
Find Bluedot Webhook Destination URL
The first step is to get Bluedot’s webhook URL; we will use it later when creating the Webhook in Olo.
Get the projectId in the Projects section in Canvas to complete the Webhook URL based on the region where your account is located.
| Region | Webhook URL |
|---|---|
| North America | https://us.inbound.bluedot.io/olo/<PROJECT_ID> |
| Europe | https://eu.inbound.bluedot.io/olo/<PROJECT_ID> |
| APAC | https://au.inbound.bluedot.io/olo/<PROJECT_ID> |
Create a Webhook in Olo
In Olo’s Dashboard add a new webhook from the Dev Tools section.
Fill the following fields:
- Webhook Name: This is a description to recognize Bluedot’s webhook.
- Destination URL: Use Bluedot’s Webhook URL covered in the previous step here.
- Developer Partner: Select the “Bluedot” option.
From the Order Events section, enable the following events:
- Order Placed
- Order Cancelled
- Order Closed
Once you are ready to Publish the webhook, first select “Test Webhook”. This will bring up the Shared Secret modal. Pass the Shared Secret to Bluedot to ensure your account is secured.
Configure the Hello Orders Webhooks:
You’ll need the userId in the “Register Order” webhook event to track the customer’s journey. When using the Point SDK, you’ll include the userId in the Custom Event Meta Data before starting Tempo, and when using Now Ready, you’ll use the userId to create the URL to Now Ready.
Learn more about Hello Order Webhooks here.
Point SDK: Tempo
With Tempo, you can accurately track the customer’s ETA to collect its order in real-time. To use the service, you must implement the Point SDK into your mobile app and include the userId in the Custom Event Meta Data before starting Tempo. You can get the userId from the Hello Order Webhooks, as mentioned above.
Once Tempo is running, your store staff will see the customer’s ETA updates on Hello Screen.
To learn more, check Tempo’s Documentation.
Now Ready
Once Bluedot receives the order details from Olo, the Hello Orders Webhooks will fire a Register Order event with a userId. You will use that userId to generate the URL for the Now Ready experience you’ll share with your customer. From Now Ready, customers will inform the store when they’re on their way to collect the order and when they arrive. To generate the Now Ready URL for an order, you simply add the `userId` as a parameter to the Now Ready base URL: https://us.nowready.io/<USER_TOKEN>
To learn more, check Now Ready’s Documentation.
You can also use any of our SMS Messaging integrations to send the Now Ready link to your users. When implementing any of the SMS integration, we’ll take care of creating the Now Ready URL. You just need to craft the content of the message.
To learn more, check out our Integrations documentation.
If you have any questions, contact us at help@bluedot.io