Transact Campus Acquires Mobile Ordering Platform Hangry

Transact Campus, a payments company geared towards colleges and their students, has acquired its partner Hangry, a Canadian mobile ordering company.

According to a Wednesday (July 13) news release, the acquisition is part of Transact’s larger plan for growth. The Phoenix-based company did not release the financial terms of the deal.

Hangry’s platform is “built to serve the specific needs of the campus ecosystem and is fully integrated with the Transact platform,” according to the release.

Transact has processed 24 million mobile order transactions adding up to more than $200 million using the Hangry solution. The platform’s capabilities include food ordering, secure locker integrations for pick-up, delivery, dining hall reservations, dietary filtering and nutrition tracking.

In addition, the Hangry platform offers a campus-wide loyalty and rewards component with capabilities for push messaging, automated marketing campaigns, intelligent upselling, targeted inbox announcements, surveys and user feedback.

Nancy Langer, CEO at Transact, said the purchase “will enable us to build on Hangry features and functionality as well as incorporating them into the wide array of Transact solutions that already provide a leading mobile-centric experience for millions of students.”

Hangry Founder and CEO Fabian Raso noted that he expects a smooth transition, as many of Hangry’s services have already been “user-tested with hundreds of Transact clients.”

“We anticipate that by joining Transact, we will leverage our common strengths, continue to improve the student experience, and expand Transact product capabilities,” Raso continued.

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PYMNTS spoke last year with Erica Bass, vice president of product management at Transact Campus, about the rise of the connected campus.

“I look at universities like a smart city, and to have one solution provider that can do your dining, your payments and tuition and dorm access — if you can do all of that within one seamless solution, that is really the push right now,” Bass told PYMNTS. “Everyone’s looking to, ‘How do you streamline the number of vendors and other touch points?’”