Stuzo, the leading provider of personalized and predictive retail commerce technology, powered by its Open Commerce Platform and Hatch Loyalty, a leading customer activation engine that empowers enterprise retailers and partners to connect with their customers through comprehensive loyalty programs, announced today a partnership wherein Hatch will standardize its Loyalty infrastructure and Point-of-Sale (POS) connections on Stuzo’s Open Commerce Platform. The partnership combines Stuzo’s expertise in enterprise retail middleware and POS systems with Hatch’s leading customer activation engine, creating a powerful turnkey commerce and loyalty solution.

“The combination of Hatch and Stuzo will enable retailers to better manage their consumer lifecycle across various consumer channels and to quickly plan for, test, and implement a solution that communicates concurrently with leading POS systems,” said Jake Kiser, CEO at Hatch Loyalty.

“We are excited to add Hatch to Open Commerce’s growing roster of digital service provider integrations,” said Gunter Pfau, CEO, Stuzo. “This partnership and integration advances our mission to meet retailers requirement of being an open platform with integrations to best-in-class digital service providers. The addition of Hatch amplifies the value and vision of Open Commerce by leveraging Hatch’s consumer relationship management capabilities.”

Hatch + Open Commerce enables seamless integration of mobile payments and loyalty with POS hardware to create a unified digital and physical consumer experience. This helps retailers personalize the consumer experience, generate deeper consumer insights, and build one-to-one consumer relationships.