Served fair: Zomato, Swiggy cap password sharing for loyalty schemes

Members will be able to use their accounts only on two devices as companies aim to plug misuse

Food delivery firms Zomato and Swiggy are restricting password sharing to protect their loyalty programmes from misuse.

Members will be able to use their accounts only on two devices, the Financial Express reported. Users took screenshots of Zomato Gold offers—the company’s loyalty programme offering discounts—and shared with them non-members. Zomato’s new rules fixes such loopholes, the report said.

As the loyalty programme evolved, Zomato capped the number of free dishes per table, allowed restaurants to decide on the discount percentage, and extended the benefits of the scheme to home delivery, the report added.

These updates have been introduced as Zomato’s