Abstract: In an advanced ordering system, customers enter their orders using a website or application and transfer their order data to a mobile device such as a smartphone, memory chip, GPS, RFID tag or similar capture device. At a merchant, the order data is transmitted from the mobile device to an advanced order terminal and to the merchant's ordering system, thereby reducing the verbal exchanges needed to process the order. In one embodiment, the advanced order terminal may also receive payment information for the order. In this way, a drive through system can reduce the wait times and emissions associated with idling vehicles as customers wait to give or receive drive through orders.