Meal prep software for local meal prep businesses in Canada

What a meal prep business actually needs from software

A meal prep week has the same shape everywhere. Orders come in until a cut-off. You cook to a count. Every container gets a label. Boxes go out on a few delivery days or wait for pickup. Then you chase the payments. Most small meal prep companies run that week on an order form, a spreadsheet, a label app and a banking app.

Each hand-off between those tools is where a mistake gets in: an order typed twice, a label with last week's dish, an e-transfer nobody matched. Meal prep software is worth paying for when it removes the hand-offs.

1. 1Orders and subscriptions. Customers pick a plan or a set number of meals, choose their options, and pay. Repeat customers renew without messaging you.
2. 2A cut-off. Orders close at a set time, so the count you cook to can't change at midnight.
3. 3A prep sheet. How much of each dish to cook, in the measure you cook in, plus containers.
4. 4Labels. Name, dishes, date and allergens on every container, printed from the orders.
5. 5Delivery or pickup. Routes in driving order for delivery days, and a clear pickup list.
6. 6Payments. Cards charged on renewal, and in Canada, e-transfers matched to the right order.

How Tiffinware runs a meal prep week

You set this week's dishes for each plan in the weekly menu planner, with choices like rice or sweet potato and a per-meal price for upgrades. Your ordering page shows the menu, the plans and the macros for each plan. Customers sign up and pay by card, or by Interac e-transfer.

At your cut-off the prep sheet is ready: how much of each dish, how many containers, and a packing list with every customer's allergies and notes. Labels print from the same orders, on Avery sheets or a thermal printer. On delivery day, the route is built from that day's boxes and sent to your driver's phone.

What it costs

Tiffinware is $99 a month (or $79 a month paid yearly), with no fee on each order and no limit on orders, customers or drivers. Card payments go to your own Stripe account at Stripe's rates. Many meal prep platforms add a percentage fee on every order or cap orders on cheaper plans, so compare the total at the size you want to be next year, not this month.

Switching from forms and spreadsheets

Send us your customer list in whatever form it is in and we set your customers up for you, free. Most kitchens run their first real week within a few days. Read how to start a meal prep business in Canada if you are still at the beginning.