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For caterers in Zambia

Meals ordered and paid for before your kitchen starts.

Limeta takes the orders, collects the money by Mobile Money and hands your kitchen the day's numbers. Start with school lunches; add workplace lunch, standing orders for hospitals and hostels, or event bookings when your business takes them on. One account, your brand.

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How it works

Orders come in paid. The kitchen cooks what was paid for.

The same three steps whoever you feed. Nothing reaches the kitchen until it has been paid for, so there is no chasing and no IOUs.

  1. Step 1

    You publish the menu

    Add dishes once, with photos, prices and allergens. Each day, choose what is on and publish. A school can have its own menu, prices and ordering cut-off, or share yours.

  2. Step 2

    They order and pay by Mobile Money

    Parents pick a day's lunch for each child, employees for themselves. Everything in the basket is paid in one Mobile Money payment, with Limeta's service fee shown before they pay.

  3. Step 3

    Your kitchen gets the day's sheet

    Every morning: how many of each dish, for which school or office, which class and which delivery point, with allergies flagged. A packing list follows the same order, and deliveries are ticked off as they go.

What you can run

One platform, the way you cater.

Each of these is switched on for your business when you need it. They share your menu, your kitchen sheet, your payments and your reports, so a new line of work is not a new system.

School meals

  • As many schools as you serve, from one account, each with its own menu, prices and cut-off if needed.
  • Classes and campuses per school, and delivery or collection arranged per school.
  • Monthly packages that parents prepay, and allergy warnings before a dish is chosen.

Workplace lunch

  • Employees join with their company's code and order their own lunch.
  • The company pays in full, pays a fixed amount per meal, or leaves it to the employee.
  • The company's share is invoiced monthly and paid online from its dashboard.

Hospitals, hostels and institutions

  • Standing orders by number: say 80 lunches a weekday for Ward 3, at a contract price.
  • Their own staff change a day's count until ordering for it closes.
  • Invoiced monthly for the meals actually served.

Events

  • An enquiry form on your site; no account needed to ask.
  • Quotes from your per-guest packages, plus extras like staff or delivery.
  • A deposit to book and the balance before the day, both paid online.

Features

Everything between the menu and the plate.

For your business

Your brand, not ours
Customers see your name and logo on every page, receipt and email.
Money in before you cook
Only paid meals reach the kitchen sheet.
History that stays put
Each meal keeps the price, school and delivery point it was ordered with, whatever changes later.
Credit you control
Approve a parent's credit request and decide what it is worth.
Reports that reconcile
Daily kitchen sheets and a monthly report, with packages and fees set out.
Dashboards for the people you serve
A school, a company or a hospital can see its own meals, and nothing of anyone else's.

For the people you feed

Order a day at a time
Choose a day, choose for each child, add it to the basket, pay once.
Allergy warnings
Dishes with a child's recorded allergens are marked before they are chosen.
Reminders they asked for
Off until switched on: when the menu is out, or ordering is about to close.
Receipts by email
A receipt and an invoice as PDFs after every payment.
Credit for meals they cannot use
Ask for credit on a paid meal; approved credit comes off the next bill.
One login, more than one caterer
A parent who uses two caterers keeps one account and two separate histories.

Built for Zambia

Made for how people here pay and get in touch.

Kwacha and Mobile Money

Prices in ZMW, paid by Mobile Money through DPO Pay. Card payments are not offered.

Email, and SMS where switched on

Receipts and reminders go by email. Text reminders can be added through Airtel, MTN and Zamtel.

VAT handled honestly

Prices include VAT. Receipts set VAT out for VAT-registered caterers, and never claim it for those who are not.

Privacy by design

Consent is recorded when it is given. Each caterer's customers are kept apart. A school sees a child by name only if their parent agrees.

Ready to retire the order form?

We set up your menu, your schools or clients, and your branding with you, and give you your own web address.

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