Partner for catering companies
Implementing school catering more economically
As part of the school lunch program, caterers are expected to provide children with a balanced diet at a reasonable price. Rising costs make profitable implementation difficult and staff shortages increase the pressure in day-to-day business. With ParentPay, you can simplify school catering processes and make implementation easier to plan.
It's that easy
Working digitally.Sustainable management.
Order food
Orders are recorded digitally and transmitted via an interface. Less manual effort means more time for other tasks.Purchase planning
Meal figures on a daily basis, which flow directly into the merchandise management system, enable precise purchasing and avoid food waste.Simple billing
With ParentPay, billing is efficient and compliant. If personnel resources are scarce, you can simply outsource the process completely.How ParentPay simplifies your everyday life.
Explained in 90 seconds.
We can do that:
Increase your profitability
Improved efficiency
Use our cloud-based technology for your ordering and billing processes. This allows you to optimize your workflows and significantly shorten processing times.
More capacities
Offering regular school meals involves complex tasks, such as managing education and participation entitlements. Make use of our specialists and give your employees more time for their core tasks.
Flexibility and scalability
Are you growing or having difficulties finding suitable specialists and coping with peak workloads? With our managed service, you no longer have to worry about this. We provide you with the resources you need.
100 % cost transparency
Our services are offered at a fixed monthly price with an additional transaction-based component. This means you always know exactly what costs you will incur and can plan reliably.
One click.
All done.
You create your menu plans and upload them easily to the system. Parents and children can view them in the app and receive information on allergens and nutrients. Schools can display them on a screen in the canteen or in the entrance area. No transmission by email or fax, no paper notices at school, no surprises at the food counter. It can be that simple.
All data in one place.
Completely automatically.
Parents order the desired meal with their children via the app or cancel the meals within the specified period. This information is transmitted to you without any delay or manual intervention by the schools. With a corresponding interface, the information can be automatically transferred to your merchandise management system on request. This allows you to plan and purchase reliably.
You have questions, we provide answers.
Transparent at all times.
Which meal order was actually collected? How many BuT meals have to be settled? Which menus are well received? How many spontaneous diners were there? The children identify themselves by chip or card at the checkout, each serving is registered and all the information you need for documentation and billing flows back to you automatically. For optimum control of school catering.
You do what you love.
We take care of the rest.
With ParentPay, not only is payment cashless, but invoicing is also digital. If you wish, we can completely free you from the tedious administrative tasks involved in your business – from processing direct debits, managing the BuT and assigning booking records to checking incoming payments and dunning. This leaves you more time for what really counts.
Economical
Digitalization allows you to work more efficiently. You can organize your school catering even more efficiently if we take care of everything for you.
Planning reliability
Precise budget planning, optimized purchasing, fast payment. With ParentPay, you will no longer experience any nasty surprises.
Sustainable
Put an end to food waste! Thanks to daily updated figures, food quantities can be calculated precisely.
Our service variants
Two possibilities.Your choice.
ParentPay enables the ordering, payment and invoicing of school meals and kiosk purchases with the help of our cloud-based software platform. You decide whether you want to implement the associated work processes yourself or leave the work to us.
Self-service
Do you have sufficient staff capacity and the necessary specialist knowledge? Then you can implement all school catering processes yourself with our self-service. We host, maintain and update the software and carry out the onboarding. Everything else is up to you.
Managed service
Are you struggling with staff shortages, cost pressure and a lack of efficiency in your day-to-day work? Then let us help you. Our billing experts will take care of all your tasks quickly, reliably and in accordance with the rules.
Hosting
- Operation and provision of a cloud-based software platform
- Maintenance and updating of the software platform
- Data backup
Onboarding
- Introduction and setup of the software platform
- Development of information for parents (info letter)
- Training
Utilization
- Use of the software platform by users
(customers/meal participants)
Support
- Support for users (customers) by telephone and e-mail
BuT management
- Deposit of the notices
- Preparation of accounts
- Checking cash receipts
Financial management
- Price adjustments in the system
- Preparation and payment of invoices for catering companies
- Preparation of annual financial statements
- Creation of direct debits*
- Assignment of posting records
- Payment requests to meal participants with a negative account balance (no dunning procedure)
Meal participant management
- Processing the termination of meal participants
- Payment of credit balances (if available)
Menu management
- Entry of the menus
Chip replacement delivery
- Order acceptance for RFID chips from diners
- Billing
- Sending RFID chips to meal participants
Support
- Support for meal participants by telephone and e-mail
- * We charge additional fees for returned direct debits
Would you like to find out more about how you can increase your profitability with ParentPay?
Then get in touch with us for a non-binding discussion. We would also be happy to carry out a profitability analysis with you.
Convincing figures?
We think so.
Facilities
Parents
Utilization
One for all.
We know the challenges that schools and daycare centers face when it comes to lunchtime catering. That’s why local authorities, private providers, parents’ associations and special-purpose associations trust us equally.
Happy parents, relaxed everyday life.
Numerous parents across Germany use the ParentPay app and the associated services so that their children can be fed easily and without cash during the day.
A solution that works.
ParentPay has a high level of user acceptance. More than two thirds of parents at facilities where our solution has been introduced actively and regularly use our tool.
Facilities
One for all.
We know the challenges that schools and daycare centers face when it comes to lunchtime catering. That’s why local authorities, private providers, parents’ associations and special-purpose associations trust us equally.
Parents
Happy parents, relaxed everyday life.
Many parents across Germany use the ParentPay app and the associated services so that their children can be fed easily and without cash during the day.
Utilization
A solution that works.
ParentPay has a high level of user acceptance. More than two thirds of parents at facilities where our solution has been introduced actively and regularly use our tool.
ParentPay is already being used successfully in these facilities:
