Catering orders, without the 30% cut.

What it costs

2.5%

Of the order. That is the entire platform fee. There is no setup cost, no monthly subscription, and no charge for having a page. If nobody orders from you, you pay nothing.

The delivery apps most kitchens have tried charge between 20% and 30% per order. On a $600 catering order that is the difference between keeping $585 and keeping $420.

You keep control of the kitchen

• Your menu, your prices Catering portions, trays, per-person packages, minimums — all set by you, not mapped from a takeout menu.
• Your notice periods Set how much warning you need, by headcount. A 200-person order can require a week while a 10-person lunch needs a day.
• Your hours and closures Catering windows are separate from your dining-room hours. Block out dates you are already full.
• Your delivery areas Deliver it yourself, or ask for a SwiftCater driver. Their pay comes out of the order, never out of your share.

No label printers. No tablet on the counter.

Orders arrive with the event date, the headcount, the address and the time they are needed. There is no second screen to babysit during a lunch rush, no proprietary printer to jam, and no per-item labelling workflow designed for single-serving takeout.

Catering is booked days ahead. The software should reflect that, and most of it does not.

Getting paid

Customers pay by card at checkout. Your share is transferred directly to your bank account, weekly — SwiftCater never holds your money. You can see every order and exactly how each payout was worked out.

Built by a restaurant owner

SwiftCater was built by a Saskatchewan restaurant operator whose family has run franchise restaurants across North America for close to fifty years. It exists because catering is the highest-margin work most kitchens do least of, and the reason is almost always that taking the orders is a hassle.