Guesswork headcount
Half the hostel goes home for the weekend, but the kitchen still cooks for everyone.
For hostels, PGs & canteens
Cook for the residents who will actually eat
Residents mark leave in the app before the cutoff. Your kitchen gets the exact plate count for every meal, your counter scans a QR meal pass, and the monthly mess bill applies rebates automatically.
- 4+Meals a day: breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner
- 1 scanAt the counter, no registers
- 0Hardware needed: just a phone
Why hostel messes waste food and money
Paper registers
Signing at the counter is slow, easy to fake and impossible to total.
Rebate disputes
Students argue over leave days; wardens recalculate bills by hand every month.
No feedback loop
Complaints reach the warden late, through WhatsApp groups or not at all.
Everything a mess needs
Leave & opt-out in the app
Residents skip any meal or plan a trip home before the cutoff. Breakfast can close the evening before.
Breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner
Turn on the meals you serve; each has its own cutoff and serving time.
Exact plate count
Counts lock at cutoff by veg, Jain, egg and non-veg, with guest meals included.
QR meal pass at the counter
Each resident has a personal pass. Staff scan it with any phone camera: one plate per booked meal, no duplicates.
Mess rebate rules
Refund a percentage of skipped meals, only for leaves of 3+ days, up to a limit — your hostel’s rules, applied automatically.
Monthly mess bills
Bills count the real days in each month. Rebates and guest meals are adjusted in the resident’s wallet. Print every resident’s bill as one PDF, or share each on WhatsApp.
Import all residents at once
Paste name, mobile, room and roll number from Excel. Everyone is ready in minutes.
Notices & chat
Announce menu changes or mess holidays to every resident; answer questions in one place.
Ratings & feedback
Residents rate meals and send suggestions; the mess team replies and tracks what is resolved.
Menu polls
Ask residents “Paneer or chole on Friday?” Everyone gets a notification, votes in one tap, and you see the result live.
Live in one afternoon
- 1
Register as a hostel mess and choose your meals and cutoffs.
- 2
Create the monthly mess plan with your rebate rule.
- 3
Import residents from your Excel sheet and share the app link.
- 4
At meal time, staff scan meal passes on any phone. You see served vs booked live.
Same simple pricing
One month free, then the same monthly, 6-month or yearly plans as tiffin services. Residents never pay TiffinFlow. Large hostels with more than 300 residents: contact us for campus pricing.
Questions, answered
Do we need biometric machines or RFID cards?
No. Residents show a QR meal pass on their phone (or the 6-character code) and staff scan it with any Android phone camera.
Can students mark leave for several days?
Yes. They pick a date range once. Whether those days are refunded follows your mess rebate rule, for example only leaves of 3 or more days.
What about students without smartphones?
The mess manager can add and manage them, mark leave for them and type their pass code at the counter.
Can we serve both delivery and dine-in?
Yes. A kitchen can deliver tiffins and run a dining hall at the same time.
Talk to us
Tell us about your kitchen or your question. We call back within one working day.