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TifTif is white-label software for tiffin and meal-subscription businesses. It is a complete platform — a customer app, a rider app, an admin panel and a super admin — that we set up under your own brand name, so your customers order from your app, not ours.

It means the software carries your brand instead of the maker's. Your name, logo and colours appear in the apps, the web app and your Google Play listing, and the apps are published under your own developer account. Customers never see the TifTif name.

Yes. Book a demo and we walk you through the real customer, rider and admin apps with live orders, so you can see exactly what your business gets before paying anything.

One plan with every app and feature, priced by region and paid once: ₹89,999 + GST in India; $1,499 in the rest of Asia, Africa and Latin America; and $4,999 in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Gulf, Israel, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan, where the iPhone apps are included. Every price covers setup, your branding, country wiring and one year of support. Elsewhere the iPhone apps are an optional add-on (₹49,999 in India, $799 in Asia, Africa and Latin America).

No. You pay TifTif once and there is no monthly subscription and no commission on your orders. Every payment your customers make goes to you.

Only the running costs, paid directly to the providers in your own name: hosting and database cost about $30 a month, and a Google Play developer account is a one-time $25. After the first year, support renewal is optional and yearly, never monthly.

Your web app and admin panel can be live within a week of us receiving your brand and country details. Android apps are published after Google Play's review; Google requires new personal developer accounts to run a closed test first (currently 14 days), while business accounts can publish sooner.

Yes. During setup we wire the platform for your country: your currency, time zone, payment gateway and language. The meal cutoffs, prices and receipts all follow your local settings.

Yes. In the US, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Gulf, Israel, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the iPhone customer and rider apps are included in the price. In India, Asia, Africa and Latin America the Android apps are included and the iPhone apps are an optional add-on; until then, iPhone customers use the web app, which installs to the home screen like an app.

You do. The apps are published under your developer account and the database runs in your own account, so your customer list and order history stay yours even if you stop working with us.

The product is the same everywhere — every app and every feature. The price follows the market: what local alternatives cost, and what setup and support involve there, such as card payments, local tax and support in your time zone. The international price also includes the iPhone apps, because most phones in those markets are iPhones.

The price for the country your business operates in. The pricing section picks your region from your time zone, and you can switch it; your written quote confirms it.

No. The Indian price is ₹89,999 plus 18% GST, which comes to ₹1,06,199 in total. Outside India prices are in US dollars; any tax your own country applies to imported services is handled on your side.

There is no monthly fee to TifTif. You pay the hosting, database and map providers directly for the accounts the platform runs in — about $30 a month for one kitchen — and those bills are in your name.

No. There is no commission and no per-order fee. Every payment your customers make goes to your own payment account.

Your apps keep running — they are in your accounts. Renewing support is optional and yearly, never monthly, and you will know the renewal price before you decide.

In the international plan (US, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Gulf, Israel, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan), yes. In India they are an optional ₹49,999, and in Asia, Africa and Latin America an optional $799. Either way they are native iPhone versions of the customer and rider apps, submitted under your own Apple developer account ($99 a year, paid to Apple). Without them, iPhone customers use the web app, which installs to the home screen.

Payment terms are agreed in your written quote before any work starts, so you know exactly what is due and when.

Each setup runs from one kitchen location. If you operate several kitchens, tell us on the demo call and we will quote for your setup.

No. The price buys a licence to use TifTif for your own business, not the right to sell it. You cannot resell, rent, sublicense or share it, or set it up for another business; each business needs its own licence. Unlicensed use is charged at three times the list price per business, as our licence and usage policy explains. Agencies that want to offer TifTif to clients can apply to our partner programme.

No. You create a few accounts in your own name — we send step-by-step instructions and can join a call — and we do the installation, branding, configuration and testing.

Yes. We point a subdomain or your main domain at the app, whichever you prefer.

No — a personal developer account works, but Google makes new personal accounts run a closed test with at least 12 testers for 14 days before the app can go public. An organisation account, which needs a registered business and a D-U-N-S number, can apply for production without that test.

We handle the store review for you, including any changes Google asks for, as part of setup.

Customers create their own accounts in minutes with their phone number — share your app link on WhatsApp or print it on your packaging. If they had prepaid balances with you, the admin panel can credit their wallets.

We build the iPhone apps alongside Android once you have an Apple developer account; Apple's review usually takes a few days, and first submissions can take longer.

Yes. The demo and the quote cost nothing, and there is no obligation to buy.

A live video call with a person, using the real apps — so you can ask to see exactly the part you care about.

English, Hindi or Punjabi.

Yes. We schedule demos to suit your time zone, and quote in US dollars outside India.

Software that runs a tiffin or meal-subscription business day to day: subscriptions and orders, prepaid payments, kitchen quantities, delivery rounds and tracking, customer support and reporting. TifTif provides these as a customer app, rider app, admin panel and super admin.

Yes. The super admin has switches for referrals, loyalty, support, wallet top-ups, rider tracking and push notifications, so the apps only show what your business uses.

Yes. Customers can order a single meal for a coming slot, or subscribe so the order is placed for them every day.

Yes. Updates released during your support year reach your apps too.

Yes. Pauses are per meal and per day, so a customer can skip Friday's lunch and still get Friday's dinner.

Until that meal's cutoff time, which you set in the super admin. After the cutoff the kitchen count is locked.

An order is only placed when the wallet can pay for it. Customers get a "wallet running low" alert when their balance drops below a threshold, so they top up in time.

Yes, from the app, before the next cutoff. Any unused wallet balance stays in their wallet.

No. They top up once with any amount, and each meal is deducted automatically until the balance runs low.

Yes. The admin panel can adjust a customer's wallet balance, and the adjustment appears in the transaction history.

In India, UPI with an on-device QR code and admin verification. For other countries we set up a payment provider that works in your market during setup, using your own merchant account.

No. Payments go straight to your merchant account; the only fee is your payment provider's own.

Location is shared only while the rider is on duty, at roughly 20-second intervals rather than continuously, which keeps battery use modest.

It is calculated from the road route between the rider and the customer, not a straight-line distance, and updates as the rider moves.

Yes. Rider tracking is one of the feature switches in the super admin.

No — any Android phone with GPS and mobile data runs the rider app.

It depends on how scattered your stops are and how they are ordered today. In our six-stop test the planned round was 38% shorter (32.0 km down to 19.8 km); rounds that are already well ordered will save less.

The rider app shows the road route and ETA for each stop and hands off to Google Maps for turn-by-turn navigation, which riders already know how to use.

No. Planning runs inside your own database, so there is no per-route fee or external routing quota.

Yes. Rounds are planned per rider, per date and per meal.

At each meal's cutoff. Default cutoffs are 11:59 pm the night before for breakfast, 10:00 am for lunch and 3:00 pm for dinner, and you can change them in the super admin.

Yes. Counts are split by dish and by size, for each meal.

Stop it for the day from the admin panel. It becomes unavailable to order immediately.

Kitchen staff can use the admin panel with a team role you grant from the super admin.

Yes. You plan each day of the week separately, for each meal.

Yes. The customer app shows the menu for the meal they are ordering and for today.

Yes. Each dish in the item library can have its own photo, description and price.

Yes. The planner is cuisine-neutral — it works the same for bowls, salads, pasta, curries or meal-prep boxes.

Not for that meal — after the cutoff, orders go to the next available day. That is what keeps your kitchen count final.

You set the areas you serve in the super admin. Customers whose location is outside them are told you do not deliver there yet, instead of placing an order you cannot fulfil.

Yes, any time, from the super admin. Customers' countdowns follow the new times.

Yes. During setup we wire the platform to your country's time zone, so cutoffs and delivery windows are in local time.

Yes. When you resolve a ticket you choose the refund amount, including zero.

To the customer's wallet, immediately, where it pays for their next meal.

Yes. Support is one of the feature switches in the super admin.

Yes — the chat updates in real time, and the app notifies them of new replies.

Yes. The reward amount and the monthly cap are both set in the super admin.

No — points convert into wallet credit that pays for meals, so rewards always come back to your business.

Yes. Both are feature switches in the super admin.

Rewards are paid only after the friend's first delivered order placed after the referral, and there is a monthly cap per customer, so each fake account costs a real paid meal.

No. Revenue, orders and meal mix are charted in the admin panel and update as orders come in.

No. It calculates a tax summary for the period so your accountant has the figures; filing stays with you or your accountant.

India's GST is supported out of the box. For other countries, the tax summary is configured for your local rules during setup.

Only team members you have given access to, from the super admin.

They come together, because each does a different job: customers order, riders deliver, your team runs the day, and you set the rules. They are included in the one price.

The customer app runs in any web browser and as an Android and iPhone app; the rider app runs on Android and iPhone; the admin panel and super admin run in a browser on any computer. iPhone apps are included in the international plan and an optional add-on in India, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

No. They can use the web app in any browser and add it to their home screen. They can also install your app from Google Play or, with iPhone apps, the App Store.

With their phone number and a one-time code — no password to remember.

Yours. Your app name, logo and colours appear throughout, and the store apps are published under your own developer accounts.

Yes. Once today's cutoff for a meal has passed, the app offers the next available slot.

Yes. The iPhone rider app is included in the international plan and available as an add-on in India, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Any Android phone with GPS and mobile data works — or an iPhone where the iPhone apps are included. Personal or supplied by you.

By marking the stop delivered in the app. There is no code to collect from the customer, which keeps each stop quick.

Yes. The admin panel shows every rider on duty on a live map.

It runs in any browser, so it opens on a phone or tablet, but it is designed for a computer or tablet screen where the tables and maps have room.

Yes. Each team member has their own login, and everyone sees the same live data.

Yes, from the customer's page, with a reason that is recorded in their transaction history.

The admin panel runs the day — orders, kitchen, riders, payments. The super admin includes all of that plus the rules: team access, prices, cutoffs, rounds, zones and feature switches.

Only the people who own the business rules — usually the owner, and perhaps a partner. Everyone else works in the admin panel with the access you grant them.

No. Changes apply to all the apps immediately, with nothing to republish.

No. The apps, store listing and web address are all in your name.

Yes. The web app picks up a brand change as soon as it is deployed; the store apps change with their next release through Google Play.

Yes — that is what puts your name on the listing. It costs $25 once, paid to Google, and we help you set it up.

No. It is built for the tiffin model — daily meals, prepaid and delivered in rounds — which is the same for meal-prep brands, office lunch providers and meal subscriptions anywhere. We wire it for your country's currency, time zone and payments during setup.

If you deliver to a regular list of customers every day, the time saved on payments and counting usually matters from the first month. Try the profit calculator with your own numbers.

The platform runs on a dedicated database and server in your account, sized to your volume during setup; hundreds of daily subscribers are the normal case it is built for.

Yes. Share your app link; each customer signs up with their phone number in minutes. Prepaid balances can be credited to their wallets from the admin panel.

Yes. Each meal has two delivery rounds, with times you set.

You use what you need and switch the rest off in the super admin. The price is the same one-time payment, so the question is whether the time saved and the prepaid payments are worth it to you — the profit calculator helps.

Not necessarily. If you deliver yourself, you use the rider app on your own phone to see the route and mark deliveries.

In most places, yes. India requires FSSAI registration, the UK requires council registration 28 days before trading, and US rules vary by state. See our guide to starting a tiffin business for details.

Yes. TifTif runs your own channel alongside them; many kitchens use aggregators to find customers and their own app to keep them.

No. It is your separate, commission-free channel for customers who order from you directly.

Each TifTif setup is one brand. If you run several brands, talk to us on the demo call.

Residents top up their wallet — for a month or any amount — and each meal is debited as it is served, with refunds for paused days.

The subscription, pause and headcount features still work; talk us through your setup on the demo call so we configure it the right way.

Yes, by crediting each employee's wallet from the admin panel. There is no separate company billing account in the app; you invoice the company outside it.

Yes. Subscribers pause any day before the lunch cutoff, and the wallet is refunded if the order was already placed.

Yes, in each dish's description. TifTif does not calculate nutrition or track macros per customer.

Customers order from the menu you plan for each day and meal, or subscribe to the meals they want daily.

A home-based tiffin service can start with a small budget — registration, containers and bags, a few kitchen upgrades and some launch marketing. A commercial kitchen adds rent, deposits and equipment. Asking customers to prepay means their payments fund your ingredients.

Yes, you need at least FSSAI basic registration. From 1 April 2026 basic registration covers annual turnover up to ₹1.5 crore, and the government fee is ₹100 a year.

Yes, if you register with your local council at least 28 days before trading and meet food hygiene rules. Registration is free and cannot be refused.

It depends on your state. Cottage food laws usually exclude perishable meals, so most meal businesses use a licensed commercial kitchen; a few states and some California counties allow limited home-cooked meal sales under conditions.

Add up ingredients, packaging, delivery and overheads per meal, then add your margin. Our profit calculator does the arithmetic and shows your break-even number of meals per day.

At minimum: subscriptions with pause, a prepaid wallet with automatic refunds, per-meal cutoffs, kitchen counts, route planning, a rider app, live tracking, support with refunds, reports and staff roles — ideally under your own brand.

Monthly is cheaper to start; one-time is usually cheaper over several years. Compare the total over three years at your order volume, including per-order fees and running costs.

You can, but it is built for one-off orders, so you end up re-creating daily orders by hand and managing skips and prepayments outside it.

That depends on the vendor — ask before you sign. With a platform in your own accounts, the data is already yours.

It depends on distance, traffic and how clustered your customers are. Measure your own stops per hour for a week, keep rounds inside the delivery window, and split into two rounds per meal before a rider has too many stops.

In our six-stop test, a planned round was 19.8 km instead of 32.0 km — 38% shorter. Savings are bigger when stops are scattered and smaller when rounds are already well ordered.

It depends on your food and model. Reusable steel keeps heat and suits regular subscribers who return containers; compostable fibre suits single-use; glass suits premium meal-prep. Test on your longest route first.

Mid-morning is common — early enough to cook comfortably, late enough for customers. Choose one you can keep every day, then show customers a countdown.

Start where people eat the same meal daily and you can reach them repeatedly: offices, hostels, apartment groups and local communities. Offer a paid trial week, and make it easy for happy customers to refer friends.

Let them pause individual days themselves, rotate the menu, stay reliable on timing, fix complaints quickly, and nudge customers who have gone quiet.

Enough to feel generous — often the value of a meal or two — paid as wallet credit after the friend's first delivered order, with a monthly cap per customer.

Yes, if the rate fits your margin. Points are effectively a discount, so set how many are earned and what they are worth deliberately.

It depends on your size and goals. TiffinCRM suits very small services on a budget, Deonde a quick hosted launch, Sprwt US meal-prep businesses, and TifTif businesses that want to own a branded platform for a one-time price.

TiffinCRM publishes a free plan for up to 25 orders a day. Most full platforms with customer and rider apps are paid.

TifTif, Deonde (branded apps at $499 each) and Milkride (white-label options) all describe branded apps. Ask each whose developer account the app is published under.

With TifTif, the apps are published under your developer account and the data lives in your own accounts, with your brand throughout. What you buy is a licence to use the software for your own business — it cannot be resold or set up for other businesses.

Typically months, because it is four connected applications — customer, rider, admin and backend — that must be designed, built, tested and released.

Its brand, settings, menus, prices, cutoffs, zones and features are configured for you. Unique new features are a custom-development question; ask on the demo call.

Usually over several years, not in the first months. On TifTif's international plan, three years cost about $6,376 including running costs, versus about $10,960 on Deonde Premium with four branded apps or $9,000 plus fees on Sprwt Sprout. In India and in Asia, Africa and Latin America the gap is wider, because TifTif costs less there.

No monthly fee to TifTif. You pay the database, hosting and map providers directly — about $30 a month for one kitchen.

Support renewal is optional and yearly. Your apps keep running either way.

Yes, for a small number of customers. As you grow, manual lists, missed skips and payment chasing start to cost real time and money.

When building the daily list, handling skips and collecting payments take noticeable time every day, or when missed messages start causing waste.

Most are, especially when it saves them messaging you. The web app needs no download, and you can keep WhatsApp open for questions during the switch.

It depends on how long you use it. TifTif costs more upfront and less over time, because there is no monthly fee — only about $30 a month in running costs paid to the providers. Compare the three-year total at the Deonde plan you would need.

Deonde states 0% commission on orders on its pricing page; neither does TifTif.

Yes. Customers sign up in your new app with their phone number, and prepaid balances can be credited from the admin panel.

In Amritsar, Punjab, India. We run demos over video and set up businesses in any country.

TifTif was founded by Davinder Singh, who runs the product and handles client setup and support.

Not yet — TifTif is onboarding its first businesses. We will publish customer stories only when real customers agree to share them, and we never invent reviews.

In a database in your own account with the database provider (Supabase), set up in your name during setup. It is not shared with other TifTif clients.

We access your platform only to set it up and to support you, and only with your permission. Because the accounts are yours, you control and can remove that access.

The wallet is a record of prepaid credit; the actual money sits in your own merchant account. Balances change only through checked server-side functions, and the database is backed up daily.

Yes. 125+ automated tests run against a live database, both Android apps are tested on real phones, and a security review in September 2026 tested abuse cases, each now covered by a test.

They depend on how you work — referring clients or reselling — and are agreed in writing with each partner before the first client.

Your client's. TifTif's name does not appear on client apps.

We do, for the year of support included with each platform.

It depends on volume, price and costs. In our rupee example — 100 meals a day at ₹120, 26 days a month — the calculator shows about ₹82,960 a month, a 26.6% margin, with break-even at about 51 meals a day. Enter your own numbers to see yours.

Many tiffin kitchens aim to keep ingredients at roughly a third to two-fifths of the price. Work out yours from a real week of menus rather than a guess.

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