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🥡 Orders

The takeout your family actually orders: where from, what you get and what it costs. Plan one for dinner like a recipe.

Meals → Orders

Adding an Order

Tap the green +. Three ways:

• Scan a Receipt Premium: a photo of the paper receipt or a screenshot from the restaurant’s app. We read the place, the items and the price.
• Type It In: the place and what you order. The address helps with pickup timing.
• Email It Premium: forward the receipt email (see below).

Typing an order in is free. Reading a receipt, from a photo or an email, is part of Premium: each one counts toward your family’s 60 receipts and emails a month, shared with grocery receipts and emails read for events. Without Premium, your family’s first 5 are read free, to try it. The same receipt sent twice, or one we couldn’t read, doesn’t count.

Emailing Receipts

Premium Send or forward a restaurant’s receipt email (DoorDash, Uber Eats, the restaurant itself…) to [email protected] from the email address you sign in with (or the alternate email on your Profile). Add to Contacts saves the address, so next time you just type “Apr…”. It becomes an order here in a minute or so. Orders checks for new ones by itself when you open it, or tap ↻ Check for New.

Tired of forwarding? Forward them from Gmail automatically sets up a Gmail filter that sends only food receipts. The steps are in Account → Connections → Email.

An Order’s Card

Tap an order to see its items, prices, total and address. Edit fixes anything we read wrong; + Plan puts it on the calendar. Tap the ♥ on a card to make it a favorite; ✨ Plan the Menu Premium leans toward your favorites.

Ordering again? An order from DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub or Seamless has Open DoorDash ↗ (or the service’s name), and one from a chain with its own app (Chipotle, Panera, CAVA, MOD Pizza, honeygrow…) has Order in Chipotle ↗. On an iPhone it opens their app if you have it, else their website. They’re on the order’s card and on a planned takeout dinner’s card.

The All Orders menu narrows the list to favorites or one cuisine.

Planning Takeout for Dinner

Tap + Plan and pick the day, or press and hold the card and slide it onto the calendar (drag it on a computer): it lands where you let go, sticking to your dinner time when you’re close to it, and another finger can change the week meanwhile. Otherwise the order is timed to be home at your dinner time: AprèsSchool works back from dinner, allowing about 15 minutes’ wait at the restaurant plus the drive home.

• Pick-up: choose who picks it up on the planned order’s card, like a class drive. They get a reminder when it’s time to leave.
• Wait time: if your place is always slower (or faster), change the wait on the card.

Planned takeout shows on Home’s On the Menu with its pickup time.