What's the best app for meal planning and ordering on Shopify?

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Topic summary

Migration from WooCommerce (WordPress e‑commerce) to Shopify for a kids’ lunch ordering system that supports per‑school‑day menu selection, checkout, and aggregated reports by child/school.

Current assessment: a consultant states core Shopify handles static products with standard cart/checkout, not calendar-based scheduling and grouped reporting. The functionality appears to require a custom web app.

Actions: the consultant offered to build a custom solution and sent a private message. The OP shared the existing site link (greenheartlunchclub.com) to illustrate requirements.

Expanded scope: the OP wants a unified cart across three businesses (lunch club, kitchen, and an inn) plus in‑store Shopify POS (point‑of‑sale). They are finding this consolidation may not be feasible within Shopify’s standard capabilities.

Status: no public app recommendations or confirmed solution yet. Another participant asked if any solution was found, suggesting the thread remains open.

Key questions: whether a Shopify app/workflow can support per‑day meal planning with child/school reporting, and if multiple businesses can be unified in one Shopify cart with POS integration.

Summarized with AI on January 11. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hello All!

I am currently working on a Shopify store for a client. They are a kitchen that specializes in providing healthy meals for kids. Their current site uses WooCommerce but wishes to move it to Shopify. How there site works is a parent can select from a menu for each school day for per week for lunch items for their kid. The parent can checkout with payment and a report is sent to the kitchen with a order menu for the child and each child from the same school. Not sure if anyone can recommend a similar app that may work for Shopify or if would need to be custom program? Any suggestions would be greatly welcomed.

Thank you!

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Hey

From your description, this is not something you can do on shopify.

Shopify allows you to list static products, add to basket and checkout.

What you’re describing is a custom webapp/system which I can assist in building if you can provide more information (maybe the link to the existing website?).

Hope this helps!

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Thank you so much for your quick reply.

Here is the current website.
https://www.greenheartlunchclub.com

It basically allows parents to purchase lunches for their kids for each day of the week. Please let me know if you have any questions.

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I’ve sent you a private message.

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Hi Amine,

Thank you so much for taking the time to look into this. The client has a few different businesses. The lunch club is one, along with offering food from the kitchen and an Inn. I think his hope with Shopify was to bring all three businesses into one cart and have a Shopify POS at his actual business. But I am quickly finding out this may not be a possibility.

Thank you again for your super quick reply! I really appreciate it.
Tom

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I am curious if you have found any solutions to this. I am in a similar situation.