The family meal, finally simple.
A date that works for everyone, a menu that takes everyone into account, Grandma’s lasagne on the menu, and nobody chasing Uncle Dave for his share any more.
Only the family.
A secret or private sqwat: only the people you invite can see it. Nobody else can ask to come.
- Sat 14 Dec · 8:00 pm4 yes
- Sun 15 Dec · 12:30 pm7 yes
- Fri 20 Dec · 8:30 pm3 yes
Stop debating the date for ages.
Suggest three Sundays, everyone votes from their phone, you confirm. No more phone chains to find out who’s free on the 15th.
The birthday cake, paid for upfront.
The price is shown and paid from the start: no more chasing Uncle Dave for his share. Rather treat everyone? In a private or secret sqwat, you can cover everything.
The wine is Uncle Dave’s. Dessert, cousin Sophie’s.
In the menu, hand a dish to someone, with a budget: everyone knows what they’re bringing, and their shopping counts towards the total. No more lunches with two starters, three bottles of rosé and no pudding.
- Everyone sees what they’re bringing, and for how much.
- Their shopping gets paid back.
500 g Strawberries
200 g Plain flour
100 g Cold butter, diced
4 Egg yolksGrandma Margaret’s lasagne has its place.
Add your family recipe to “My dishes”, or pick from over 600 recipes. Sqwat flags everyone’s allergies, writes the shopping list, and tells you what to make the day before and what to keep for the big day.
Nobody gets forgotten, least of all the little ones.
Add your kids to your request: they have their place at the table, their allergies count, and under-3s don’t pay.
The family album fills itself.
Everyone adds their photos and videos to the sqwat’s album. No more begging your cousin to share theirs.
The family has its circle.
A secret circle for the family: the next Sunday at Grandma’s gets posted there, and everyone hears about it.
SecretThe TaylorsSundays at Grandma’s23 members
SecretThe cousinsBirthdays, holidays, Christmases11 members
PrivateThe in-lawsOne lunch a month, taking turns15 members
Everything, explained.
Does the whole family need the app?
No: those without Sqwat get a link by text or WhatsApp, and confirm and pay on the web.
Do children pay?
Under-3s don’t pay and don’t take a place. From 3, a child has their own place, and pays for it.
How much does it cost, and how is the price worked out?
The app is free. The host estimates the groceries, and Sqwat splits them across every place, the host’s own included: the host pays their share like everyone else. The price shown includes the Sqwat fee (5 % plus €0.99 per place). It’s set from the start and doesn’t change, even if some places stay empty. Your card is held when you ask for a place, and only charged if the host accepts you.
Max price or fixed price: what’s the difference?
With a max price, you pay at most the price shown: after the meal, the host enters what they really spent, and you get the difference back. With a fixed price, you pay the price shown, whatever the receipt says. And in a private or secret sqwat, the host can also cover everything: their guests pay nothing.
What the tax office says: does the host make money?
At home, it’s cost sharing: as long as the host eats with their guests and what they pay doesn’t exceed the real cost of the groceries, it isn’t income. Anything the host receives above that is taxable income they must declare. That’s why Sqwat works out the price from the groceries. For to-go sqwats, the rule is stricter: one to-go sqwat a week at most (beyond that, it becomes a catering business, with a professional kitchen and licences), and what the host receives is taxable, even if it only pays back the groceries.
Sqwat, for everyone.
The table is set.
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