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Mealforma

Meal prep software · Edmonton, Alberta

Meal prep software for Edmonton, Alberta.

Storefront, weekly subscriptions, kitchen production, labels and delivery routing for meal-prep companies across Edmonton — from Oliver and Old Strathcona out to St. Albert, Sherwood Park and Spruce Grove.

7-day free trial on a real account · from $249/month · never a cut of your sales

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

A cook scattering sliced spring onion over rows of meal-prep containers of chicken, rice and vegetables

Meal prep in Edmonton

Built for long winters, shift work and a city split by its river valley.

Edmonton keeps long hours. Shift work, rotations away from home and early starts are part of life for a lot of households, and the gyms, hockey rinks and running groups across the city add customers who want their protein counted and their week planned. Mealforma is meal prep software that gives an Edmonton meal-prep company one place to sell weekly plans, take the orders and see what the week is worth before anything is cooked.

Winter here is long and serious. A driver spends months in snow, ice and short afternoon light, and a cold snap near −30°C means a box left outside freezes instead of staying chilled. Summer brings warm days and long evenings, and the van still has to keep food cold. Mealforma builds each day's route from that day's orders, gives the driver the stops in order with the customer's notes — back door, garage code, leave it inside — and records a photo on delivery.

The North Saskatchewan River valley cuts the city in two, and the bridges across it are where cross-town routes bunch up. The Anthony Henday ring road, the Whitemud and the Yellowhead carry most of the distance, and the region's suburbs spread out in every direction, from St. Albert in the north to Leduc and Beaumont in the south. Delivery zones, fees, delivery days and cut-off times are settings you change yourself, so a south-side run and a Sherwood Park run are two zones, not two systems.

Edmonton customers manage their plan from their phone. They choose this week's meals before the cut-off, skip the week they are away on rotation or at the lake, and pause over the holidays. The storefront and customer account handle all of that without an email to you, and the kitchen list counts only the orders that are actually locked.

Delivering across Edmonton

  • Downtown
  • Oliver
  • Old Strathcona
  • Garneau
  • Ritchie
  • Bonnie Doon
  • Highlands
  • Westmount
  • Glenora
  • Riverbend
  • Terwillegar
  • Windermere
  • Summerside
  • Mill Woods
  • Castle Downs
  • Callingwood

Also serving meal-prep companies near Edmonton

  • St. Albert
  • Sherwood Park
  • Spruce Grove
  • Stony Plain
  • Leduc
  • Beaumont
  • Fort Saskatchewan
  • Devon
  • Morinville

Starting a meal prep business? Read the guide first.

How to start a meal prep business in Alberta

Why Edmonton operators move

Three things we decided, so you do not have to negotiate them.

Built-in AI. Set up in minutes, easy every day.

Your shop is ready the moment you sign up, and your team can run it without training. Then switch on AI wherever it helps: a chat on your website that answers customers from your own menu, an assistant in your admin that finds orders and drafts replies, and recipe import that turns a pasted recipe into macros and labels.

See what the AI does

No percentage of your sales. Ever.

A flat monthly price, and that is the whole bill for the platform. We do not take a cut of your orders, your subscriptions or your growth, and we are not going to add it later.

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One system, from the shopping cart to the driver.

The menu a customer orders from is the same data the kitchen produces against, the labels print from, and the route is built from. Nothing is re-keyed between tools.

Everything it does
Sealed meal-prep containers stacked and ready to go out, each with rice, vegetables and a protein

Scope

Meal prep software from the shopping cart to the front door.

Six surfaces that share one catalogue, one set of recipe versions and one order record. Nothing is re-keyed between them.

Storefront and customer portal

A shop your customers order from, and a portal they manage their plan in — both driven by your catalogue rather than a separate website you keep in sync by hand.

Subscriptions and checkout

The part most meal-prep businesses actually run on, modelled properly instead of as a recurring charge with a menu attached.

Kitchen production

What to cook, how much, and from which recipe version — computed from the orders that are actually locked, not from a guess.

Labels and compliance

Labels print from the same recipe and nutrition versions the kitchen produced against, at exact physical size.

Delivery, routing and the driver app

Dispatch that assumes the phone loses signal, because in a delivery van it does.

Admin, staff and the assistant

The back office, with the permissions and the audit trail a business with staff actually needs.

Meal prep software in Edmonton: questions from buyers

What is meal prep software?

Software that runs a meal-prep business: the online store customers order and subscribe from, the weekly cut-offs, what the kitchen has to cook, the labels on each box and the day’s deliveries. Mealforma does all of it in one system, so an order is entered once and the kitchen, labels and routes all work from it.

How much does meal prep software cost?

Mealforma is a flat monthly price per kitchen, from US$249 a month on the Starter plan, billed in US dollars. There are no transaction or application fees and no percentage of your sales — several meal prep platforms take 1.35% to 3.5% of every order on top of card processing. Your payment provider’s own card fees still apply.

Can I run a meal-prep delivery business in Edmonton with Mealforma?

Yes. Mealforma is sold worldwide and billed monthly in US dollars. Sign up on this page and your shop starts in Mountain Time with Canadian dollars, ready for your Edmonton menu, plans and delivery days.

Can Edmonton customers subscribe and choose their meals each week?

Yes. Customers pick a weekly plan, choose their meals before your cut-off, and can skip or pause a week from their account. Anyone who does not choose in time can have meals picked for them automatically.

Does it print nutrition and allergen labels?

Yes. Labels print from the recipe version the kitchen actually cooked, with ingredients, allergens and nutrition, at the label’s real size — so a recipe change reaches the label without anyone retyping it.

Is there a driver app and delivery route planning?

Yes, on the Growth plan. Each day’s route is built from that day’s orders, the driver gets the stops in order on their phone with the customer’s notes, and can take a photo on delivery.

Can I charge different delivery fees for central Edmonton, St. Albert and Sherwood Park?

Yes. Draw your delivery zones on the map and give each one its own fee, minimum order and delivery days — central Edmonton inside the Henday, St. Albert to the north and Sherwood Park to the east can each have their own. A customer's address decides which zone they are in when they check out. Delivery zones come with the Growth plan.

Do I need my own website?

No. Mealforma includes the storefront your customers order from and the account they manage their plan in. A custom domain comes with the Growth plan.

Is there a free trial?

Yes. Sign up on this page for a free trial on a real account, and set up your menu, plans and delivery days with your own data.

Four meal-prep containers laid out in a grid, each with rice, roast vegetables, peppers, kale and chickpeas

Free trial · a real account

Start your Edmonton meal-prep shop today

  • Orders
  • Menus
  • Subscriptions
  • Kitchen
  • Deliveries
  • Customers

Free trial · a real account

Start your Edmonton meal-prep shop today

Create your account in a few minutes. Your shop starts in Mountain Time and Canadian dollars, ready for your Edmonton menu and delivery days.

You are starting on Starter: $249 a month after your free trial.

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The meal-prep business this account is for.

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One flat monthly price for your Edmonton kitchen.

Flat, monthly, billed in US dollars, and it scales with the number of kitchens you run — not with what you sell through them.

7-day free trial on a real account · from $249/month · never a cut of your sales