Fill your quiet tables.
Get paid before anyone orders.
Flat White books pairs of people into partner cafés to meet over coffee. Every booking arrives with guaranteed spend attached: no software, no joining fee, no risk.
What a partnership is worth
Every café owner knows the shape of the problem: the weekend rush looks after itself, and Tuesday at ten looks after nobody. Flat White introduces two locals (for friendship, networking, or a first date) and books their meeting at your café for an hour, whenever the two of them are free. Some meets will land in your weekend rush; plenty land on the midweek tables that need them most. Either way, it’s a table of two you weren’t counting on, with the spend attached before they arrive. Slide to see what that adds up to:
An illustration, not a promise: how many pairs choose your café depends on your location, your seats and how active your city is. What is guaranteed: every pair that books arrives with $14 of orders already paid. Second rounds, cakes and lunches are yours at full price on top, and every guest is a potential regular who now knows where you are.
Where the money comes from, and when it lands
When two people book a meet, each pays Flat White a $10 booking fee up front. Guests see the full split on their own payment screen, and so do you: $7.00 goes to your café as a coffee credit, about 48¢ covers the card transaction fee (passed through to Stripe at cost), and the remainder (roughly $2.52) is Flat White’s booking fee. If a guest pays with an international card and the card fee is higher, that comes out of our share. Your $7 is fixed.
Unused credit stays with you. If a guest orders a $5.50 flat white against their $7.00 credit, the difference doesn’t come back to us and doesn’t roll over: you invoice the full credit value regardless. (And if they’re under, your staff have every reason to suggest the pastry.)
Ordering over the credit is even simpler. The $7 is a floor, not a ceiling. If a guest wants the $9 single-origin batch brew, adds a toastie, or the hour turns into lunch, they just pay you the difference directly at the till, like any other customer. That extra never routes through Flat White. It’s full-price business, yours on the spot.
Payment lands weekly, on a set clock. Every Monday at 5pm we pay out all credits redeemed at your café from Saturday through Friday of the previous week, each at its full $7 value, whatever the guest ordered. The weekend in between is deliberate: it leaves a few days for anyone, café or guest, to raise a question about the week’s meets before the money moves, so what lands on Monday is settled and final. No thresholds, no chasing, no reconciliation homework.
What happens when a pair turns up
A table for two, the day and the time. Nothing to confirm. It’s a heads-up, not homework.
The app has already told them where you are and when to be there.
Check-in only works when they’re physically at your café (location-verified). They swipe and show staff a full-screen receipt: REDEEMED, with your café’s name, the drink value and a reference code. Staff glance, nod, take the order. Nothing to scan, nothing to type. If the order comes to more than the credit, the guest pays the difference at the till as normal.
Each credit is strictly one-time use. Once swiped, the screen can’t be shown again. No double-dipping, no ambiguity.
Every redeemed credit counts at $7 in Monday’s payment run, whatever the guest ordered. If anything is ever disputed, nothing happens automatically: a human from Flat White contacts you, and your word on what happened at the table is the authoritative account.
What we ask of you
Deliberately little: a good table for two for about an hour (ideally one where a first conversation can actually happen, not wedged against the grinder), the orders against each guest’s credit, and a two-second glance at a phone screen. That’s the whole job description.
Become a partner café
We’re building the partner list city by city, starting in Perth, and we vet every café personally: the whole product only works if the table at the end of it is somewhere worth sitting. Two minutes, no obligation:
Thanks. Application received.
We review every café personally and we’ll be in touch. It usually starts with a coffee at yours, our shout.
Same small Perth team as Foody Bag. We’ve been building for cafés for years.