Hospitality first. Paperwork second.

Settle is built by a small team in Switzerland. We think service should be about hospitality, not about chasing bills.

Settle exists because the last ten minutes of a good meal are so often the worst: waving for the bill, waiting for the terminal, splitting attention between guests who want to leave and guests who want to order. We build the boring plumbing for ordering, paying, receipts and VAT so that service can stay about hospitality.

We are a small Swiss team, we answer our own support emails, and we build with restaurants, not just for them. If something about Settle should work differently for your house, tell us. That is exactly what the pilot phase is for.

Built in Switzerland
Data stays in Switzerland and the EU
Four languages, one team

Why build this for Switzerland

Scan, order and pay at the table is already everyday life in Paris, London and New York. Switzerland deserves the same, built the Swiss way: TWINT as a matter of course, receipts with the 8.1 and 2.6 percent VAT split, four languages in one dining room, and data that stays in Zurich.

That is Settle. Not a global product with a Swiss sticker, but plumbing built for this market from the first day: the payment methods your guests already hold, the paperwork your fiduciary already expects, and the languages your terrace already speaks.

The two of us

Two founders, one conviction: the last minutes of a meal belong to the table, not to the terminal. A note from each of us on why we build Settle.

Dr. Sarah Gelinas

Co-founder

Psychology has a tidy name for something every host knows in their bones: the peak-end rule. People remember an experience by its best moment and by how it ends. Restaurants pour their craft into the peak, the plate, the room, the welcome, and then hand the ending to a payment terminal. What I disliked most about eating out was never the food, it was waving for a bill that took a quarter of an hour to arrive. I am quite sure I am not the only one.

My doctorate was about attention, what it costs and how it breaks, and a full dining room on a Friday night is that subject running live. A server who leaves to fetch a card machine is taken away from the room, one table at a time. When paying quietly takes care of itself, service gets its attention back: reading a table, recommending the dessert, saying a real goodbye. That last impression is what guests carry home. Protecting it felt more useful than writing another paper about it.

John Mahama

Co-founder

I have built software in Switzerland and Canada, at several companies that were later acquired, and every exit taught the same lesson: what lasts is the unglamorous plumbing, the code that moves money correctly on a packed Saturday night. Restaurants live under exactly that pressure, seconds and francs, and they deserve tools built with that respect. So Settle counts in whole Rappen, never in floating point, and the kitchen only ever sees orders that are already paid.

The product itself was born out of a very ordinary evening: a brilliant crew, a full terrace and one card terminal holding the whole room hostage. Time is the thing a service never has enough of, and it is the one thing software can genuinely give back. That is the entire ambition, a Settle QR on the corner of every Swiss table, doing its job so quietly that all anyone notices is the extra time.

House rules we hold ourselves to

No trackers, no cookie banner

Guest pages run without marketing cookies or third-party trackers. There is no cookie banner because there is nothing to consent to.

The kitchen only sees paid orders

A ticket only exists once the money has actually arrived. It keeps service calm and the books exact.

Guests stay anonymous

No guest accounts, no profiles, no remarketing. An email address is used only when a guest asks for a receipt or a review invitation.

We onboard deliberately

Access is invite-based and every account is secured with two-factor login. We would rather grow carefully than casually, with your revenue in the middle.

Talk to the makers.

Questions, feedback, a venue that does not fit the mold? Write to us. A founder answers, usually the same day.

hello@settleapp.ch

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