Help & FAQ

Plan: Salu-Salo is an app that helps you and your friends decide where and when to eat together — without the endless "saan tayo kakain?" group chat.

The idea: one person sets up a few options (a restaurant plus a date), everyone taps to vote, and the winning option becomes your plan. Or, if you already know where you're going, the organizer can just set the plan no voting needed. Either way, no more back-and-forth.

1. Sign up with your email (or your Google account).
2. If you signed up with email, check your inbox and click the confirmation link you have to do this before you can start.
3. Fill in a few quick details about yourself (name, your city/area).
4. Create a group (your set of friends), or join one a friend invites you to.
5. Start voting on where to eat, or let the organizer set a plan.
   

That's the whole flow. Everything else builds on these steps.

You have two choices — use whichever you prefer:

• Email and password — sign up with your email address and a password.
• Google — tap "Sign in with Google" and you're in, no separate password.

After signing up with email, the app sends you a confirmation email. You must open it and click the link before you can use the app, this is just to confirm the email is really yours.

If you don't see it, check your spam folder, or use the "resend" option on the sign-in screen.

On the sign-in screen, tap the "forgot password" option. Enter your email and you'll get a link to set a new password (at least 8 characters).

It helps in two ways: the app sits on your home screen so you don't type the website each time, and importantly notifications only work once it's installed. It takes a few seconds.

No app store needed — it installs straight onto your home screen and opens like a normal app. Tap here for the simple step-by-step /install page

A full Android install is coming soon. For now, here's the easiest way to keep it handy:
Open plansalu-salo.com in the Chrome browser.
Tap the three-dot menu (⋮) in the top corner.
Tap "Add to Home screen".
This puts an icon on your home screen. (You can also just bookmark the site.)

A group is just the set of people you'll be eating with — like "Barkada", "Officemates", or "Family". You can be in as many groups as you like, and each group plans its own outings.

Go to "Create Group".
Give it a name.
Pick the group type — you choose from: Friends, Family, Barkada, Work, Celebration, Date Night, Brunch, or Nightlife.
Add a few preferences if you like — area, cuisines you enjoy, budget, dietary needs, and rough group size.
Create it. The app gives your group an invite code so you can add people.
A note: the cuisine and budget you set are preferences to guide suggestions — they're not strict filters that hide everything else.

There are two easy ways, and both use the same code:
Share the invite link — send the link to your friends. They tap it, see a preview of the group, and join.
Share the code — give them the 8-character code. They go to the "Join" screen, type the code, find the group, and join.
Either way works — use whatever's easier for your friends.

Two ways:
If they sent you a link, just tap it and choose Join.
If they gave you a code, open the "Join" screen, type the code, and tap to find and join the group.
After joining, you may be asked for a few food preferences, then you're taken to the group's voting screen.

Yes, you can leave a group anytime from the group screen. If you left on your own, you can re-join later using the invite link or code. (If the organizer removed you, you'd need a fresh invite.)

Think of it as a quick poll for your group:
The organizer picks one or more restaurants and one or two date/time options. Each restaurant-plus-date pairing becomes an option to vote on.
Everyone in the group taps the options they'd be happy with. You can vote for more than one (usually up to two).
The organizer closes the voting and locks in the winner.
The winning option becomes your confirmed outing.

A combination is one restaurant matched with one date and time, bundled as a single thing to vote on — for example, "Manam, Saturday 7 PM". You're voting on the whole package: the place and the when.

Everyone in the group can vote, including the organizer. You can change your votes freely while voting is open — re-submitting just replaces your earlier picks. Once the organizer closes voting, it's locked.

When closing the voting, the organizer has two choices:
Let the top-voted option win — the app automatically picks whichever got the most votes.
"Pick this" — the organizer chooses a specific option themselves, even if it wasn't the top vote-getter.
So the votes guide the decision, but the organizer makes the final call.

Ayoko (veto): if your group has enabled it, you can quietly veto a restaurant you really don't want — it's anonymous, and you get a limited number. There always have to be enough restaurants left over, so you can't veto everything.

Kayo na bahala (abstain): if you genuinely don't mind where the group goes, you can opt out of that outing's voting and nudges, and let everyone else decide.

No, voting is optional. If you're the organizer and already know the plan, choose "Organize Directly": pick the one restaurant, set a date and time, and it becomes a confirmed outing straight away — no voting round needed. Use voting when the group needs to decide, and direct organizing when it's already settled.

An outing is your confirmed plan — the restaurant, date, and time, either chosen by voting or set directly by the organizer.

RSVP means telling the group whether you're coming. Open the outing and choose Yes, Maybe, or No. This helps the organizer know how many to expect — handy for booking a table. One tap, done.

Your outings list shows everything planned across all your groups in one place, including a "Ready to review" section for outings you've recently been on. Past outings are kept too, so you can look back.

Yes — the organizer can cancel an outing. If a table was booked through a partner restaurant, cancelling the outing also cancels that booking automatically.

Discover is where you search for places to eat. You can type naturally — like "affordable Japanese near BGC" or "nice place for a date" — and the app figures out what you mean and shows matching restaurants as cards. Each card shows the name, rating, price level, distance (for location searches), and any badges.

Just type what you're after in plain words. You can also tap cuisine chips to narrow it down, sort by distance or rating, and filter by Michelin recognition. If your search is too vague, the app will ask a quick follow-up to understand you better.

Some restaurants carry a Michelin pill on their card, based on the 2026 Michelin Guide. You can filter Discover to show only Michelin-recognised places, across four levels: Two Star (★★), One Star (★), Bib Gourmand, and Michelin Selected. Around 88 Manila restaurants are tagged.
(Note: tapping a Michelin filter shows only that tier and clears your other search filters — it's a standalone view.)

Yes. From Discover you can submit a restaurant — either paste its Google Maps link or send a text request — and it'll be considered for adding. (Right now this covers Metro Manila.)

Tap the heart icon on any restaurant to save it as a favourite, so it's easy to find again. Your saved places live on the Favourites screen.

If most of a group's members (more than two-thirds) have hearted the same restaurant, it shows up as a favourite for the whole group — a quick way to spot crowd-pleasers when planning.

You'll get alerts for things like: it's time to vote, someone voted, your outing updates, booking updates, and bill-split reminders. They help you keep up without opening the app constantly.

Two things:
Have you installed the app to your home screen? On phones, notifications only work after you install it (see "Installing the App" below).

Did you allow notifications when asked? If not, follow the steps below for your phone.

One iPhone setting commonly blocks them, called "iCloud Private Relay". To turn it off:
Open Settings.
Tap your name at the top.
Tap "iCloud".
Tap "Private Relay".
Turn it OFF.
Close the app fully and reopen it.

Check both of these:
Allow notifications:
Settings → "Apps" → Plan: Salu-Salo.
Tap "Notifications" and turn them ON.
Stop the app being put to sleep:
In the same app settings, tap "Battery".
Set it to "Unrestricted" (or turn off battery optimization for this app).
Android sometimes shuts apps down in the background to save power, which stops notifications — these two steps fix that.

After you've been on an outing, anyone who attended can sort out who owes what:

Start a bill split from the past outing.

Either snap a photo of the receipt and let the app read the items, or just enter a grand total for an equal split.

People claim what they ordered (for itemised splits).

The app works out each person's share. Then everyone marks their share paid.

It's in Philippine Pesos.

Anyone who attended the outing (RSVP'd Yes or Maybe) — it doesn't have to be the organizer.

Bill splits become available once an outing has actually happened (it reaches the review/completed stage). Outings only show up as "ready to split" for about 30 days afterwards.

Nothing's broken. Once a bill is fully settled, it stays on your list for 15 more days so you can still check it, then drops off automatically to keep things tidy. Unfinished ones stay put so you can deal with them.

It depends on the restaurant:
Partner restaurants: yes — the organizer can tap "Request Booking" with the date, time, and party size already filled in. You'll see the booking move through stages (pending, accepted, or countered with a different time). Only the organizer sends the request; everyone else sees the status.

Everywhere else: the app can't book the table directly. Instead the organizer gets a "Book Through Google" button that opens the restaurant in Google Maps, plus the restaurant's phone number and website where available, so you can book with them directly.

That button opens the restaurant's Google Maps page so you can take it from there — it doesn't make the reservation for you. For a guaranteed in-app booking, the restaurant needs to be a Plan: Salu-Salo partner.

Every outing and restaurant has a "Get Directions" option that opens it in Google Maps.

Yes — after you've been on an outing there, you can leave a review. You can also browse reviews from other Salu-Salo diners on the Reviews screen and on each restaurant's page. Reviews come from people who actually dined, so they're trustworthy.

Sign out from your profile screen.

Open your profile from the menu. You can update your display name, location, cuisine preferences, dietary needs, allergies, and your notification setting.