Terms of Service
Last updated: October 2026
1. Acceptance of terms
By creating an account or using Grocerplan you agree to these Terms of Service and to our
Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the service.
2. The service
Grocerplan is a meal-planning web app at grocerplan.com, operated by Merchant Dash LLC, 12325 Academy Rd #11, Philadelphia, PA 19154; mobile apps may follow. It helps you plan your week of meals, generates a combined grocery list, and hands that list off to a retailer for checkout.
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Instacart is the primary checkout handoff. “Shop on Instacart” turns your list — or a single recipe — into an Instacart page for the retailer you selected.
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Kroger is an optional secondary path. If you connect a Kroger account, Grocerplan can add list items to your Kroger cart.
Grocerplan never places an order for you. You review the items and complete checkout yourself on Instacart or Kroger. Grocerplan does not sell groceries, process payments, or deliver food.
3. Accounts and eligibility
You need an account to use the app: an email address and password, or Sign in with Google. You must be at least 18 years old. Keep your credentials confidential, give us accurate information, and tell us if you suspect unauthorized use of your account. You are responsible for activity under your account.
4. Retailer checkout (Instacart and Kroger)
To build your shopping-list or recipe page we send Instacart the ingredient names and quantities (for a recipe, also its title, steps, and photo); the retailer you selected is added to the link you open. Everything after that — prices, product availability, substitutions, fees, payment, delivery or pickup, and refunds — happens on Instacart under Instacart’s own terms and privacy policy. The same applies to Kroger when you use the Kroger cart add. Grocerplan is not responsible for either retailer’s pricing, availability, or store operations, and product matches are suggestions you should check before you pay.
5. Affiliate disclosure
When you check out on Instacart after using our “Shop on Instacart” link, Grocerplan may earn a commission from Instacart’s affiliate program (operated via Impact.com). This does not change your prices.
Grocerplan takes part in that program as an independent participant. It does not make us Instacart’s partner, agent, or representative, and Instacart does not endorse or sponsor Grocerplan.
6. Free service; no payment terms today
Grocerplan is currently free to use and we do not offer paid plans, so there are no fees, billing, or refund terms today. If we introduce paid plans, we will publish pricing and payment terms first and you will only be charged if you choose to subscribe. Payments would be processed by Stripe, and we would never store your card numbers.
7. Your content and acceptable use
You keep ownership of the recipes, photos, comments, and other content you add. You give us the license we need to operate the service: to store, display, and process that content for you — including sending recipe text to our ingredient-parsing provider and list items to the retailer you choose — and, if you create a public share link, to show the shared content to anyone who has the link, or if you invite a private grocery-list collaborator, to provide the access you choose after they accept. You are responsible for having the rights to anything you upload.
List owners control collaborator permissions. Collaborators must use only their granted access. Removing access prevents future access to the shared original; it does not recall independent copies or information already viewed or saved. Copy a shared list into your own account before creating a retailer shopping link.
You agree not to:
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use the service for anything unlawful, or to harass, impersonate, or harm others;
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upload content that is harmful, offensive, infringing, or misleading;
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scrape, crawl, or access the service by automated means, or try to circumvent its security or rate limits;
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interfere with the service, its infrastructure, or other users;
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use the retailer handoffs in a way that violates Instacart’s or Kroger’s terms.
We may remove content or restrict features that violate these rules.
8. Trademarks
Instacart® is a registered trademark of Maplebear Inc. d/b/a Instacart. Kroger® is a registered trademark of The Kroger Co. Grocerplan is an independent application. It is not endorsed or sponsored by Instacart or Kroger, and it is not a partner, agent, or representative of either company; taking part in Instacart’s affiliate program (section 5) does not change that. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
9. Nutrition and allergen information
Calorie, macro, and other nutrition figures are estimates for informational purposes only. They are not medical advice and do not replace guidance from a doctor or registered dietitian. Allergen filtering is best-effort: recipes and product matches may still contain or come into contact with an allergen. Always check ingredient labels before you buy or eat something, especially if you have a food allergy or a medical condition.
10. Disclaimers and limitation of liability
The service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Grocerplan is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost data or profits, arising from your use of the service or of any retailer, and our total liability for any claim relating to the service will not exceed US$100. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limitations, so they may not apply to you.
11. Termination
You may delete your account at any time in the app (Profile → Delete Account). We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms or put the service or other users at risk. After termination, your data is deleted as described in our
Privacy Policy.
12. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as the service evolves. We will post the new version here and update the “Last updated” date; for material changes we will make reasonable efforts to notify you. Continuing to use Grocerplan after a change means you accept the updated terms.
13. Governing law
Grocerplan is operated from the United States, and these terms are governed by the laws of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Nothing in these terms limits any consumer rights you have under the laws where you live.
14. Contact
Grocerplan is operated by Merchant Dash LLC, 12325 Academy Rd #11, Philadelphia, PA 19154, United States.
Contact: support@merchant-dash.com