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Cashless dining

Catering and Bar Services offer a cashless payment system, SimmPay, in all food and beverage outlets. We encourage our staff and students to register with SimmPay, which offers rewards and speeds up the payment process.

Launch SimmPay: Cashless Catering



Sign up to SimmPay

St Mary’s offers a cashless payment system for food and drink purchases in all food and beverage outlets. All outlets accept only cashless payment options and SimmPay offers students and staff a system that helps with quicker service in outlets and rewards you for your custom.  

  • Get discount on food drinks.
  • Collect loyality rewards for every £1 you spend.
  • Earn FREE coffee vouchers. 

Welcome to your new home away from home. To ensure you make the most of your catered meal plan, please follow this guidance.

  • Your meal allowance credits (meal points) will automatically drop into your SimmPay Cashless rewards accounts each morning. Residential students get 14 meals per week.
  • Each weekday, 10 meal points or £8.50 is credited to your account.
  • On weekends, 14 meal points or £11.90 is credited each day.
  • Each meal point is £0.85 and students can pick and choose items from the menu that are marked with a meal point value in the Refectory.

Students can use their points flexibly at any of the meal times.

  • Weekdays: Breakfast: 8-10am, Lunch: 12-2pm, Dinner: 5-7pm
  • Weekends: Brunch: 11am-1pm, Dinner: 4.30-6.30pm

You can load additional funds into your SimmPay account and get the benefit of paying the discounted meal point value for extra items taken. Students can also earn loyalty rewards in all catering outlets, e.g., buy nine coffees, get the 10th free + 5% loyalty rewards on every £1 spent on retail items.

Sign up to SimmPay

If you have pre-registered to join on 15th September 2024:

  1. 1. Your SimmPay account will be created and linked to your ID card.
  2. Click on www.stmarys.ac.uk/simmpay and reset your password using your St Mary’s email address.
  3.  Download the SimmPay app. Log in using your St Mary’s email address and the newly reset password in step two.

Download the SimmPay app

SIMMPAY_APP_QR_CODE 2024

If you are joining after 15th September 2024 or moving into residences mid-term

  1. Download the SimmPay app and sign up as a new user. Log in using your St Mary’s email address.
  2. Speak to a Catering Team Leader in the Refectory to link your ID card and update your SimmPay account. Also see a Team Leader if you have a new ID card at any time.

Contact us

  • Email: catering@stmarys.ac.uk
  • Tel: 020 8240 4069

St Mary’s offers a cashless payment system for food and drink purchases in all food and beverage outlets. All outlets accept only cashless payment options and SimmPay offers students a system that helps with quicker service in outlets and rewards you for your custom.  

  • Get 10% discount on Hot Breakfast and Hot Lunch options.
  • Collect 5% loyalty rewards for every £1 you spend on retail items, bottled drinks and packed snacks, you collect five loyalty points (worth 5p).
  • Earn FREE coffee vouchers in all outlets when you buy nine hot drinks you’ll get your 10th free.

Sign up to SimmPay

  • Download the SimmPay app and create your account.

SIMMPAY_APP_QR_CODE 2024

  • Link your ID card to your SimmPay account in the Refectory.
  • Please speak to a Catering Team Leader in the Refectory for any assistance or contact us via email catering@stmarys.ac.uk, or call Catering Office on 020 8240 4069.

St Mary’s offers a cashless payment system for food and drink purchases in all food and beverage outlets. All outlets accept only cashless payment options and SimmPay offers staff a system that helps with quicker service in outlets and rewards you for your custom.  

  • Get 20% discount on hot food, sandwiches and dispensed drinks in the Refectory, and hot eats and salads in cafes.
  • Collect 5% loyalty rewards for every £1 you spend on retail items, bottled drinks and packed snacks, you collect 5 loyalty points (worth 5p).
  • Earn FREE coffee vouchers in all outlets when you buy 9 hot drinks you’ll get your 10th free.

Sign up to SimmPay

  • Download the SimmPay app and create your account

  SIMMPAY_APP_QR_CODE 2024 

  • Link your ID card to your SimmPay account in the Refectory.
  • Please speak to a Catering Team Leader in the Refectory for any assistance, if you received a replacement ID or joined us mid-term.
  • You can also contact us catering@stmarys.ac.uk or call Catering Office on 02082404069.

In all Food and Beverage outlets:

  • The Refectory
  • Dolce Vita Café
  • Naylor Café.

Resident students on the meal plan will have their meal credits automatically refreshed onto their SimmPay catered accounts. These will reset daily on weekdays and after each meal on weekends.

You can top up additional funds securely by debit/credit card into your Simmpay account via the SimmPay Website or on the SimmPay app.

If you are topping up for the first time then use the My Purses section to add funds. If you choose to save your card details, then you can use the Quick top up section on the first page.

You can top up £500 in your cashless online account. You can set up the auto-top up function if you are a regular user. Check the settings in the My Purse - Cashless Purses section.

You can check your transactions and balance by checking the app or logging into the SimmPay Website.

Inform St Mary's Security and check if it has been handed in.

If the card is lost, we strongly recommend blocking the card for Cashless Dining to stop unauthorised use.To do this, please log in to your online Cashless Catering account and then select 'Mark as lost' in the Account Details section. Once the card is marked as lost, it cannot be used by anyone else for catering purchases. You may need to pay for a new ID card from Security if your card is not recovered or found.

When you obtain a new ID card, go to any catering outlet till and ask the cashier to tell you the new ID card internal serial number. You can log in to your online Cashless Catering account and then add you new card internal serial number in the Account Detail section (Add new card). All your funds are held in your online account and no funds are stored on the ID card. You can also ask a Catering Team Leader in the Refectory to assist you with this.

We will not be held liable for any unauthorised use of funds on a lost/ stolen ID card. However, if we do find anyone misusing funds on another person's ID card we will report them to Security. Disciplinary action will also be taken against anyone who misuses another person's ID card. All 'Lost and found' ID cards must be handed to Security.

To use funds on your SimmPay account you must have the application on your smartphone or a registered ID card that is linked to your SimmPay account. Without your SimmPay app or an ID card you will need to pay full retail price by debit/credit card.

We request that you use the SimmPay app or SimmPay Website to regularly check your balance in advance and make sure you have enough funds to pay for food and drink. You can also set your account to auto-top up. You can enable this in the My Purse - Cashless Purses section. Cashiers will ask you to pay the full retail price by debit/credit card if you have insufficient funds on SimmPay.