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LionSwipe

Track Every Meal
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Buy and sell swipes here!

Enter Your Own Meal

Log an eating-out purchase or a grocery run.

Dining Dollars

Log purchase with dining dollars.

Flex

Log purchase with flex.

Your Breakdown

Meal Swipes Used / Week — scroll for history & target pace

Swipes used
Target pace needed to use up your plan by semester end

Money Spent Eating Out / Week — scroll for history & target pace

Spent eating out
Target spend to hit your spending goal

Grocery Spending / Week — scroll for history & target pace

Spent on groceries
Target spend to hit your grocery budget
Dining Hall vs. Eating Out
Eating Out vs. Grocery Spending
Dining Dollars Spent
Flex Spent

Dining Halls Visited — top 9

Meal History

Swipe Market

Buy or sell meal swipes with other Columbia/Barnard students. Click a listing to claim it and communicate with the lister

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Count this as a meal swipe

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Where did you eat?

How much did you spend?

Date

Log Dining Dollars Purchase

Where did you go?

$ spent

Date

Correct Swipes Left

Enter your actual swipes left, exactly as it shows on SSOL.

Edit Entry

Where did you eat?

Amount

Date

Profile

Select your plan below. Full details at dining.columbia.edu/student-dining-plans.

Post a Listing

Swipes can only be transferred by swiping the other person in together, so pick a dining hall and a time window to meet (at least 15 minutes).

Your school email () is shown to other students automatically — no contact info to enter.

Repost Listing

The meeting window passed before anyone claimed this listing. Pick a new time and it'll go live again — defaults to the same time tomorrow.

Confirm

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Guest data found

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Help

What LionSwipe Does

LionSwipe is used by Columbia students who want to get more out of their meal plan. It displays live dining hall menus for you to track your meal swipes, as well as spending on eating out and grocery shopping—so you never have to guess.

The Problem We're Solving

It's easy to lose track of how many meal swipes you have left or how much money you've been spending on eating out. LionSwipe offers live dining data and a comprehensive dashboard with your meal swipe and spending information all in one place, so you can save time and energy when deciding what to eat.

What Info We Ask For

All you have to input is your meal plan for the semester, and you can add spending goals if you want to budget. Then, you just log dining hall meal swipes and off-campus spending as you go. You can use LionSwipe as a guest with no log-in required (your data stays in your browser). Sign up any time for an account to make saving and managing your data easier.

Our Story

LionSwipe is built by Evelyn and Zoey, who are sophomores studying CS at Columbia. The idea was born in Summer 2026, and we are constantly working on improving it for users. Feel free to leave feedback at this form or fill out our dining survey :)

Finding Your Meal Swipes on SSOL

  1. Go to ssol.columbia.edu and log in.
  2. Click the ☰ Dashboard button, then go to Campus Services → Dining → View Cardholder Transactions.
Why use LionSwipe to keep your own log instead of just using SSOL?
  1. SSOL is hard to use.
  2. SSOL doesn't tell you a target pace to use up all your meal swipes.
LionSwipe helps you optimize your meal plan!
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Psst… if you're on a term-based (semester) plan, your Fall swipes will roll over into Spring, but SSOL will only show the Spring swipes and not show your leftover swipes from the Fall.

We read the fine print for you:

"As a courtesy, unused meals from the Fall Term will rollover to Spring Term. However, these meals are not available until all meal swipes for Spring Term have been used and cannot be viewed in SSOL." — Columbia Dining

More general info about dining plans: