Building your menu

Your menu is the product. The builder lets you structure it exactly as customers should browse it, and everything you publish goes live across your app, web ordering, the kiosk, the POS register and dine-in menus immediately — no app release required.

The hierarchy

Category group   optional — "Food", "Drinks", "Breakfast"
└── Category     the sections customers scroll — "Burgers"
    └── Item     what they actually order
        ├── Variants   Small / Medium / Large
        └── Add-ons    Extra cheese, no onions

Category groups are optional and bundle related categories. They earn their place on a long menu, or one with dayparts. On a short menu they are a level of navigation nobody needs.

What an dish carries

More than most people use, and knowing what is there saves inventing workarounds:

Identity — name, description and long description, a POS name for the kitchen or register, SKU and barcode.
Imagery — a main image, a header image, and a gallery.
Classification — category, badges, icons, dietary markers, brand.
Pricing — base price, retail price and packing price, plus minimum and maximum order quantity.
Tax — an override, where this dish is taxed differently. See Taxes & charges.
Stock — a current count and a daily quota, active only where the outlet tracks inventory. See Availability.
Variants and add-ons — see Add-ons & options.
Upsells — other dishes to suggest alongside it.
Language — every customer-facing field, per language.

Pricing per channel

An dish can be priced differently by channel: delivery, pickup, dine-in and kiosk each take their own price, and each can be marked unavailable independently.

This is how a delivery price absorbs a courier cost while the counter price does not, and how a large sharing dish stays on the dine-in menu and off the delivery one. Set the base price first and use channel prices only where there is a real reason — a menu with four prices per dish becomes impossible to reason about.

Publishing

Changes go live immediately across every surface. There is no staging step, which is fast and unforgiving in equal measure: check a price twice before saving, because the next order will use it.

A menu on a phone. A header carries the restaurant name and its opening hours, then a row for choosing delivery, pickup or dine-in, then the categories. Each dish shows its name, its description, its price — one with an earlier price struck through — and a button to add it. A checkout bar at the foot carries the basket total. — What the menu above becomes for a customer: categories, dishes, prices and add-ons, under the restaurant's own name.Illustration of a fictional demo account, with sample data. Not a live account.

Who edits what

You, from the dashboard, for structure and pricing — categories, new dishes, prices, tax.

Outlet staff, from the partner app, for the day-to-day — marking something sold out, disabling an dish until tomorrow, quick edits. What each person can touch is a per-user grant; see Users & roles.

That split is the right one. Whoever is standing in the kitchen when something runs out should be able to act on it without ringing you.

Import, export and POS sync

XLSX export and import handles bulk work — a price rise across a category, a seasonal menu swap, a new outlet starting from an existing menu. Import runs in create, update, or create-and-update mode, and there is a copy mode for cloning between outlets.

Where you run a connected point-of-sale, the menu can be previewed, imported and pushed between the two rather than maintained twice. See POS integrations.

A build checklist

Sketch the categories on paper first, in the order customers should meet them.
Create category groups only if the menu genuinely needs a level.
Add dishes with real names, real descriptions and real photography.
Build add-on groups once and attach them, rather than per dish.
Set tax where it differs from the outlet default.
Add channel prices only where there is a reason.
Order a few dishes yourself, on a phone, as a customer would.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Cause
An dish is not visible	It or something above it is disabled — see Availability
It shows but cannot be added	It is marked sold out, or out of stock where inventory is tracked
The price differs from what you set	A channel price, or a variant setting the price
A change did not appear	Changes are immediate; confirm you edited the right outlet
An add-on is missing from an dish	The group is not attached to it
An import removed things	Update mode overwrites; restore from your export

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