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Step-by-step guides.

The essential Menly tasks, in the order you will need them. Each guide points to the screens of your management dashboard.

Get started

Your account and your first restaurant.

Create your account
  1. 1Click “Create my menu” and enter your email address.
  2. 2Enter the 6-digit code you received by email.
  3. 3Choose your password: you land in your dashboard.
Follow the guided setup
  1. 1Open your restaurant: the guided setup shows the steps and your progress.
  2. 2Getting started: your business, your goals, identity, opening hours, languages.
  3. 3Your menu: creating the menu, categories, products, options, suggestions.
  4. 4Guest experience: appearance. Going live: preview, plan, publishing, QR code.

Essential steps first; recommended and optional steps can wait.

Fill in your restaurant details
  1. 1Open Settings in your restaurant's menu.
  2. 2Restaurant and Contact: name, logo, cover, address, phone, social networks.
  3. 3Opening hours: your hours for each day, including after midnight.
  4. 4Prices and taxes: currency, VAT rate, prices including or excluding tax.

Build the menu

Menus, categories, dishes, set menus and options.

Create a menu and its categories
  1. 1Open Menu, then create your menu.
  2. 2Add your categories, with an image if you wish.
  3. 3Drag the categories to choose their order.
Add a dish
  1. 1In a category, add a dish: name, description, photo, price.
  2. 2Add option groups and suggestions in the same form.
  3. 3Save: the dish is created in one go, fully configured.

A promotional price shows the old price struck through next to the new one.

Create a set menu
  1. 1In a category, create a set menu with its price and photo.
  2. 2Choose fixed dishes, or a choice per category.
  3. 3The set menu appears in the category, like a dish.
Activate a menu
  1. 1Only one menu is active at a time: it is the one your customers see.
  2. 2Activate the menu you need; the previous one becomes inactive, with nothing lost.
  3. 3The active menu cannot be deleted.
Choose the appearance
  1. 1In your menu, open Appearance.
  2. 2Choose a theme, adjust its colors and the navigation between categories.
  3. 3Check the preview in phone, tablet or computer mode, then save.

Floor and QR codes

Spaces, tables and QR code printing.

Create your spaces and tables
  1. 1Open Tables & QR, then “New space”: dining room, terrace, patio…
  2. 2Add your tables with “New table”, one by one or in bulk.
  3. 3Enter the number of seats for each table.
Print your QR codes
  1. 1In Tables & QR, click “Print all QR codes”, or select a few tables.
  2. 2Print the A4 sheet: three QR codes per row, the table's name under each one.
  3. 3For a single QR code, download it as a PNG from the table's menu.

The QR code does not change when you edit your menu: print it once.

Service and orders

Open the service, receive orders, close.

Turn on online ordering
  1. 1In Settings, open Online ordering: turn on ordering, for dine-in and takeaway.
  2. 2In your menu's settings, check that ordering is turned on there too.
  3. 3QR code ordering requires a plan that includes it and an open service.
Start and close a service
  1. 1In Orders, click “Start service”.
  2. 2During service, follow the orders to accept, in the kitchen, ready and served.
  3. 3At the end of service, close it: its summary goes to the Services tab.
Find an order
  1. 1Open Orders, then History.
  2. 2Filter by period, status or channel, or search for a number, a table, a server, a dish.
  3. 3Open the order to see its items and the history of its steps.

Till and Floor app

Install and use Menly Register and Menly Floor.

Install Menly Register
  1. 1Open Applications in your organization.
  2. 2Click “Install Menly Register”, or open it in the browser.
  3. 3Register the station with “Set up a station” and enter the pairing code on the till.
Open and close the till
  1. 1Sign in to the till and choose your restaurant.
  2. 2Open your till with the opening float.
  3. 3At the end of service, close it and check the summary.
Equip your servers
  1. 1In Applications, open Menly Floor or display its installation QR code.
  2. 2Each server scans the QR code and installs the app on their phone.
  3. 3They sign in with their own Menly account.

Team

Invite, assign a position, adjust access.

Invite a member
  1. 1Open Team, then “Invite a member”.
  2. 2Enter their email, choose their position and their restaurants.
  3. 3They receive a link valid for 7 days to set up their access.
Create a custom role
  1. 1In Team, open Roles, then “New role”.
  2. 2Start from an existing position and adjust its permissions.
  3. 3Assign the role to your members from their profile.

Subscription

Choose, activate and change plans.

Activate a plan
  1. 1Compare the plans on the Pricing page.
  2. 2Message us on WhatsApp with the plan you chose, monthly or yearly.
  3. 3We activate the plan: it appears in Subscription, and you can publish your menu.

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