A step-by-step guide for restaurants and cafés. About ten minutes from start to a code on a table.
What it does. Every table gets a small printed QR code. A diner points their phone at it and your menu opens — no app, no download, no typing. If you switch ordering on, they can send an order straight to your counter.
What it does not do. It never takes your customers' money. They pay you exactly as they do now — cash, card or UPI. Elite QR is not in the middle of that.
Building the menu costs nothing and needs no card. When you are ready to put it in front of customers, start your free 14-day trial — one click, no payment details — and everything switches on. What it costs after that.
Go to Venues and sign in. Give the place its name and address, and press Create venue. If you run more than one branch, create one venue for each — they have separate menus, separate codes and separate bills.
Open the venue and go to the Menu tab.
Add them all now; you can edit any of it later, at any time, and the change is live immediately.
The Design tab. Pick one of the seven templates and you are finished — every one is built to look good with nothing else touched, and the preview shows your own menu, not a sample.
If you want more control, open Customise this template and change any colour, the fonts, the layout and the spacing. Add your logo and a cover photo under Name, logo and cover.
Design changes are not live until you press Save design. That is on purpose — you can experiment during service without the menu changing under a diner who is reading it.
Two switches, and the menu needs both. On the venue page press Start my free 14 days — one click, no card, nothing to cancel. Then open the Share tab and press Publish menu.
Check the address yourself before you print anything. Open it on your own phone and make sure your menu appears. A printed code pointing at a menu that is not live shows "menu not found", and you cannot recall a sticker once it is on a table. The Share tab tells you plainly when the menu is not being served yet.
Still on the Share tab. Set Number of tables to how many you have, and the codes appear — one per table, plus one for the whole venue that you can put at a counter or in the window.
Three ways to get them out:
The address on a table code never changes. Change your prices, your dishes, your whole design, even your restaurant's name — the printed code keeps working. You never have to reprint because the menu changed.
Laminate them, or put them in a small stand. Grease and repeated wiping are what kill a paper code on a restaurant table.
Your 14 days include everything, and they cover two full weekends whichever day you start — a Friday and Saturday service is what actually tells you whether this works. Nothing renews and nothing is charged, because we never asked for a card.
After that, ordering is the paid part — ₹499 a month, or ₹4,499 a year, per venue.
With it on, a diner taps items into a basket and presses Send to kitchen. The order appears on your Orders tab immediately, tagged with the table.
With it off, diners still see your full menu and prices. They are simply asked to order with a member of staff. Your customers are never told anything about your subscription.
Keep the Orders tab open on a phone or tablet near the counter. Turn Sound on once, at the start of service, and you will hear a new order arrive.
No. Every phone camera made in the last several years reads a QR code from the normal camera app. The menu opens in their browser.
No. No commission, no per-order fee, nothing. The diner pays you directly and we never touch the money. The subscription is the whole cost.
Your menu keeps working, permanently. Codes already printed and stuck to tables keep opening your menu — we will not turn a physical object you paid to print into a dead link. Only the ordering feature switches off, and there is a week's grace before even that happens. You can still edit prices while lapsed.
Exactly the same thing, and that is deliberate. The menu you built during the trial stays live for good, at the same address, on the same printed codes. Ordering, the orders board and your view figures switch off until you subscribe. A trial does not get the week's grace a subscription does — nothing failed, it simply ran for the fourteen days it said it would.
Yes, whenever you like, and it is live at once. The code points at your menu, not at a copy of it.
They could send the order. Nothing happens until a member of your staff presses Accept, so it costs you one tap. There is also a limit on how many orders one table can send in a short window.
Yes. Use the "whole venue" code, which has no table number on it. Orders arrive labelled "Counter".
Yes, and plenty of venues should. Start the free trial to put the menu live, and when the fourteen days end the menu simply stays up — same address, same printed codes, and you can keep editing dishes and prices for as long as you like. Ordering is the thing you would be paying for, and you would never be using it.
You can, but you usually should not. A menu where three dishes have photographs reads as a recommendation. A menu where all forty do reads as a fast-food kiosk and takes longer to load on restaurant wifi.
Stuck, or want a hand setting it up? Get in touch — if you are a restaurant in Mehsana we will come and do it with you.