Bring your menu in¶
Turn the menu you already have into products: a photo of the board, a PDF, or the text from your website. AI reads it, you check every line, and nothing is saved until you press Save.
Where: menu → Sales → Products, the menu button at the top, or Bring your menu in on an empty Products page.
Set up¶
- Give it your menu. Take a photo (phone or tablet), Choose photos or a PDF (several at once is fine, say a food menu and a drinks menu), or Paste the menu's text. Reading takes about a minute.
- Check each line. Every item shows the price it will sell at: Burrata · \$18, or for a wine Glass \$15, Bottle \$55. Tap a line to fix its name or price; untick it to leave it out.
- Save. Your sections become categories, and each item is saved like any product you add by hand, so it reaches every till.
What each line says¶
| Line says | What saving does |
|---|---|
| new | Adds it |
| changes your item, now \$16 | Changes the price of the product you already have. Its choices, photos, stock and online details stay as they are. |
| already in your shop | Nothing. Same name, same price. |
| needs a price | Nothing, until you tap it and give it one |
| twice in the menu, kept the first | Nothing for the second one |
| Check this: price not printed | The reader wasn't sure of something. Look at that line before saving. |
Names match ignoring capitals and spaces, so Charred broccolini and CHARRED BROCCOLINI are the same product.
Good to know¶
- Nothing is removed. A product in your shop that the menu doesn't list is left alone: menus skip things all the time.
- Running it again is safe. The same menu a second time shows every line as already in your shop, so you can fix one thing on the menu and bring it in again.
- Sizes and choices. An item printed at two prices (Regular and Large, a glass and a bottle) comes in with sizes, each at its own price. Extras printed as additions (oat milk +\$0.80) come in as choices that add to the price.
- Tax is whatever your shop's setting is; prices are taken as printed.
- It counts as AI use, shown on Plan & billing. A typical menu is one read per page.
- A blurry photo can lose a page. If a page doesn't read, take a clearer photo or paste its text.