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Open Digital menus in the sidebar and click Create a digital menu. The first thing you choose is the type — and that choice is permanent, so read the comparison first if you hesitate.

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Option A — A PDF menu

The fastest route: your existing PDF, online, with a QR code.
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Choose “PDF menu”

Then give it a Menu name — this name is for you (it appears in your dashboard) and, for a PDF menu, it is also what guests see in the Menus list on your portal. “Lunch”, “Wine list”, “Brunch”…
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Add your file

Either upload a PDF File (up to 15 MB), or choose External Link and paste a URL if your menu already lives somewhere else.
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Make it visible

Turn on Make the menu visible online, then Save. You can also save it hidden and turn it on later from the list.
That’s it — your menu now has a permanent link and a QR code. See QR codes & sharing.

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Option B — An interactive menu

A page hosted on your booking portal, in your restaurant’s colors, with categories, prices, photos, allergens and automatic translations.
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Choose “Interactive menu” and name it

The menu creation form with the interactive type selected

Choosing the interactive type, then how to start.

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Pick how you start

Import my PDF menu — our AI reads your PDF and pre-fills your categories and dishes. PDF up to 15 MB.Start from scratch — you create the categories and dishes yourself in the editor.
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Click “Create and open the editor”

You land straight in the menu editor. If you imported a PDF, the extraction starts immediately and runs in the background — count on a minute or two, often much less for a one-page card. Stay on the page: it refreshes on its own when the import lands.
The editor showing the extraction in progress banner

While the AI reads your PDF, the editor is read-only.

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Review, then publish

Your categories and dishes appear, filled in, as a draft. Nothing is visible to guests until you turn on Published. Read every dish — especially the allergens — then publish. See Build & publish.
The editor after an import, with the extracted categories and dishes

A one-page bistro card, imported: sections, prices, allergens, dietary marks and chili levels.

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What the AI import does — and doesn’t

Our AI reads your PDF the way a person would and copies it faithfully. It is deliberately conservative: It picks up
  • Your sections in reading order. A sub-section (Wines › Reds, Wines › Whites) becomes a category of its own.
  • Dish names and descriptions, copied word for word, in their original language — then translated into the portal’s five other languages, leaving your original untouched. Marker suffixes are stripped from the name: “Pumpkin soup (V) ⁷” comes back as Pumpkin soup, tagged Vegetarian, allergen Milk.
  • Prices, including several prices for one item — glass 7 € / bottle 32 € and 50 cl / 1 L become labelled price variants.
  • Allergens, dietary marks and chili icons — only when your menu explicitly prints them. Footnote numbers tied to a legend, letters, a “(V)” or “(VG)” mark, a “gluten-free” mention, chili pictograms: all are read and mapped to the right fields.
It never
  • Rewrites your dishes in their original language. Translations are added alongside; your own wording is kept word for word.
  • Invents a description you didn’t write.
  • Guesses an allergen from the ingredients. “Peanut sauce” in a description does not add the Peanuts allergen. If your PDF doesn’t declare allergens, the imported dishes carry none, and it is up to you to add them.
The import is a starting point, not a legal declaration. You remain responsible for the accuracy of your allergen information. Always re-read the extracted dishes before publishing.

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Two things worth knowing

A vegan dish is not automatically vegetarian. The import tags a (VG) dish Vegan only. A guest who filters on Vegetarian will not see it, because the filter keeps the dishes carrying every selected tag. If you want your vegan dishes to show up under both, tick Vegetarian as well on those dishes.
While the extraction runs, a blue banner shows the progress and the editor is read-only — edits made meanwhile could be overwritten by the import. If it fails, a red banner explains why and offers Retry. The most common causes are a scanned PDF of very poor quality, a file over 15 MB, or a temporary hiccup on our side — a retry usually fixes it. See the FAQ.
Already created your menu and want to import a PDF into it afterwards? You can, at any time, from the editor’s Import a PDF button — see Re-import a PDF.