Digmenu Complete Guide: The QR Menu System Built for Restaurants (2026)

Choosing a digital menu is no longer just about putting a PDF behind a QR code. Restaurants want a menu that is quick to set up, easy to change during a busy shift, attractive on a phone, readable in a guest's own language and safe from data loss. They also want a price that makes sense for a single venue, not a bill built for restaurant chains.

This guide walks through every part of Digmenu, from the first login to the moment a guest scans your table QR code, so you know exactly what you get before you start your trial.

What Is Digmenu?

Digmenu is menu management software for restaurants, cafés, bars, hotels and other hospitality businesses. You build and manage your menu in one owner dashboard, and guests open it by scanning a QR code. The menu loads directly in the guest's mobile browser, so there is nothing to install.

Digmenu focuses on doing one job very well: giving you a professional, easy to update digital menu, with AI tools that remove the slow, manual parts of the work.

Part 1: Getting Started in the Owner Dashboard

Start with a 14-day Pro trial

Every new account starts with a 14-day Pro trial that includes the full Pro feature set. No credit card is required to begin, so you can build your real menu, test it with your team and show it to guests before you decide anything.

AI Menu Import: from PDF or photo to a working menu

Retyping a full menu is the most painful part of going digital. Digmenu's AI Menu Import removes it. Upload a PDF or a photo of your existing menu (JPG, PNG or WebP), and Digmenu extracts:

• categories
• products
• descriptions
• prices

All of this lands in a reviewable draft. You check the results, fix anything you want, and only then publish. Nothing goes live without your approval, which keeps you in full control of what guests see.

Done-for-you setup

Some owners would rather not touch the setup at all. That is fine. Send your current menu to info@digmenu.app as a PDF, photos, notes or a spreadsheet of dishes and prices. The Digmenu team builds the categories, products and details for you. You then review the menu, publish it and share your QR code.

No technical skills needed

Digmenu is designed for people with no website building or coding experience. If you can edit a document, you can run your menu.

Part 2: Building the Menu and Making Live Edits

A menu changes constantly. Prices move, dishes sell out, seasonal specials arrive. Digmenu is built so these changes take seconds.

Organize your menu your way

• Create categories and subcategories.
• Sort categories and reorder items.
• Add descriptions, prices and photos to every dish.

Change prices and availability instantly

Update products, prices, descriptions, images and availability from your dashboard. Sold out of a dish? Mark it unavailable. A supplier raised a price? Change it once. Saved changes appear on your public menu, and you never pay for reprinting.

Offers and notices

Highlight special dishes or seasonal menus with offers, and share important information with notices, such as a holiday schedule or a new dish of the week. These sit right on your menu where guests will see them.

Part 3: Branding and Layouts

Your menu should look like your restaurant, not like a template.

• Color presets. Choose from ready made color presets, with Digmenu Default as the starting theme, and switch whenever you like.
• Flexible layouts. Show your menu in a clean, visual format that fits your style.
• Your logo and photos. Your brand and your dishes take center stage.

The same menu content can take on a completely different look in a few clicks, so you can refresh the style without rebuilding anything.

Part 4: AI Photo Enhancement

Food photos sell dishes, but not every restaurant has a photographer. AI Image Enhancement improves the presentation and clarity of your existing food photos while keeping the real dish recognizable. You preview the result and decide: keep the original or use the enhanced version. Your guests see what they will actually be served, only presented better.

Part 5: The Guest Experience

Everything in the dashboard exists for one moment: a guest at your table, phone in hand.

No app to download

Guests scan the QR code and your menu opens directly in their mobile browser. There is no app store and no account to create.

Search

Large menu? Guests can search to find their favorite dishes quickly instead of scrolling through every category.

My Picks

My Picks lets guests bookmark dishes while they browse and return to them later. It is a personal list on their own device. It is not an order, cart or payment flow, so your service and ordering process stay exactly as they are today.

Translated guest menus

Guests can browse your menu in their own language. AI-powered translations help you translate dish names and descriptions quickly, so visitors from abroad can understand what they are ordering without asking staff to explain every item.

Part 6: Guest Feedback

Most guests never tell you what they think. They just don't come back. Digmenu gives them an easy way to speak up.

Guests can leave feedback right from your menu, and you read it in your dashboard. The feedback page in your dashboard shows Food and Service ratings, so you can see at a glance whether an issue is in the kitchen or on the floor, and act on it while the visit is still fresh.

Part 7: The Free QR Code Generator

You need a QR code that points guests to your menu. Digmenu offers a free QR code generator at digmenu.app/tools/qr-code-generator. Create your code, then place it on tables, counters, windows and anywhere else guests look.

Part 8: Reliability and Data Safety

Your menu represents hours of work and is part of how your business runs every day. Digmenu treats it that way.

Daily backups

Digmenu backs up its full database and all uploaded menu content every day, so every restaurant's menu, photos and settings are covered.

Encrypted offsite backups and release backups

Digmenu keeps daily encrypted offsite backups, plus a database backup taken before each production release as part of our release process.

Tested before release

New features and fixes are tested on a separate staging environment before they reach your live menu, which reduces the risk of a change affecting guests.

Database fallback for guests

If our database ever has a problem, guests can still open your menu: Digmenu automatically serves the latest published version of your menu, in its main language, from a separate backup copy.

Secure payments

Subscription payments are handled by Paddle, the Merchant of Record. Paddle processes the payment, the invoice and applicable taxes. Digmenu does not store full payment card details.

Part 9: Pricing

Digmenu keeps pricing short and clear.

• 14-day Pro trial: Free for 14 days, no card required. Full Pro features.
• Pro: €10 per month or €99 per year, plus VAT where applicable. Unlimited items, analytics, AI tools, promotions and notices.
• Enterprise: Contact us. Custom domain, more people managing the menu and other needs, quoted per business.

There is no ongoing free plan. Instead, you get the full product from the first minute of your trial.

When a plan ends without a subscription, the account locks: dashboard access is restricted and public menus are unpublished, but your saved data is kept. Subscribe again and you continue right where you left off, with nothing to rebuild.

Where Digmenu Wins

1. Price for what you get

At €10 per month or €99 per year plus VAT, Digmenu includes AI menu import, AI photo enhancement, AI translations, guest feedback, analytics, offers and notices, with unlimited items. That is one clear price for the whole menu toolkit, with no order caps and no add-ons to unlock the AI tools.

2. AI tools that do real work

Import a menu from a photo, translate it for guests from abroad and improve your food photos, all without hiring anyone. These are the slowest parts of running a digital menu, and Digmenu automates them.

3. Simplicity

Digmenu does not try to replace your POS or your ordering system. It does the menu, and does it well. That focus keeps the dashboard simple enough for anyone on your team, and the guest experience fast and familiar: scan, browse, choose.

4. Data safety you can explain to your team

Daily backups of the full database and all uploaded menu content, daily encrypted offsite backups, a database backup before each production release, staging tests before release, and a database fallback that keeps your latest published menu available to guests. These are concrete safeguards, not vague promises.

5. Help when you need it

If you would rather not build the menu yourself, send it to info@digmenu.app and the Digmenu team will set it up for you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do guests need to download an app?

No. Guests scan your QR code and the menu opens in their mobile browser.

Can I import my existing menu?

Yes. Upload a PDF or a photo (JPG, PNG or WebP). Digmenu extracts categories, products, descriptions and prices into a draft you review before publishing.

Can Digmenu build the menu for me?

Yes. Send your menu to info@digmenu.app and the team will set it up for you.

Can guests read the menu in their language?

Yes. Guests can browse in their own language, and AI translations help you translate dishes quickly.

How does guest feedback work?

Guests leave feedback from your menu. You read it on the feedback page in your dashboard, with Food and Service ratings.

Is my data backed up?

Yes. Digmenu backs up its full database and all uploaded menu content every day, with daily encrypted offsite backups.

Is there a free plan?

No. Every account starts with a 14-day Pro trial with full features and no card. After that, Pro is €10 per month or €99 per year, plus VAT where applicable.

What happens if my plan ends?

The account locks: dashboard access is restricted and public menus are unpublished, but your saved data is kept. Subscribe to continue where you left off.

How are payments handled?

By Paddle, the Merchant of Record. Digmenu does not store full payment card details.

Can I use my own domain?

Custom domains are part of Enterprise. Contact info@digmenu.app for a quote.

Start Your 14-Day Pro Trial

You have seen the whole system: fast AI setup, live edits, your own branding, enhanced photos, translated guest menus, guest feedback, a free QR code generator and serious data safety, all for one clear price.

The best way to judge it is to try it with your own menu. No credit card, full Pro features, 14 days.

Start your free 14-day Pro trial at digmenu.app

Questions? Email info@digmenu.app.