Launch checklist
This checklist walks you from a fresh Menuro account to your first real customer order. A launch typically takes one to two weeks once your menu, branding and payment account are ready. Confirm your schedule with the onboarding team; native apps also depend on app-store approval.
1. Log in to your dashboard
Section titled “1. Log in to your dashboard”- Find your dashboard link from onboarding — your admin dashboard.
- Sign in at the dashboard’s
/sign-inpage with the email and password from onboarding. Step-by-step help: Logging in. - Bookmark the dashboard, and keep the dashboard navigation map handy — it lists every menu used in the steps below.
2. Complete onboarding
Section titled “2. Complete onboarding”- Sign up and confirm your business details: restaurant name, address, contact phone and email.
- Add your first outlet (location) under Dashboard → Network → Outlets (
/outlet/list-fb). If you run multiple locations, start with one — you can add more outlets later. - Set your operating hours for each order type (delivery, pickup, dine-in).
- Set your timezone, currency, and default language. See Languages & currency.
- Invite your team and assign roles — owners, managers, staff, drivers — under Dashboard → Settings → Users & Drivers → Users (
/configuration/manage-user/users/list). See Users & roles.
3. Apply your branding
Section titled “3. Apply your branding”Your apps and ordering site carry your brand, not ours.
- Upload your logo (a square version for app icons and a horizontal version for headers works best) under Dashboard → Settings → Configuration → Brand (
/settings/settings/brand-settings). - Choose your brand colors — these flow through the customer app, web ordering, emails, and receipts.
- Provide app store assets: app name, short description, and screenshots (the Menuro team prepares store listings for you).
- Review banners and home-screen layout in the Dashboard → Storefront → Design group.
More detail in Branding.
4. Build your menu
Section titled “4. Build your menu”- Create categories (Starters, Mains, Drinks…) and arrange them in the order customers should see them.
- Add items with names, descriptions, photos, and prices.
- Add variants (sizes, portions) and addons/modifiers (toppings, sides, cooking preferences).
- Mark dietary tags, and set channel prices where an dish should cost something different for delivery, pickup, dine-in or the kiosk.
- If you’re translating your menu, add translations for each language you support.
Full guide: Building your menu and Addons & modifiers.
5. Set up payments
Section titled “5. Set up payments”- Connect your payment gateway (Stripe for most regions) under Dashboard → Finance → Payments → Payment Provider (
/configuration/payments/payment/payment-gateway-list) so card payments — including Apple Pay and Google Pay — settle directly to your own account. - Decide which physical payment methods to accept: cash, card on delivery, card terminal, bank transfer.
- Configure taxes and charges (service charges, packaging fees) as required in your region under Dashboard → Finance → Tax (
/configuration/financial/tax/list). - Run a test transaction before going live.
See Setting up payment gateways and Taxes & charges.
6. Configure delivery
Section titled “6. Configure delivery”Skip this section if you’re pickup/dine-in only — just switch delivery off for the outlet.
- Draw your delivery zones (service areas) around each location.
- Set delivery fees — flat fee or distance-based — and a minimum order value if you want one.
- Set the preparation time each outlet needs — it drives the time customers are quoted and when drivers are called. See Prep time.
- Add your drivers, or connect a third-party delivery network if you don’t run your own fleet.
- Optionally enable auto dispatch so orders are offered to drivers automatically.
Full guide: Delivery setup.
7. Set up in-store hardware (optional)
Section titled “7. Set up in-store hardware (optional)”- Pair a receipt printer with the partner app — Bluetooth thermal printers, Sunmi devices, and cloud printing are all supported. See Receipt & kitchen printing.
- Enable auto-print so receipts and kitchen tickets print the moment an order is accepted.
- If you’re using dine-in QR ordering, print and place your table QR codes. See Dine-in QR ordering.
- If you want walk-in customers ordering for themselves, pair a self-order kiosk. For a counter register, pair a POS register and add each member of staff their own PIN.
- If the kitchen would rather have a screen than a ticket rail, pair a kitchen display.
- If you want to show walk-in customers their loyalty points at the counter, pair an in-store tablet — it is a loyalty counter, not an ordering screen.
- All of them are paired from Dashboard → Operations → Devices
(
/configuration/devices/list). See Devices.
8. Place a test order
Section titled “8. Place a test order”Before going live, run through the whole flow end to end:
- Place an order from your customer app or ordering site (use a real card — you can refund it).
- Confirm the order appears on the partner app’s live orders screen with a sound alert.
- Accept it and check the receipt and kitchen ticket print correctly.
- For delivery: assign a driver and confirm the driver sees the order and the customer sees tracking updates.
- Mark the order completed and verify the customer receives each status notification.
- Refund the test order and confirm the refund lands. See Editing orders & refunds.
9. Go live
Section titled “9. Go live”- Confirm your apps are published and your web ordering link works.
- Confirm the outlet is enabled and not paused, and double-check operating hours — note that hours do not block ordering, so a customer can still order ahead. See Availability.
- Add your ordering link to your website, Google Business Profile, and social media bios.
- Put QR codes on tables, takeaway bags, and flyers pointing to your app.
- Announce the launch — consider a launch coupon to move customers off marketplaces.
After launch
Section titled “After launch”- Watch your first days of orders in Reports & analytics — Dashboard → Reports (
/reports/order-list). - Train staff on editing orders and cancelling orders so refunds are handled consistently.
- Set up rewards and referrals once ordering is running smoothly.
Related: The apps at a glance · Building your menu · Gateway setup · Delivery setup
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