Create a menu
About menus
With Square for Restaurants, a menu is a specific set of menu groups and items that will appear on your POS for a certain period of the day or a certain shift. Your menus should correspond with the physical menus in your restaurant. If you have multiple menus you use throughout the day, you should have multiple menus in your Square for Restaurants account.
Before you begin
You have three options for menu creation all from your Square Dashboard:
Manually create a menu: This option is best if you don’t have an existing menu and want to create items while you create a menu.
Upload an existing menu: This option is best if you already have an existing menu file saved to your computer.
Import a menu from an existing system: This option is best if you already have an existing menu on another platform like Clover or Toast and you want to transfer the menu to Square.
After you create your menu, you can update the channel and location of individual items. Updating menus only applies to menus across your Square POS and Square Online sites, not third-party menus.
Create a menu
To upload an existing menu using the WoFlow integration, you will need access to your Square Dashboard and a PDF, JPG, or PNG file of your existing menu.
- Log in to your Square Dashboard and click Items & Orders > Menus.
- Click Create a Menu > Upload a file, photo, or URL of your existing menu.
- Select From my computer to import a file from your computer. Select By URL to paste a link to your menu.
- Click Continue.
- Enter a Menu name and select the Location where the menu will apply. Click Continue.
Square will send you an email when your menu is ready. Most menu builds take under 24 hours.
- Log in to your Square Dashboard and click Items & Orders > Menus.
- Click Create a Menu > I’d rather build it manually.
- Enter a name in the Menu Name field and select the location where the menu will apply.
- Click Save.
- Click Add Item to select existing items from the drop-down menu. Select Add Multiple Items to create new items and add them to the menu.
- Enter an Item Name, a Kitchen Facing Name, and an Item Price.
- Click Create Items > Done to add the items to your menu.
You can import a menu to your Square Dashboard and transfer menu data from other platforms to Square using WoFlow integration.
- Log in to your Square Dashboard and click Items & Orders > Menus.
- Click Create a menu > import your menu from another platform. A Woflow modal will appear, guiding you through the process of importing files.
- From the list, select your current platform which has your menu data
- Select how you want to import your menu, either by securely signing in or by sharing a public URL.
- Click Continue to sign in.
- Sign in to the platform which has your menu.
- Let your menu and other data be imported.
- Click Continue.
- View your menu and make any edits and then click Approve.
Update a menu
You can manually create a menu from your Square Dashboard or your Square Restaurants POS app.
Log in to your Square Dashboard and click Items & orders > Menus.
Click Create a Menu. If you need to edit a menu, select one of your existing menus.
Enter a Menu name.
Select the Locations where the menu applies. If you have a Square Online site, select the Online ordering site and Availability of your menu.
Click Update to save your changes.
Click Continue.