Guides
Step-by-step guides on how to set up and run your restaurant with Restanaut: building your menu, receiving orders, notifications, printing, QR codes, custom domains and more. New to Restanaut? Start with the end-to-end guide below.
Getting started with Restanaut, from sign-up to your first order
A complete end-to-end walkthrough: create your account, set up your restaurant, publish your page, and handle your first orders.
How to set up your restaurant, step by step
A detailed walkthrough of the restaurant setup wizard: plan, details, opening hours, delivery options, menu, team and publishing.
Why restaurants need an online ordering system
More orders, lower costs and full control over your customer relationships, the business case for taking orders online.
How the ordering system works
How customers place orders on your page and how you receive, accept, reject and complete them in the orders dashboard.
Push notifications, email notifications and the sound alarm
Three ways to make sure you never miss an order, and how to turn each of them on or off.
Setting your working hours
How to set the days and hours your restaurant is open, and where customers see them.
Creating your menu
Build your menu from scratch or import it automatically from photos, with categories, dishes, sizes and fees.
Marking items as temporarily unavailable
Ran out of a dish? Hide it from ordering in seconds and bring it back just as fast, without deleting anything.
Printing your menu
Turn your digital menu into a clean printable version for tables, takeaway counters and flyers.
QR code menu
Print a QR code that opens your menu, so guests can browse and order straight from their table.
Printing orders on receipt tape and A4
Print kitchen tickets for incoming orders, on a thermal receipt printer or a regular A4 printer.
Setting up a custom domain
Serve your restaurant page from your own domain, like myrestaurant.com, step by step.
How to disable your restaurant page
Take your public page offline temporarily, for holidays, renovations or a rebrand, and bring it back with one switch.
Hiding Restanaut branding
Remove the 'Built with Restanaut' banner from your page and restanaut.com from printed orders and the QR menu, so everything carries only your brand.
Running multiple locations
Manage a chain or several venues from one account, each location with its own page, menu, orders and team.
Working with multiple users
Invite staff to your restaurant so the whole team can handle orders and keep the menu up to date.
Notes in orders
Let customers add a note to their order, allergies, spice level, 'ring the top bell', and see it with every order.
Automatic rejection of unconfirmed orders
Orders you don't accept in time are rejected automatically, here's why, and where to change how long customers wait.
Stop taking orders before you close
Give your kitchen time to finish the last orders by closing ordering a few minutes before your doors close.
Editing the pages on your restaurant website
Change your main and contact pages, add your own custom pages, and control what appears in your website menu.
Setting up delivery areas
Draw the zones you deliver to on a map and set a delivery cost for each one, so only reachable customers can order delivery.
Managing orders via desktop app
Install the free Restanaut desktop app on a computer at your restaurant to receive, print and manage orders in real time.
Connecting a printer to receive and approve orders automatically
Link a desktop printing app to your restaurant so new orders arrive and print by themselves, and can be approved automatically.
Choosing which payment methods you accept
Decide how customers pay for their orders, cash, card, Blik or online, and show only the options that fit your restaurant.
Accepting online payments with Stripe
Connect your own Stripe account so customers can pay by card as they order, with money going straight to you and refunds handled automatically or by hand.
Delivering orders to tables, rooms and parking spots
Let guests order online while they're at your venue, then bring the food to their table, room or parking spot, or have them collect it at the counter.
Letting customers order half-and-half pizzas
Turn on half and half for a menu category so guests can build one pizza from two different halves, priced at half of each.
Add-ons: extras and options for your dishes
Offer paid extras and choices, extra toppings, a sauce, or fries instead of rice, on a single dish or a whole category.