Your first hour

Work top to bottom. Each step assumes the one before it.

#1. Set up the restaurant

Settings → General. Add your restaurant name, contact email, and phone. Upload a logo — it appears on your storefront, on receipts, and in customer emails.

While you are here, set your order number format. The prefix and suffix wrap the sequential number, so # and an empty suffix give you #1000.

#2. Add your first branch

Branches → Add branch. The address matters more than it looks: Restro uses it to pick the closest branch for a customer, to draw delivery zones, and to set the timezone that every report and opening-hour calculation depends on.

Set the currency here too. It is per-branch, so a chain crossing borders works correctly.

#3. Set opening hours

Still in the branch. Hours drive whether your storefront accepts orders. Outside them, customers see you as closed rather than placing an order nobody will cook.

You can also flip a branch to busy or closed by hand on a bad night without touching the schedule.

#4. Build the menu

Menu → Categories first, then Menu → Items. Every item needs a price on every branch that sells it.

If you have an existing menu in a spreadsheet, use the importer rather than typing it twice. See Building your menu.

#5. Turn on a channel

Settings → Channels. Enable Website to get an ordering site immediately at your subdomain. Enable Point of Sale if you take orders at a counter.

#6. Take payments

Settings → Payments. Cash on delivery and card on delivery work with no setup. For online payments, add a provider — Restro supports Stripe, Paymob, Paystack, Razorpay, and around twenty more — and paste in the credentials from that provider's own dashboard.

#7. Invite your team

Staff → Invite. Pick a role and Restro grants the right permissions and app access automatically. A cook gets the kitchen display and nothing else; a manager gets most of the dashboard. See Roles and permissions.

#8. Place a test order

Open your storefront, order something, and walk it through the kitchen display to completed. You will see it land in Orders, move stock in Inventory, and appear in Analytics.

Void the test order when you are done so it does not pollute your numbers.