Frequently asked questions.

No. Customers scan the QR code on their table with their phone camera and the menu opens in the browser. There is nothing to install and no account to create.

Orders appear on your live bar screen within a few seconds, with the table name in large type. The screen runs in a web browser on any tablet or laptop, plays a short chime for each new order, and staff tap once to move a ticket from New to Making to Ready.

Standard is £69 a month per venue, for up to 20 tables and one bar screen. Large is £99 a month per venue, with up to 100 tables and multiple bar screens or service points such as a bar, a terrace and a kitchen. For more than 100 tables, contact us for a quote. Prices are the full price: we're not VAT registered, so no VAT is charged. Both include unlimited orders, QR card printing, the live bar screen, sold-out toggles, the back office and the English and Spanish menu. Branding is an optional add-on at +£20 a month, groups get 10% off each additional venue, and we can build your menu for a one-off setup fee from £49.

You start with a free trial, with no card needed. If you then subscribe, it's a 12-month agreement billed monthly, from £69 per venue. The term starts on the start date of your subscription and renews automatically for another 12 months unless you give at least 30 days' notice by email before the end of the term. There's no hardware to buy or return.

Yes, if you'd rather not do it yourself. We build your menu and print-ready QR cards for a one-off fee: £49 for a drinks menu, £69 for drinks plus snacks and sides, and a custom quote for a full food menu. It's optional; the back office makes it quick to do yourself.

Yes, with the branding add-on at +£20 a month on either plan. Your colours, logo and font run through the customer menu, the bar screen and the printed table cards, and text colours are checked automatically so everything stays readable.

No. The bar screen runs in the browser of any tablet, laptop or phone you already own, and customers use their own phones. You only need a printer for the table cards.

Open Tables in your bar area and press Print. You get A4 sheets with four A6 table cards each, one per table, ready to cut. Each card can also be downloaded as an SVG for a print shop.

Yes. One tap on the menu screen marks an item sold out; customers see it greyed out and can't order it until you switch it back on.

Yes. The customer menu, the bar screen and this site all work in English and Spanish. The menu follows the language of the customer's phone, and they can switch at any time.

At the table: staff bring the order with the card machine, so customers pay by card, contactless or cash. The bar screen shows the total on every ticket. Paying on the phone is coming soon.

DrinksQR is built for UK GDPR: customers don't create accounts, an order only holds the table, the items and an optional first name, and analytics cookies on this site load only if you accept them. Your venue is the controller of its customers' order data and DrinksQR processes it on your behalf.

Each item can list the 14 UK allergens, which customers can open on the menu, and every item reminds them to ask staff before ordering. The venue keeps responsibility for the accuracy of its allergen information.

Not easily. Every table has its own unguessable code, so orders can't be sent to a table nobody has scanned, orders are rate-limited per table, and every ticket shows the table so staff can spot anything odd. Someone holding a photo of a table code could still order, so staff deliver to the table shown.

Staff check ID when they bring the order to the table, exactly as they would at the bar. Alcoholic items are tagged on the menu so staff know which tickets need a check.

Adding your menu and your tables, then printing the cards. There's nothing to install: open the bar screen in a browser and you're taking orders.

Yes. You add each person in the back office with their own 4 to 6 digit PIN. On the bar screen they tap their name and enter their PIN, and Switch user hands over to the next person. Every step is saved against whoever was signed in, and staff PINs never open the back office.

Yes. The dashboard shows service times: the average and median time from order to drink, the wait before someone starts an order, the make time and the hand-over to the table, plus a table for each member of staff. Cancelled orders aren't counted.