Getting started

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Create your account & restaurantSigning up takes about two minutes and starts your 14-day free trial automatically — no credit card needed.Add your logo, hours & contact infoYour logo, opening hours, and address appear on your storefront and receipts — set them once in Settings.Find your way around the dashboardEverything lives in the left sidebar, in three groups: Today is what you use during service, Restaurant is what you sell and who serves it, and Business is the back office.Set your business hoursBusiness hours do more than show on your storefront — once set, they control exactly when guests are allowed to place an order.Manage multiple restaurants from one accountRun more than one location? One login can belong to several restaurants — switch between them without signing out.

Your menu

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Create menu categoriesCategories are the sections of your menu — Starters, Mains, Drinks. Guests browse by category, so create these first.Add a menu itemEach item needs a name and a price — photos and descriptions are optional but items with photos get ordered noticeably more.Add options & modifiersModifiers let guests customize an item — sizes, toppings, doneness, sides. Each modifier group can be required or optional.Mark an item out of stockRan out of something mid-service? Mark it out of stock — it stays on the menu but can’t be ordered, and comes back with one tap.

Tables & QR codes

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Design your floor planThe Tables & QR page is a drag-and-drop map of your room. Every table you place gets its own QR code, and during service the Floor page shows live occupancy on that same map.Print table QR codesEach table has its own QR code that opens your menu with the table pre-selected. The QR studio designs print-ready cards for you.

Orders

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How guests place an orderGuests never install anything. They scan the table QR, browse, and order from their own phone — here’s what they see.Manage incoming ordersNew orders appear on the Orders page and the floor plan instantly — no refresh. Confirm, track, and close them from one place.Set up the kitchen displayThe Kitchen page is a full-screen ticket board: orders grouped by table, with timers. Any cheap tablet in a browser works.Close a bill & split paymentsWhen a table is done, close the bill from the Floor page. Split it evenly or by item, mix payment methods — Higgs does the math.

Payments & payouts

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Choose which payment methods you acceptYou control three switches: online payment, cash, and card terminal. Turn each on or off any time — orders keep working with whatever is enabled.Set up payouts to your bankOnline revenue collects in your Higgs balance; cash never leaves your drawer. Add your bank account once, then request payouts from the Payouts page.

Analytics & insights

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Understand your Reports & analyticsReports turns your raw orders into a picture of how the restaurant is doing. It has three tabs: Overview (how business is going), Sales (every transaction) and Tax (what you owe).

Promotions

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Create a couponCoupons are discount codes guests type in at checkout — a percentage or a fixed amount off. Create one in under a minute.How guests use a couponGuests redeem coupons themselves at checkout — nothing for your staff to do. Here’s exactly what they see.Pause or delete a couponEvery coupon can be paused (kept but not redeemable) or deleted. Usage counts show you how each code is performing.

Reservations

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Take table reservationsGuests book a table from your storefront; you confirm and manage bookings on the Reservations page, tied to your real floor plan.

Website & domain

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Customize your websiteYour storefront is a real website. The builder lets you pick a style, tweak colors and sections, and publish — the preview is exactly what goes live.Connect a custom domainReplace your-name.higgsmenu.com with your own domain like myrestaurant.com. You need a domain you already own.

AI tools

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Use the AI assistantThe assistant is your fastest way to run the restaurant: it edits the menu, answers analytics questions, and restyles your site — from one chat.Configure the guest menu AIGuests can ask your menu questions — "what’s spicy?", "any vegan mains?" — and get answers grounded in your actual items, with tappable dish cards.Generate images with AINo photographer? Generate a logo, banner, or food photos right inside any image uploader. Available on Professional and higher plans.Manage your restaurant from TelegramOn the Enterprise plan you can run the same AI assistant right from your staff’s Telegram group — @mention the bot and it edits the menu, checks orders, and more, without anyone opening the dashboard.

Team & hardware

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Invite your staff with rolesEach staff member gets their own login and sees only what their role needs — servers see the floor, kitchen sees tickets, managers see everything.Connect a receipt printerHiggs prints straight from the browser to an Epson network printer on your Wi-Fi — no print server, no cable to a computer. Here’s the full setup, including the two things people get stuck on: finding the printer’s IP address and trusting its security certificate.Which printers work & where to buyHiggs prints over your network using the Epson ePOS-Print standard. Any Epson TM receipt printer with a built-in Ethernet or Wi-Fi interface works. USB-only printers and other brands are not supported.Stay on top of alerts with NotificationsNotifications is a live feed of everything that needs your attention — new orders, ready items, table requests, low stock, and reservation activity.

Plan & billing

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Upgrade or change your planYour 14-day trial includes everything. After that, pick the plan that matches the features you actually use — you can switch any time.View invoices & billing historyEvery billing cycle creates an invoice you can review — including your trial period.