How do I print cards for my tables?

Publish the menu first

A code opens your published menu, so there has to be a published menu for it to open. Until there is one, QR codes says so instead of offering you a card, and the button that creates table codes stays closed with the reason written under it.

So the order is: build the menu, open Publication and publish, then come back to QR codes in the workspace.

One code for every table

You do not create forty codes one by one. Under Which tables?, open Add new tables.

1. Answer Table count — a whole number from 1 to 500. That is the only question you have to answer.
2. Everything else already has a sensible answer and waits under Advanced options: Area/section count (1 to 50, one by default), Seat count per table (1 to 20, four by default), Naming prefix (up to 10 characters; names start at T1 without one), Naming sequence start and Naming range.
3. Press Create table QR codes.

The screen then lists every table it made, each one a link you can open on your phone to check that it lands on your menu. A naming range has to match the table count — asking for 20 tables numbered 1-30 is refused before anything is created, so you never end up with half a dining room.

Creating codes in bulk is part of some plans and not others. If yours does not include it, nothing breaks: the screen says so plainly and offers See plans.

Three questions, in your own order

What are you printing? comes first, because the paper size is the consequence of that answer, not the question. Four ready outputs: Table card for a plexiglass stand, Large table card for a long table, Wall poster for beside the till, and Window or door to be read from outside. They run A6, A5, A4, A3, all portrait.

Need something else? I need another size opens the full list: paper sizes A3 to A6 and B3 to B6, the free ratios 1:2, 4:3 and 16:9, orientation, and File format — PDF, ready to print, or SVG, which scales without limit. There is no PNG card, and the screen says why: a raster image blurs the module edges of a small code.

Which tables? is next: All tables, One area (offered once you have areas), or A single table. Only codes that are switched on are printed — a disabled code is never put on paper.

How should it look? is last, and the five designs are Plain, Framed, Branded, Dark and Signage. Whatever you pick, the code itself is printed dark on light, because many phones do not read an inverted one. The table name is printed on every card, so two cards cannot be mixed up. Sentence on the card changes the line below the code for this print only; leave it empty and the card carries the ready sentence.

The panel beside the steps draws the real card, with its size in millimetres and how big the code will come out. If a choice makes the code too small to be read reliably, it tells you there — before the paper, not after.

Getting the files

The bar at the bottom of the screen stays with you and says your whole order in one sentence — how many cards, what size, which design, which format. Read it before you download; it is the sentence the printer will end up working from.

• One card: Print opens it in a new tab so you can send it straight to your own printer, and Download saves the file.
• More than one: you get a single zip file with one file per card, named after the table. That is the shape a print shop asks for. One archive holds at most 48 cards; if you have more, the screen says so and you print the rest in a second batch.
• Sheet to cut out (PDF) is a different thing and appears once you have more than one code: 12 cards to a page with cut lines, for cutting at home. It has its own layout — it does not carry the size or the design you picked above.

Garden, upstairs, terrace

Bulk creation names your areas Area 1, Area 2 — placeholders, not names. Open Code management and advanced printing, find Areas in your dining room, and rename them the way your team says them out loud. Type the name and press Save.

This is worth the two minutes because the name is what you pick from later. Reprinting the garden after a wet week means choosing One area and seeing the word garden — not guessing which of Area 1 and Area 3 is outside.

Renaming an area never breaks a printed card. The name is yours to read; the address on the card is not made of it.

After the cards are on the tables

Print once. Publishing a new menu does not change where a code points, so a price change never costs you a reprint.

The rest lives under Code management and advanced printing. Disable stops a code from opening your menu — the card keeps its address, and Re-enable brings it back without reprinting anything. Move to another location points an existing card at a different branch, which is what you want when a table moves rather than when a card is lost.

The same section holds Download the bare code file (PNG, SVG, PDF): the code on its own, with no card around it, for a designer putting it into a menu board or a poster of their own.