Serve-It turns the menu you already have into a mobile ordering page with a QR code and card payments that land in your own account. Built for concession stands, food trucks, and pop-ups — and for the service businesses that run the same way.
Serve-It Menu is available as a native app: Download on the App Store · Get it on Google Play
Upload up to six photos of the menu you already have and Serve-It reads it into a draft — items, prices, categories. Review it, fix anything it misheard, publish. Already on Square? Import the catalogue you have instead.
You get a printable QR code and a plain link. Tape the code to the window, drop the link in your Instagram bio. Customers order from their own phone — no app, no account, no download.
Paid orders land on the kitchen display the moment they are placed, or print straight to a receipt printer. Bump them through prep and ready, and the customer's phone updates itself.
Point a camera at your printed menu and get a working digital one. Nothing is saved until you approve the draft.
New orders appear live over a websocket — no refreshing, no polling. If nobody has the screen open, the order emails your venue instead.
Star CloudPRNT printers are supported directly, so tickets print in the kitchen without a computer in the middle.
Cast your live menu to a screen on site in a column, card, or rotating layout. It updates itself when you change a price.
Open pickup windows for preorders and game days. Orders hold until shortly before the slot, then fire to the kitchen on their own.
Keep the Square account you already run on, or set up fresh with Stripe — including a countertop card reader we'll walk you through ordering. Money settles into your account — Serve-It never holds it.
Four levels, so a line cook can bump orders without seeing payouts and a manager can edit the menu without touching bank details.
Every venue gets a server-rendered storefront with its hours, menu, and structured data — so you turn up in search even with no website.
Daily revenue, order counts, and best sellers, without exporting anything to a spreadsheet.
| Order | Card processing | Serve-It fee | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| $6.50 (Drink and a snack) | $0.49 | $0.10 | $5.91 |
| $12.00 (Burger, fries, a drink) | $0.65 | $0.20 | $11.15 |
| $25.00 (Family order) | $1.03 | $0.25 | $23.72 |
Stripe rates (2.9% + 30¢). Square on its free plan is 3.3% + 30¢, so take-home is a few cents lower. Serve-It never touches the money — it settles straight into your own Stripe or Square account.
Monthly maximum: $29. After that, Serve-It platform fees are waived for the rest of the month.
Two things, and we would rather you saw both. Serve-It charges 10¢ to 25¢ per order depending on the ticket size, and stops charging for the rest of the month once those fees reach $29. Your card processor charges separately: Stripe is 2.9% + 30¢, and Square on its free plan is 3.3% + 30¢. On a $12 order paid through Stripe you keep $11.15.
On your processor's normal schedule, because the money never comes to us. Checkout settles directly into the Stripe or Square account you connect, and Serve-It's per-order fee is taken out at the same time. There is no Serve-It balance to withdraw and no payout delay we control.
No. A phone or tablet with a browser is enough to run the kitchen display, and customers use their own phones. If you want to take cards at the counter, a Stripe reader (from $59, one-time) or a Square Terminal ($299) lets Serve-It charge the card directly at in-person rates — setup walks you through ordering and pairing one. And if you would rather have paper tickets, Serve-It talks to Star CloudPRNT receipt printers directly. All of it optional — the Hardware & Setup guide at serveitmenu.com/hardware-guide walks through every setup from $0 up.
No. They scan the code or tap the link, order in their browser, and pay. No app, and no account required.
No — connect the Square account you already have, and you can pull your existing catalogue across instead of retyping it. If you're curious what switching to Stripe would save, the payments page computes it from your own orders — including the places where Square is the better deal (free disputes, next-day payouts). And if you do switch, your Square Terminal stays connected as a backup.
Yes, and it says the right words when you do. A service venue gets a bookable service list rather than a menu, a simple status board instead of a kitchen display, and its storefront is marked up as a local business rather than a restaurant.
The slow part is normally payments — connecting Stripe or Square and letting them verify you. Building the menu is minutes if you import from photos or from Square. Most venues can be taking real orders the same day.
Yes, with four levels of access. Operators can work the kitchen display and move orders along. Menu admins can edit the menu, fulfillment, and reports. Finance admins add payment and venue settings. Owners can do everything, including managing staff.
Photograph it, share the code, and take your first paid order today — without a POS contract or a monthly bill.