Agencies

Menuly for Agencies: QR menus you own forever

QR menus you own forever — update a price and the guest sees it the instant they scan.

Agencies pay per-seat and per-client fees that scale with their success. Self-hosted, pay-once tools replace per-seat pricing with a flat cost that margins actually survive.

The tool this job usually means renting is Toast QR menus, at $29+/mo — roughly $348 a year, every year. Menuly does the job for a one-time $24 — running on infrastructure you control.

Fit check

Why it fits how agencies work

🧱 Menu builder

Categories and items with name, description, photo and dietary tags, all drag-to-reorder.

For agencies, menu builder pays off across every client account, with no per-seat math — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.

⚡ Server-rendered menu page

Pure HTML with inline critical CSS and no JS bundle, so it loads instantly on any phone with sticky category nav.

For agencies, server-rendered menu page pays off across every client account, with no per-seat math — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.

🚫 86 it in one click

Toggle an item out of stock and it vanishes from the live menu immediately, toggle back when the kitchen restocks.

For agencies, 86 it in one click pays off across every client account, with no per-seat math — and it's covered by the same one-time $24, not metered per month.

Workflow

A typical workflow

STEP 01

Buy once on Whop

One payment of $24 gets you the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/restaurant-menu-qr-mvp and run it free.

STEP 02

Build the menu

Use desktop mode at the counter to add categories, items, photos and branding for each venue.

STEP 03

Print the QR and go live

Deploy to a $5 VPS with docker compose up -d, print the QR table tent, and guests scan a live menu you control.

What it costs, honestly

Menuly is $24, once. Toast QR menus at $29+/mo — roughly $348 a year, every year. Menuly pays for itself in under one month of a QR-menu subscription — and it never charges you per location.

FAQ

Agencies ask

Is Menuly worth it for agencies?

Menuly pays for itself in under one month of a QR-menu subscription — and it never charges you per location. Menuly costs $24 once; Toast QR menus charges $29+/mo — about $348 a year. For agencies, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.

Is it really free on GitHub?

Yes — Menuly is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/restaurant-menu-qr-mvp. The $24 buys the packaged Windows installer with zero setup; building from source is free.

Where does my menu live?

In your own SQLite file with images in local storage, served from your own server — no telemetry and no third-party calls, so your menu is never hostage to a SaaS.

Own Menuly forever — $24