🚀 Getting started
Go from signup to taking orders the same day.
- Pick your cuisine at signup — a starter menu and a branded website build themselves.
- Make it yours — in the Website tab add your logo, colors, tagline, and story.
- Print your window QR (Website tab) so customers can scan and order from their phone.
- Share your link everywhere — social bios, texts, flyers. It always shows today's menu.
💡 The little "Get set up" checklist at the top of your Orders tab walks you through the first four things. When it's done, it disappears.
🌐 Your website
A real website with your menu, no web designer needed.
- Edit anything in the Website tab — colors, logo, tagline, "about us," and your public link.
- Window QR poster — print it and tape it to your truck; customers scan → order → pay.
- Your site is always live at your public link and updates the instant you change your menu or schedule.
📱 Online orders
Customers order from their phone; you get a ding and a name read aloud.
- New orders pop up in the Orders tab with a cha-ching and the customer's name spoken out loud (Spanish names in a Spanish voice).
- Tap Mark ready when it's up, Done when it's handed over.
- Accepting orders toggle — flip ordering off when you're slammed, back on when the line clears.
- Payments go to your own Stripe or Square account (connect it in Settings). No processor connected yet? Customers pay at the window.
💡 Turn on the 🔊 alerts toggle so you hear every order even when you're not staring at the screen.
🧾 The register (POS) Sell tab
Ring up walk-up sales so every dollar — cash and card — lands in your books.
- Tap menu items to build the order; adjust quantities in the cart.
- Tax and tips are applied automatically (set your tax rate + tips in Settings).
- Tap how they paid: Cash, Card/Tap, Cash App, Venmo, Zelle, or Other.
- Done — the sale is numbered and shows up in Orders + your Money reports.
💡 Cash and "mark-paid" methods (Venmo/Zelle) work right now. Card/Tap records the sale today and will charge the card once you connect Stripe.
📴 Working a dead zone festivals & events
Big festivals kill cell service right when the line is longest. Here's the play — set it up before event day.
- Open the Sell tab once while you still have signal (that morning is fine). Your menu saves to the phone, and from then on the register works with zero bars.
- Keep selling when the signal dies. Ring up sales exactly like normal — each one saves on your phone with a "💾 saved on this phone" note and a banner counts what's waiting. The moment you're back in coverage, they upload themselves into your Orders and Money reports. Nothing gets lost, nothing double-counts.
- Cards with no internet: use Square's Offline Payments. If you have a Square reader, turn on Offline Payments in your Square app before the event (Square app → Settings → Checkout → Offline Payments). The reader stores swipes/taps and processes them when you reconnect. Know the trade-off: Square gives you about 24 hours to get back online, and an offline card can decline later — that risk is on you, so many owners set a limit like $50 per offline card sale.
- Cash, Venmo, Zelle, Cash App never need our internet — the customer's payment app is their problem; your register records it offline either way.
- Pro move: bring your own internet. Your phone's hotspot — or a ~$25/mo LTE hotspot puck kept in the truck — usually revives online ordering and card processing even when the festival crowd has crushed the local tower. The register and reader both run off your connection, not the customers'.
💡 Do a 60-second drill before your first big event: put your phone in Airplane Mode, ring up a $1 cash test sale, turn Airplane Mode off, and watch it appear in Orders. Delete the test sale note from your reports later — now you've seen the whole loop work.
👥 Team & time clock Team tab
Give your crew their own logins and track hours.
- Invite teammates — pick a role (Manager or Staff), send them the private link. They join when they sign in with that email.
- Roles: 👑 Owner (everything) · 🧢 Manager (runs the day, invites staff) · 🙋 Staff (orders, menu, register, pause ordering).
- Time clock — everyone clocks in/out; you see the whole team's hours for the week.
- Shift schedule — post who works when (next 2 weeks); staff see their shifts.
- Tip pool — the week's tips split by hours worked, as a fair starting point.
💡 Have more than one truck? Use the 🚚 dropdown at the top to switch between them — one login, all your trucks.
💰 Money & expenses
Know your profit today, not next month.
- The Money at a glance card (Orders tab) shows Today / 7-day / 30-day profit — sales minus the expenses you log — in green or red.
- Log an expense — gas, propane, ingredients, rent, payroll. Pick a category, done.
- Download CSV (90 days of sales + expenses) and hand it straight to your bookkeeper.
🗓️ Schedule, events & catering Events tab
- Where we'll be — post your upcoming stops; they show on your website instantly.
- Find Us — your regular spots and hours.
- Events near you — AI-scouted festivals and markets in your area where you can park & sell.
- Catering requests — customers request events; you add a quote and a deposit, and mark the deposit received when it lands.
🎟️ Loyalty & followers
- Loyalty punch card — turn it on in Settings ("buy 9, get the 10th free"). Customers collect punches by entering their email after ordering; you honor the reward at the window.
- Followers — customers who sign up for "locations & specials" on your site become followers. Post a location and (once email is connected) they get a heads-up.
✍️ Marketing & AI
- Blog tab — hit "Write a post with AI"; it writes from your live menu and schedule. Fresh posts help you show up on Google.
- Marketing tab — build your customer email list and send campaigns (connect an email key in Settings).
- The dashboard also has a built-in AI helper for wording, ideas, and answering "how do I…" questions.
🔧 Permits & upkeep Compliance tab
- License & permit vault — keep every permit and license on hand for inspections, even when you're not on the truck.
- Maintenance log — oil changes, generator service, fire-extinguisher checks, deep cleans; repeating jobs re-schedule themselves when you mark them done. Overdue jobs turn red.
- Not sure what permits you need? We have free step-by-step permit guides for every state.
📲 Get the app on your phone
- iPhone: open your dashboard in Safari → tap Share ⬆︎ → Add to Home Screen.
- Android: Chrome menu ⋮ → Add to Home screen.
- You get a real app icon, full-screen, same login — it loads instantly.
❓ FAQ
How do I get paid?
Connect your own Stripe or Square in Settings — card money goes straight to your bank. Until then, customers pay at the window and you log it in the register.
Can my customers order in Spanish?
Yes — your ordering page auto-detects each customer's phone language, with a manual toggle. Your menu item names stay exactly as you wrote them.
Do I need a POS or special hardware?
No. Your phone (or an iPad) is the register. Tap-to-Pay on iPhone — customers tapping a card on your phone — turns on once you connect Stripe.
I already have Square — can I keep it?
Yes. Connect it in Settings and keep your reader. Online orders and QR-to-pay charge through your own Square account, walk-up card swipes work on your Square reader like always, and every sale lands in your reports. No switching, nothing to re-buy.
Something looks wrong / I'm stuck.
Use the support chat in your dashboard, or email us. We answer fast.