WhatsApp Menu Card: How to Make a Digital Menu Card for Your Restaurant

A WhatsApp menu card is your menu as one or two phone-sized images, or as a link, that a customer opens in chat and orders from. Restaurants, cafes, cloud kitchens, tiffin services and sweet shops can make one in an afternoon with these steps.

1. List every dish by section. Starters, mains, breads and rice, drinks, desserts, combos. Put a price on every item and a veg or non-veg mark beside it.
2. Photograph your best sellers in daylight. Shoot curries and thalis from directly above and plated dishes from a 45° angle, on a clean plate with no flash.
3. Pick the format. An image menu card for a short menu, a PDF for corporate and tiffin orders, or a link menu when you have many dishes or change prices often.
4. Design for a phone screen. One section per image, dish names large enough to read without zooming, and your name, phone number, timings and delivery area on every page.
5. Put the menu where customers ask for it. Add the menu link to your WhatsApp Business profile, save a Quick Reply such as "menu", and set an away message that sends the menu after hours.
6. Make a WhatsApp QR menu. Turn the menu link, or a chat link to your number, into a QR code for tables, the counter and takeaway bags.
7. Update the same day. When a price or dish changes, change the menu first, then send the new version to regular customers.

For step 4, start from a menu card template or build a digital menu with the restaurant menu maker. For a link menu with a photo and price for each dish, the catalog maker publishes the whole menu as one web page that opens on any phone; it needs a StitchMagic account, and AI images and AI-written details use credits (catalog maker page, read 18 Oct 2026). For step 6, the QR code generator turns that link into a printable QR, and the WhatsApp link generator makes a link that opens a chat with you.

Digital menu card formats for WhatsApp

An image is the quickest to make and the easiest to read on WhatsApp. Move to a link menu when the menu runs past two or three images, or when you change prices every week, because a link does not need resending.

WhatsApp QR menu: one code for tables and packaging

A WhatsApp QR menu is a QR code that opens either your link menu or a WhatsApp chat with your number. Point it at the link menu for dine-in, so the customer reads the menu at the table; point it at the chat link for takeaway and delivery bags, so the next order comes straight to you. Print the QR at least the size of a visiting card and write "Scan for menu" under it, so customers know what it does.

How to make a menu card for a cloud kitchen

A cloud kitchen has no dining room, so the menu card is the shop front. Lead with your five or six best sellers with photos, then the full list. State the delivery area, the hours you take orders, the minimum order if you have one, and how to pay. Keep one menu for direct WhatsApp orders and update it the same day you update any delivery app, so a regular never sees two prices for one dish.

WhatsApp menu card design: what to put on it

Running a shop rather than a kitchen? The same steps work for any dukan; see dukan ki marketing kaise kare. More WhatsApp selling guides: selling clothes from home on WhatsApp, selling sarees on WhatsApp and selling on Instagram and WhatsApp with reels.

FAQ

How do I make a WhatsApp menu card for my restaurant?

List every dish by section with a price, photograph your best sellers in daylight, and lay the menu out as one or two phone-sized images or as a link menu. Add it to your WhatsApp Business profile and save a Quick Reply so you can send it in one tap.

What is a digital menu card?

A menu a customer opens on a phone instead of reading on paper: an image or PDF sent on WhatsApp, a web page link, or a QR code that opens that page.

Can I make a digital menu card for free?

Sending an image or PDF menu on WhatsApp Business costs nothing beyond your phone and data. Tools that build a link menu vary; StitchMagic's catalog maker needs an account, and its AI images and AI-written details use credits.

How do I make a WhatsApp QR menu?

Make a link menu or a WhatsApp chat link to your number, turn that link into a QR code, and print it for tables, the counter and takeaway packaging.

Image menu or link menu: which is better on WhatsApp?

An image menu for a short menu that rarely changes; a link menu when you have many dishes or change prices often, because one link always shows the current prices.