Sold out, seasonal and time-limited items

One toggle for tonight, availability windows for breakfast, and hiding a whole section for the winter.

3 min read QR menu Updated 08.09.2026

A printed menu is a promise you cannot take back. A QR menu can be honest by 19:40, and this is how.

Sold out tonight

Every item has an availability toggle in the editor list. Turn it off and the item greys out for guests immediately — no publish step, no waiting.

Panel Menu Editor the toggle on the item row

Breakfast until eleven

A category can carry an availability window — a start and an end time. Outside it the category is simply not shown, so the breakfast section disappears at 11:00 and comes back tomorrow without anyone touching it.

  • Use it for breakfast, lunch specials and a late-night menu.
  • The window is read in the location's own timezone.
  • A guest who scans at 11:05 sees the day menu, with no mention of what they missed.

Seasonal sections

For something that comes back every year, hide the category rather than deleting it. Everything inside — names, prices, translations, photos — waits exactly as you left it, and next summer is one toggle.

Changing prices

A price change reaches guests the moment you publish, on every code you have ever printed. This is the one operational advantage of a QR menu that no printed menu can answer, so use it: keep the prices true rather than approximately true.

Frequently asked

Does a sold-out item disappear or gray out?

It greys out and cannot be ordered. Guests find that more trustworthy than a dish that quietly vanishes — and it stops them asking for it.

Can a single item have its own time window?

Windows are set per category today. For one item, the usual answer is a small category of its own — “Lunch special”, for instance.

Do I have to remember to switch items back on?

Yes — availability is a manual toggle, so it says what you last said. Making it part of the opening routine takes about ten seconds.

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