Publish your menu

Check the draft, assign the menu to a branch, publish it, read the version history, roll back, discard changes or take a menu away.

Goal

Your menu is live at a branch, you can see which version guests get, and you know how to go back or take the menu away.

Before you start

A menu with at least one active dish
You are the owner, an admin or a menu editor (the roles that can publish)

Publishing turns your draft into a new numbered version that guests see immediately. Versions are never changed afterwards: every publish and every roll back adds a new row to the history. A published menu only reaches guests at the branches it is assigned to.

Review the draft

Open Menus. The panel Draft vs live shows the live version and the number of unpublished changes, with lists of added, changed and removed dishes and price changes. Click Publish when you are ready.

The Draft vs live panel with the unpublished changes badge and the Publish button — The number of unpublished changes
The Publish button

Run the checks with Preview

Click Preview on the menu card. The phone preview shows the draft exactly as guests would see it, and the checks appear below it. Fix before publishing lists problems that block publishing, for example a dish with sizes but none available. Worth a look lists notes that do not block, for example dishes that are still drafts and will not be published. If you try to publish while a problem remains, you get a message that starts with The menu cannot be published yet:.

The preview dialog with the blocking problem and the warning below the phone — The problems that must be fixed
The notes worth a look

The message The menu cannot be published yet naming the dish with the problem — The message naming the dish to fix

Click Branches on the menu card. In Where is this menu served? tick the branches that should show this menu to guests, then click Save branches. A menu that is not assigned to any branch shows the warning This menu is not assigned to any branch yet, so no guest can see it.

The branches dialog with the branch Al Khuwair ticked — The branch tick box
The Save branches button

Publish with a release note

Click Publish. The dialog Publish draft says which version will be created. Add a short Release note (optional), for example "Opening menu", so your team knows what changed. Click Publish now. The panel then shows Live · v1 and the card shows Version 1.

The Publish draft dialog with a release note typed in — The release note
The Publish now button

The Draft vs live panel showing Live v1 and Draft matches live — The live version badge

Read the version history

Under Version history every version has its number, a checksum, who published it and when, your note and the number of dishes. The newest version is marked Live. History can only grow: nothing is edited or deleted.

The version history table with version 2 live and a Roll back button on version 1 — The version history
The Roll back to this version button of version 1

Roll back to an older version

Click Roll back to this version on the row you want. The dialog Roll back to v1? explains that nothing is deleted: a new version identical to v1 is published and guests see it immediately, and your current draft is replaced by that content. Click Roll back.

The Roll back to v1 confirmation dialog — The Roll back button

The history with the new version 3 marked Live with the note Rollback to v1 — The new live version created by the roll back

Discard draft changes you do not want

If you changed your mind about unpublished edits, click Discard draft changes. The dialog Discard draft changes? warns that the unpublished changes will be lost and this cannot be undone. Guests are not affected.

The Discard draft changes confirmation dialog — The Discard draft changes button

There is no Unpublish button. To stop a branch from showing a menu, open Branches on the card, untick the branch and click Save branches. You can also archive the menu from the three-dot list on its card. To go back to older content, roll back instead.

The branches dialog with the branch tick box cleared — The branch tick box, cleared
The Save branches button

Expected result: Guests at the assigned branches see the published version. The history shows every version, and you can roll back at any time.

Publishing is immediate

There is no review or delay. As soon as you click Publish now the new version is live for guests at the branches that serve this menu.