Glossary

Every Table QR term in one line, each linked to the page that explains it.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

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The words the dashboard and these docs use, grouped by topic. Each term links to the page that explains it.

Your business

Organization — your business in Table QR; it owns your locations, catalogue, menus, QR codes, team and plan.
Location — one venue of your organization, with its address, opening hours, tables and QR codes.
Venue page — a location's public page: its details, links and the menus it serves.
Location directory — your organization's public page that lists its locations.
Override — a change made for one location or one menu, such as a different price, that leaves the catalogue as it is.
Inherited setting — a setting a location or a menu takes from the organization until it sets its own.

Catalogue — all your products and add-ons, created once and used by any menu.
Product — a dish or drink, with its names, descriptions, photos and prices.
Variant — a size or portion of a product with its own price, such as 0.33 l and 0.5 l.
Add-on — extras a guest can choose for a dish, such as milk or a sauce, each choice an option with its own price.
Dietary tags and allergens — what a dish suits and what it contains, shown to guests on the dish.
Badge — a label on a dish, such as New or Chef's choice, from your organization's list.
Venue tags — what a venue offers, such as Wi-Fi, parking or a terrace, shown on its venue page.
Placement — a product's place in a menu; one product can be placed in many menus.
Image library — every picture your organization has uploaded, ready to reuse.
Sold out — a dish guests can see but not order right now, everywhere or at one location.

Menu — a selection from your catalogue, arranged for guests: Dinner, Drinks, Breakfast.
Group and category — the two levels of a menu: groups such as Food and Drinks hold categories such as Starters and Mains, and categories hold dishes.
Menu builder — the page where you arrange a menu.
Draft — a menu that is not published yet; guests do not see it.
Publish — make a menu, or its latest changes, visible to guests.
Approval — a review before a menu goes live: an editor submits it, and a reviewer approves and publishes it.
Scheduled publishing — publishing a menu at a date and time you choose.
Version — a copy of a menu as it was published, to compare with or go back to.
Serving hours — when a menu, or a category in it, is served.
Archive — retire a menu; an archived menu is read-only until you restore it.
Menu languages — the languages a menu is translated into, for guests to choose from.
Currency — the money a menu's prices are shown in; a product has a price in each currency you sell in.
Promo banner — a banner above a menu that tells guests about an offer, a new dish or an event.
Recommended dishes — dishes you pick for a menu to suggest to guests.
Printed menu — a PDF of a menu, ready to print.

Guest menu — what guests open on their phone: the venue page and its menus.
Branding — your logo, colours and fonts on the guest menu.
QR code — a printed code that opens a location's page or one of its menus.
Plain code — a link's basic QR code, with no table or language added; it always works.
Table code — the QR code of one table, so an order shows where it came from.
QR design — the colours, logo and shapes of your codes, for the organization, a location or a menu.

Guest ordering — guests send their order from the menu, at their table or for pickup.
Readiness checklist — what a location still needs before it takes orders.
Table — a table at a location, with its own QR code.
Order — what a guest sends; your staff work it on the Orders page.
Service request — a guest calling a waiter or asking for the bill from their phone.
Check — the bill of a table or of one guest, closed once paid at the venue.
Pause — stop a location taking orders for a while.
Receipt — a receipt sent to a guest by email.
Service fee — a charge added to orders, set per way of serving, next to taxes.

Reservation — a guest's request for a table, which your staff confirm or decline.
Booking link — a location's link where guests ask for a table.

Analytics — how guests use your menus: views, visitors, searches and popular dishes.
Sales report — what you sold through guest ordering.
Pixel — an ad platform's tracking connected to your guest menu, to measure your campaigns.
Consent banner — asks guests before tracking loads, where their consent is needed.
Review prompt — asks guests for a review after a completed order.

Member — someone on your organization's team.
Invitation — the email that asks someone to join your team with a role.
Role — what a member may see and do.
Location role — a role that applies at one location only, such as floor or kitchen staff.
Custom role — a role you put together yourself.
Owner — the one member who owns the organization; ownership can be handed over.
Activity log — every change made in the organization: what, by whom and when.

Plan — decides which features your organization can use and how much of each.
Free trial — the free period the first organization you create starts with.
Plan add-on — something extra on top of a plan, such as room for more locations.
Limit — how many locations, menus, languages and more your plan allows.

Account — your sign-in: one account for every organization you belong to.
Two-factor authentication — a code from an app on your phone, asked for when you sign in.
Session — a device or browser where you are signed in.
Overview page — an organization's first page in the dashboard.
Organization switcher — the organization's name at the top of the sidebar, to move to another one.
Search (⌘K) — finds pages, actions and your records from anywhere in the dashboard.
Notifications — the bell at the top, with messages about your team and your plan.