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The Digital Menu Board app turns a screen into a live price list for a restaurant, cafe, or food court. Pick one of the ready-made templates, swap in your own categories, items, and photos, and update prices or availability any time without touching the screen. In this guide we build a breakfast menu for a fictional cafe, Sunrise Cafe, starting from the Daily Bites template.

Prerequisites

  • A Pickcel account with access to the Content module
  • Item photos uploaded to the Media library, if you want photos next to your items
1

Open Apps and search for Digital Menu Board

In the Pickcel console, expand Content in the left menu and select Apps. Search for Digital Menu Board using the search field.
Pickcel Apps page with Digital Menu Board searched and the app card shown
2

Create the app

Click the Digital Menu Board card. A details panel opens with a preview of the app. Click Create App. The app editor opens in a new browser tab.
Digital Menu Board app details panel with the Create App button
3

Select a template

The editor opens on Select a Template with a gallery of pre-built layouts for different cuisines and screen orientations. Hover a template and click Edit to use it. We picked Daily Bites, a portrait breakfast layout with sample categories and prices already filled in.
Select a Template gallery showing Daily Bites, Juice Bar, Cafe Portrait, and other menu board layouts
Need full control over layout instead of a preset design? Use Create Your Own Design to build a menu from a blank canvas.
4

Edit the menu title and categories

Every template loads with sample content so you can see how it looks. Replace the Menu Title and Menu Subtitle in the top-left with your own; we used Sunrise Cafe and All-Day Breakfast. Click a category name in the left rail to rename it, or use Add category and the trash icon to add or remove sections.
The pill in the top-center (Daily Bites in the screenshot below) is the App Instance Name, separate from the on-screen Menu Title. It’s how this app is identified later in Media, so rename it too if you want something more recognizable than the template’s default name.
Digital Menu Board editor with Menu Title renamed to Sunrise Cafe and the Breakfast Menu category selected
5

Assign item photos

Hover an item’s image cell and click the folder icon to open the media picker. Search or scroll to find a photo from your Media library, select it, and click Assign.
Select a media dialog listing dish photos from the Media library
Only images already uploaded to Media appear here; there’s no direct upload from this dialog. Go to Content > Media first if the photo you want isn’t listed yet.
Greek Yogurt menu item row with a yogurt bowl photo assigned from the Media library
Hover any item row for its Actions icons: copy, edit, delete, and add another item below it.
6

Configure display settings

Click the settings icon next to Preview. Each template ships with its own font and color defaults, all of which you can override:
  • Top Bar: menu title and subtitle fonts, colors, and background
  • Body: fonts and colors for category names, item names, descriptions, and prices
  • Item Image, Show Sold out items, and Price toggles, plus Currency, Slide Duration, and Category Break Type
You can also switch to a different template from the rail on the left without losing your categories and items. Click Apply when you’re done.
Settings panel showing the Daily Bites template's Top Bar and Body font and color defaults
7

Preview the menu

Click Preview to see the board exactly as it will play on screen, including every category rotating through in turn.
Full-screen preview of the Sunrise Cafe menu board showing a category with an item and price
8

Save the app

Click Save, then confirm in the Do you want to Save? dialog.
Do you want to Save confirmation dialog over the item list
A success dialog confirms the app was created and offers to walk you through adding it to a composition. The app is stored in Content > Media under its App Instance Name, with type App.
Menu Board created successfully dialog with a link to the Media section

What’s Next?