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The Digital Menu Board app ships with a gallery of ready-made templates, but Create Your Own Design skips the gallery entirely and gives you a blank menu you build category by category. Use it when none of the standard templates match your branding, or when you want full control over which categories and items appear. In this guide we build a two-category lunch and dinner menu for a fictional restaurant, Riverside Bistro.

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Prerequisites

  • A Pickcel account with access to the Content module
  • The category and item names, descriptions, and prices you want to display (you can also import items from Square, covered below)
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

Choose Create Your Own Design

The editor opens on Select a Template with a gallery of pre-built layouts. Click Create Your Own Design in the top-right corner to start from a blank menu instead of picking a template.
Select a Template gallery with the Create Your Own Design button highlighted
If one of the gallery layouts already fits your brand, use it instead. See Digital Menu Board for the template-based flow.
4

Name your menu

Enter a Menu Title and Menu Subtitle; these display at the top of the screen. Enter an App Instance Name too, this is how you’ll identify the app later in Media. We used Riverside Bistro, Lunch & Dinner Menu, and Riverside Bistro Custom Menu.
Digital Menu Board editor with Menu Title, Menu Subtitle, and App Instance Name filled in
5

Add categories

Click Add category, then click the new row and type a category name. Press Enter to confirm. Repeat for every section of your menu. We added Appetizers and Entrees.
Category list with Appetizers selected and Entrees below it
6

Add items to each category

Select a category, then click Add Item. Enter the item’s Name and Price, then click Add.
Add Item dialog filled with Bruschetta name and 8.50 price
Description is disabled for custom-built menus (it only applies to a few gallery templates), so the item card shows just the name and price. Repeat for every item; use the row’s + icon to add the next item without reopening the category list.
Once an item exists, hover its row for the Actions icons: copy, edit, delete, and add another item. Use Import Data above the item list to pull items from a connected Square account instead of entering them by hand.
7

Configure display settings

Click the settings icon next to Preview. The panel controls every visual element of the board:
  • Top Bar: show or hide it, and set the menu title, subtitle, background, and logo
  • Body: fonts and colors for category names, item names, descriptions, and prices; body background color, image, and opacity
  • Item Image, Tags, Show Sold out items, and Price toggles, plus Currency and Slide Duration
  • Category Break Type: whether categories scroll continuously or break to a new screen
You can also switch to any gallery template from this panel without losing the categories and items you already entered. Click Apply when you’re done.
Settings panel with Top Bar, Body, and display toggle options
8

Preview the menu

Click Preview to see the board exactly as it will play on screen, including both categories rotating in.
Full-screen preview of the Riverside Bistro menu showing Appetizers and Entrees with prices
9

Save the app

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

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