Launching your venue on Gestbar
Nine steps between creating your account and your first real service. Expect about an hour to set everything up the first time.
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Create your restaurant account
On the homepage, click "Free trial". Enter your venue's name and your credentials — a trial subscription starts automatically.
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Set up your venue
Admin → Settings: name, address, phone, currency, time zone, service rate. Add your logo and your brand color — your customers will see them on the menu.
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Build your menu
Admin → Categories, then Admin → Products. Each product can have a price, a photo, translations (English/Arabic), and stock tracking if needed.
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Create your tables and generate the QR codes
Admin → Tables & QR codes. Each table gets a unique code — print it directly from the application and place it on the table.
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Set up your payment methods
Admin → Payment methods. Enable cash and, if you use it, mobile money (Feexpay) to let your customers pay directly from their phone.
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Invite your team
Admin → Team. Create one account per member with the right role (kitchen, bar, cashier, server, or all-round staff for small teams) — see the roles table.
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Turn on the features useful to your business
Depending on your plan: loyalty, online reservations, restocking and suppliers for stock. Everything is configured from Admin → Settings and Admin → Stock.
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Install the application on your devices
On each tablet or phone used for service, open Gestbar in the browser then click "Install app" — the screen then behaves like a real application, with no browser bar.
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Run a test service
Scan a table's QR code with your own phone, place a dummy order, and follow it from the kitchen through to payment to check that everything is properly connected.