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Put a menu on a screen or a website

Designing a menu and displaying one are different jobs. Once a menu looks right, it needs to reach a screen on your wall or a page on your website.

Screens in the taproom

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A Digital Menu is displayed by pointing a browser at its public address. Any device that runs a full browser works — a smart TV, a small media stick, a spare laptop behind the bar.

The address identifies the taplist being shown, so a second screen showing a different taplist is just a second address. That is how a taproom with a main wall and a patio bar drives both from one BevWerk account without maintaining two systems.

Rotating through pages

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When a taplist holds more beers than fit legibly on one screen, a Digital Menu can page through them. The display address accepts a page index, so a screen can either sit on one page or cycle.

Cycling is usually the right answer for a busy wall. Shrinking type until forty beers fit is not legibility, it is an eye test.

Your own website

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Two options, depending on where your site lives:

  • BevWerk hosts the page. Add a menu block in Website Pages and it renders your live menu.
  • You host the site elsewhere. Embed the menu so your existing site shows BevWerk’s live data inside your own design.

Either way the beer list is generated from what is actually pouring. A menu pasted into a site editor is accurate the day it is pasted, and slowly wrong after that.

Edits are live immediately

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There is no draft state. Design and layout changes save as you make them, and a screen showing that menu picks them up — there is no separate publish step holding them back.

Plan around that during service. If you are reworking a menu substantially, do it before doors or on a taplist no screen is currently pointed at, rather than rearranging one a room is reading.

Practical notes for screens

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  • Set the display device to keep the screen awake; a screensaver is the most common cause of a blank menu wall.
  • Point each screen at the taplist for the room it is in, not at your main list by default.
  • Check legibility from the far end of the room, not from the laptop you configured it on.

What to do next

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