“How much is a QR menu?” has no single answer, because the thing being sold is not the QR code. The code is free. You pay for the page it opens, the panel you manage it with, and who owns those two things. This article gives no figures — those are on our packages page and in a quote — but it lets you weigh quotes on the same scale.
Two basic models
Monthly subscription. You sign up to a platform, enter items, pay monthly. Low entry cost. The price arrives later: when payment stops the menu goes dark, your data stays on the platform, the design looks like everyone else’s, and the platform’s logo usually sits under your menu.
One-time setup. The menu is built on your own domain with your own panel. Higher entry cost; afterwards only small fixed costs such as the domain and hosting remain. Menu, design and data are yours.
If the venue will be open for more than a year, total cost usually comes out lower with the second model. For a seasonal or pop-up venue, a subscription can make sense.
What pushes the price up
- Number of items and categories. A thirty-item café menu and a two-hundred-item restaurant menu are different amounts of work.
- Images. If every item needs a photo, shooting them or generating them with AI is a separate line.
- Languages. In tourist areas English, sometimes Arabic and Russian, are a must; each language is a translation and a maintenance load.
- Allergen, calorie, “sold out today” fields. Absent in a simple menu; adding them changes the panel design.
- Ordering and payment. “Menu” and “order from the table” are different products. The second needs a kitchen screen, payment infrastructure and far more testing.
- Stands and printing. Material, quantity, design. Usually priced separately from software.
Hidden costs
- Price increases on subscriptions: year one pricing may not hold in year two.
- Data portability: when you want to leave, can you export your item list?
- Code lifetime: a platform-bound “dynamic” code dies with the subscription; reprinting is on you.
- Support: do you change prices yourself, or message someone every time?
Seven questions when comparing quotes
- 01Where will the menu live — my domain or your platform?
- 02What happens to the menu if I stop paying?
- 03Can I change a price myself, from my phone?
- 04Can I export the item list whenever I want?
- 05How fast does the page open on a phone; can you show me?
- 06How does a second language affect the price?
- 07How are post-setup changes and maintenance priced?
Our approach
At Sufitware a QR menu is built on your domain with your panel; you change items, prices and images yourself. What is included is written plainly on the packages page; if your menu is ready, send it through the brief form and we will return a clear quote based on item and language count. To see how it is built first, how to make a QR menu walks through it step by step.