CrubbyHelp

Quickstart

Sign up, choose a plan, get a seeded menu and board, then pair your first screen — end to end.

This walkthrough takes you from a new account to a live menu board playing on a real screen. The whole flow is designed to leave you with something working, not an empty dashboard.

1. Create your workspace#

  1. 1

    Start onboarding

    Go to the sign-up flow. Account creation happens inside onboarding — there is no separate login step to hunt for.

  2. 2

    Name your restaurant

    This creates your first restaurant (your workspace) on the trial plan. You can add more locations later.

  3. 3

    Choose a plan

    On the plan screen you can start free or pick Crubby Sync. Manager is always included. See Plans & limits.

Good to know

Confirming a plan seeds your workspace: an (empty) active menu, a monitor, and a first signage board — so you land on something you can immediately wire up. The menu starts blank; you fill it in next.

2. Shape your menu#

  1. 1Open Manager → Menu and add your categories and products, or import a CSV.
  2. 2Add your ingredients with costs so Crubby can compute food cost.
  3. 3Tag allergens on ingredients — they roll up to products automatically. See Allergens.

3. Design a board#

  1. 1

    Open Display → Menu Boards

    Your seeded board is there. Click Edit to open the native board editor.

  2. 2

    Add and arrange modules

    Drop in a productList, brandBlock, hero or qr module and bind it to a menu category. Modules pull live menu data — you only design layout and style.

  3. 3

    Publish

    Save a draft as you go, then Publish to push it to any screen showing this board.

4. Connect a screen#

  1. 1

    Open Display → Fleet and choose Add screen

    Name it and pick its location (optionally enter the TV's size and model so the fleet view renders it accurately).

  2. 2

    Open the screen's URL on the TV

    Crubby gives you a web address — open it in the TV's browser and it starts playing. There's no pairing code; the QR shown is just to test the link on your phone.

  3. 3

    Assign content

    Assign a board, a sequence, or a schedule and the screen follows it live.

Tip

Full walkthrough: Set up your first TV.

Tip

Edits propagate to live screens within about a second — publish the board and watch the TV update without touching it.

5. (Optional) Add a QR to a board#

Boards can carry a qr module — encode a website, wifi join code, or a link to a menu page so guests can scan it from the screen. See the board editor.