Menu boards + POS pricing

A menu board should never show yesterday's price. VenueOS menu boards are designed screens that can pull live prices straight from your point-of-sale — and sold-out items too, where your POS reports them.

Start with a designed board

Restaurant, bar, and cafe workspaces get a menu-board gallery out of the box — full-service menus, drive-thru boards, tap lists, wine lists, brunch and bakery boards. Open Templates, pick one, hit Customize, and every section, item, price, and photo is editable in the side panel.

No POS? Stop here — edit prices right in the panel and you still have a beautiful, instantly updatable menu.

Connect your point-of-sale

1. Open Settings → Point of Sale and click Connect.
2. Choose your provider — Toast, Square, or Clover — and approve the connection in that provider's own sign-in window.
3. VenueOS pulls your menu catalog. You'll see it listed with a healthy/attention status right on the settings card.

Bind the board to live data

In the builder, a menu zone has a menu source picker:

1. Choose your connected POS (instead of manual items).
2. Map each board section to a POS category (Entrées, Draft Beer, Combos…).
3. Prices now render from the POS — change a price in your POS and the screen follows (see How fast below).
4. Sold-out items: Square reports them on its own — 86 an item there and it greys out (or drops off) on screen. Toast, Clover, Lightspeed and Shopify don't report sold-out items: 86 the item in Menu instead, and every screen follows.

Boards the AI builds from your POS menu

Ask the AI Concierge for a menu board and, with a POS connected, it offers to use your POS menu. Pick the sections and every row of the board it makes is bound to its POS item — by the item itself, not by its name. On screens those rows follow the POS: a new price or a renamed item shows up on its own, a sold-out item reads Sold out (where your POS reports it), and an item removed from the POS reads Not available. In the builder, the Live menu section shows which rows are bound and anything that needs you.

How fast changes reach the screens

• Square — within about a minute.
• Toast — about 5 minutes after you publish the menu in Toast.
• Clover, Lightspeed, Shopify — within the hour (they sync hourly), or right away with Sync now in Settings → Point of Sale.

Screens pick up each sync within 30 seconds. A screen that loses its connection keeps showing the last prices it received; one that restarts while offline shows the prices saved in the board until it reconnects.

Per-location menus

Multi-location groups can override any item's price or availability per location — the same board design serves every store with each store's real prices.

Dayparts and happy hour

Use Playlists + Schedules to rotate boards by time of day: breakfast until 10:30, lunch after, the happy-hour board weekdays 3–6. The schedule flips the board; the POS keeps the prices honest.