Place commerce and table QR

Place mode turns a page into the front door of a physical venue: a café, bar, studio, salon or market stall. It adds a place card to the public page, a list of today's specials, and a QR code per table or counter so the venue can see which seats scan.

Who can use it#

The Place screen opens when the plan includes the place or place_commerce key. The Premium plan created by the migrations includes both. Plans without either key see an upgrade prompt on Place, although the This is a place switch under Settings is not gated, so any plan can show the basic place card.

Specials and table QR stations need place_commerce, which is checked on the server: without it, they cannot be listed or saved, and the public page does not show specials.

Turning it on#

Open Place and switch on place mode (the same switch is This is a place under Settings). Then fill in what you want on the page:

• the address, opening hours ("Thu–Sun 11–7") and the Wi-Fi password;
• a menu link (a PDF or a web page);
• the heading for specials (default "Today", up to 32 characters).

All of it shows on the public page in a place card above the links. Turning place mode off hides the card and the specials but keeps what you entered.

Specials#

Under Today's specials, add an item with a title (up to 80 characters), one line of description (up to 160) and an optional price. Remove an item when it is no longer on.

Tick Tip enabled on a special to add a Tip for this button to it. That starts a tip checkout for the special's price (at least $1, or $5 when no price is set) through your payment gateway, recorded as a tip with the special's name as the note. It is a tip, not an order: there is no cart, stock or kitchen ticket.

Table QR codes#

Under Table QR stations, add a station per table, counter or poster: a name ("Table 4", "Window bar") and a short code made from it (table-4). Each station gets:

• a link: the page address plus ?table=<code>, for example https://links.example.com/u/cafe?table=table-4;
• Copy link and Open QR buttons. Open QR shows a 240 by 240 QR image you can print.

When someone opens a station link, LinkNest records a scan for that station (with the device and, where available, country and city) and counts it as a page view with the source table:<code>. The studio lists each station with its scans over the last 14 days. ?t=<code> works as well as ?table=.

Station codes are unique per page. Removing a station also removes its scan history.

Putting it together#

A café might run:

• Place card: address, "Mon–Sat 8–6", the Wi-Fi password and a menu link.
• Live status: "Open · kitchen till 3", renewed each morning. See Live status.
• Specials: two daily items, one with Tip for this for the barista.
• Stations: one QR per table, so Place shows which tables scan and Insights count them as visits.