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Your Square menu on every screen.

Sign in with Square once and choose a menu. Dislab brings in your items, prices, sizes, add-ons and photos, and keeps them in step: change a price or mark something sold out in Square, and your menu boards show it within a minute. No typing your menu twice.

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A bright cafe menu board from Square: coffee in two sizes with add-ons, breakfast with dietary icons, and banana bread sold out

Under a minutefrom a change in Square to your screens, published by itself

One sign-inwith your Square login. No codes, keys or spreadsheets

Read onlyDislab never changes anything in your Square account

Every locationeach board shows its own Square location’s prices and stock

Set up in two minutes

Three steps, then it looks after itself.

Connect Square

In Dislab, open Menus and press Connect Square. Square’s own page asks you to sign in and allow Dislab to read your items. That’s the only setup.

Choose a menu

Pick a Square location, then one of your Square menus (the ones you built in Square’s menu builder) or some of your categories. Choose how Square’s photos and add-ons are used.

Put it on a board

The menu is published at once. Put it on any of the menu board templates, and from then on every change in Square reaches your screens by itself.

In the console

Choose what to bring in.

Square menus show with how many sections and items they hold at that location. Or tick some ordinary categories, in the order you want them on the board.

A different Square location for each board, with its own prices
Square’s photos for items without one of yours, always, or never
Add-ons that cost extra, taken from Square’s modifiers

The Bring in a Square menu dialog in Dislab: a Square location, an All day menu with 3 sections and 9 items, photo and add-on choices

Who owns what

Square runs the menu. You make the board yours.

Everything your till knows comes from Square, so it’s never typed twice. Everything a board needs that a till doesn’t know is added in Dislab, and it stays put through every update.

From Square

Kept in step, all day

Change these in Square; Dislab follows.

Your menu’s sections and items, in Square’s order
Names, descriptions and prices, including each location’s own price
Sizes from variations: Small and Large, or Pot, Schooner and Pint, up to four side by side
Add-ons from modifiers that cost extra, like “Oat milk +$0.80”
Item photos, fetched once and shown on photo boards
Sold out, marked by hand at the till or when stock runs out

Yours in Dislab

Never overwritten

Add these in Dislab; they survive every sync.

Dietary icons (V, VG, GF, DF, NF, H) and up to three chillies
Dish numbers, tags like “Popular”, and notes under headings
Day-parts: breakfast in the morning, lunch from 11:30
Markdowns: happy hour, last-hour discounts, rainy-day deals
Your own photos, and items or categories that aren’t in Square
The board itself: template, colours, fonts and layout

Examples

Lots of ways to show your Square items.

Every board on this page was drawn by Dislab from a Square catalog, exactly as a screen draws it. Pick a template and change the colours and fonts to match your shop.

**Square’s photos on every card**Item photos come across from Square, with prices, descriptions and add-ons.

**Three sizes from variations**Small, Medium and Large side by side, with extra toppings from Square’s modifiers.

Add-ons and thumbnails — **Add-ons you can read from the queue**“Oat milk +$0.80, Extra shot +$0.50” under every coffee, and small photos beside the food.

Dish numbers, chillies and dietary icons — **Order by number**Square’s items, with dish numbers, chillies and dietary icons added in Dislab, and a key under the menu.

**Happy hour on Square’s prices**A Dislab markdown takes 30% off cocktails from 4 to 6, the old price shown above the new.

A two-column cafe board — **The whole cafe at a glance**Coffee in two sizes, breakfast with dietary icons, the cabinet with banana bread sold out.

Gelato in portrait — **Portrait: gelato**One, two or three scoops from Square’s variations, on a TV on its side.

Coffee list in portrait — **Portrait: the coffee list**A big photo above Square’s coffee menu, sizes and add-ons included.

Sold out

Mark it sold out at the till. The boards follow.

When you mark an item sold out in Square, or its stock runs out, every board showing it crosses it off within a minute. Mark it back in and it comes back. Choose per board whether sold-out items show crossed out or come off altogether.

10:02 am: all in — **10:02 am**Everything in stock.

10:03 am: sold out in Square — **10:03 am**Smashed avo and the almond croissants marked sold out on the Square register. Crossed off, no one touched Dislab.

**Or taken off the board**The same menu with sold-out items hidden, for boards that should only show what you can sell.

At the tillMark an item sold out in Square, or sell the last one.

Square tells DislabSquare sends Dislab a signed message straight away.

Dislab updates the menuThe sold-out mark and any price change are published at once.

Every screen shows itScreens get it pushed to them. Nothing to press.

Day-parts on top of your Square menu

Square holds one menu; Dislab switches what the board shows through the day. Coffee stays on, breakfast gives way to lunch at 11:30, at each screen’s own local time, even with the internet down.

**8:42 am: breakfast**Coffee, breakfast and the cabinet.

**12:30 pm: lunch**The same Square menu and the same screen. Lunch took over by itself.

More than one shop

Each location’s own prices.

Square lets each location charge its own price. Make a Dislab menu per location and each board shows that shop’s prices and that shop’s sold out, from the same Square catalog.

**Fitzroy**A large coffee is $5.60 and smashed avo $19.50.

**Carlton**The same items at Carlton’s Square prices: $5.90 and $20.50.

Always in step

See when it last synced. Change your mind any time.

Beside a menu that follows Square, Dislab shows which Square menu and location it comes from and when it was last brought up to date. If something couldn’t come across as it is, it says so in plain words.

Sync now if you can’t wait the minute
Switch Square’s photos and add-ons on or off
Stop following Square: the menu stays, and you edit it in Dislab from then on

A Dislab menu that follows Square: Coffee in Small and Large, Mocha sold out, and the Follows Square card with Sync now

Questions

Anything else? Ask us, or look in the help centre.

Which Square accounts work?

Any Square account with items. If you’ve built menus in Square’s menu builder (Square for Restaurants), choose one of those. Otherwise choose some of your item categories. You sign in with your own Square login; there’s nothing to install.

Can Dislab change anything in my Square account?

No. Dislab asks Square only to read your items, stock, business name and locations. It can’t change prices, take payments or see your customers. You can remove Dislab from Square, or disconnect it in Dislab’s Settings, at any time.

How quickly do changes reach the screens?

Usually within a few seconds, and within a minute. Square tells Dislab the moment your items or stock change, and Dislab publishes the update straight away. If one of Square’s messages ever goes missing, Dislab checks every 15 minutes anyway.

What happens to my own changes when Square updates?

They stay. Names, prices, sizes, descriptions, add-ons and sold out come from Square, so change those in Square. Dietary icons, chillies, dish numbers, tags, day-parts, markdowns, your own photos and anything you add yourself are kept on every update.

Does the board still work if the internet drops?

Yes. Screens keep showing the last menu they were sent, and day-parts and markdowns keep switching by themselves. New prices and sold out arrive as soon as the screen is back online.

What if I stop using Square, or disconnect it?

Your menus stay exactly as they are and become ordinary Dislab menus you edit yourself. Nothing on your screens changes.

More of what Dislab does

Menu boardsPrices in one place, day-parts, and sold out from a phone.

Your own dataNumbers and lists from your systems, live on screen.

Split-flap boardLetters that flip into place, like an airport board.

Queue numbersA big Now serving number staff move on from a phone.

Photos and videosAny phone’s photos and videos, ready for the TV.

Cafés and restaurantsMenu boards, specials and sold out from a phone.

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