Free QR Menu with WhatsApp Ordering for Restaurants & Cafés (2026)

QR-menu software usually costs $15–50 a month and ships with carts, payment gateways and dashboards most small restaurants never open. Meanwhile, in most of the world — the Gulf, Turkey, India, Brazil, Indonesia — customers just want to order on WhatsApp. Here’s how to get a full digital menu with WhatsApp ordering for free.

What you get

• Section headings and item cards — photo, price and description for every dish, on a fast page that opens instantly even inside the Instagram browser.
• One-tap WhatsApp ordering (free) — a tap on any item opens WhatsApp with that order pre-typed.
• An order basket (Pro) — customers gather items, adjust quantities, and send the whole order as one message with the total computed for them.
• Per-table QR codes(Pro) — the message arrives tagged “Table: 5”, so staff know where it came from.
• Scan analytics — QR scans are counted separately from web visits, so a code on your counter proves what it earns.

Step 1 — paste your menu, don’t retype it (Pro)

In the editor, hit Import a whole menu(a Pro feature — the free plan adds items one at a time) and paste your menu text from anywhere: a PDF, a Word file, even an old WhatsApp message. One line per item; end a line with “:” to make it a section heading. Prices are picked out automatically — “Latte - double shot - SAR 18”, “Karak 8”, Arabic and Latin digits alike. Review the live preview, import, then add photos with a direct upload per item.

Step 2 — one WhatsApp number for orders

Enter the number that takes orders once. On the free plan a tap on any card opens WhatsApp with that item’s order pre-typed; on Pro, cards become “add” buttons and checkout is one message like:

Hi! I’d like to order:
2× Flat white — SAR 16
1× San Sebastián cheesecake — SAR 28
Total: SAR 60
Table: 5

No app for the customer to install, no account to create, no commission on the order. The message language follows your page — an Arabic menu greets in Arabic, an English one in English.

Step 3 — print one QR per table

Download your page’s QR code from the dashboard and print it. For table service, append ?t=1, ?t=2… to your page address before generating each table’s code — orders arrive tagged with the table number, and every scan shows up in your analytics.

Honest limits

There’s no in-menu card payment and no POS integration — WhatsApp is the point, and it’s why this can start free while the specialised tools charge monthly. The free plan covers 8 items with one-tap ordering (fine for a focused café menu); the full menu with bulk import, the order basket and table numbers needs Pro at $5/month — still a fraction of any QR-menu subscription. And your page isn’t only a menu: it’s a full link-in-bio page with your socials, location and reviews on it.

Set it up now

1. Claim your page free at ezlink.ink.
2. Import your menu with one paste and add your WhatsApp number.
3. Print the QR codes and put them on your tables.

You can be taking WhatsApp orders before your next coffee goes cold.