A café website builder for a menu people read on their phone

What should a café website have?

Most people meet your café on a phone. They tap your Instagram bio or your Google listing, standing outside or sitting at home. In the next ten seconds they want three answers: what do you serve, are you open, and how do I get it. A good café website answers those first and leaves the rest for later.

• ✓A menu that reads well on a phone — items, prices and a photo of the best sellers, not a PDF you have to pinch and zoom.
• ✓Opening hours, the address and a map link near the top, so nobody walks to a closed shutter.
• ✓A way to order: online with UPI or cash, or a WhatsApp button for people who prefer to message.
• ✓Real photos of your counter, your coffee and your space. People pick a café for how it feels.
• ✓A reason to come back, like a stamp card that fills up on their phone.
• ✓A link from your Google listing, so the people searching “cafe near me” land on your menu.

A menu people can read on a phone

On SitesPlaced every menu item is a proper item with a name, a price, a short line and a photo if you have one. Sections like Coffee, Breakfast, Sandwiches and Desserts become categories with their own pages, so a customer taps straight to what they want. Change a price, add a seasonal special or hide an item that’s sold out from your phone, between orders.

Menu from a photo. You don’t have to type the menu in. Upload a clear photo or a PDF of your printed menu, and SitesPlaced reads each item and price into your website, sorted into sections. Check what it read, fix any spelling, and add dish photos later. Your website is live the same afternoon.

Online orders with 0% commission

Your café website is also a shop. Customers add items to a cart and check out, and the order lands in your dashboard with an email to you. There’s no commission on any plan — not on the free plan, not ever.

• ✓UPI and cards paid into your own Razorpay, PhonePe or Cashfree account. The gateway charges its own fee; SitesPlaced takes nothing.
• ✓Cash on delivery, with an optional small COD charge if you want one.
• ✓WhatsApp orders: the customer sends their cart to your WhatsApp as a ready-made message.
• ✓A delivery charge, free delivery above an amount you choose, and a minimum order value.
• ✓Coupon codes such as COFFEE10, on the free plan.
• ✓A pause switch for when the kitchen is full or you’re closed: the menu stays up and checkout stops until you switch it back.

For how a customer orders step by step, and what the commission saving looks like in rupees, read our online ordering system for restaurants and cafés.

Hours, address and your Google listing

Put your opening hours and address on your home page and your Contact page, in plain words: “Open 8am to 10pm, closed Tuesdays.” Add your phone number as a tap-to-call button and a link to your Google Maps location. These are the details people check most, so keep them up to date when you change your timings.

Then open your Google Business Profile and add your SitesPlaced link as your website. Food businesses can usually add a menu link and an order link too. Adding links there is free for any business. SitesPlaced isn’t connected to Google — you paste the link yourself — but your site is built so Google can read it: fast pages, a sitemap, and a page for every item and section.

Loyalty stamp cards (Growth plan)

Regulars keep a café alive. On the Growth plan (₹499/month) you print a QR stand card or a table tent from the dashboard. A customer scans it, types their phone number and gets a stamp — no app, no OTP. When the card fills, they get the reward you chose. You can add scratch cards and more than one branch, and online orders from the same phone number add stamps to the same card.

This page is about the website. The stamp card has its own page, with how it works, how it stops repeat scanning and how it compares with standalone loyalty apps: website and loyalty QR stand for cafés and local shops.

Table bookings you take by phone

Guests can’t book a table on the website by themselves yet. If you take bookings by phone, WhatsApp or at the door, turn your store into a café in the Venue tab and you get a Table bookings tab. It shows the next 14 days, the seats taken in each time slot, and lets you mark a table confirmed, seated, done or a no-show. Your website’s call and WhatsApp buttons bring those bookings in.

Build your café website in 5 steps

1. 1

   Photograph your menu

   Upload a photo or PDF of your printed menu or menu board. The items and prices are read into your store for you.

2. 2

   Pick a template

   Start on the General Store or the Food Store. Add your logo, your colours and a photo of your counter.

3. 3

   Add hours, address and contact

   Write your timings and address on the home and Contact pages, and add your phone and WhatsApp number.

4. 4

   Turn on payments

   Connect your Razorpay, PhonePe or Cashfree account for UPI and cards, switch on cash on delivery or WhatsApp orders, and set your delivery charge.

5. 5

   Publish and share the link

   Go live on a free sitesplaced address, then put the link in your Instagram bio and your Google Business Profile.

Templates to start from

Dedicated café and restaurant templates are being built. Until they arrive, cafés start on one of these store templates. Each shows your menu with prices and photos and uses the same checkout. Open a demo to see it on your phone.

Cafés start here

General Store

Clean and simple, with colour themes to match your café. The quickest to fill in from a menu photo.

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Food

Food Store

Laid out like The Whole Truth. A giant type headline instead of a banner photo, colourful category cards, and pack sizes right on the product card.

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Grocery

Grocery Store

A dense product grid with one-tap add, like a delivery app. Suits a long delivery menu or a cloud kitchen.

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Café website options, compared

A delivery app is good at one thing your website can’t do on day one: put you in front of thousands of hungry people who have never heard of you. Keep it for that if it pays. But every regular who orders through the app costs you a commission, and the app keeps most of the relationship. Your own website is where those regulars should order. For that, SitesPlaced is the simplest start: free to publish, 0% commission, and the customer’s number is yours.