Live demo · Self-serve pages
See the menu system in action.
One guided flow, using a fictional restaurant: edit a menu and watch it update live, build its QR code, retarget its link without reprinting, and place it on an Ink Card. No signup, no sales call.
Step 1
Edit the menu, live.
This is the whole day-to-day edit path: names, prices, descriptions, sold out, hide, add an item, add a section. Type in the editor and the menu on the right updates instantly. Nothing else lives here on purpose — no modifiers, no tax settings, no ordering, no store-linking.
Menu editor
Hidden items stay in the editor but never appear on the live menu. Sold-out items stay visible with a badge.
Live menu preview — Ember & Oak
Step 2
Build the QR code.
This is a real QR code, generated in your browser — not a picture of one. It encodes the menu's short link, exactly as shown in step 3.
This QR encodes
https://sqbl.ink/eoak12
Print it on a table tent, a window, a receipt. From here on, the code itself never changes — even when the destination does, which is step 3.
In the real product, every link gets a short alias like this one, and the QR encodes the short link.
Step 3
The dynamic link.
The menu lives at a namespace link, with a short alias twin. Change what the link points at below and watch the QR from step 2 stay exactly the same — the printed code never needs reprinting.
The menu's links
Namespace link
squidbl.ink/emberandoak/menu
Short alias — this is what the QR encodes
sqbl.ink/eoak12
One link record, two faces — the same auto-alias pair every SquidBlink link gets.
Retarget it
Pick a different destination. The link and the QR stay the same; only the destination moves.
Right now, sqbl.ink/eoak12 points to The live menu — the preview from step 1. The QR from step 2 still encodes https://sqbl.ink/eoak12 — unchanged.
Step 4
On your Ink Card.
Your menu link lives on your Ink Card, right alongside your other links. Front: six links, menu first. Flip it over for contact info and socials.
Click the flip button — or tab to it and hit Enter — to turn the card over.
One honest exception: menu and landing pages are a live service, not Permanent Ink. The QR code and link pointing at your page are Permanent Ink, but the page itself goes dark if you go over your page limit or drop below the tier that includes it. Your page data is kept, and reactivating restores it. Pages are self-serve from the start, with no build fee.