Your storefront address
Your payperplates.ca address, connecting your own domain, adding an order button to an existing site, and what happens when you rename your restaurant.
Every restaurant on PayperPlates gets a full website, hosted for you, where customers browse your menu, read your hours and about page, and order. It runs at a PayperPlates address from day one, and you can move it to your own domain whenever you like.
Your PayperPlates address
Your storefront lives at an address built from your restaurant's short name, like yourrestaurant.payperplates.ca. It works on any phone or computer, with nothing to install.
Put it on your receipts, social profiles and Google listing.
Use your own domain
Your PayperPlates storefront can replace your current website. Connect a domain you own, such as yourrestaurant.com, or a subdomain such as order.yourrestaurant.com, under Settings → Custom Domain:
- Connect your domain. Type in the domain you want to use.
- Add the DNS records shown on the page with whoever manages your domain (your registrar, such as GoDaddy or Namecheap). The page lists the exact records to copy.
- Check status. PayperPlates verifies the records and sets up a secure (SSL) connection automatically. DNS changes can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours to spread, so check back if it isn't ready straight away.
- Your domain is live. Customers who visit it get your storefront, and your PayperPlates address forwards to it.
If your plan doesn't include custom domains, the page says so instead of showing these steps.
Keep your current site and add an order button
If you'd rather keep your existing website, the Custom Domain page also gives you an Order Online button snippet. Paste it anywhere on your site to send visitors to your online ordering.
What happens if you rename your restaurant
Your short name is part of your PayperPlates address, so changing it changes the address. The old address keeps working and forwards to the new one for 7 days, so customers who saved the old link still reach you.
Update your links everywhere that matters, such as your Google listing, social profiles and printed menus, soon after a rename. Once the 7 days are up, the old address stops forwarding and another restaurant can claim it.
If you use your own domain, a rename doesn't change it.
Sharing your menu
Just send your storefront address. There is no separate menu link: the storefront opens straight to your menu, and customers go from browsing to checkout on the same page.