Digital Menu Board Software: Edit in a Browser, Play on Any TV

Digital menu board software is an online account where you build menu layouts, pull prices and sold-out items from your POS and publish them to any TV through a small player. Decker keeps one screen free on Starter and opens every paid feature on up to five screens for 14 days, with no card.

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What the software gives you before you pay

1 screen free: Starter plan with no end date; Build, schedule and publish a menu on one screen at no cost, with no card on file.
14-day trial: Every paid feature on 5 screens; Test POS price sync, dayparts and location rules on up to five screens before you choose a plan.
3 POS + Excel: Prices without retyping; Toast, Square and Clover connect directly; in addition, any other register can feed prices from an Excel sheet.

Build the menu

Lay out categories, prices, photos and promos in the browser editor, from a ready layout or an AI first draft.
Connect the data

Link Toast, Square or Clover, or upload an Excel sheet, so prices and stock become live fields.
Schedule what plays

Set menus by hour, day and location, and give each promo a start and an end date.
Publish and confirm

Send the menu to one screen or every store; only the changed part of each menu board redraws, in 1–5 seconds. In addition, an optional Verifier reports a screen that went dark.

Decker menu board software keeps every price in data, not in pixels, and that is the one difference from a USB stick, a slide loop or an exported design file that decides the workload. Every other row follows from it.

	USB stick on the TV	Slide loop or design file	General signage app	Decker
Changing a price	Edit, export, carry a new file to each TV	Edit, export, upload to each screen	Upload a new image or edit a text box	Change it in the POS; on screen in 1–5 seconds
Sold-out item	Stays until someone swaps the file	Stays until the next upload	Stays until someone removes it	Hidden the moment the POS flags it
Breakfast to lunch	Someone swaps the stick	A second file on a timer	Playlist schedule	Dayparts by hour, day and location
10 screens in 3 locations	10 trips with a stick	10 uploads	One publish	One publish, local prices per store
Checking the screen works	Someone walks past	Someone walks past	Device shows as online	Optional Verifier checks the display
Cost to start	A USB stick	Free tools	Often a free tier	One screen free on Starter

Electronic menu board software from Decker pays off once prices or stock change more than once a month; a menu that changes twice a year runs fine from a stick, where manual file swaps cost little staff time. Therefore, it earns its place first at counters with daily specials and items that sell out by mid-afternoon.

The Decker editor is the part of digital menu board software that builds a menu board from your item list, keeps every price as a live field and publishes the result without a design file in between. Six tools cover the work a designer used to do:

Ready layouts to start from

Pick a layout made for a counter, a café, a bar or a specials screen and swap in your items. More starting points sit in the library of menu templates.
A first draft from AI

On Professional, the AI design generator turns your item list into a first layout with categories and prices placed.
Prices as live fields

Every price and item name links to the POS or a sheet, so the layout stays put while the numbers change. Calorie counts, which FDA menu labeling requires at chains with 20 or more locations, sit next to each price the same way.
Photos, video and web content

Add food photos, short clips, web pages and YouTube videos between menu pages to push a combo or a new item.
Your brand on every screen

Set brand colors and fonts once; every location inherits them.
Zones and screen shapes

Split a screen into zones, run portrait or landscape boards and set which zone shows what. Beyond a single TV, the same layout can also cover a wall of four.

Decker menu board software starts on 1 free screen: pick a ready layout, swap in your items and publish. In addition, the 14-day trial adds POS sync and dayparts on 5 screens.

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Decker is restaurant digital menu software that reads prices and stock straight from the register, so the menu changes when the POS changes and nobody edits the board twice. Four connections cover most counters:

Toast, Square and Clover

Authorize the account once. A new price redraws only its own line on all menu boards in 1–5 seconds, with no reload and no flicker.
Excel for any other register

Other registers send prices through an Excel sheet; upload a new version, and every screen updates.
Items matched once

AI matching pairs register items with layout fields, even when names differ slightly. You confirm the pairs once, and later changes flow on their own.
Sold-out items and the API

Items marked unavailable leave the screen until the register lists them again. In addition, the API on Premium connects an ERP, and the guide to how register items map to the layout covers each field.

Dayparts by hour and day

Morning, midday and late-night menus change over on their own by hour, weekday and store.
Promos with start and end dates

A limited-time deal appears on its first day and drops off every screen after its last.
Local prices, one brand design

Every store pulls prices from its own register or sheet, so an airport location can charge more while the layout stays identical everywhere.
Screen groups

Group menu boards by store, zone or counter, then publish to one group, a region or every location at once.
Roles for a growing team

On Premium, custom roles, SAML SSO and audit logs decide who edits prices and who edits the layout. Beyond 50 screens, accounts get volume terms and onboarding.

Decker puts one small player behind every screen, which means its digital menu software for TV needs only an HDMI input and runs the same on any brand or model year.

Decker Player, a palm-sized digital signage media player, plugs into any TV or display over HDMI, joins Wi-Fi or Ethernet and pairs with your account by code. Because the menu runs on the player, this tv menu board software behaves the same on an older consumer set and a new commercial panel.

The player caches the last published menu, so the board stays up when the network drops. In addition, an optional Decker Verifier screen-check device restarts a frozen player and switches a lost HDMI input back.

Menu boards that run all day belong on commercial displays, rated for longer daily hours than consumer TVs. Unlike smart-TV apps tied to one brand’s operating system, digital menu display software on its own player needs no app store, so this menu software for TV never waits on a TV brand.

Nothing to install for editors

The account opens in any current browser on a laptop, tablet or phone, with no app-store version to keep current.
Quick changes from the counter

A shift lead can mark an item sold out or adjust a price from a phone while standing at the counter, and the screen follows within seconds.
Free for one screen

Starter works as a free digital menu board app for one screen, on the same browser account. However, the menu itself plays on the player behind the TV, not on the phone.

Decker keeps 1 screen free on Starter with no end date, which matches what digital menu board software free plans usually offer: 1 to 3 screens and basic content management.

The 14-day trial opens every paid feature on up to five screens without a card, from POS sync and dayparts to roles and SSO.

“Unlimited free screens” is a myth. Free tiers almost always stop at one to three screens, and the TV, the player and the electricity still cost money. Here, a second screen means a paid plan or the trial.

In other words, tv menu board software free tiers, this one included, put a menu on the screen, while live prices on two or more screens need the paid sync.

Plans From One Free Screen to a Franchise

Each plan adds a layer of the menu software workflow that grows from one free screen to a franchise rollout:

$0 Free forever · 1 screen No credit card

$8 per screen/month 14-day free trial. No credit card required.

$12 per screen/month 14-day free trial. No credit card required.

$16 per screen/month 14-day free trial. No credit card required.

Custom pricing Custom contract based on your screen network, implementation requirements, and support needs.

See all plans and pricing

Prices come from the POS

The software reads Toast, Square, Clover or Excel, so a new price reaches the menu boards in 1–5 seconds.
It runs on the TVs you own

Any TV with an HDMI input works through the player, so the screens on the wall stay in use.
The menu stays up offline

The player shows the last published menu when the router drops and catches up later.
Someone notices a dark screen

Most tools report that a device stays online, not that the menu shows on the glass. Decker Verifier checks the display and restarts a frozen player, and playback reports show what played on each menu board.
Access never rests on one person

On Premium, each editor gets separate rights, SSO sign-in and audit logs.
The tenth screen is easy to price

One screen stays free, then billing runs per screen, with volume terms past 50 screens.
No designer on payroll

Ready layouts, an AI first draft and live price fields let a shift lead build the board. Overall, that is the bar any restaurant menu display software should clear before its trial ends.

How Crave Cafe Replaced Photoshop and USB With a Web Editor

Challenge

Crave Cafe in West Hills, Los Angeles, already had screens, but the menu ran as static images from USB drives. A designer edited each change in Photoshop, so updates reached the screens about once every two weeks.

Solution

Decker's web interface replaced the drives. Staff now edit items, prices and visuals in the browser and publish them to every connected screen, with no designer in the loop.

Results

As a result, menu changes that took about two weeks now reach the screens in a couple of minutes, and the menu no longer depends on one specialist.

Read the Crave Cafe story

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Parts of the Decker Platform

Specifically, four other parts of the platform cover the menu data, the layouts and the hardware that keep the software running on every screen:

Try the Editor on One Free Screen

Build a first menu board that runs on any TV through the player and publish it today. Next, open the 14-day trial for every paid feature; one screen stays free either way.

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What does the software cost per screen?

Decker digital menu boards software bills per screen per month: one screen stays free on Starter, and accounts with more than 50 screens get volume terms. Screens and players come on top, and the per-screen rates sit in the plans table above.

Can I start without paying?

Yes. Starter is free digital menu board software for one screen, with no card and no end date, and the first board can go live the same day. The 14-day trial then opens every paid feature on up to five screens, also without a card.

Do I need a player, or can it run as a smart TV app?

You need Decker Player, a small Android device that plugs into the TV’s HDMI port; the software does not run as an app installed on the TV itself. That keeps playback and updates identical on every brand and model year.

What if my POS is not Toast, Square or Clover?

Use an Excel sheet. Export prices from your register, upload the sheet, and the price fields update on every screen; upload a new version whenever prices change. On Premium, the API can connect an ERP or another system directly.

How do I move a menu from Canva, PowerPoint or a USB stick?

Upload the existing images or videos unchanged, and the board runs the same day. Then rebuild the price lines as live fields, one category at a time, so future changes come from the POS instead of a new export.

Is digital menu software different from general signage software?

Yes, in focus. Digital menu software treats items, prices and stock as data that follow the POS, while general signage tools play images, video and playlists. Decker does both, so one account can run a menu board and a promo loop side by side.

When does a small café not need digital menu board software?

A café with one screen that loops the same video all month can run it from a USB stick. A menu whose prices change less than twice a year and never runs out of an item gains little from live price fields. A menu wall that will never get Wi-Fi or Ethernet cannot receive updates at all. Similarly, a café that takes every order through QR codes at the table, with no screen above the counter, has nothing for the software to drive.