Creating Your Account
This guide takes you from nothing to a working restaurant account with your team invited. It takes about fifteen minutes. New to ForkLine? Read What Is ForkLine? first.
Step 1: Sign in
- Go to forklines.com and choose Sign in.
- Choose Continue with Google or Continue with Apple.
- Approve the sign-in with your provider.
There's no separate ForkLine password to create or remember — your Google or Apple account is your login. Use the account you actually check email on; order alerts and billing notices go there.
Step 2: Set up your restaurant
The first time you sign in, ForkLine doesn't yet know which restaurant is yours, so it takes you straight to setup.
- Enter your restaurant name. This is what customers see on your ordering page and receipts.
- Review the suggested web address. ForkLine proposes one based on your name — for example, "Rosa's Taqueria" suggests
rosas-taqueria, giving youforklines.com/menu/rosas-taqueria. Edit it if you'd like something shorter. - Enter your address and phone number. These appear on your ordering page, on receipts, and in the structured data search engines read, so use the details customers should actually use.
- Set your opening hours. You can set these roughly now and refine later — see Store Hours for split shifts and after-midnight closing.
- Finish setup.
You're now the Owner of the restaurant — the role that can change any setting, invite staff, and manage billing.
Pick your web address carefully. It appears on printed materials, in search results, and in links customers save. Changing it later breaks every existing link.
Step 3: Connect Stripe so you can take payments
You can't accept card payments until Stripe is connected. This takes about ten minutes and needs your business details and a bank account.
Go to Settings → Payments and follow Setting Up Stripe Payments — it covers what Stripe asks for and why, and what to expect for your first payout.
Step 4: Build your menu
Go to Admin → Menu and add your categories and items. See Managing Your Menu for the full walkthrough, including modifiers, photos, and combos.
Step 5: Invite your team
Go to Admin → Users and invite the people who'll use ForkLine. Each person gets a role that controls what they can see:
| Role | What they can do |
|---|---|
| Owner | Everything, including billing and settings |
| Manager | Operations, menu, settings, and orders — no billing |
| Staff | View and update orders |
| Kitchen | Kitchen display only, moving orders through prep |
| Cashier | Register, card readers, kitchen display, and counter orders |
Full detail — including how to invite people and change roles later — is in Users & Roles.
If several people share one register, you'll also want Register Accounts, which identifies each cashier by a short passcode without giving everyone their own login.
Step 6: Go live
Work through the Go-Live Checklist before you take real orders. It catches the things that are easy to miss — hours, prep time, a test order end to end.
Where to go next
- Go-Live Checklist — everything to confirm before your first real order
- Managing Your Menu — categories, items, modifiers, photos
- Setting Up Stripe Payments — take card payments
- Using the Register — the counter POS
- Frequently Asked Questions
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