Digital menus and online ordering for restaurants in Iraq
For a restaurant or cafe in Baghdad, Erbil, Basra or anywhere else in Iraq. Your menu lives at ala.menu/yourname, the QR goes on the tables, and orders arrive on your own page or on WhatsApp. Payment is cash or a transfer the customer sends you. There is no card gateway wired for the dinar, and we would rather say that here. Prices print as whole dinars. The menu is free forever, with no commission on any order.
What an Iraqi restaurant actually gets
0% commission, every order
Nothing is taken off any order on any plan, including Free. Against a platform cut the Iraqi Restaurants Association put at up to 27%, that is the whole argument.
Whole dinars, because that is how prices circulate
ISO 4217 files the dinar as a three-decimal currency. We deliberately do not follow it: a 15,000-dinar item prints as 15,000, not 15,000.000.
Cash and transfer, said plainly
Cash on delivery, and manual transfer with the bank and other presets: the customer sends, you confirm, and the order is only paid when you say so.
No card gateway for the dinar, and we will not pretend
None of the gateways in this product is wired for an Iraqi acquirer. Everything else on this page works today.
Arabic, properly
Full native right-to-left rendering with a real Arabic webfont. Publishing the menu in Arabic is free. Kurdish is not among the 21 languages, and we are not going to imply it is.
One QR that survives everything
The printed code points at ala.menu/q/yourcode, allocated once and never reissued. Rename the menu, redo the prices. Do not reprint.
Live in three steps
1. Send the menu you have
A PDF, a photo of the printed menu, or a description. The AI builder types it up, free, with no quota.
2. Turn on cash and transfer
Add the account the customer should send to. They send, you confirm, the order moves.
3. Share the link and the QR
On the tables, in your bio, in your status. Orders come to your page or into WhatsApp.
Iraq, spelled out
- Delivery aggregators
- Talabat Iraq, Toters (Baghdad and Erbil), Lezzoo (Erbil first), Talabatey, Baly and Alsaree3.
- What they take
- The Iraqi Restaurants Association put platform commissions at up to 27% of order value, the grievance behind the three-day Baghdad restaurant strike of 2026-04-30, reported by 964 Media. That ceiling is the solid figure. The per-app splits that circulate (Talabat around 28%, the local apps anywhere from 15 to 35%) are soft, so they are not on this page.
- Our commission
- 0% per order, on Free, Plus and Pro alike.
- Payment rails you can switch on
- Cash on delivery, and manual transfer with the bank and other presets, where the customer sends and you confirm. No online card gateway is wired for IQD in this product.
- Currency
- Iraqi dinar, printed whole. ISO 4217 calls it a three-decimal currency; this product deliberately does not, because prices here circulate in whole dinars. A 15,000-dinar item shows as 15,000.
- Languages
- Arabic with full native RTL, and English. Kurdish is not one of the 21 languages. Publishing the menu in Arabic is free; a diner-facing language switcher, with AI translation, is Plus.
A delivery app keeps your customer. Here the customer is yours.
On an aggregator the guest belongs to the app. The number, the name and the order history sit in their account, and reaching that same guest again means paying for them again. On a menu you own, all of it stays with you.
Customers
Every order writes a customer row: name, phone, how many orders, what they spent, when they last ordered. Open one and the full order history is there, with a phone number you can actually call. On Plus.
CSV export
Export the whole list, or only the customers who agreed to hear from you, with orders, spend, and first and last order dates. It is your list, in a file, whenever you want it. On Pro.
Promo codes
Bring a guest back with a code you set yourself: a percentage, a fixed amount, or free delivery. It can apply on its own, be limited to a first order, or be usable once per phone number. On Plus.
Reviews
The rating and the written feedback come to you. You choose the mode: collect privately, send diners to your Google listing, or do both. On Plus.
Loyalty
A punch card that rewards every few orders, or a reward at a spend milestone, with the card saved in Apple and Google Wallet. Website orders stamp themselves; walk-ins and WhatsApp orders you stamp. On Pro.
Analytics
Menu views, unique visitors, the most tapped item, orders, the view-to-order rate, and the funnel from a view to a placed order. On Plus.
A delivery app in Iraq, and your own menu
| Delivery app | ala.menu | |
|---|---|---|
| Cut of each order | Up to 27%, per the Iraqi Restaurants Association | 0%, on every plan |
| Who holds the customer | They do. The number and the history live in their app | You do, with a customer list you can export |
| What the diner sees | Your listing inside their storefront | Your menu, your colours, your logo, your link |
| Payment | Their checkout, their payout schedule | Cash, or a transfer straight to your account |
| Prices | Delivery pricing, marked up over the counter | Your counter price, in whole dinars |
| Cost to start | Free, then a cut of everything | Free, and it stays free |
Iraq, answered
How much do delivery apps take in Iraq?
The Iraqi Restaurants Association put it at up to 27% of order value, which was the grievance behind the three-day Baghdad restaurant strike on 2026-04-30, as reported by 964 Media. Individual per-app rates circulate but are not reliably sourced, so we do not print them. Your own contract is the one that counts.
Will my prices show as whole dinars?
Yes. ISO 4217 classifies the Iraqi dinar as a three-decimal currency, and this product deliberately does not follow that, because Iraqi prices circulate whole. An item priced at 15,000 shows as 15,000, not 15,000.000.
Can I take card payments in Iraq?
Not through us. No online gateway in this product is wired for an Iraqi acquirer. What works today is cash on delivery and a manual transfer the customer sends, which you confirm before the order moves.
Is Kurdish supported?
No. Kurdish is not among the 21 languages this product translates into, and we are not going to imply otherwise. Arabic and English are both fully supported, Arabic with real right-to-left rendering.
Do you have restaurants live in Iraq?
Not yet. The product works here today on cash and transfer, and the dinar formatting was built for exactly this market, but we are not going to claim a customer we do not have. Aggregator listings that carry a familiar name in Baghdad are the aggregator’s, not ours.
What does it cost?
The menu, the templates, your Page and WhatsApp ordering are free, with no card and no trial. Website ordering with an order dashboard is Plus; a custom domain, branches and loyalty are Pro. Paid plans are priced by region, so the current figure for you is on the pricing page.
Your menu, your orders, your customers
Send us the menu you already have and it is online today, in Arabic, in whole dinars, free.
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