Per-instance branding for this deployment. Logo and display name appear in the top-left of the dashboard. Display name also becomes the restaurant name Aria says when greeting callers — overrides the menu's restaurant name. Accent color tints the dashboard's primary buttons and links.

Pick the voice Aria speaks with. Changes apply to the next incoming call — no restart needed. All voices speak English; Aria uses gentle Indian-English phrasing regardless of which voice you pick.

Aria uses this when greeting callers and answering location questions. Changes apply on the next call.

Hot-swap between menus, upload your own, and hide ones you don't use. Bundled menus (shipped with the codebase) can be hidden but not deleted — they reappear if you ever need them. Uploaded menus live on this instance's persistent volume and can be removed.

Connect a POS provider to push orders, pull menu items, or both. Each toggle is independent — connect Clover and only push orders if you don't want to manage the menu through it.

One-off items merged into the menu regardless of source. Useful for daily specials or items not on POS yet.

Anything you'd normally tell a new host at the start of their shift. Aria reads this at the beginning of every call.

When the caller asks about anything outside menu & ordering — complaints, catering, allergy questions, hours, delivery, asking for a person — Aria redirects them here.

When an order is confirmed, Aria texts the caller a receipt with their order number, items, and pickup time.

Bundles a voice timbre with persona / accent guidance. The Indian-English profiles add accent instructions to Aria's persona prompt so the model inflects appropriately on both OpenAI and Gemini backends. Per-call: changes take effect on the next call.

Which voice model powers the call. Switches take effect on the NEXT call — in-progress calls keep their existing backend.

Aria always greets callers in English. Choose whether she should switch to Spanish if the caller speaks clearly Spanish — useful for restaurants with bilingual front-desk staff. Disable this if your team only handles English calls so transcription stays pinned to English.

Controls how Aria detects when the caller is speaking vs background noise. If callers report Aria interrupting or "talking to herself," try a noisier preset. If callers feel Aria takes too long to respond, try a more sensitive one.

# .env
DATA_DIR=/data

# Railway / Render / Fly: attach a volume at /data
# Heroku: does not support persistent filesystems — use S3 adapter instead