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Connecting a Custom Domain

Point your own domain (like www.yourrestaurant.com) at your Lekro website with a single CNAME record.

Lekro Team
· Last Updated: April 26, 2026

Connecting a Custom Domain

Your Lekro site already lives at a free address like yourbrand.lekro.com. When you’re ready to use your own domain — say www.yourbrand.com — this guide walks you through it end to end.

Why use www. and not the bare domain?

Lekro requires a subdomain (the www. form) rather than the bare/apex domain (yourbrand.com on its own). The reason is technical: bare domains can’t reliably point to a hosted service the way a subdomain can, and the workarounds (ALIAS, ANAME, CNAME flattening) are not supported by every DNS provider.

If you type the bare domain into the dashboard, we’ll quietly set it up as www.yourbrand.com for you. You don’t have to remember this — the UI handles it.

Tip: Most modern domain registrars also let you forward the bare yourbrand.com to www.yourbrand.com with a single setting, so visitors who type either one end up in the right place. Each provider’s guide below shows where to find this.

Before you start

You’ll need:

  • A domain you’ve already purchased (from GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, Hostinger, or any other registrar).
  • Access to that registrar’s DNS settings page.
  • About 5 minutes — most of which is waiting for DNS to propagate.

The four-step flow

In the Lekro dashboard, go to Website → Domain and find the Custom domain card.

  1. Type your domain (e.g. www.yourbrand.com) and click Add domain.
  2. Open your DNS provider in another tab. Find the DNS records page for this domain.
  3. Add a CNAME record with these values (the dashboard shows them with one-click copy buttons):
    • Type: CNAME
    • Name / Host: www (or whatever subdomain you chose)
    • Value / Target: edge.lekro.net
  4. (Sometimes) Add one or two TXT records that the dashboard shows you. These prove you own the domain and let us issue your free SSL certificate.
  5. Wait 1–5 minutes, then click I’ve added the records — Verify.

When verification succeeds, the status pill flips to Live and your domain works immediately, with HTTPS, on every device.

Provider-specific guides

Pick the registrar where you bought your domain:

Troubleshooting

“Not ready yet” when I click Verify. DNS changes can take a few minutes to propagate worldwide — sometimes up to an hour on slower providers. Wait 5–10 minutes and try again. If you still see the same message after 30 minutes, double-check that the Name and Value fields exactly match what the dashboard shows.

My status pill says “Needs attention”. Something that was working broke — usually because the CNAME record was edited or deleted at the DNS provider. Open your DNS settings and confirm the record still points to edge.lekro.net.

I want to switch to a different domain. Click Remove on the current domain, then add the new one. The free yourbrand.lekro.com URL keeps working the entire time, so your site is never offline.

What happens after Verify

  • Your domain serves your menu over HTTPS automatically — we issue and renew the SSL certificate for you.
  • The free yourbrand.lekro.com URL keeps working in parallel, in case you’ve shared it on printed materials.
  • SEO benefits accrue to your custom domain over time as Google re-indexes your site.

That’s it. If you hit a snag the provider guides don’t cover, contact support and include your domain name — we can usually see exactly what’s wrong from our side.