Locations, menus and the catalogue
How products, menus and locations connect, and which menu a guest sees where.
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Everything you sell is created once, in your organization's catalogue. Menus arrange it, and locations serve menus. Edit a product once, and every menu that shows it changes with it.
- CatalogueProducts and add-ons, created once
- MenusArrange the catalogue
- LocationsServe menus
- GuestsScan a QR code
The catalogue belongs to the organization
Products and add-ons are created once, under Products and Add-ons, and never belong to a location. A product has one set of names, photos, variants and prices, which every menu shows unless a location or a menu overrides them.
A menu arranges the catalogue
A menu puts products into groups and categories. The same product can sit in several menus, in a different place in each. Add-ons are linked to a product within a menu, so one menu can offer oat milk with a flat white while another does not.
A location serves menus
On a location's Menus tab you choose which menus it serves. One of them is the default — the menu the location's QR code opens. A menu can be hidden at one location and still be served at others, and a schedule can decide which menu is served when.
When one location is different
Prices, availability, names and photos can change for one location or for one menu without touching the catalogue. Which change wins, and how to tell an inherited value from an overridden one: Inheritance and overrides.
Which menu a QR code opens
A QR code opens a location's page or one of the menus it serves. A table's code opens the location's default menu at that table, so your staff know where an order came from — see Add tables and print their codes.