Catalogue Essentials
Products
The bread and butter of the menu: we create products with a name, description, price and photo, and tie them to a category, allergens and tags so the menu organises itself.
All the points of the film 6 steps · 4:51
What you will learn
- Creating a product with a price and description
- Uploading an image that suits the dish
- Connecting to a category, allergens and tags
Step by step
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The Products page
Left menu → Products. It starts empty — “+ Add product” and nothing else — and the wizard opens on the name: “Scotch egg”. Every product you make becomes a row here, with its image, price and badges.
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Prices — as many as you need
Step 3 sets the pricing: the standard price with an optional sale price, and separate fields for takeaway and guest pricing — the placeholders showing the format. The currency and how it reads are set once, centrally, in Settings; here you type only the number.
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Everything about a row
“Scotch egg” takes its place, its price badge reading 6–6.5 — a sale price shows as a range. The row's actions menu holds the rest of this lesson: Name, Description, Image, Choose category, Allergens, Displays, Price, Tags, Settings, Delete.
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Status, and the product is born
The last step is the product's status: Enabled — visible and available to order; Disabled — hidden until you enable it again; Private — for internal or limited-access use. “Create”, and the toast confirms it.
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Into its category
“Choose category” lists the skeleton from the Categories lesson — Drinks, Coffee, Desserts, Mains, Starters. Tick where the product belongs, Save, and the menu starts organising itself; Sunday roast and Fish & chips are already in.
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The list fills up
Elderflower press, Sticky toffee pudding, Sunday roast, Fish & chips, Scotch egg — five rows with their statuses and relation badges, and a sixth on its way in the wizard. View menu already shows a real venue.
Good to know
Write descriptions the way you would say them at the table — short and appetising.
Allergens are not decoration: fill them in correctly from day one; the law requires it too.