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.

Products Prices Images Relations
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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

  1. 1

    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.

    Step 1: The Products page — Products
  2. 2

    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.

    Step 2: Prices — as many as you need — Products
  3. 3

    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.

    Step 3: Everything about a row — Products
  4. 4

    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.

    Step 4: Status, and the product is born — Products
  5. 5

    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.

    Step 5: Into its category — Products
  6. 6

    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.

    Step 6: The list fills up — Products

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.