Catalog 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 organizes itself.

Products Prices Images Relations
5:01 Tap a timestamp in the steps to jump
All the points of the film 6 steps · 5:01

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: “Buffalo wings”. 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 — 12.90 — with an optional sale price, and separate fields for takeaway and guest pricing. The currency and its format are set once, centrally, in Settings; here you type only the number.

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

    Allergens from the product's list

    “Select allergens” opens the set you build in the Allergens lesson — Fish, Tree nuts, Eggs, Milk, Gluten. Check what the dish contains, press “Save”, and the warnings appear on its card in the menu automatically.

    Step 3: Allergens from the product's list — 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: product created successfully.

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

    The list fills up

    Grilled salmon at 24, Classic cheeseburger at 15.5, Buffalo wings at 11.5–12.9 — a sale price shows as a range. Each row carries its status and its relation badges, and the actions menu on the right edits any of it later.

    Step 5: The list fills up — Products
  6. 6

    Description — and the menu looks alive

    A short, warm description in the menu's language; translations come later, in the Settings lesson. With Craft lemonade, NY cheesecake, Grilled salmon, Classic cheeseburger and Buffalo wings in place, View menu already shows a real venue.

    Step 6: Description — and the menu looks alive — Products

Good to know

Write descriptions the way you would say them at the table — short and appetizing.

Allergens are not decoration: fill them in correctly from day one; the law requires it too.