Auphan Core & Enterprise – Adding Categories and Items

This is the menu pad. You can think of the left side as your database: where the categories and items are stored. You can think of the right side as the menu pad: what will be on your POS, what you and your employees will see.

You can then name the category, apply modifiers to it, set specific times it can be available. Whatever items are later stored in this category will inherit any properties the category has (i.e., if the entire category has a meat temp mod where you need to choose the temperature of the meat, then any item will have that modifier after it is created). After you are content with the name and settings for the category, you can press “Save” at the bottom.

You will now note this category, “Test Category”, is created and stored under the main “Root” category. Also note, there is no items stored in this category yet. Let us create an item in the test category.

You can add an item to a category by first highlighting the category from the inventory tree, then pressing add item. Whatever category is highlighted is where the item will be stored. If no category is selected, it will go under the main “Root” category.

When you go to create an item, the most important fields are the name and the price. If you have multiple sizes (i.e., if you have a soda that has 12 oz., 16 oz., and 20 oz.) you can set those up here, all with different prices. You can use the “Add” button to add the price line / size for the item. Pressing “Save” will save the item and exit you back to the menu screen, and “Apply” will save it and leave you on that item’s settings. Let us create a test item with some price lines in the test category.

To add these categories and items to the menu pad, it is as simple as dragging and dropping. Please note you must need a mouse to perform the drag and drop to the menu. Let us try to drag the test category up top.

Now, to add the test item below the test category, we can click on the test category box on the right. This allows us to enter the test category to put items in that category. You will note the selected category has a blue border, indicating it has been selected and now there are more boxes below where we can drag and drop the items.

If we want to customize and color the buttons, this can simply be done using the color selector and paint brush tool at the top of the menu settings. We can color the text and the buttons, simply by pressing the colored box and selecting a color. Once we are happy with our color, we can press the middle paint brush, then click on the item or category we would like to color.

Now, the items are in place and on the live menu via the normal login to the POS.