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Menu Scheduling: Automatically switch Menus
Menu Scheduling: Automatically switch Menus

Based on Days, Times or Order Types

Updated over a year ago

Menu Scheduling

Automatically switch Menus in your Online Store based on:

Day and time that you Set Up

or Order Types ( Dine In, Takeaway, Pickup, Delivery, Catering, ... )

For Example:

  • Have a different Menu for Lunch / Dinner

  • Schedule a special Menu: ' Mother's Day ' Menu

    to be the only available option on that day

  • Allow to sell alcohol for your Dine In option but not for Delivery

  • Offer a ' Set Menu ' for Dine In only & ' A la Carte ' only Online


In this article:


CREATE NEW MENUS

If you wish to Automatically switch Menus according to your prefered Day / Time:

Make sure you have more than one menu.

Learn how to create new Menus,

in this article:


Schedule by: MENUS

Set Dates / Times to automatically switch from your Breakfast Menu to Lunch Menu

or

Schedule a special occasion Menu such as ' Mother's Day ' to be the only available option on a particular day

  1. In your Back Office => go to Products => Menus :

2. Here we are going to Schedule different times for 2 menus:

  • Breakfast Menu: 7am - 12pm

  • Lunch Menu: 12pm - 3pm

3. Go to ' Schedule ' => ' Create ➕ ' :

4. Input the Details:

  • Select Menu: Choose the menu you want to automatically schedule. ( ex: Lunch Menu )

  • Sales Channels: Where your menu scheduling will apply.

    ⚠️ At the moment Menu Scheduling is only available for your Online Store. You can manually change Menus in your POS if needed.

  • Order Types: Choose from: Pick Up / Dine In / Delivery. You can apply it to one or more order types.

    ( If you don't select an Order Type, for example: ' Dine In ', you standard Menu will apply instead )

  • Stores: Apply the scheduling to 1 or more stores ( if you have multiple venues )

=> Click on ' ➕ ' to create a schedule:

5. Input Dates 'Valid From' & 'Valid To' => if you don't input anything in ' Valid To ' : there will no ending dates.

click on the ' ➕ ' to add Days / Hours :

6. Input:

  • Select Days: You can select one or days of the week or ' All Days ' directly

  • Times: add a Starting time / Ending time. You can click on the ' ➕ ' to add more times: for example have a menu start again at 5pm until 10pm.

7. You can add more Scheduling for that Menu or Save:

8. Your Menu Scheduling is now done for our lunch menu: you can display it's dates / times using the arrow on the left or Edit using the ' Pen Icon ':

9. Repeat for other Menus ( ex: ' Breakfast Menu ' )

⚠️

If you Schedule Menus & the times you set is clashing with another Menu,

one of the menu will automatically be disabled if you proceed :

for example:

  • Breakfast Menu: 7am - 12pm

  • Lunch Menu: 11.30am - 3pm

Lunch is starting before Breakfast finishes


Schedule by: ORDER TYPE

( Dine In, Delivery, Pick Up )

A good option to ' hide ' your alcoholic beverages for Delivery Orders

  1. In your Back Office => go to Products => Menus :

2. Here we are going to Schedule different menus based on the Order Types:

  • Standard Menu: Dine In / Pick Up

  • Delivery Menu: Delivery ( same menu but Without Alcoholic options )

3. Go to ' Schedule ' => ' Create ➕ ' :

4. Input the Details:

  • Select Menu: Choose the menu you want to automatically schedule. ( ex: Delivery Menu )

  • Sales Channels: Where your menu scheduling will apply.

    ⚠️ At the moment Menu Scheduling is only available for your Online Store. You can manually change Menus in your POS if needed.

  • Order Types: Delivery. ( here we only want this menu to apply for Delivery Orders )

  • Stores: Apply the scheduling to 1 or more stores ( if you have multiple venues )

=> Click on ' ➕ ' to create a schedule:

5. Input Dates 'Valid From' & 'Valid To' => if you don't input anything in ' Valid To ' : there will no ending dates.

click on the ' ➕ ' to add Days / Hours :

6. Input:

  • Select Days: You can select one or days of the week or ' All Days ' directly

  • Times: add a Starting time / Ending time. You can click on the ' ➕ ' to add more times.

7. You can add more Scheduling for that Menu or Save:

8. Repeat with your Standard Menu ( or other menu of your choice ) but set the Order Types as: ' Pick Up ' & / Or ' Dine In ' but NOT ' Delivery '


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