Items & Modifiers

• Items
  • Standard items
  • Service items
  • Combo deal items
  • Recipe items
• Modifiers

Items

Items - In marketing, a item/product is an object or system made available for consumer use; it is anything that can be offered to a market to satisfy the desire or need of a customer. In retailing, products are often referred to as merchandise, and in manufacturing, products are bought as raw materials and then sold as finished goods. A service is also regarded to as a type of product.

A product can be classified as tangible or intangible. A tangible product is a physical object that can be perceived by touch such as a building, vehicle, gadget, or clothing. An intangible product is a product that can only be perceived indirectly such as an insurance policy. Services can be broadly classified under intangible products which can be durable or non durable.

MPS (Modern POS Solution) as these type of items

1. Standard - Standard items can be any products with any unit of measure, variants and serials, these can be manufactured and stocked.
2. Service - Service items can be any services offered by business such as support or repairing etc, these are not manufactured, transported or stocked.
3. Combo Deal - Combo deals as name suggest is combination of items from standard, service and/or recipe items.
4. Recipe - Recipe items are sued fo restaurants. You need to enable restaurant features in settings to get this menu.

Standard items

These are the main products those can have variations and serials. Add section has 4 following steps

1. General - for general item info such as name, code/barcode, category, cost, price, unit, brand, taxes, photo, summary, details etc
2. Variants - For item variant like color and size, add option with name Color and option Red|Green|Blue etc. Options are separated with pipe '|'. This page has option to generate all possible combinations of variations.
3. Location - If you wish to set different price, cost, quantity and rack for the item
4. Serials - If you item has serials, you can set those for the item quantity

Add item form looks complex but if your item don't have the variants, serials and you don't need different price for locations, you can just fill the general data and save the item. Item can be edited anytime, to add these details as you need. We suggest to avoid changing the quantity directly and add adjustment etc but if you need you have the option.

Service items

Service item form is same as of standard the only different is this has no steps but general service data form only with name, code/barcode, category, cost, price, taxes, photo, summary, details etc

Combo deal items

Combo deal form has 2 steps

1. General - for general item info such as name, code/barcode, category, taxes, photo, summary, details etc
2. Combo Items - This step has main option for portions such as regular or large. You can add essentials items to the portion and have option to add choose-able items, you can add group like drink and desert and add items to it that will be choose-able while adding order for the item. There are field for cost and price of the portion. The cost will be predicted from the sum of essentials items' cost and the single max cost item of each choose-able group.

Recipe items

This menu will only available, if you have enable the restaurant features in settings.

Combo deal form has 2 steps

1. General - for general item info such as name, code/barcode, category, taxes, photo, summary, details etc
2. Variations - This step has main option for portions such as regular or large. You can add items (ingredients) to the portion. There are field for cost and price of the portion. The cost will be predicted from the sum of items' cost.

Modifiers

Modifiers are something like add-ons to items while order. You can add modifier from main menu and then select those while adding item. Modifier can have item selection where you can add items and those will be selectable while adding the order for main item.

If this part seems complex to you, let us know on support for so that we can guide. If you have better idea on handling these, please do let us know too.