This article will explain how to add tags to a menu item on your Point of Sale.
Item tags help with background automation to make your life easier when applying discounts, reporting, snoozing/hiding items and routing items to your Kitchen Display Screens (KDS).
Requirements:
You will need access to your Point of Sale's Back Office
Instructions:
Step 1 - Log into portal.flipdish.com with your email address and password. (Please note menu editing can't be done through the Point of sale device)
Step 2 - On the menu section Left hand side on the screen, locate Menu Editor, then select the menu you wish to edit.
Step 3 - Once you open the menu you wish to edit locate the item to which you want to add the tag to. you will see three dots on the right side of the item click on it then on Edit.
Step 4 - Select Aditional settings. Scroll down untill you find "Kitchen operations" Hit on Edit.
Step 5 - Select the Tag you wish to add on the Drop down box and then apply changes,
Step 6 - Once changes are applied you can hit on exit,
Step 7 - Once you exit you will have to publish the menu for the changes to take effect.
The KDS tags are for : if you have multiple stations for burgers, dips and drinks all with their own Kitchen display screen you can route this item to a specific one.
You can also add discount tags this will allow you to decide if this item can be discounted.
You can add report tags so if you were to build a custom report to monitor the performance of certain items you can add this item to that report using this drop-down menu.
And finally, you can add snooze tags, this allows you to be able to temporarily hide an item directly from your POS but inorder to use this functionality a snooze tag has to be added to the item here first.
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