Creating a Menu Item, Step by Step

Items & menus → Item library → Create item opens the continuous full-screen editor.

Check access and open the editor

Check the active restaurant and your menu editing permission. Open Items & menus → Item library and click Create item. This is one continuous full-screen form: scroll through its sections. It does not use the old three-tab Details, Recipe and Cost modal. Save stays available in the header.

Item information and photos

Choose the item type, name and description. Add photo accepts several image files, up to 10 photos of 5 MB each. Open a thumbnail to choose the primary photo or remove it, then Save. See Product photos for supported formats, website dots and recovery. Translation editing is available for saved items.

Status, Categories and Menus

Carte membership, groups, order, channels and hours use private drafts followed by explicit publication. In the item editor, Add to menus selects existing groups, including groups in published cartes and private drafts, and creates a group without leaving the item. Saving the item updates the relevant drafts; publish each carte afterwards to make these changes visible to customers. Shared product details remain in the item library. Initial allowances for a rotating series are prepared separately. See Menus and groups and Availability. On wide screens the side cards appear on the right in French and English and on the left in Hebrew; below 1024 px they follow the form.

Price and variants

Price and variants contains selling price and sizes. A simple item requires a positive selling price. A by-weight item requires its per-kilogram price and the requested estimated weight. Variant prices are absolute and replace the base price; modifier prices are additional amounts. Portion describes serving size; it does not automatically fill recipe ingredient quantities.

Personalizations and other sections

For a standard item, Personalizations holds modifiers and customer notes; checkout customization controls selection behavior on the POS. Customer information contains customer-facing facts. Stock & availability and Recipe and cost follow on the same page. AI assistant context is private guidance for the ordering assistant, separate from support. A combo uses Composition instead of the standard item recipe sections.

Save, then complete the recipe

Click Save. Before the first save, Recipe and cost and Stock & availability offer to save and configure because these settings require a created item. Reopen it and scroll to Recipe and cost. Ingredient edits save immediately; recipe instructions and notes save with the item. Wait for confirmation and retry an error without creating another item.

Verify visibility and resolve a missing item

Check group membership, menu/group channels, hours and availability, then inspect the relevant website or POS. If Save is disabled, check permission, name and required price. If creation is only partially complete, keep the editor and retry the remaining steps rather than recreating the item. Items and menus · Variants · Recipe quantities.

Add a saved item to a published carte

Carte membership, groups, order, channels and hours use private drafts followed by explicit publication. In the item editor, Add to menus selects existing groups, including groups in published cartes and private drafts, and creates a group without leaving the item. Saving the item updates the relevant drafts; publish each carte afterwards to make these changes visible to customers. Shared product details remain in the item library. Initial allowances for a rotating series are prepared separately. See Menus and groups and Availability.

Access the new controls

Carte availability is now directly clickable beneath an item name. When the sale allowance is exhausted, enter the remaining quantity; committed orders are preserved. Review the availability procedure before changing sale stock.

Change availability from Items

The Items library Availability column also opens the small panel shared with Cartes. Choose a status or remaining stock and Apply; simply opening it changes nothing. The current series is displayed when applicable. See Categories and items for choices, per-size quantities, cancellation and error recovery. Full item settings retain their own Save action.

Check conditional item choices

An item configured with repeated positions requires one separate choice per position according to the selected format. For example, a two-character Number Cake accepts 11, AB or A7. The format price replaces the base price; modifiers add only their configured surcharges. Reducing the position count removes newly hidden choices. Positions remain distinct in the cart, orders and kitchen ticket; review them before confirming. These customizations do not change delivery, availability, recipe, discount or cancellation rules. Configuration requires compatible versions and menu editing permission. See Variants and sizes for setup and recovery after a rejected selection.

Browse the library on mobile

On a handheld terminal, open Library. The filter button selects Items, Combos or Discounts. Under Items, choose a category in the selector above the list, search for a product and tap its row to open the existing editor. Price and availability remain visible, with a separate switch for authorized users. This internal list does not change published menu groups, ingredients, portions or variant rules configured in Admin.

Create and assign a group from the item editor

With menu editing permission, open an existing item or Create item, then Menus → Add to menus. Check the groups you want. Under an existing carte, choose Create a menu group, enter a distinct name and confirm: the group is selected automatically. For a rotating carte, check the displayed series and choose the intended date; selections stay bound to their own series. Done closes the picker and retains the item form. Before saving the item, choices and new groups stay local; discarding the item creates no group. The local new-item draft retains these choices on this device when storage is available; selected image files are excluded. After Save, the confirmation identifies the cartes whose drafts were updated: open each carte, review its preview and explicitly publish. If a draft cannot load, Retry reloads its groups without clearing the form. If saving is partial or uncertain, keep the editor open and save again to verify and finish; do not recreate the item. Group choices remain editable to resolve a conflicting name or a removed group. Already saved changes remain in the library and affected drafts.