Creating and customising products

Each product belongs to a category. So it is important to create the categories first before defining the products. Info regarding categories via: categories

Creating new products:

There are 2 ways to enter products:

• products quick-add

• Add new product manually

products quick-add

A list of new products can be entered quickly using the quick entry.

Only the name and price are entered here. Other data such as images, VAT rates, descriptions, etc. have to be entered manually.

Example:

Via 'products', press product quick entry

Select the product category.

For each line, enter the name of the product:

The next step is to enter the price:

You still get the option to add a modifier to the products:

Once you are done, you will see that all added products have been created.

Add new product manually:

via

the product sheet is obtained:

1 manage translations:

After a product is created, this button (globe) allows you to enter the translation of the name and description. (This function is not availabla in all versions)

The name can be translated automatically or entered yourself. After entering, always confirm.

2 Category:

Each item is part of a category, so this is a mandatory input field.

3 product name:

The name of the product is entered as it will appear on the different applications: kiosk, checkout, online, QR code, ...

4 product description:

You can add an additional text that becomes visible to the consumer when they tap this item. You can also potentially generate promotional text via the artificial intelligence button. This only works after the product is created and, for now, only in Dutch.

5 Internal code:

This parameter is reserved for third-party applications where data exchange between this third party and Unipage requires separate encoding.

It is also possible to use this field for barcodes.

6 Price:

The price is entered in Euro by a number with up to 2 decimal places.

7 price unit determination:

The price entered can be a price per piece or a price per weight. When the weight option is selected, you can also enter the minimum weight as well as the steps by which to increase or decrease the order:

8 VAT Rate:

The VAT rate can be entered individually on the product sheet. In many cases, different rates are required per product, depending on the legislation in the country.

However, it is advisable to assign the VAT rates in groups as usually the same rate applies per category and this reduces the chance of incorrect entries.

9 Upload photo:

This is a feature mainly used by bakers to create birthday cakes with photo. When consumers order this product, they can send a photo along with it.

10 Deviant preparation time:

When the time slots function is used, a production time can be entered via the general settings. This is the average time required to prepare an order. This is taken into account in the communication to the kitchen and to the customer so that the order is ready at the right time.

If a particular product requires more preparation time, you can enter the extra minutes needed for production here. So if the production time is 10 minutes for this product, and the general production time is set to 4 minutes, 6 is entered here.

11 Kitchen screen colour:

The colour of the item as it appears on the kitchen screen can be set here. This is useful when certain items need to be highlighted, such as items that require a longer cooking time.

12 & 13 Adding variation groups and specific variations:

Products can be linked to variations and variation groups. For more detailed explanation check Variations

14 Images:

When consumers order a product through a Unipage channel (online, kiosk, QR,...) you can present this product attractively by adding a nice image. You can drag a file here or load it directly:

1. choice of whether or not the photo will be visible to the consumer
2. Rotate 90° left or right
3. Fitting the photo
4. accentuate the product in the shops with either the photo on the left with text on the right or vice versa.

15 Printers:

Work orders are printed on all work order printers by default. Here you can tick off a particular printer so that, for example, drinks are only printed in the bar and not in the kitchen.

More info on printer operation via Connect a selection of products to a printer

16 Tags: 

Tags can be useful to quickly find or group certain items. Here, you can add different tags that can be used to find this product.

17 Availability:

There are various options for making products available, depending on the specific situation.

We distinguish 3 possibilities: remove the product from the webshop, mark the product as not available, mark the product as not always available.

Remove products from the webshop:

If you wish the product is no longer visible (this can be interesting for seasonal products, for example) You can make sure that it is not visible on the website without removing the product from your database.

You do this via products - availability where you can check and uncheck all products.

Mark the product as unavailable:

When a product is no longer in stock, you can indicate this here by ticking 'product is out of stock'. This avoids customers continuing to search for the product which is possible when the product is removed and it results in this way:

TIP: Don't forget to tick back when the product is back in stock.

Mark products as not always available:

A useful feature for products that are only available on certain days. You can tick these days on the product sheet which means they cannot be ordered on other days with the following result:

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18 Allergen info:

here you can tick applicable additions that will be communicated to the consumer during ordering.