The following illustration is a brief overview of the Variants & Options methods that you can use to build your shopping cart menu.
In this article:
Creating Variants
Variants of a product item are modifications (i.e. size, colour, weight) of a particular food item.
Each combination of variants need to be manually keyed in and tagged to a price.
In time to come, statistical analysis can be performed on these variants to determine which size/colour/weight is most popular.
How To Create Variants?
All these changes can be made in the new Merchant Dashboard by going to Menus > Menu Name > Manage your menu > Select Category > Item
1. Click Add in the Variants box.
2. Type the item modifiers (i.e. small, medium, large) in Add Variant Name box and add the price next to it.
3. Click Save.
💡 You may click and drag on the triple horizontal black line to re-order the variants.
5. If you wish to have more variants, type the item modifier and price in the following Add Variant Name and Add Price boxes respectively.
Click Save when you are done.
📌 Modifiers are sorted in ascending orders of price in the shopping cart.
Creating Options
Options are used if there is a product requires customisation from the customers (i.e selecting different toppings for a salad).
How To Create Options?
All these changes can be made in Menus > Menu Name > Manage your menu > Select Category > Item
1. Click Add in Options box.
2. Click Add New Option.
3. Input the option name/description in the Option name box. (i.e. Select five toppings)
4. Input the minimum selection quantity for this option.
📌 For options that are already pre-existing items in the menu: If customers
select more than the minimum quantity, they will be charged the normal item
price.
For example, according to these settings:
Item option: Fishballs
Regular price in the menu: $0.90
Minimum selection: 3
Price in option: $0.80 (*Refer to the later part of this article on how to set the prices for options)
If 3 or less fishballs from this option are selected by the customer when ordering, each fishball will be charged at $0.80.
If more than 3 fishballs are selected by the customer , each fishball will be charged at $0.90.
5. Input the maximum selection quantity for this option. Customers will not be able to select more than the maximum quantity set.
6. Click Add New Item to add a new item that will be available as the options.
If the items that you wish to include in the options have been added as products previously, proceed to Step 10.
7. Subsequently, input Item Name and Price.
8. Select the category that you want the item to be categorised under. To create a new category, click Add New Category.
9. A pop-up will appear. Input Category Name and an optional description. Click Save.
10. If the items that you wish to include in the options have been added as products previously, you can search and select from the existing list of items/categories.
Type the item/category name in Search to add existing item or new item box to find that particular item/category.
11. Once items for options have been selected, decide the price for quantity of options that are below minimum. (i.e. Price for free toppings will be 0). Click Save.
12. Tick the check box beside the options that you want to select and click Save again.
13. If you want to add more options, click Add New Options and repeat all the steps from step 3.
Editing Options.
All these changes can be made in Menus > Menu Name > Manage your menu > Select Category > Item
1. To edit options, click Add.
2. Click on the pencil button to edit that particular option.
3. Refer to the steps above to edit your options.
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