Restaurant step 4: menu items and modifiers

Your menu in SmartPOS Hub is made of products (dishes, drinks, combos) and modifier sets (the choices a guest makes: size, crust, toppings, sauce, milk). This step shows how to add menu items quickly and how to build modifier sets with rules, so the cashier can’t forget a required choice.

Before you start

• Modifiers is switched on (step 2).
• Your menu categories exist (step 3).
• Have your menu with prices ready, ideally as a spreadsheet.

Add your menu items

1. Open Products › Add Product.
2. Enter the Product Name as guests see it (“Chicken Tikka Pizza”).
3. Pick the Category and sub-category. The category decides which kitchen station gets the item.
4. For drinks and dishes you don’t count, untick Manage Stock? For bottled drinks and retail items, keep it ticked.
5. Choose Product Type:
   • Single for one price.
   • Variable when each size has its own price (Small 9”, Medium 12”, Large 14”).
   • Combo for meal deals made of other items.
6. Enter the selling price, add a photo (it shows on the POS, the online menu and the Shopper app) and save.

For a long menu, use Import products from Excel. For sizes and combos in detail see Variable products and Combo and service products.

How modifier sets work

A modifier set is one question the cashier asks: “Which crust?”, “Any extra toppings?”. Each set has:

Part	What it does	Example
Options	The answers, each with a price (0 = free)	Thin & crispy (free), Stuffed cheese crust (+12.00)
Selection rules	One choice (radio) or Several choices (checkboxes), Required, min / max, free choices	Crust: one choice, required
Opens	Child sets that appear when an option is picked	Margherita › Sauce – Margherita
Products	The menu items that ask this question	All pizzas

/modules/modifiers

Restaurant › Modifiers lists each set with its rule badges, options and the products that use it.

Build a modifier set

1. Open Restaurant › Modifiers and click Add modifier set (or Edit on an imported set).
2. Under Set details, enter the Set name (for staff) and, if you like, a Title shown to customers (“Choose your crust”) and Short help.
3. Under Selection rules, pick One choice or Several choices. Switch on Required if the item can’t be sold without it. For several choices, set the maximum and how many are free.
4. Under Options, add each option with its price. Mark a common choice as pre-selected to save taps.
5. To nest options, use Opens on an option and pick the child set (for example the flavour opens its sauce set).
6. Under Products, search for items or add all products of a category.
7. Check the What the cashier sees preview on the right, then click Save modifier set.

/modules/modifiers/{id}/edit

The builder shows a live preview and a structure tree of nested sets.

See an example first

Click Create pizza example on the Modifiers page. It builds a complete pizza: size (one, required), flavour (one, required), a sauce and extras set per flavour, and a third level under one sauce. Study it, then delete or rename it.

What the cashier sees

When the cashier taps an item with modifiers, an options window opens. Required sets are marked, the counter shows how many are picked, and the footer shows the running total. The item can’t be added until the rules are met.

/pos-v2/create

The options window on the POS. Each picked option becomes a chip on the cart line and prints on the kitchen ticket.

Tips and mistakes to avoid

• Don’t make every set required. Only questions the kitchen must have answered (size, cooking level) should be required.
• Keep set names unique and clear (“Sauce – Margherita”, not “Sauce 2”); staff see them in reports.
• Paid extras vs. details: paid choices are modifiers; free text the guest types (a name on a cake) belongs in Order options.
• Use Set order on the Modifiers page to control which set appears first.

Next step

Step 5: Tables and floor plan

Modifiers module reference