Back Office: Menu > Category Groups & Categories

CATEGORY GROUPS

Category Groups are a way to group your main menu categories in your reports. As an example, prepared foods vs non-prepared foods so that you can calculate your kitchen costs.

By default there is a category group called All. The category groups can be thought of as tags.

You can change the order in which the category groups show up by dragging and dropping them in the middle column’s panel.

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CATEGORIES

Categories are how your menu items will be split up. These categories will be displayed on the Master and Rover apps.

By default there are 4 categories that can be activated and renamed: Combos, Alcohol, Gift Cards, Deposit-Refund

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COMBOS
Allow you to create items that will be comprised of different items from different categories.

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ALCOHOL
If you will be using 3rd party delivery platforms that we integrate with such as Uber Eats, items created in this category will be flagged accordingly as alcohol.

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GIFT CARDS
If you will be selling gift cards, you must use the gift cards category during checkout. Any item sold within the gift cards category will be calculated as a liability automatically in the net report.

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DEPOSIT-REFUND
Allows you to create tax exempt items for such things as containers or glass bottles you may charge a deposit for and issue a refund when they are returned. If you require to charge deposits on different items such as cans or bottles, you can now link a deposit in the deposit-refund category in the admin panel to an item.

When the item is added to an order via the Master, MYR online or Call-In feature, the deposit is automatically added to the bill. 

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You can change the order in which the categories show up by dragging and dropping them in the middle column’s panel.

You can duplicate a category which will create a copy of the category and all items it contains.

There are several different settings available when creating and editing a category. They are listed below.

SENDING ORDERS TO THE KITCHEN

If you are using a Kitchen app, you can enable a category to send all items of an order to the Kitchen app.

If you are using several Kitchen apps, you select to which Kitchen apps will the items of a category be sent to.

You additionally decide to print items on a chit, or not, when being sent to a Kitchen app, that is connected to a printer.

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If you are not using a Kitchen app, instead of Relay To Kitchen settings, they will be replaced with Print For Kitchen setting. By enabling Print For Kitchen, a chit will print during checkout on the Master app, if a printer is connected to it, with the items from the category.

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TAXES

You can configure which applicable taxes are to be applied to the items within the category or set the category as tax exempt.

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VIEW IN COMBO ONLY

Enabling this setting will make the category only visible when viewing a combo that is using the category.

This is particularly useful if you have a category of free drinks that are part of a combo. The free drink category will not be visible on the Master and Rover apps as part of the main menu.

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VARIOUS ITEMS

You can decide to display a Various Item Taxable and Various Item Tax Exempt within a category or not. If this is enabled, on the Master and Rover apps you can add a various item and set a custom price during checkout.

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COLOR

You can assign a color to a category to be displayed on the Master and Rover apps.

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ONLINE ONLY

If you would like to have a category of items available online only and not be visible on the Master and Rover apps, you can do so by enabling this.

This is particularly useful if you require a category to be available with items and mandatory options to be selected for online orders versus onsite.

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SENDING ONLINE ORDERS TO THE KITCHEN

If you would like online orders to be sent to different Kitchen apps you can do so.

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ONLINE NAMES

Based on the different platforms you are using you can set a name for the category which would be different than on the Master and Rover apps.