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Managing your menus from the Menus list: what each column means, editing, deleting and paging

A tour of the Menus list in Shop+: the toolbar, the columns, the row actions menu, changing a saved menu with Edit Menu, deleting a menu, and paging through a long list.

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Written by James Shepherd

After reading this article you will be able to read the Menus list in Shop+, find the actions for a menu, change a menu you have already saved, and delete a menu you no longer need. A menu in Shop+ is a scheduled set of products with its own days, hours, dates and price adjustment. Creating a menu and choosing its products is covered in the article "Creating a scheduled menu and choosing which products are on it".

Where do I find the Menus list?

The Menus list is in Shop+. In the left menu click Shop+, keep the Products tab selected at the top, then click Menus in the row of sub-tabs (Products, Modifiers, Menus, Inventory, Reviews, Wholesale, Orders, Reports). Every menu for this location is listed here, one per row.

The Menus list in Shop+ with the toolbar, the Delivery icons, the Actions menu and the Per Page control

  1. Organize categories opens a dialog for setting the order your product categories appear in on the POS and the online store. It is covered in the article "Organize categories: setting the order your categories appear in on the POS and the online store".

  2. Fetch UberEats is used with an Uber Eats connection and is outside this article.

  3. Add Menu opens the Add Menu form for a new menu.

  4. The Delivery column shows one icon per delivery marketplace (Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub) for that menu.

  5. The ⋮ button at the end of a row opens the actions for that menu (see below).

  6. Per Page sets how many menus are listed on one page.

What does each column in the Menus list mean?

The Menus list shows the settings you chose when you saved the menu, one column per setting.

The Status, Show On, Price %, Shared and Delivery columns of a menu row

  • Title is the Menu Name you typed in Menu Information. It is the name your staff see.

  • Customer-Facing is the Customer-Facing Name from Menu Information. A dash (-) means no customer-facing name was entered.

  • Description is the menu's Description, shortened to fit the column. "No description" means the box was left empty.

  • (1) Status shows a green Active badge when the Menu is Active box is ticked and a grey Inactive badge when it is not.

  • (2) Show On shows an Online Order badge, a Kiosk badge or both, matching the Show On boxes you ticked in Menu Settings. It shows Hidden when neither box is ticked.

  • Start Date and End Date show the Active Period of the menu.

  • (3) Price % shows the menu's Price Adjustment (%): a negative number such as -15% lowers prices on the menu, a positive number raises them.

  • (4) Shared shows whether the menu is shared beyond this location; it read Local for every menu in this example.

  • (5) Delivery shows the three marketplace icons described above.

How do I open the actions for a menu?

To open the actions for a menu, click the ⋮ button in the Actions column at the end of the menu's row. A small menu drops down with five choices.

The ⋮ button and the row actions menu: Edit Menu, Manage Products, See Unavailable Items, Push Menu and Delete Menu

  1. Click the ⋮ button at the end of the row.

  2. The actions menu offers Edit Menu, Manage Products, See Unavailable Items, Push Menu and Delete Menu.

  • Edit Menu opens the menu's form so you can change any setting (see the next section).

  • Manage Products opens the Manage Menu Products screen where you choose which products are on the menu. See "Adding products to a menu in bulk and giving a product its own menu price".

  • See Unavailable Items opens a page listing products on this menu that are currently marked unavailable, with a Restore All button. When nothing is unavailable the page says "All items in this menu are currently available." and Restore All is greyed out.

  • Push Menu opens a dialog for sending the menu to a delivery marketplace. It lists Uber Eats and DoorDash with a Push button each, and Grubhub marked COMING SOON. Pushing requires a connected marketplace account and is outside this article.

  • Delete Menu removes the menu after a confirmation (see below).

How do I change a menu I have already saved?

To change a saved menu, open the actions menu for the menu and click Edit Menu. The Edit Menu page shows the same sections as the Add Menu form, filled in with the menu's current settings: Menu Information, Active Period, Menu Availability, Menu Settings and Special Hours & Holidays.

The Edit Menu page with the Back button and the Menu Settings card

  1. Click ⋮ on the menu's row, then click Edit Menu.

  2. Change the settings you need. For example, in Menu Settings tick or untick Menu is Active to switch the whole menu on or off, or change the Price Adjustment (%).

  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Update Menu. The Edit Menu page closes and the Menus list shows the new values in the row.

  4. To leave without saving, click Back at the top right of the Edit Menu page (1). The menu keeps its old settings.

Tip: The quickest way to pause a menu without losing its schedule is to open Edit Menu, untick Menu is Active and click Update Menu. The row then shows Inactive in the Status column, and you can tick the box again later.

How do I delete a menu?

To delete a menu, open the actions menu for the menu and click Delete Menu. A confirmation box appears before anything is removed.

The Delete Menu? confirmation box with Yes, delete it! and Cancel buttons

  1. Click ⋮ on the menu's row, then click Delete Menu.

  2. The box titled Delete Menu? asks "Are you sure you want to delete this menu? This action cannot be undone."

  3. Click Yes, delete it! (1) to delete the menu, or Cancel (2) to keep it.

  4. After you confirm, a "Menu Deleted Successfully" message appears and the row is gone from the Menus list. The menu's products are not deleted; only the menu is.

Note: Deleting cannot be undone. If you only want to stop a menu for a while, untick Menu is Active in Edit Menu instead.

How do I see more menus on one page?

The Menus list shows 10 menus per page to start with. To see more menus on one page, use the Per Page control at the bottom right of the list.

  1. Click the Per Page box (it shows 10) at the bottom right of the Menus list.

  2. Choose 10, 25, 50 or 100.

  3. The list reloads with that many menus per page. When there are more menus than fit on one page, page numbers and the < and > arrows next to Per Page move between pages.

When you have finished, the Menus list shows every menu for the location with its status, where it is shown, its dates and its price adjustment, and the ⋮ menu on each row gives you Edit Menu, Manage Products, See Unavailable Items, Push Menu and Delete Menu.

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