Item placement in the company
Depending on the size and requirements of your project, your item entries may apply to all areas or may need to be customised for different areas. Item A is only available in the restaurant, item B is available everywhere but has different recipes and prices, item C is available at 5 of your 8 locations and so on. At the respective POS and mPOS systems, only exactly the right items with the right queries and recipes as well as the right prices should be offered. Setting all this up logically and keeping track of changes at all times can sometimes be very challenging. The Hypersoft // system supports you with these requirements and we would like to show you some basic tools for this.
Clients and points of sale
Each location should be a client in Hypersoft. If you work with a single location, this is not relevant for you. One location can treat all areas equally, in which case all items are in one sales outlet. If you have different requirements for items at the location depending on the point of sale, you can assign them accordingly. If you do not need both, you can skip these links Location Management in the item master and Connecting locations
Assortments are available to separate the options for booking items between the POS systems of your operators and your guests, the users. Assortments are so versatile if you use different channels (sales channels or systems) with eSolutions (webshop, self-order terminal or in-house ordering).
Item assortments
Assortments are switches that can be used to mark items for specific programmes or areas.
Use assortments...
Assortments can be used for areas such as delivery services, self-order terminals and 3rd party integrations and allow you to distribute different offers from a common article master. Items can be assigned to one or more assortments, and certain programmes can apply this assignment. Its use is similar to a filter and allows you to customise items in certain areas.
In addition to the option of only offering articles in certain product ranges, it can also be useful to create the same article several times in order to book it differently at the checkout than at the self-service terminal. With assigned assortments, you can then select the appropriate range of articles depending on the application. Assortments can therefore also control different queries within an article, so that the article appears differently at the checkout than at the self-order terminal.
Specify which product range you want to use (A B C D E F G H). Please note that you should create a concept for your article data if you also want to use it in other areas or with other connections. Read more at Best practice for article master data for eSolutions.
Special feature Assortments for POS queries...
You can use assortments in queries so that an item behaves differently depending on the channel's assortment: Assortments in connection with queries
Price control
There are different tools for controlling the prices of items, depending on requirements. Price levels are available as the top category everywhere in the POS area. They operate at the level of losses that can be used for free levies and their control. One price level for regular guests, one price level for dinner and lunch, one price level for events or seasons. : Use prices and price levels
If you work with several locations, this can quickly become too many price levels, so you may prefer to use the price groups, where you can link logical calculations per product group as required. This option for larger systems increases the possibilities and creates structure while keeping everything clear: Price groups and price maintenance
We don't want to list all the possibilities here, but we would like to offer the options for some items:
Further documentation: Processing during operation
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