Before you start making products in DaySmart Recreation, it’s a good idea to plan out what products, add ons and modifications you’ll need. That way it will take as few steps as possible.

Draft your menu, think about all the products you’ll want to serve.

Identify Addons/Ingredients. Restaurant products can be single items, like chicken tenders. Or be composed of multiple addons/ingredients, like a supreme pizza. It’s a good idea to have all your addons mapped out now so you can build your products fast.

Identify Modifications for your addons and products. Modifications (like double, half, on-the-side) let you affect the price of products with optional steps, and keep everyone informed. Make your modifications first so that you can attach them to all your addons and products as you create them.

In the global search box, type in "Restaurant Setup". Select the Modifications tab. Here you will define modifications which can be applied to restaurant items and ingredients.

‘Is Trackable’ allows a product to be tracked through the restaurant pre->prep->delivery lifecycle without needing to be sent through the kitchen. This is useful for a product like drinks which you might also sell outside of the restaurant.

‘Requires Fulfillment’ allows a product to be tracked, and associate addons/ingredients and modifications. These products must go through the kitchen and will only appear in POS layouts inside the Restaurant POS. When marking a product as ‘Requires Fulfillment’, you should see three new fields appear.

Now that you have modifications setup, start to create the addons and ingredients to be used in your restaurant products. Open the "products" page in Dash and create a new product. Add a Product Name, price, and category, then scroll to the bottom of the product form where you will see a section called ‘Restaurant Settings’. Turn on ‘Requires Fulfillment’. Add any modifications for your addon here.

Note: If you have products with very similar sets of addons and modifications, consider using the product copy button. For example, this could save you some time defining a set of specialty pizzas by creating the cheese pizza first with all the available addons, then copying it into a bunch of specialty pies with default addons.

Now that we’ve got your addons/ingredients setup, lets start to define the restaurant products. Open the "Products" page in Dash. Create a new product, or opening an existing one which you would like to convert into a restaurant product. At the bottom of the product form, either add tracking or require fulfilment. If, this item requires fulfillment in the kitchen, add any addons and modifications it may have. Below is an example of a Cheese Pizza.

Order buffer is the number of minutes between when an order is due and when it should arrive in the kitchen. For example, if an order is set due at 2pm and the order buffer is 45 minutes, this order will be printed in the kitchen at 1:15pm. If the current time is past 1:15pm it will be printed immediately.

Order markers are placards commonly used in larger spaces to find the right table. If you use number markers, set the highest number you use here.

Delivery Locations are another way to denote where to delivery an order. Every order must have a delivery location. They can be broad, like dining room, or specific like table 7. If you use non-numeric order markers, like tokens write their names in as delivery locations.

Now that you’ve got your restaurant all setup, it’s time to add your restaurant products to a POS layout.

In the global search box, type in "Restaurant POS". Open an existing POS layout or create a new one. In the toolbar, click ‘Edit Items’ to start editing the layout. Using the ‘+’ button in the toolbar, add categories to the top level to help keep your products organized. In each category add your sub-categories and products. Note: of you have not set up your Point of Sale yet, be sure to check out our Point of Sale Setup article first.