Add a product

Your catalog is the pool every drop’s menu is built from. A product sits there whether or not it is on sale: adding it to a drop is a separate step, so you can build the catalog up long before your first drop is scheduled.

Start a product

In your Kitchen, open Catalog and choose New product. The editor puts the sections down the page and a rail beside them that stays in view: it shows the price the product will sell at, jumps to any section, and holds Create product.

Only three fields are required — Name, Category and Base price, plus the VAT rate that is filled in for you. Everything else can wait: press Create product as soon as those are in, and come back to the rest.

Basics

• Name is what buyers read on the card, on the menu and on their receipt.
• Description is optional and is shown on the card and on the storefront.
• Category files the product on your own shelf. Categories are a flat list — there are no sub-categories — and New category… beside the picker adds one without leaving the editor.
• Base price is what the product costs when it has no variants. Prices are in your storefront’s currency.
• Batch size is optional: how many you make at once — Made in batches of 12. When it is set, the drop wizard’s units stepper moves by whole batches and prints the arithmetic under it (3 batches · 36 units), and a new drop line starts at one batch. It never bounds anything: you can still type 38 units, and buyers never see it. Leave it empty if you don’t make this in fixed batches. A batch of 1 is refused — that is what empty means. Anything from 2 to 1000 is fine.
• VAT rate is included in the price and is used for receipts and your VAT report. A new product starts at your country’s standard takeaway-food rate; the editor says so and asks you to check yours, because eat-in service and drinks can differ. The rate is yours once you save it — nothing re-rates a stored product afterwards.
• Availability is Active or Snoozed. A snoozed product stays in your catalog but cannot be added to a new drop.

Photos

Photos are used on cards, on menus and on the storefront. Upload PNG, JPG or WebP files; the first one becomes the cover.

The cover is a flag, not a position. Reordering the photos never moves it, Make cover on another photo moves it, and removing the cover promotes the first remaining photo — the editor says which one took over.

Variants and add-ons

Variants are the same product in more than one size. Each variant carries its own name and its own price, and that price replaces the base price rather than adding to it. One variant is the default, and that is the one a buyer’s picker starts on.

Add-ons are extras a buyer can add on top: a name, the Price added, a Max per order, and a type of either Regular or Packaging. Their price is a top-up, charged on top of the variant or base price.

Allergens

The Allergens section is the one part of the form a buyer can be harmed by, and it has rules of its own: the declaration is copied onto every drop the product lands on, and a drop cannot be published while any of its menu lines carries a declaration nobody has reviewed. Read Flag allergens before you save your first product.

Nutrition, dietary claims and ingredients

Three optional sections finish the page.

• Nutrition is a declaration per 100 g or per 100 ml, with an optional portion note. Without one, buyers see no nutrition section at all.
• Dietary & ingredients carries your claims — Vegan, Vegetarian, Gluten-free (claim) — and a free-text ingredients list. A claim that contradicts what you declared under contains is refused: the editor marks the cells it conflicts with.

Save it, then use it

Create product saves the whole page in one go and takes you to the product. From there it can be added to a drop: the drop wizard’s menu step lists it under From your catalog, and adding it copies the name, price, photo and allergens onto that drop’s menu as a snapshot. Editing the product later never rewrites a menu that was already saved.