Add products

A drop’s menu is picked from your catalog, so the catalog comes first. You cannot invent a line inside the drop wizard.

Three or four products is a complete first catalog. Nothing later is harder because you started small, and a product you add next month lands on the next drop just as easily.

Create the first one

Open Catalog and choose New product. The editor puts its sections down the page and keeps a rail beside them: the price the product will sell at, a jump to any section, and Create product.

Only three fields are required, plus one that is filled in for you:

• Name — what buyers read on the card, on the menu and on their receipt.
• Category — your own shelf. Categories are a flat list, and New category… beside the picker adds one without leaving the editor.
• Base price — in your storefront’s currency.
• VAT rate — included in the price, and filled in with your country’s standard takeaway-food rate. Check it: eat-in service and drinks can differ, and the rate is yours once you save it.

Press Create product as soon as those are in. Everything below is optional and you can come back to it.

The allergen review is not optional

The Allergens section is the one part of the form a buyer can be harmed by, and it has a rule 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.

Flag any of the 14 EU allergens the product contains, then tick the confirmation that says you have checked the list. A product that has never been reviewed wears an amber Allergens not reviewed badge in Catalog, which is how you find them later.

Flag allergens is the whole rule, including what a claim like Gluten-free is allowed to say next to it.

Worth adding before the first drop

• A photo. Photos are used on cards, on menus and on the storefront. Upload PNG, JPG or WebP; the first one becomes the cover, and Make cover on another photo moves it.
• A description, if the name does not carry the whole idea.
• Batch size, beside the price, if you make this one a tray at a time. Say 12 and the drop wizard’s units stepper moves by twelves and shows the batch math. It is a planning hint for you only — buyers never see it, and you can still type any number of units. Leave it empty if you do not make this in fixed batches.

Worth leaving until later

• Variants — the same product in more than one size. Each carries its own name and its own price, and that price replaces the base price rather than adding to it.
• Add-ons — extras a buyer can add on top, with a Price added and a Max per order. Their price is a top-up.
• Nutrition, dietary claims and an ingredients list — three optional sections. Without a nutrition declaration, buyers simply see no nutrition section.

Add a product covers every field of the editor in order.

Next: Schedule the drop — a menu picked from what you just built, and a pickup window buyers choose a slot in.