Question 1

Menu Items

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Menu Items

In this article we take you through the steps of using the menu builder to add items to a menu section.

Accessing the menu builder

On the main menu screen find the menu you wish to build or edit. If you have not created any menu yet please read this guide first

As shown on the screen below click the Edit Menu button.

Adding Menu Items

Before adding Items to your menu you must first add a section to the menu. If you have not yet added a section please read this article.

Below is a an example of what the Sections column should look like. We recommend addting all of your menu sections prior to adding Items.

To add an item to a section simply click on a menu Section which will highlight in blue. On the right hand side of the screen click on the green Add Item button as shown below.

On clicking the green Add Items button the Item manager dialog will appear. The Item manager has a number of options as shown on the screen below and following detailed guide.

You

Question 2

Menu Sections

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Menu Sections

In this article we take you through the steps of using the menu builder to add sections to your menu.

Accessing the menu builder

On the main menu screen find the menu you wish to build or edit. If you have not created any menu yet please read this guide first

As shown on the screen below click the Edit Menu button.

Adding Menu Sections

On clicking the Edit Menu button if no sections have been added to the menu. The Menu builder dialogue will popup as show below. Simply click on the Add Section button to get started.

On click the Add Section button the pop up section manager dialog will appear as shown below.

The Section manager has a number of options here is quick summary of each one:

Title - this is the title of the menu section which is a mandatory field. Whatever you enter here will be added to the menu navigation bar when the customer scans your QR Code. Shorter titles work best.
Intro - This optional field should be used when you have policies associated with dishes such as options, combinations or restricted serving times.
Footnotes - You can enter any

Question 3

Adding, Editing and Deleting Menus

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Adding, Editing and Deleting Menus

This article is a quick guide to the basics of creating, editing and deleting menus in your account.

Add a menu

The first step is to click the Menus option on your dashboard screen as shown below.

Now click on the Add Menu button situated on the top right of the Menus screen.

On clicking the add button the follow dialog screen will popup. Give your menu a name and an optional description and choose the Layout and Currency preference. Then click the green "Create Menu" button to complete the process.

Edit a menu

Navigate to Menus, on the Menu screen find the menu you want to edit. As shown below click the green icon next to the name of your menu.

On clicking the green edit icon the follow dialog screen will popup. Make the changes you need and click the green "Save Changes" button.

Delete a menu

Navigate to Menus, find the menu you want to delete. As show below click the options button and select the "Delete Menu" option. You will be

Question 4

Promotional Message

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Promotional Message

This article is a quick guide to adding a promotional message to a location which your customers will be able to see when they access and view your menus.

Where to add a promotional message

In order to find area of the dashboard where you can craft and create your own promotional message. You will first want to head to the locations page by pressing on the "Manage Location" button on your dashboard.

This will then take you the locations page, however you will want to head to the promotion page. To do this you will just need to click on the "Promotion" tab.

This will then take you to the promotion page where you can craft your own promotional message. Once you have created your promotional message just hit the "Save Message" button once you are done!

After saving your message this will instantly update your promotional message to your menu, so customer will be able to see the promotional message once they access the menu.

|| Promotional messages are only available to clients with a Pro Plan subscription.

Question 5

Adding Your Team

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This article guides you through the process of adding your team mates to your scanour.menu account.

Adding Your Team

The first step is to click the Team option on your dashboard screen as shown below.

You will then see the following screen asking you to add your first team member. Simply click the "Add Team Mate" button.

On clicking the "Add Team Mate" button the Team Manager dialogue will pop up asking you to select the role / permissions that you would like a team mate to have along with there name and email address. Alist of your locations is displayed simply switch on the locations that you would like this team mate to have access to.

Roles & Access Restrictions

As mentioned above you can choose the role and associated access restrictions when adding or editing a team mate. To help you choose the appropiate role for your team take a look at the permissons matrix below. The owner is associated with the account holder only.

Once you have completed the dialogue above click the green "Create Account" button. The dialogue popup will close and you will see the following screen show the

Question 6

Introduction to Building Menus

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Introduction to Building Menus

This article is a quick guide to building your menu on the scanour.menu platform. Building your menu takes at little time but has many advantages over uploading a PDF menu. Here are just a few of the benefits:

Made for mobile - easy to use, better experience for your guests
Instant updates - change, hide or delete a menu item or section in a click
Menu duplication - easily build and duplicate your menus
Schedule menus - display menus at different times of the day
Customize - control the look and style of your menus

Menu Builder Introduction

Before we jump in and start building a menu, it is helpful to understand the philosophy of the scanour.menu platform. This will help you better understand why the menu builder works the way it does. The scanour.menu team have helped build thousands of menus for clients like yourself. Menus can take many forms, layouts and differing content however nearly all have common components. We call this M.S.I this stands for Menu. Section. Item and this is the structure used by the menu builder.

Below is a little more detail on M.S.I

MENU - some businesses have a single menu, others have multiple menus for example - Food Menu, Beverage Menu, Cocktail Menu. Depending on your menu strategy this should be reflected on the number of menus you add to your account per location.
SECTION - regardless of the type of menu you are building it will have section

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