You can create multiple vendors with different sets of menus under one Food Court restaurant. These menus are configured for each vendor, allowing you to manage all your vendors’ menus conveniently from a single account. You can also configure POS terminals to only display menu items relevant to the assigned role and vendor of the staff member using it.

In this article, you’ll learn how to assign categories and items to specific vendors to set up vendor menus.

Create staff roles for each role per vendor

Depending on your preferred setup, you must create and configure the staff roles appropriate for your restaurant operations. These roles determine the permissions that your staff will get based on the role assigned to them. Once the menu vendor setup is in effect, only relevant categories and items based on the staff member’s assigned role will be displayed on their POS.

Example

If you create “Role A - Cashier” and “Role B - Manager” staff roles, you can set categories and items to only be visible to managers. This allows you to customize the visibility of categories and items based on the staff member’s role. If only one type of role is required for the vendor, you can simply create a single role and assign that role to staff members that belong to that vendor.

To learn how to create staff profiles and manage staff permissions, refer to Manage staff roles and permission and Set up and manage Staff List.

Set up vendor-specific categories

You must first create categories for all vendors under your Food Court restaurant. Once the categories have been created, assign them to the corresponding vendor that will be using those categories. To learn how to create categories, refer to Set up and manage a Category.

Assign a category to a vendor

To link a category to a vendor, follow the steps below:

1. Log in to the Merchant Portal.
2. On the left panel, click on Menu Setup, then select Vendor.
3. Next to the vendor you’d like to assign categories, click on Edit .
   
4. Click on the Included Categories tab. Then, click on the Select Categories drop-down list and select all the categories you’d like to assign to the vendor.
   Important: A category can only be assigned to one vendor.
5. Once the relevant categories have been selected, at the top right, click on Save.

Add items to the vendor menu

Once your categories are ready, you can then create menu items to set up the vendor’s menu. To learn how to create menu items, refer to Set up and manage a Single Item and Set up and manage a Combo Item.