This guide is how to set up an item for sale on your POS system through INDY Admin. This is for items that have a one-to-one relationship between a sales item and inventory. One-to-one items do not require multiple inventory items to create, they are sold as-is.
Getting Started
In INDY Admin navigate to Settings > Concessions > Items
On the top right, click the button that says “Create Item”
Here we can go about describing our item
Here we can go about describing our item
Name - What the item will display in your reports.
Display Name - What the item will display on your POS.
Abbreviation - This is for items that don’t have a display image. It can only be 4 characters in length.
Drop Image Here - This is the location where you can add your items display image. You can either click it to bring up the windows file dialog, or you can drag an image from a folder on your computer and drop it on to the button to upload it.
Description - A description of the item.
Allow Custom Price - Allows cashiers to set a custom price at the register. This overrides default Item Variations and Modifiers attached to the item.
Available Online - Toggle this checkbox to sell this item on your website. Will not work on items that have Allow Custom Price selected.
Tax - Select the tax you wish to apply to the item when sold.
Source Locations - Locations to take stock from. You can select multiple locations.
Requires Preparation - When checked will add a box to which you can enter the time the item takes to prepare, in minutes
Item Variations and Modifiers
Item variations and modifiers are handy ways to enhance an item by offering additional options for your customers to customize their purchase.
Item variations are as the name implies, it’s a variation on a feature of the item. In example a fountain soda or popcorn could have Small, Medium and Large variations all at different price points for each variation.
Item modifiers are accessories or add-on to an item. In example, pizza toppings or coffee syrups.
To add an item variation, follow these steps:
In the item you are editing, click the “Add Item Variation” button.
In the item variation menu you will need to fill out these fields
Name - The name of the variation, like “Large”.
Drop Image Here - Same as setting an image for the base item but this will set an image for the variation.
Description - Describes the variation.
Bar Code - The bar code number if the varied item has a separate bar code to scan.
Gross Price - The price for the variation. This is the price, pretax, the customer will pay.
Cost - This is the cost per unit you paid for the item.
To add an item modifier set, follow these steps:
In order to add a modifier set to an item, you will need to have some modifier sets created.
To create modifier sets, see this article:
Adding a modifier set is easy. Start by clicking the “Add Item Modifier Set” button.
Simply check the box for the modifier set you want. You can have multiple modifiers attached to an item.
