The Product Groups functionality enables you to assign specific products from a supplier to a particular outlet or group of outlets e.g. regional beers only available to one area of outlets
Applies to:
This guide applies to multi-outlet companies who want to restrict certain products availability to certain outlets.
Overview:
Product groups provide a way to share specific products with specific outlets. For example, if you have a national beer supplier that delivers regional specialties to specific locations, you can ensure that specific products are shared only to specific outlets.
1. Create a new Product Group:
To set a product group up, you first need to set and name the group by heading to Suppliers > Products > Product Groups > Create Group.
From here you create the Group name and also assign the revenue outlets to the product group:
2. Add Products:
To add products to the newly created product group you have two options;
i) Multi select products:
In Suppliers > Products, select products using the tickbox on the left-hand side and using the 'do with selected' dropdown at the bottom of the page select 'Add to product group':
ii) Individually assign products:
Search for the relevant product in Suppliers > Products. Choose Actions > Edit to edit the product and assign it to the correct product group (you are able to assign a product to more than one product group)
NB - You are able to add multiple different suppliers' products to the same product group.
It's important to note that where a Supplier has been shared to an Outlet (in Suppliers > Connections > Edit > Share to Revenue Outlets), this shares all of that supplier's products to those selected outlets, and this supersedes Product Groups. Products Groups only really take effect once the Supplier has been unshared.
To un-share a Supplier, go to Suppliers > Connections, Edit the Supplier, and at the bottom of the page, remove selected outlets from Share to Revenue Outlets:
Another important point to be aware of is that if you create a recipe at the global level and share it with an outlet, all the products that make up that recipe will be available at that outlet.
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