What You Will Learn in This Guide
How to track your products & their ingredients using Composite Inventory type when modifiers are available for your products.
Important Note
This guide only applies to StoreHub POS, not QR Order and Pay / Beep Delivery.
How to Track Inventory with Modifiers
Scenario
Assume you're selling Burgers. You have single & multiple choice modifiers under the product.
Single Choice Modifier: Patty (Single, Double, Triple)
Multiple Choice Modifier: Toppings (Lettuce, Tomato) - Optional for Customers
Ingredients required to produce a burger
Bun
Patty
Lettuce
Tomato
Track your Ingredients
1. Create Ingredients (Bun, Patty, Lettuce & Tomato) individually as separate products & track under Simple Inventory Type.
2. Set selling price as 0 since you don't sell those ingredients separately.
3. Set the Stock Quantity & Save to complete the settings.
Track the stock quantity based on the amount you have purchased from the supplier by Unit.
Bun | Patty | Lettuce | Tomato |
1 Pack = 10 Buns 10 Packs = 100 Buns | 1 Pack = 5 Patties 20 Packs = 100 Patties | 5 KG | 10 KG |
Refer to this article for more details.
Track Ingredients Usage on Burger
1. Create a new product (Burger) & set the selling price.
2. Under Modifiers, tick Has Modifiers & add your modifier options.
Note: Refer to this article for more details on how to setup modifiers.
3. Track under Composite Inventory Type and click Save.
Note:
Select Save before you proceed to next step. The component table appears upon saving.
4. Add components to the Burger product.
Example:
For this case, we are tracking Buns, Patty, Lettuce & Tomato. Add these ingredients as the components.
5. Set Default Usage or Usage of Ingredients under each Modifiers.
Default usage refers to the fixed quantity of ingredients needed to produce a burger. The usage of ingredients doesn't change even in the presence of modifiers.
If your product has modifiers, that means the usage of ingredients/component are tracked based on customer's selection. Input the ingredient usage within the modifier options.
Example:
When making a burger, the Bun is a fixed ingredient.
Within a Single Choice Modifier, customers select their Patty, and if they choose Double Patty, 2 Patties will be deducted from the stock.
In a Multiple Choice Modifier, toppings become optional choices for customers.
If a customer opts for Lettuce, 0.01 KG of Lettuce will be used.
If they prefer Tomato, 0.05 KG of Tomato will be used.
Note: To prevent unnecessary stock deductions, refrain from entering Ingredient Usage in both the Default Usage and Modifier Options columns.
6. Save to complete the settings.
Refer to this article for more examples of where you could use the Composite Inventory Feature.