Menu pre-ordering addon setup

Menu pre-ordering addon setup

Overview

Reservation plugin can allow your guests to make a pre-ordering from your menu during reservation process. Menus are defined in WooCommerce as a products and can be tied to specific dates or time shift. Selected menu is then added to comments in reservation.

Setup

WooCommerce plugin needs to be installed and activated as any other plugin in WordPress. Tested with version 3.6

Configuration

WooCommerce configuration

To define currency, open generic WooCommerce settings page and select currency from drop down

Product configuration

Add new product to WooCommerce by clicking on Add New button

Page is opened, where menu information is added. First step is to add new category “redi-menu”. Click on Add new category link, then type the name and click on button “Add new category”. When category is created, then set a check on “redi-menu”.

Define menu name and add description

Define price

Add image that will be displayed to main product image

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When all steps are done, change visibility to Private and click on Publish button.

Now menu will be available for any reservation.

Advanced product configuration

It is possible to define various rules to show menu only when certain conditions are met.

Attributes:

Attribute name

Format

Comments

Attribute name

Format

Comments

shift_name

free form text

Time shift name. This should be equal to the name that defined in plugin configuration, Open Times.

date

YYYY-MM-DD

Date when menu should be available.

Menu in reservation form

Menu is displayed when date and time are selected as a last step in reservation process before entering personal information.

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User and restaurant staff will see menu selection in email in comments field.

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