How to Create Inventory on Smart POS

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Guide to Create Inventory – Smart POS Menu Setup

To create menu on the Ebmbook SmartPOS (Tablet & Mobile Point of Sale App), you should have already downloaded the SmartPOS app onto your mobile or tablet device. See the download guide.

How to Create Menu Categories

Note: This guide is for Ebmbook SmartPOS, the Tablet and Mobile POS and Invoice Management App, not Ebmbook PRO!

  1. Either from the Shop Screen click the plus icon at the top or go to menu, settings, manage inventory.
  2. Click the category tab and press the plus button to add new category.
  3. Name the new category and if required by your business, select the parent category that this category’s products will be located under.
  4. Choose the colour pattern that will visually simplify the menu items. Then save your changes.

For the remaining categories, repeat the same process until all of the categories are added.

How to Create Menu Items

  1. From the shop page, click the plus icon or from settings click inventory management
  2. Click the Stocks tab then the Plus icon
  3. Select the category that this product belongs to then fill up the remaining relevant details based on your needs
  4. For simple item click fixed, for advanced item click variations then save the changes

Repeat the same process for the rest of products until all the products are added. 

A restaurant or retail menu might be simple or advanced, depends on your business needs or your paper menu. The Ebmbook SmartPOS has supports for all type of products. Fixed menu (simple menu), advanced menu (variants with vast options and sub options).

How to Create Product Modifiers

The optimised way to create new or link existing modifiers to a product is to create modifier groups.

This video demonstrates how to add item modifiers and reuse the same modifiers

  1. From the inventory screen click the modifiers tab – Click the plus icon or click the existing modifier to update the current one
  2. Add all the modifiers such as Colors, Sizes, Shapes etc.
  3. Finally, go to a product and link any of these added modifiers to that product