Modifiers – sizes, toppings, sauces and extras

Modifiers are option groups the cashier (or an online customer) picks when an item is sold: size, crust, flavour, toppings, sauces, dips, milk type, sugar level. Each option can add a price, and you decide the rules — one choice or several, required or optional, how many are free. Restaurants, cafés, pizzerias, burger and juice bars use them most.

How to turn it on

1. 1Plan: Included in every plan (core restaurant feature).
2. 2Switch: Settings › Business Settings › Modules › Restaurant, bar & bookings › Modifiers, then Update Settings.
3. 3Permission: View product to see the list; Add product to create sets; Edit product to change sets and link products; Delete product to delete sets.

Mobile app: Yes – the options window opens in the SmartPOS Business app POS, the Shopper app and the online store.

How modifiers work

1. Create a set (for example “Crust”) with options and prices. Price 0 = free.
2. Choose the rules: One choice (radio buttons) or Several choices (check boxes), Required or not, minimum and maximum.
3. Link it to products. The POS opens the options window as soon as a linked product is added to the cart.
4. Nest sets (optional). An option can open its own sets: Pizza → “Flavour” (choose 1) → Margherita opens “Sauce” and “Extras” for Margherita.

Note

Details the customer gives (engraving text, prescription, measurements) belong in Order options, not modifiers.

Before you start

• Modifiers is switched on in Settings › Business Settings › Modules.
• The products you want to link exist. See Add products.

First-time setup

1. Open Restaurant › Modifiers.
2. New to modifiers? Click Create pizza example. It adds Pizza size, Pizza flavour and a sauce and extras set for each flavour, so you can see a finished structure. Or click Import prebuilt to pick ready-made sets for your trade.
3. Click Add modifier set to build your own.
4. Under Set details, enter the Set name (for you) and, optionally, the Title shown to customers (for example “Choose your crust”), Short help and Display order (lower numbers show first).
5. Optionally pick an Icon or photo and how to Show choices as (list, buttons or photo tiles). Photo tiles look best in the apps and online store.
6. Under Selection rules, choose One choice or Several choices, switch on Required if needed, and set Minimum, Maximum (empty = no limit), Allow quantity per option (for 2× extra cheese) with Max per option, and Free choices (the first N choices are free).
7. Under Options, type each option and its Price (0 = free). Tick Pre-selected for the usual choice. Press Enter to add the next row; drag to reorder.
8. Under Products, search and add the products that open this set, or use Add all products of a category.
9. Check What the cashier sees and the Structure preview on the right, then click Save modifier set.

/modules/modifiers

The builder shows a live preview of the options window and the structure as you type.

Nested sets (Pizza → Flavour → Sauce)

1. Create the inner sets first, for example “Sauce – Margherita” and “Extras – Margherita”. They don’t need products.
2. Open the outer set (“Pizza flavour”) and, next to the Margherita option, click Opens and choose the sets it opens.
3. Save. On the POS, picking Margherita slides in its sauce and extras sets underneath.

Up to three levels work (product → set → child set → grandchild). Sets that would loop back are not offered.

More on each option

Click ⋯ More on an option to add a description, mark it Sold out (shown but can’t be chosen), Hidden (not offered anywhere, kept on old sales), or limit it to Only at these locations.

Everyday use at the till

1. Add a linked product to the cart on the POS. The options window opens straight away.
2. Pick the options. Required groups show Required and turn red until filled; the counter shows how many are picked and the maximum.
3. The footer shows the running total. Click Add to order (or press Enter). Esc cancels.
4. To change later, click Options under the item in the cart, change and click Update item.

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The options window on POS V2. Prices update in the Add to order button as you pick.

Chosen options show as chips under the item. They print on the receipt and kitchen ticket. If you cancel the window for a new item that has a required group, the item is removed with “…was not added: it needs options”.

Managing your sets

/modules/modifiers

Restaurant › Modifiers: rules, options and linked products for every set.

• Edit opens the builder.
• Products opens a quick window to add or remove linked products without opening the builder.
• Set order lets you drag sets into the order customers see them.
• Removing an option that was already sold keeps it on old sales.

Settings explained

Field	Meaning
One choice / Several choices	Radio buttons vs check boxes.
Required	The item can’t be added until a choice is made.
Minimum / Maximum	How many options must / may be picked. Rule text such as “Choose 1”, “Choose up to 3” or “Choose any” is shown to the cashier.
Allow quantity per option / Max per option	Lets the cashier pick 2× of the same option.
Free choices	The first N picks are free (in pick order).
Pre-selected	Option ticked by default.
Opens	Child sets this option opens.
Display order	Order of sets when a product has several.

Permissions

Permission (Roles page › Product)	Lets the user
View product	See the Modifiers list
Add product	Create modifier sets and the pizza example
Edit product	Change sets, link products, reorder sets
Delete product	Delete modifier sets

Cashiers don’t need any of these to pick options on the POS; Add POS sell is enough.

In the apps and online store

The same sets, rules, icons, photos and sold-out marks appear in the SmartPOS Business app POS, the SmartPOS Shopper app and your online store. Rules are checked again when the order is saved, so a missed required choice can’t slip through.

Tips and mistakes to avoid

• Keep set names unique and clear (“Sauce – Margherita”, not just “Sauce”) so you can pick the right one under Opens.
• Use Sold out, not delete, when an option runs out for the day.
• Turning Modifiers off while products still have required sets can block those items online. Unlink them first.

Related pages

Order options

Restaurant module

Variable products

Prebuilt imports