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PartyPreOrders Help Manual
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How to Create Your First Menu – Part 2 -
Creating an Online Pre-Order Menu
a.
Now you are ready to create your first online menu… So click
on ‘Menus’ on the left had side and you will see the following empty screen:
[Image No.4]
a.
- Click on ‘New’ at the top right to proceed to the next screen::
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a.
CODE - First of all, give it a single word meaningful & individual
‘Code’ – use underscores or hyphens if necessary, eg “easter-2009” or
“xmas_party_2008-1”. These codes will eventually make up the online address
of your pre-order menu.
b.
DESCRIPTION – Put any meaningful friendly description in a few words
for your menu, eg ”Easter Sunday Lunch”.
c.
START DATE & END DATE – To enter dates in the correct database
format, click on the calendar boxes and select the start and end dates when
this menu will be available. If it is for a single day then obviously select
the same date twice.
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d.
DAYS OF WEEK
–
Choose which days of the week your menu will be available in between the
start and end dates above. [This setting is not applicable if you have only
chosen a single date for the menu above.]
e.
DISABLED
– when this option is chosen the menu will eventually be produced, but not
available online until taken out of the box by editing the form at a later
time. It is recommended that you leave this blank.
f.
START TIME & END
TIME
– Choose you start and end times for the menu.
g.
MINUTES BETWEEN
BOOKINGS
– Select the time period in minutes between bookings.
h.
MAX GUESTS
– Choose the largest table size of covers which you will be catering for.
[N.B. Should you need to increase the default size, then this can be changed
with the ‘Company’ settings of your control panel.]
i.
STARTERS, MAINS
& AFTERS
– Select the necessary menu options in the adjacent tick boxes, including
the suggested ‘No Course Required’ & ‘Special Course’ options.
j.
MENU CAPTION
– This option depends on whether you are eventually going to use the online
pre-order menu as a stand alone webpage or for advanced web-masters &
programmers, embed the menu within an I-Frame on your own website. [See our
I-Frame help for more information.]
Below is an image of how this caption is incorporated into a simple stand
alone webpage:
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Assuming you are going to use for the simple option of a stand alone
pre-order webpage, then the default description will give instructions to
your customers of how to fill out their online pre-order form. [You can
either edit the default caption in the ‘Company’s section of you control
panel or change the specific instruction for each individual menu it the
‘Caption’ box.
Finally ‘SAVE’ the changes to your new pre-order menu, by clicking the
‘Save’ link at the top right hand side of the form; otherwise your changes
will be lost! Your new menu’s data (after saving) should look something
like this:
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