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Your product catalogue

Welcome to your ChouyLok catalogue. This is where you manage everything your shop sells, from retail items to food and beverages (F&B) menu items.

How it all fits together

The catalogue is built from four main parts:

  • Products (or Menu Items): The individual things you sell, like a bottle of water or a bowl of noodles. Depending on your business, you'll manage these in the "Products" section (for retail shops) or the "Menu" section (for restaurants and cafes).
  • Variants (Options): If you sell an item in different sizes, colours, or flavours, you can use variants. This keeps your list clean so you don't have to create a separate product for every option.
  • Categories: Folders for your products. They help your cashiers find items quickly on the POS screen. (In restaurants, each item, not its category, chooses which kitchen station receives its orders.)
  • Brands: The manufacturer or brand of the item, mainly used for retail products.

Retail vs Food & Beverage (F&B)

If your business does both retail and F&B, you will see a separate menu for each. The main differences are: - Retail Products: You can track stock levels, add barcodes, manage expiry dates, and handle purchase orders. - Menu Items (F&B): You can set up kitchen stations (so orders print in the kitchen) and manage recipes or raw materials. Menu items do not have barcodes or expiry dates on the main product screen.

Where stock numbers come from

Stock numbers are tracked automatically if you enable "Manage Stock" for a retail product. - Stock In: Increases when you receive a purchase order or make a manual stock adjustment. - Stock Out: Decreases automatically when you sell the item on the POS. - Current Stock: The net result, which you can always view in the Stock History tab.