This guide provides a straightforward method for setting up a category/menu based on specific days and times of the week, this is particularly useful for any business that has products they sell throughout the week, with an option for time restrictions for the days selected.
Example being Breakfast Menu’s, Lunch Menu’s, Dinner Specials, Weekend related categories.
1. First we have to enable “Time-based Categories” in general settings. Click “Settings” on the sidebar
2. Click “General settings”
3. Click the “Filter settings” field and type “time-based” to filter the settings, or scroll all the way to very bottom, its the last setting currently in general settings, under the “Additional Features” section.
4. Enable
“Time-Based Category Availability”
5. Click “Items” on the sidebar
6. Click “View Categories” in the upper right corner
7. Click “+ New Category” to make a time-based category/menu intended.
Or choose an existing category if you want to specify what days of the week its active as well as the time range within the day/s.
8. Step 1. Name it accordingly, this special in this example is for Mon-Wed.
Step 2. For this to work you have to click “Days of week category is active” and add the days of the week you want the special available.
Step 3. Choose a start/end time if you want to limit the hours for the category.
This is a morning menu, it is therefore set to 7am-10:30 am.
9. Click “Save Changes”
10. Add items to the timed-based category.
Click “Items” on the sidebar
11. Add items to the new category.
12. Click “Save”
13. Do the same for any other items you want to be in that category, by doing so they will then become apart of the time-based category.
Tip: You can also use Mass actions to easily clone items in mass and then move them to the new category. Learn how
