Upick- is a function that has been created for scenarios where you may have a certain number of modifiers (or toppings) for free and after the maximum amount has been chosen, the modifiers need to start charging a price. Since you may choose any number as your maximum, the option is not ‘hard coded in the software’. You will need to create the function with the number of maximum free choices.
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Type in a Modifier Title
- In the Department / Function, type in Upick- followed by the amount of toppings that will be free. Such as UPick-2
The number typed in the department is the trigger, it will know that you can only get up to that specific quantity at no charge.
- Type in a modifier name such as Cheese. Keep that price at $0.00 in the Regular Price field.
- In the Price Shift area (grid to the left), type in a prefix in the "Prefix" area such as C- or $- and put a price in the price field to the right of the prefix. The Price Shift MUST be used in order for the Upick- to work as designed. To differentiate the ‘freebies’ versus chargeable items, it will use a prefix with the new price. For example; the user touches, Cheese 0.00, Cheese 0.00, Cheese 0.00, c- Cheese .50. The prefix makes it able to separate the free items and the chargeable when editing the modifiers on the virtual check. The prefix can be anything such as c- or $-. You must put a dash at the end of the prefix in order for it to be recalled and changed on the virtual check.
- After you are done with the modifier name, select Add/Update
- When you are done with your modifier group, select Save
Any modifier that has a regular Modifier Price will be exempted from the freebie selection. Example: Lettuce, Tomato, Onion, can count as the 3 free. However, chicken at $2.99 will never be a part of that list. When the user rings in chicken, it will still allow you to ring in three additional items for free.
You cannot have more than one Upick modifier group connected to the same menu item. MicroSale will not properly account for the free choices. If you need more than one of the groups, create one modifier group with the free choices, set a min/max and then create another modifier group with charges and set the Min/Max to 0/0.