I have come across the need for this request after trying to implement ‘Mapping Order Tags to Portions’
This is a great feature that can help reduce user error, and currently I’m trying to implement this on my SET BR product.
My SET BR product has 3 Portions. 5 Items, 7 Items and 10 Items.
This is because we allow our customers to able to make up their own breakfast and we apply a set price for the portions, i.e Up to 5 Items 5.50, up to 7 Items 5.95, up to 10 Items 6.95.
Where errors can occur: sometimes users enter 7 Items and forget to change the portion to 7 Items hence undercharging the customer.
With this great new feature introduced in v4.1.23. This gave me hope of a fix.
So I created 3 order tags Set Br 5 Items, Set Br 7 Items and Set Br 10 Items and set the ‘Max Selected Items’.
However, I came across a small problem which I’m hoping we can find a solution for.
I have managed to restrict the items to the required quantity but order tags that can have a multiple selection are not accounted for. i.e if customer orders 3 x E, 2 x S, this is already 5 items but we can still enter 3 more items. See:
I just realised when switching between portions the count is reset, which in return could again cause user error and undercharging.
In the beginning you do not know how many items the customer will be ordering so the chances are you will be leaving the portion on 5 Items, So if I input i.e 2 x E, 3 x S and then switch to 7 Items to add more, I am then able to add a additional 7 Items.
Hope you can include this in your next implementation. Eagerly anticipating this new great feature
OK what really SambaPOS does is hiding order tag groups that does not mapped to portion. Since all order tag groups have individual Max Quantity configuration we should select correct portion at first place. However you are right. In the beginning we might not know how many items will be ordered … It seems you just need a single order tag group that mapped to all portions but different max selected items configuration for each portion.
I’ve added Order Tag Count and Order Tag Quantity values to Order Tagged event so we can create rules for certain selection counts to update prices. I’ll be happy if you can try if we can implement it that way on next release.
I might need a little guidance on setting this one up, not quite sure how. Do i keep the portions as is or remove them and set rules to auto calculate price depending on quantity?
Unfortunately changing portions resets the count and still leaves room for error.
Emre kindly suggested a better solution by:
`Order Tag Count` and `Order Tag Quantity` values to `Order Tagged` event so we can create rules for certain selection counts to update prices.
I need a bit of assistance setting the rules for this?
So I have a product called SET BR and a order tag called Set Br Items and basically we want to set a rule to automatically price this product based on order tag quantity.
Up to 5 Items 5.50
Up to 7 Items 5.95
Up to 10 Items 6.95
That will work fine for next update and thanks for reporting.