Hi everyone,
I’m trying to implement an “Item 86” (Sold Out) feature in SambaPOS.
prior to post this, i did check on the forum, most of the settings involved inventory to be set.
My goal is to allow staff or managers to temporarily mark a menu item as unavailable, so it cannot be ordered on the POS. Once the item is back in stock, they should be able to enable it again with a single action.
The important requirement is that this not to involve any inventory. I don’t want the stock quantity to be changed or inventory transactions to be created. It should simply prevent the item from being sold until it’s available again.
Has anyone configured something like this in SambaPOS?
Specifically, I’m looking for:
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A way to toggle an item between Available and 86 (Sold Out).
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Prevent the item from being added to new orders.
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Keep all inventory counts unchanged.
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Preferably a solution that managers can control from the POS without editing the menu manually.
Any guidance, rule examples, or automation ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
This is a very basic example of what you are trying to do which essentially disables the menu item button in the menu so it can’t be added to a ticket. You could add a show message action or ask question to add more functionality if needed.
4.42. How to Close an Item for Sale? – SambaPOS Knowledgebase
When I first started with SambaPOS I wasn’t aware of the knowledgebase so I always try to reference it here. Be sure you make your way through the whole thing at some point because you can get some really good ideas there.
I’d like to develop an internal solution for this. Could you please write down your needs more clearly? Perhaps you need different things.
I think that if there was an Item out button on the order line that could adjust the state of the item it would make it easy to toggle if it in or out of stock.
A cool feature would be to have the option to set it to Item Out and Item Out for Today, and it could become available again automatically the next day.
If there is a way to add an update product tag action you could map it to automation commands that would easily make this possible.
There could be an Item Out button visible on the order line, and only visible to managers.
That way when a product is out. It would update the Product Tag. In the Action you would have it so that when an order with product tag 86 is added it gets canceled immediately
A much more tricky feature would be to figure out a way to implement this on Order Tags.
So if your out of fries it will not let you add them to the order