Creating a new category
Access: Menu Administrator
One or more categories can be attached to a home page service.
WHAT ARE CATEGORIES?
Categories hold items, or listings, that are grouped together. You can set up Categories and Items. Before you set these up, you will need to consider what will work best for your school and for your reporting. This table shows three different examples of Category setup:
| Service | Categories | Items |
| Sports | 1. Netball 2. Basketball 3. Football | 1a. Netball Year 1 & 2 1b. Netball Year 3 & 4 1c. Netball Year 5 & 6 2a. Basketball Year 1 & 2 2b. Basketball Year 3 & 4 2c. Basketball Year 5 & 6 3a. Football Year 1 & 2 3b. Football Year 3 & 4 3c. Football Year 5 & 6 |
| School Production - Peter Pan | 1. Show Tickets 1 July 2. Show Tickets 2 July | 1a. Adult ticket 1 July 1b. Child ticket 1 July 2a. Adult ticket 2 July 2b. Child ticket 2 July |
| Fundraiser | 1. Eco-friendly products | 1a. Reusable cup black 1b. Reusable cup orange 1c. Reusable cup pink 1d. Sandwich wrap bees 1e. Sandwich wrap butterflies 1f. Stainless steel straws 1g. Reusable produce bags 1h. Bamboo toothbrush child 1i. Bamboo toothbrush adult |
Only categories with the SAME cutoff time can be in the same Service. Services are managed by school and can have one or more Categories from one or more suppliers. For more information, please visit our Knowledge Base article - Creating a new home page service.
HOW TO CREATE A CATEGORY
2. The following pop-up box will appear:
4. Either untick daily order cutoff, Or if a daily order cutoff is required (e.g. it is a food service) select the day, hour and minute that you would like for your cutoff time.
In the example shown above, the system will cut off orders at 9am on the day of delivery.
NOTE: For more information see Daily Order cutoff - what it is and when to use it
Selecting a daily order cutoff means users will see a date selector option in the Shop, e.g.
Your Category is now ready to have items added to it.
See Creating a New Item for information on this.
New categories will NOT automatically be added to existing home page services.
If you create a new category, please advise the Service Administrator for your school or organisation, as they will need to attach it to a service.
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