Hi @FDK1430. I’ve read your post a couple of times and I’m a little confused about a couple of things.
First, you say your Square updated today? Do you mean your POS, or something else?
Second, I want to be clear about what you are saying you can’t do anymore. It sounds like you are saying this. Assume I have a modifier set with the following items:
White Bread
Whole Wheat Bread
Rye Bread
Pumpernickel Bread
Onion Bread
Are you saying that you used to be able to say that only three modifiers in that list applied to Sandwich 1, but that all 5 applied to Sandwich 2? If so, I don’t remember that capability ever existing in Square. As far as I have ever used Square (11 years now), when a modifier set is attached to an item, it’s all or nothing.
Anyway, it might help if you’ll post a screen shot or two of what you are seeing has changed, how it changed, etc. That will give me a starting point to see the same thing that you are seeing.
My comment may have been confusing.... Maybe this will be more clear.... We have a dressings modifier.... That modifier was applied to a lot of our lunch items.... We have an item that has many variations on how the customer can order. They have a Potato Modifier, Meat Modifier and a Sauce modifier. Those modifiers are also applied to several other items on our menu. We used to be able to adjust on which items the modifier was "required", so the wait staff was forced to make a choice before sending to the kitchen. For instance. On our Feed Bunk Item the customer must choose what kind of potato, meat & sauce before it can be sent to the Kitchen. That Potato Modifier is also used on our breakfast menu on our classic Farmer's Favorite. On the farmers favorite however the item is not required because one of the potato options is our seasoned breakfast cubes however we have the modifier turned on but not required so that in the event someone is gluten free they can choose a different potato option without having to make a "note" to the kitchen I no longer have the ability to make the Modifier required on some menu items. We used to be able to see which modifiers were applied to Menu Items on this screen. We can no longer see that. We can only see the modifiers as a whole and then have to go to another screen where the modifiers are all listed and only have the option to turn them off or on.. There is no longer a required button. Hard to send a screen shot of what it looked like when it's no longer there.
The modifier menu screen is now just a list. I can only turn the modifier on or off. I no longer have the option to turn it on but not make it "required". I want the modifiers to be available but i also want the ability to make them "required" or not required.
This post is only for the one above about being unable to make modifier sets required or not. I’m not attempting here to speak to everything else. I’ll do that in another post.
So for this one, you still can specify that a modifier set is required for some items, but not for others. But you have to do this individually.
Edit an item. Scroll to the modifier section and click on the ellipses (…) to the right of the modifier set, and select customize. Specify the number of required modifiers and the maximum number allowed. If this configuration only applies to one item, just save. If it applies to more than one, at the bottom there is an option to apply this configuration to other items.
You said “Also.... on the items list.... when you are in an item. I used to be able to click a button for which menu the item was applied to. We change items almost daily so it was easy to go into an item and turn it on or off from the item screen. There used to be a list of menu's and categories in each item... For instance... certain breakfast items are only available on Sundays.”
You can still do this. In Item Edit mode on the dashboard scroll down to just below variations. There is a list of all menus. You can expand the one you want to add it to and place it on the appropriate menu page. You don’t have to go to the Menus editing screen at all as long as the desired menu and page already exist.
It seems that, other than not being able to find how to make a modifier set required for some items and not required for others, you’ve figured out that all the same functionality exists. It’s just in different places and requires a new routing. Obviously, as a fellow seller I can’t speak to that. I was not involved in the beta (if there was one) for the new dashboard item management tools. And, since I only change my menu once or twice a year these days (I got out of food and only do ice cream now) I just wasn’t aware of how much these editing screens have changed.
For now, all I can really help with is pointing you in the right direction if there is functionality that you can’t find. I’m sure that someone from the Item Management team will see this post at some point. But, of course, all any seller can do now is figure out what changed, what was moved, and adapt to the current reality. Let me know if you can’t find some function.
