4 | Creating a New Product

This article outlines the steps to creating a new Product in BackOffice. Creating New Products in BackOffice will always involve copying an Existing Product. It is suggested to Copy a Product that is most similar to the one that needs to be created - this way all the detailed Product settings are copied into the new Product and will not require configuring too many detailed settings for each Product.

This article outlines the steps to creating a new Product in BackOffice. Creating New Products in BackOffice will always involve copying an Existing Product. It is suggested to Copy a Product that is most similar to the one that needs to be created - this way all the detailed Product settings are copied into the new Product and will not require configuring too many

detailed settings for each Product. Within Bepoz, there are two ways of Copying a Product to create a new Product; these are explained in this article.

Prerequisites

To access and manage Products, the applicable Operator Privileges will need to be enabled:

Operator Maintenance 'Maintenance' Tab

All "Products" Flags

Getting Started

To Create a New Product, follow these steps after logging into BackOffice:

Go to the Maintenance Menu
Select Product option which will open the Product List window
Expand/select the Base Product Group
Click on the Product Group where the new product is being added

Adding a New Product

To Add a New Product; click on the Add New Product Function button
This will open a Select Product.. window which allows for selecting a Product to copy

Select a Product and Click on the Select Product button at the header or simply, double-click the Product to be copied
This will open a New Product window in which additional product details can be filled in

Alternate Method to Copy A Product

From the Maintenance menu, select Product List
Expand/select the Base Product Group and any additional Product Groups which is to be copied
Once the Product Group has been selected, the Products within that Group will appear to the right; select the Product to be copied
Click on the Right Mouse button on the Product to be copied & click on the 'Copy Highlighted Product as New Product' menu that appears

When the products are being copied some the product details are also copied along
Operators can make changes to these details in New Product window or later from Product Maintenance

Additional Considerations

Product Condiment Details

If the Product being copied is set up with Condiment Products or Condiment Groups , a prompt will appear asking whether to copy the Condiment settings
Either press Yes to copy Condiments or No to skip the Condiments from being copied

Product Specific Details

Each Product has some unique features which are never copied while creating a new Product
These Product Specific details include:

Product Number
Barcodes
Recipe
Ingredients
Comments
Supplier Product Codes

Related Material

Example Products and Notes
Multiple Supplier Codes per Product