Edit a dish on the POS
The POS dish editor is where staff pick modifiers and tailor one dish on an order: quantity, weight or open price, a per-dish percent discount, sub-options and half toppings, matrix and custom choices, a guest name, a kitchen note, the seat and a Hold and Fire delay. It opens on its own when a dish needs input, and from the order summary any time.
At a glance
- Where to find it
- pos › Make Order › (dish)
- pos › Make Order › order summary › (dish)
- pos › Orders › (order) › Add › (dish)
What's included
Take orders on the POS
Ring up dine-in, pick-up and delivery orders (and drive-thru when it's on) from the Make Order tab: choose a table or a pickup time, add items with their modifiers, seats and hold times, attach the customer or loyalty member, then send it to the kitchen. Add more items to a sent order later with Add or Repeat.
Modifiers and choices
Add option groups to dishes (sizes, sides, toppings, cooking temperature) with prices, required or optional picks, min/max limits, and sold-out controls.
Quick modifiers for staff (matrix)
Give staff a fast grid of add-ons on the POS — prefixes like No, Add, Extra combined with groups like proteins, sauces or toppings — without building a modifier for every dish.
Sold out (86) and daily limits
Mark a whole menu, a course, a dish, a combo or a single modifier choice as run out (86'd), from the back office or the POS, and set a daily count for a dish that warns POS staff once it's reached.
Staff roles and manager permissions
Set up departments and job roles, choose which roles have manager permission, and pick which POS actions need a manager.
Combos
Bundle dishes into a combo with two or more groups (e.g. a burger, a side, a drink), price each group with its own rule, and sell it on the POS and online.
- When it opens: on its own when you add a dish with a required modifier group, a dish sold by weight, an open-price dish, or a dish that's 86'ed, has a required group that can't be filled, or is at its daily limit (a manager may need to approve that first). Tap a dish in the order summary to open it later; dish marker lines don't open it. Add Item on a sent order uses the same editor.
- iPad: the editor slides in from the left over the menu. A narrow panel shows the trash button, the dish photo (tap to enlarge), the name and the recipe button when the dish has a Dish Guide, the description, the modifiers picked so far (No Options Selected before any), the printers the dish goes to (None means it doesn't print), and Done. Done stays disabled, and the editor can't be swiped closed, until the dish is complete.
- iPhone: the editor is a sheet with the same controls. The name and trash button are at the top; the photo and printers are at the bottom next to the dish marker buttons; Seat and Hold and Fire are menus. There's no Done: swipe the sheet down once the dish is complete.
- Quantity, weight, price: minus and plus (never below 1), or tap the number for Edit Quantity (up to 1,000). Dishes sold by weight use the Edit Weight pad instead. Open-price dishes use Edit Price (up to $5,000); until a price above $0 is entered the editor shows Please set price.
- Per-dish discount: a percent button shows when the staff member signed in on the order has a manager role (or, with no manager roles set, a job role named Manager). Edit Discount takes 0–100% off that dish and shows it in red under the price, such as 10% off: -$1.20. Enter 0 to remove it. Order-level discounts with a reason are separate.
- Modifier groups: each header shows the group name and the most you can pick. A red filled circle means required and not yet filled; green with a check means filled; an open circle means optional. Tap a choice to pick or remove it; going over the limit drops an earlier pick, starting from the top. Choices that allow more than one get an x1 quantity menu. Problems show in red under the header (A choice is required., Select at least …, The max selection of choices is …, The max selection of sub-options is …), and the editor shows Please select required modifiers for too few or too many picks.
- Sub-options (such as pizza toppings) appear once their choice is picked, with a heading such as Suboptions. Pick 2 for free. Defaults have an orange bottom line. A picked sub-option can have a left / whole / right half menu and an x1–x4 quantity menu.
- 86'ed choices (Selflane POS 7.7.2 or later): a group or choice marked unavailable in 86 Items shows an 86'ed badge. Tapping it shows Ask a manager to approve this option. with Cancel and Continue Ordering, then a manager signs in. No sign-in when there are no manager roles or the signed-in staff member has one. Removing it never needs approval. If the whole dish was approved as 86'ed because a required group ran out, that group doesn't ask again.
- Matrix modifiers: when the business uses them, a matrix section shows under the modifier groups unless the Back Office hides it for that dish or course. Tap a prefix (such as Extra), then an item (such as Bacon) to add "Extra Bacon" as a custom choice.
- Custom choices: tap Choice to open Add a Custom Choice, optionally tap a prefix (No, Less, Add, Extra, Sub, On-side, or the blank one to drop it), enter a Name and Price (blank is $0) and tap Enter. A blank name, or only a prefix, shows Name and price is required. Custom and matrix choices sit in a group named cust; adding the same one again raises its quantity, and tapping one removes it. When Customize Items/Modifiers is checked under Manager Access Rules, a manager approves unless the signed-in staff member has manager access or no role has it; one approval covers the rest of that editor session.
- Kitchen names: shown before each choice's price by default (not on sub-options). The gear at the lower right toggles Hide Kitchen Name / Show Kitchen Name, remembered on the device.
- Guest name and note: type in Customer Name to show a name under the dish. In Selflane POS 7.2.9 or later, Note opens Special Instructions (up to 500 characters, Clear, Confirm); the note shows in green on the dish.
- Seat and Hold and Fire: Seat 1–50, and Hold and Fire 0–60 minutes in 5-minute steps; the order summary shows Hold and the minutes. Hidden while the custom choice panel is open.
- Dish markers: the marker buttons at the bottom add a marker such as To-Go above or below the modifier groups (set in Back Office menu settings). Markers sit in a group named ** Markers **; tap one to remove it.