The order reporting journal has passed the beta phase! With the journal, you can carry out an evaluation of all relevant data on orders and cancellations. In addition, as an admin, you can now grant or withdraw authorisation for using the order reporting journal to dashboard accounts in the user administration. Thus, you can limit who is allowed to view the data reporting in the dashboard.

On the detailed product pages, there is now additional information for users if a product cannot be pre-ordered. For example, the user receives a notification if he or she must first log in to place the order, if he or she must select a delivery date and time, or if the product is not currently available for ordering.  

Scan - Pay - Enjoy – this is how you avoid long waiting times at the food counter. With the new ePaper technology, the dishes can be scanned directly at the buffet via the app. Through NFC, a contactless data exchange between the ePaper display and the app occurs. Thus, the dish automatically appears in the guests' shopping basket. The food can then be collected and the guest can pay comfortably at the table via app with a payment service provider of choice.

Are you interested in the qnips Scan & Go via ePaper? Then please get in touch with your respective qnips contact person.

If you use the native android- and iOS-app, you now have the possibility to exclude user accounts from certain features of the app by means of a special update. Once this update is installed, you can edit the authorization of the respective user in the customer administration. Under the "Account" tab, you can set the corresponding check mark in the "block user" area. The users will then receive a notification via push and/or email about the blocked function. The same applies when the block is activated again. Do you have any further questions? Then simply get in touch with your qnips contact person!

As recently described, you have the possibility to store preparation options for individual dishes in the master data management of the dashboard. For example, you can define the cooking level or the portion size for the preparation.

This feature has now been extended so that you can group the preparation options for specific product categories. In addition, you can then apply these groups to all sub-product groups with just one click. The preparation groups option can be found in the master data management either in the basic information of the product category or under the "Identifications & Additives" tab of the respective product.

Now that it is already possible to book pre-orders and transactions in the Catering Portal by cost center, order reporting has also been extended accordingly for the use of cost centers. The familiar functions and filters are now also available for evaluating the sales of your cost centers with the corresponding revenue accounts as well as the total and individual sales per cost center. Simply select the "Financial: Cost center" report in the order reporting section of the dashboard.

New updates for the order reporting. You now have the option to perform article-based evaluations. In addition, you can use a BETA version of the reporting journal, which shows you the history of all order transactions and cancellations. Various filter options provide a better overview of the data.

There is also a new feature in the master data management. You now have the possibility to define preparation options for different dishes. For this purpose, you can now find the Recipe tab where you can enter notes on preparation, cooking, serving and storage.

In the product labelling, you can now also set temporary tax rates that are only valid for a set period of time.

If you have any questions about the features of the dashboard, please have a look at the qnips knowledgebase or send us an email!

You now have the possibility to define a minimum order value and additional delivery costs for out-of-house orders, which are automatically added to the guest's order in the shopping basket. To do this, simply go to the "Preorder" tab in the menu administration and store the minimum order value and the respective delivery costs in the corresponding output option.

There has also been an update to the category prices: you can now also assign the prices that apply across products for an entire category to individual user groups. The variation that individual products of the category get an individual price is also possible. To create a category price, simply select "absolute value" in the corresponding price label and then add it in the menu management as price label V2.

If you have any questions about the features of the dashboard, please have a look at the qnips knowledgebase or send us an email!

Attractive menu promotion with the product photography feature!
With the help of the photo feature, you can fill your menus with attractive photos directly via the app and now also via the Catering Portal. Product photos for daily dishes can be created and uploaded directly after the sample plate has been prepared in the kitchen.
To be able to use the product photography feature, you need the corresponding dashboard licence. This has to be activated in the dashboard and then you can define admins for the use of the feature in the menu management in the app settings.   

Even more design options! The Catering Portal now supports not only the delivery of content in the header and footer of the menu plan, but also the display of videos. For this purpose, you have the option of managing the delivery of various contents for the menu plan under the "Content" tab in the menu plan administration.

In recent weeks, there have been numerous updates to the features of the Catering Portal – Perhaps you have already spotted it? Thanks to the product search at the top of the menu, your guests will now find the desired dishes and drinks even faster. To activate the product search, simply tick the corresponding box in the general settings of the respective menu.

If you have any questions about the new features of the Catering Portal, please do not hesitate to contact your qnips contact person!