Managing your online menu
Aloha Order Direct leverages several existing Aloha Cloud Back Office functions, hereafter referred to as Back Office, when defining your online ordering menu, including Categories & Items, Modifiers and Modifier Groups, Taxes, and Item Availability. Aloha Order Direct does NOT leverage Discounts, Promotions, Price Lists, Departments, Tags, or Events at this time. Aloha Order Direct also does not leverage the Silver Commerce options available on the Extended Item Setup screen.
When defining your online ordering menu, the items configured in Back Office need to be built into a menu in Aloha Menu. You can create as many menus for different purposes as needed for an organization, such as all-day menus, time-sensitive menus for specific times, online menus, and others using Aloha® Menu, which is an easy-to-use web-based authoring tool. For more information refer to the Aloha Menu User Guide.
Note: To ensure proper functionality of Aloha Order Direct (AOD), we recommend you publish only one menu per site at a time.
Once you complete the procedures in this section, continue to the next section to perform site configuration, such as establishing the website URL, defining hours available for online ordering, and more.
The following topics are discussed in detail for managing your online menu:
- Working with categories & items
- Working with modifiers and modifier groups
- Defining the items to include on your online ordering website
Once you complete these procedures, continue to "Configuring Online Ordering" or return to Implementing Aloha Order Direct.