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Collect pre-orders and dietary notes for a group
Collect a group's dish choices and dietary notes before the day, with pre-orders from an Ordering menu or with a form.
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In short: with Ordering and Square, guests pre-order from a menu with Pre-ordering on. Without them, collect choices with a form and note them on the booking.
With pre-orders
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- Set up the menu: set up pre-orders.
- Go to Bookings › Pre-orders to see them. Filters narrows them by Order status or Payment status.
- Print for the kitchen: pre-order run sheet.
If one will not create, see a pre-order failed.
Without pre-orders
- Go to Marketing › Forms.
- Create a form for dish choices and dietary notes.
- Send its link to the lead booker.
- Add the answers to the booking as an internal note. Form answers do not attach to bookings.
Create a form, then Send its link to the lead booker, then Add the answers as an internal note3 stages in order: Create a form, then Send its link to the lead booker, then Add the answers as an internal note. The live stage is Add the answers as an internal note.
01Create a form
02Send its link to the lead booker
03Add the answers as an internal note
- 01Create a form
- 02Send its link to the lead booker
- 03Add the answers as an internal note
Check it worked
Pre-orders show on Pre-orders and on the booking. Form answers show under the form's Submissions, and your note shows on the booking.
Good to know
- Pre-orders need Ordering and a venue linked to Square. Menus are built in Ordering › Menus.
- Pre-orders also show in Ordering › Orders, under the Pre-orders channel, with the booking date.
- Matching form answers to bookings is manual, so a form only suits a few bookings.
- Only Admin, Moderator and Marketing can see Marketing, so one of them makes the form.
- Only Admin, Moderator, General Manager and Reports can see Pre-orders. FOH and Bookings Manager cannot.
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