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Items: pictures

Add, change or remove a dish's picture, from the Items list or from the item's General tab. Big photographs are made smaller for you; the picture shows on the POS and the QR menu.

Who uses it:OwnerManagerWhere:Back office
On this page

A picture helps guests on the QR menu, and the cashier on the POS. Each item has one. You can give it a picture in two places: by clicking the picture on the Items list, or in the Image box of the item's General tab. Both do the same.

You do not need image software. A photograph straight off a phone is several megabytes; the back office makes it smaller in your browser before it is sent, to about 100 KB.

Before you start

  • You need Items, Edit in your back office access group. Without it you can only look at the picture.
  • Have the picture on your computer, as a JPEG, PNG or WebP file. A square or nearly square picture fits a button best.

From the Items list

  1. In the menu, under MASTERS, click Menu, then Items.
  2. Click the dish's picture in the Image column (or the empty square, for a dish with none).
  3. A small window opens with the picture large.
Click the picture on the list: a small window to see it large, change it or remove it.
  1. The dish: its name, with its code under it.
  2. ✕: closes the window. Esc, or a click outside it, closes it too, except while a picture is being sent.
  3. The picture, as large as the window, in its own shape. A dish with none says No picture yet.
  4. What happened: while it works, Making the picture smaller… then Sending 96 KB…; after, in green, Picture saved. and how it was sent. A problem shows here in red.
  5. Change picture (or Choose a picture for a dish with none): opens your computer's file window. The picture you choose is saved on the item at once: there is no Save to press.
  6. Remove: takes the picture off the item at once: Picture removed.
  7. The rule: the three kinds of file, and the size it is brought down to.

The big green SAVED says The new picture is on the item., and the list shows the new picture. Someone without the right to change items sees the picture and ✕ only.

From the item's General tab

  1. Click the dish's code on the list. Its window opens on the General tab.
  2. In Image, press Choose a picture… (or Change the picture), and choose the file.
  3. For a dish already saved, the picture is saved at once, before the item's own Save, with The new picture is on the item.
The Image box of the General tab: a picture to upload, or the address of one elsewhere.
  1. Choose a picture… / Change the picture: takes a file from your computer.
  2. Remove: takes the picture off. On a saved dish this happens at once.
  3. The address: where the picture is kept. The upload fills it in by itself. You can also paste the address of a picture kept somewhere else, starting with https://.

What happens to a big photograph

  • Its longest side is brought down to 800 pixels, and it is made 400 KB at most. A picture with no see-through parts is saved as a JPEG.
  • A PNG or WebP with see-through parts stays a PNG, so the see-through parts stay.
  • A picture already small enough is sent as it is: Sent as it is: 640×640, 85 KB JPEG.
  • Otherwise the note says what was done: Made smaller in this browser before sending: 3.4 MB to 800×600, 96 KB JPEG.

Where the picture shows

The same picture is used on the Items list, on every POS of your restaurant and on the QR menu. Each takes it at its next contact with the cloud. When a dish is copied, its copy takes the picture too.

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