Mirror your offer and set up your products the way you’d like to see it in your POS checkout screen. Set up item variants (e.g. sizes, colours, shapes), modifiers (extras like toppings) and sell in different units of measurement (unit, L, kg, m2).

Manual catalogue setup

The easiest and fastest way to build your catalogue is via the sumup.me dashboard on your desktop, but you can follow the same steps via your POS interface.

Before creating the main products, it is best to preset your product categories, modifiers, and option sets, which you’ll later assign to your items.

Categories

Go to Items > Library > Categories

You can start by adding your main product categories (e.g., hot drinks, cakes, etc).

These will be displayed alphabetically at the top of your POS checkout screen.

Tip: you can number the categories if you’d like to display them in a different order. 

Modifiers

Go to Items > Library > Modifiers

Modifiers are add-ons to your product that modify or personalise your original item, such as toppings, syrups and any other extras. They usually come at an extra price, but not necessarily. Configure the modifier sets that you'll later apply to your products.

Option sets

Go to Items > Library > Option sets

Option sets are variants of your products, such as different sizes (S, M, L), colours (blue, red…), or others. They can come for an extra price if you choose to do so. 

You are ready to build your items!

Go to Items > Library

Create a new item in your library by clicking on ‘Add item’.

Fill in the information such as name, price, unit of measure, and VAT associated. 

In this step, you’ll be able to customise your product and add:

Eat-in/takeaway prices

If you manage different order types, such as eat-in or takeaway, you can set up different product prices and easily switch between the order types at the checkout. Go to your Item Library, choose a product you sell with different order types, and toggle on ‘Set different price and VAT for takeaway orders’. Once you activate this for one item, all products will be enabled for different order types. You’ll need to adjust the prices and VAT for each product, if necessary.

You can switch between order types directly on the checkout screen of your POS by clicking on the order menu > order type when taking an order. The prices and VAT for each product will automatically adjust based on the order type you select.

Track inventory 

Enable tracking of the stock of the item by toggling on ‘track inventory’. You can visit the inventory section to consult and modify your stock. 

Add variants and modifiers

Define different options of your products, such as size, colour, etc., in the variants field. If you pre-configured option sets, you can use ‘Automatically generate lots of variations’ to apply them.