BYO Pizza With Arryved

Do you have pizza on your menu? Do you allow guests to customize or build their own pizza? No problem. In your Arryved Portal, you can create your pizza offering using Inventory Items and Modifiers. Whether your pizza menu is simple or vast, we can tailor the right solution for you. Follow this guide to get pizza on your Arryved menus. 

Prerequisites

• To create or edit Modifiers, Forced Modifiers, and Inventory Items you must be an Arryved Portal Super Admin or an Admin with one of the following Permissions: 

• INVENTORY

• ALL ACCESS

• FULL ADMIN

Limitations

• Applying Forced Modifiers to specific Unit Sizes is only available for menu items in Arryved Service, not Arryved Online or OpenTab at this time. 

• If you’re selling build-your-own pizza through your Arryved Online Store, it’s advised to create separate Forced Modifiers for the Whole, 1st Half, and 2nd half of your pizza. This will make it easier for the guest to place the order properly.  

• Items on printed prep tickets can’t be color-coded. Tickets always print Modifiers with an upcharge in red and everything else is in black ink. 
  

Best Practices 

To set up customizable pizza on your menus, you’ll create Item Modifiers, roll them into Forced Modifiers, and apply those to your pizza Inventory Item(s). 

Watch the GIF below to see an example of how a pizza can be ordered in Arryved Service with Forced Modifiers.

Things To Consider

You can use Item Modifiers and Forced Modifiers in various ways to accommodate your unique pizza menu. Think about how you allow guests to customize their pizza order: 

• Do you allow modifications on just half of the pizza? 

• With a build-your-own pizza, are you offering the first topping or two for free? 

• Do you offer various crust, sauce, and cheese options, too? 

• Do you have different pizza sizes/styles? If so, are toppings priced differently by size?

Step 1: Create The Item Modifiers

In this step, you’ll create all the possible Item Modifiers for toppings, cheese, sauce, and crust options. 

Indicator Item Modifiers

• If you offer half modifications, create Item Modifiers named 'Whole', '1st Half', and '2nd Half' 

• These mods are used to indicate on prep tickets, where the toppings are going. 

• Write '(required)*' next to the Description and '(req)*' next to the Short Form so that staff (in Arryved Service) and guests (when ordering online) know they need to select these indicator mods (see the image below for an example).
  

Here's how they'll appear on a prep ticket:

How To Create Item Modifiers

1. Head to your Arryved Portal. 

2. From the left side navigation, click Inventory.

3. Click Modifiers.

4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click New.

5. Create your first Item Modifier and click Save. 

• Read How To Create Item Modifiers if you need a refresher. 

• The Short Form is what appears on the buttons in Arryved Service and on prep tickets. Make it brief, but explanatory. 

• You must add Hints. Hints are what you’ll type in to search for the modifier. 
  

6. Repeat for all the possible Item Modifiers you need. Remember to include toppings, sauce, cheese, and crust options. And don’t forget your indicator Item Modifiers, too. 

Step 2: Create The Forced Modifiers

Once all of your Item Modifiers are created, you can use them to build your Forced Modifiers. 

1. From the left side navigation in your Arryved Portal, click Inventory.

2. Click Forced Modifiers. 

3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click New.

4. Create your first Forced Modifier and click Save. 

• Read How To Create Forced Modifiers if you need a refresher. 

If you offer half modifications on pizza, create 3 Forced Modifiers. One each for the Whole, 1st Half, and 2nd Half of the pizza. Be sure to include the corresponding indicator Modifiers (see the image below for an example).  

Pro Tips!: 

• Make the minimum 0 so people don’t have to order toppings if they don’t want to. 

• As you’re creating a Forced Modifier, you can click and drag the Item Modifier pills to rearrange them in a logical order. That’s how they’ll appear in Arryved Service. Move the indicator Modifier to the front so it can be easily accessed when ordering.

• If you offer one or two free toppings, create another Forced Modifier for that as well! 
  

Step 3: Apply The Forced Modifiers To The Pizza Inventory Item

In this step, you’ll create your BYO pizza as an Inventory Item and apply the Forced Modifiers to it. 

1. From the left side navigation in your Arryved Portal, click Inventory.

2. Click on an Inventory Folder. (you may want to create a new one for Pizza) 

3. Click New Item +. 

4. Create your BYO Pizza. 

• Read How To Create Inventory Items for a refresher. 

5. Save the new Inventory Item before applying the Forced Modifiers.

6. Once saved, scroll down on the same page and expand the Modifiers section. 

7. Click + Add Forced Modifier.
   

8. Add 3 Forced Modifiers. One each for the Whole, 1st Half, and 2nd Half of the pizza. 

9. You can use the 'Whole', '1st Half', and '2nd Half' indicator Item Modifiers as the Price Floors to help you identify each one here. Plus those mods have no cost, so anything with an upcharge will apply the extra cost to the total. 

10. 'No Size Set' indicates you’re applying this Forced Mod to all sizes of this item. 

• You can apply Forced Mods to specific sizes if you’d like (this is useful if your toppings are priced differently for each pizza size) but please beware that this feature does NOT apply to Arryved Online or OpenTab orders. 

11. 'ALL' indicates this Forced Modifier applies to all ordering channels including Arryved Service, Arryved Online, and OpenTab. 

Free Toppings (optional)

If you offer the first topping or two for free when building a pizza, add that Forced Modifier in there as well! 

• When creating the Forced Mod, give it a max of 1-2 options (depending on your free offering). 

• When adding the Forced Mod to the Inventory Item, select your most expensive topping as the Price Floor so that anything chosen is added at no extra cost. 
  

Pizza Sizes

Do you offer different pizza sizes? Do your toppings have different prices based on pizza size? If so, here’s what you need to know: 

• Create duplicate Item Modifiers for each topping. The duplicates will have different prices (e.x. Pepperoni-SM $0.50, and Pepperoni-LG $1.00) 

• Create duplicate Forced Modifiers to apply to each pizza size. Use the corresponding Item Modifiers. (e.x. $0.50 toppings are rolled into the SM pizza Forced Mod, and $1.00 toppings are rolled into the LG pizza Forced Mod). 

• Forced Modifiers can be applied to a specific Unit Size of an Inventory Item (see image below). However, this is only applicable to Arryved Service.
  

• If you’re selling pizza through your Arryved Online Store or OpenTab, consider creating each pizza size as separate Inventory Items, so that the corresponding Forced Modifiers can be applied to them and used across all Arryved ordering channels. 

Ordering Pizza In Arryved Service

When the build-your-own pizza is ordered in Arryved Service, the Forced Modifiers will prompt the staff member to make the selections the guest wants. 

• Staff will first select options for the whole pizza, then move to the next Forced Mod for the 1st Half of the Pizza, then select for the 2nd Half. 

• If no toppings are needed on the Whole, 1st Half, or 2nd Half of the pizza, the Forced Modifier can simply be skipped with no selections made. 

IMPORTANT NOTE!

The staff member MUST select the 'Whole', '1st Half', and  '2nd Half' indicator options before selecting the toppings for that section of the pizza. If this is missed, the indicator won’t appear on the prep ticket and kitchen staff won’t know if a topping is meant for just one half of the pizza or all of it. That’s where the '(req)*' label comes in handy! 

Prep Tickets

Below are 2 examples of how a printed prep ticket could look with a pizza order. Notice the importance of the indicator Mods. 

• The ticket on the left shows ‘None’ being selected for the second half of the pizza
  

• The ticket on the right shows that. the '2nd Half' Forced Modifier was skipped and no selection was made.
  

• KDS order tiles will have the same layout. 

Ordering Pizza Through Arryved Online & OpenTab

Below is an example of what ordering a BYO pizza would look like for a guest ordering through OpenTab or your Arryved Online Store: 

Pro Tip! 

• Create an Item Modifier called 'None' to help guests make the correct selections for the Whole, 1st Half, and 2nd Half of the pizza since the indicator Item Modifiers are labeled '(required)*'.

Gut Check!

Once you’ve set up your pizza menu through your Arryved Portal, send a test order through Arryved Service, OpenTab, and your Arryved Online Store to see if the guest experience is to your liking. Don’t hesitate to reach out to Arryved Support or your Implementation Manager for assistance. 

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