What Is Online Menu Sorting?

With Arryved Online or OpenTab, your guests are empowered to place orders as they please, so let’s make it easy for them! In your Arryved Portal, you can sort your online menus and the items within them. You’ll probably want to sort them in a way that is intuitive, for your guests to have a flawless order-placing experience. This article shows you how to sort your online guest-facing menus. 

Prerequisites

• To Sort Menu Items in your Arryved Portal, you must be a Portal Super Admin or an Admin with one of the following Portal Permissions:

• INVENTORY

• ALL ACCESS

• FULL ADMIN

• ARRYVED VIEW

• Your online menus need to be created ahead of time before we can begin sorting them. 

• Creating and Editing Your Online Menus

• Use these instructions for your Venues set to the ONLINE Venue Type. 
  

Limitations

• Menu sorting in your normal on-site Venues (using Arryved Service) works a little differently. 
  

• Use the How To Sort Menu Items article instead.
  

How It Works

Sorting Menu Items From An Online Venue

1. Head to your Arryved Portal.

2. From the left side navigation, click Venue.

3. Click on one of your Arryved Online or OpenTab Venues.

4. Click Sort Menu Items on the right side. 

Remember, the menus in your online Venues were created in a different style than the ones in your on-site Venues. Online menus are guest-facing, contrary to how your staff sees menu items in Arryved Service. 

You most likely titled your menus here in the form of categories, making it easy for your guests to navigate through. See an example in the image above. 

If a Venue is set to the ONLINE Venue Type, this gives you the power to sort the order of the menus as well as the order of the items within them!

When you click on Sort Menu Items from your Venue page, a list appears of your menus and their items. Look at the numbers in the image and corresponding description below to learn how to sort menu items. 

1. Item Type Filter

For quick sorting of a certain Item Type, use the filter to narrow your view. 

2. Show or Hide Inactive or Kicked Items

Check either of the boxes to show Inactive or Kicked Items. Uncheck the boxes to hide them.

• Inactive Items are highlighted in yellow.

• Kicked Items are highlighted in gray. 

3. Menus

Each of your menus in this Venue are shown in the sorter. Under each menu name are the items within that menu. You’ll see the menu Name and the Menu Type next to it.

Use the arrows on the far right to sort! 

• The double arrows move the menu to the very top or very bottom.

• The single arrows move the menu up or down one slot. 

• You can click and drag menus too, instead of using the arrows. 

How you sort the menus here is the order in which your guests will see these “categories” when viewing your Arryved Online or OpenTab menu. 

4. Items

Below each menu name, the items within the menu are listed underneath and indented. Each item line shows the Name of the Inventory Item, followed by its Item Type.

Use the arrows next to each item to sort! 

• The double arrows move the item to the very top or very bottom.

• The single arrows move the item up or down one slot. 

• You can click and drag items too, instead of using the arrows. 

How you sort the items within your menus here is the order in which your guests will see the items listed when they click or tap on the menu category. 

5. Save / Close

When you’re finished sorting, click Save. Then, click Close to return to the Venue page. To cancel, click Close without saving. But be careful, your hard work sorting will be lost!

6. Auto Sort

Use Auto Sort if you want your menus and menu items to appear alphabetically. Please note, any custom sorting will be lost if you click this button. 

Arryved Online & OpenTab

Here’s how the sorted menus and menu items look from the guest’s view. 

Related Articles

Creating and Editing Your Online Menus

Prepping Inventory for Your Arryved Online Store