Options
An option is a question that a customer needs to answer (e.g. What size? What flavor?) before they can add a selected product to their cart. Options contain Option Items, think of them as a section of modifiers.
- Name: the menu element’s name in the Onosys admin; for options, this is typically structured as ‘[Name of product that the option is associated with] – [Option name].’ This is not the name that customers will see on the ordering site.
- Localized Text: for options, only Title is typically used; if desired, Description can be added to an option.
- Active: whether or not an option is active/displays to customers on the menu.
- Template Selection: the type of list from which a customer will choose their desired option item(s). Some basic examples are below:
- Radio: select one option item with a radio button; all available option items will be displayed on the ordering site.
- Dropdown: select one option item from a dropdown menu.
- Checkbox: select and deselect option items with checkboxes; all available option items will be displayed on the ordering site.
- Freetext: open text field.
- None: Template Selection should only be set to “None” if the Quantity Editor Field is set to “Text Box.”
- Quantity Editor Style: should always be set to “None” unless the Template Selection field is set to “None.”
- Text Box: along with the option’s Template Selection being set to None, this will allow the customer to modify the quantity of selected option items via a +/- adjuster; when used on a 2-liter bottled beverage product, for example, a Flavor option could employ the Text Box quantity editor so the customer can add multiple beverage flavors in various quantities at a single time.
- Display Price Style: determines whether an option’s priced option items display their default prices or their prices relative to the currently-selected option item (required Onosys development for use).
- Min Qty/Max Qty: the number of option items that a customer must select from the option; largely depends on the option’s Template Selection.
- Radio and Dropdown must have min 1/max 1 settings (so that the customer is required to select 1 and only 1 option item).
- Checkbox is not required to have a specific min or max.
- Option Items: where an option item(s) can be added to an option so they display to customers.