How to set up pizza flavors and prices by size

What a flavor is in the menu

Setting up pizza flavors in qmen.us means building a list of flavors for the whole restaurant — Calabresa, Margherita, Four cheese — and then saying which of them each item offers. A Flavor has a name, an optional description for the ingredients and an Active switch. It isn't tied to a single item: the same flavor serves the large pizza, the small one and the calzone, with nothing to set up again.

The price isn't stored in the flavor but where item, size and flavor meet. That's why, inside the item, you fill in a table: a row per flavor, a column per size, one amount in each cell. That's different from an option group, which is the other way to vary an item — crust, add-on, topping — and which adds an extra charge on top of the price instead of switching the version of the product.

Why flavors are set up separately from items

• Set it up once, use it on as many items as you like. The flavor list belongs to the restaurant, not the item. Once you add Calabresa, it's available for the pizza, the calzone and the esfiha, each with its own price.
• Each flavor has its own price in each size. No pretending every flavor costs the same: the table lets the pricier flavor cost more only in the size where that matters.
• Half and half with no arguments over the bill. You decide ahead of time whether a two-flavor pizza is charged at the higher price or the average, and the system does the math the same way every time.
• The description sells for you. The ingredients field shows to the guest while they choose, so whoever scans the table QR code doesn't need to ask what's in each flavor.
• The waiter chooses in two taps. An item with flavors opens the build screen on the phone: size, flavor and done — the price goes to the tab already calculated.

How to set up pizza flavors in 7 steps

Seven steps: first the restaurant's flavor list, then the price table inside each item.

1. Open the flavor list

   On the Dashboard, go to Menu. In the side column there's the Flavors box, with the manage link and the + Flavor button — both open the same page, at /restaurante/cardapio/sabores/. As long as nothing is set up, the box shows “No flavors yet.”.

2. Add the flavor with its name and ingredients

   In the Add flavor block, fill in the Name (e.g. Calabresa) and, if you like, the Description — that's where the ingredients go, like “Tomato sauce, mozzarella, calabresa sausage and onion”, and that's what the guest reads while choosing. Leave Active on and tap Save. The flavor goes onto the list, in alphabetical order, and the page is ready for the next one.

3. Check your sizes before pricing

   A price per flavor only makes sense together with a size. In Menu, the Sizes box holds the list for the whole restaurant — Small, Medium, Large. Every restaurant already comes with a default Regular size, which stays hidden when the item has just one size. Set up yours before opening the item.

4. Select which flavors the item offers

   Open the menu item (or create a new one). First, in the Sizes table, check the sizes it's sold in. Right below comes the Flavors and prices (R$) table: one row per flavor you've set up, one column per size checked. Check the box for the flavors this item offers; the unchecked ones are grayed out and don't go into the order.

5. Fill in each flavor's price in each size

   Now just type amount by amount: Calabresa in Medium R$ 42,00, Calabresa in Large R$ 52,00, and so on. Once saved, the item shows the flavors tag on the Menu list and a “from” price, because each combination has its own. An item with no flavor checked shows only the Price row, with no flavor.

   Tip: An empty cell doesn't create its own price — in that size the flavor falls back to the item's base price. If a flavor isn't sold in a size, uncheck the size instead of leaving the cell blank.

6. Turn on half and half, if you need it

   For a pizza with two flavors, turn on Several flavors in one item. Then the Flavors column appears in the Sizes table, where you say how many flavors each size takes — the Small might take 1 and the Large, 3. And the Price with several flavors field decides the math: Highest price (the default) charges the priciest flavor in the combination, and Average of the flavors takes the average. The number of flavors on its own never makes the item more expensive.

7. Save and test it in the waiter app

   Tap Save and open the item in the waiter app. An item with flavors doesn't go straight onto the tab: it opens the build screen, with Size at the top and Flavor below — or Flavors (up to 2), if half and half is on. The price appears already calculated and goes to the tab, locked in, when the waiter confirms.

Frequently asked questions

Glossary

Flavor

A version of an item, like Calabresa or Margherita, with its own price in each size.

Size

A portion variation shared by the whole restaurant (Small, Large); every restaurant starts with a default Regular size.

Item

Each product you sell, with a name, description, photo and price; it's what the waiter adds to the tab.

Option group

A reusable list of extra-cost choices, like Crust or Add-ons, that you attach to several items.

Category

A section of the menu that groups similar items, like Starters or Drinks, and sets the order everyone sees.

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