Enabling Meal Equivalency

Meal equivalency means that you can pay for a basket of items, or an item, with a meal unit instead of a dollar value. You set the scale you wish (ex: $5 = 1 meal unit), and once you do this it means that any purchase you make up to your set amount deducts one meal unit from a patrons meal plan. If you go over that total then it deducts one meal unit and charges the rest in cash or DCB.

Example: the meal equivalency scale is set to $6.50 for one meal unit. A patron buys a sandwich and a drink which totals $5.99, if the items are meal equivalency eligible then a patron can pay for this with a meal unit.

Step 1: Enable in Service Periods

a) Go to the homepage of FIIT and click on the Settings tile

b) Once there scroll down and click on Service Periods to expand the field.

c) Select the service periods for which you wish to enable meal equivalency, please set the value of the meal equivalency and how many meal units you want the value to correspond to. 

Step 2: Select which items you want to be meal equivalency eligible

a) Log into FIIT and select the Menu & Inventory tile

b) Select which location you want to enable meal equivalency for

c) On the left hand side of the menu choose which service period's menus you want to access

d) Select which item you want to enable meal equivalency for, then select edit item.

e) Enable Meal Equivalency for that item. If the item in question is in FIIT please follow the instructions below, if it is in Nōwn please refer to this link.

Step 3: Repeat for each service period's menu that you want to have meal equivalency for