Menu Periods (Nōwn POS) - Setting Up Menu Periods

Menu Periods are the menus for each of your service periods. They would be configured in Nōwn and they are the menus that show for each service period. For example, maybe you want breakfast to be a different menu than lunch, menu periods allow you to do that. They can be the same as your service periods but don't have to be.

Before you begin make sure that you have menu periods enabled. If you don't see Menu Periods in your Products page it means you need to contact Nōwn Support to have it enabled.

Make sure you are logged into a Manager or Owner account on a computer, not the POS tablet. If you don't set the Product tab on the left hand side it means you're not logged in with the right account.

Select the Products tab on the left hand and when they new window comes up select Manage Menu Periods
A new window will come up, select + New Menu Period. Please note menu periods cannot be deleted so only create one you are ready to use! However, you can change the name of a menu period at any time.
Set the name of your menu period and select which days and time periods you want it to be active for.
If you wish to use quick charge, make sure that the Quick Charge Toggle is set to ON. Next you will have to select an item to be used for quick charge. What this means is that when you do a transaction for quick charge, it will be the equivalent of "selling" that one item for the purposes of your reports. Most clients tie quick charge to an item such as Dining Hall Entry. Please note for quick charge to be used all the time you must enable it for every menu period.

One very important detail is that the item you select must be eligible for meal exchange, if it is not then quick charge will not work!
Lastly, you want to configure which items are available in each of your menu periods. The list view that shows by default is the list of all your categories, if you set a category as available for a menu period it automatically also sets all items and modifiers as available within that category, However, you are able to expand each drop down and make changes such as excluding/including certain items/modifiers.
For mobile ordering the menu periods will automatically be applied! For example, if brunch is 11:00am-2:55pm and a student places an order at 2:00 they will see the brunch menu. If they place an order at 5:00 and dinner is 3:00pm-6:00pm then they will see the dinner menu.
Make sure to save your changes and repeat for each menu period!