Inventory | Restaurants Release Note: Product Banding in Gap Check Request from Menu Cycles

What's Changing?

The 'Product Banding' global setting will be used as part of a gap check request when Menu Cycles central users verify Menu Cycles before publishing.

Release date: 6^th July 2021

Reason for the Change?

Before this change, when a Menu Cycle was verified before publishing, product banding was always checked as part of the gap check request, regardless of whether the global setting was enabled or not. 

Customers Affected

All customers using Menu Cycles with Inventory.

• Enabled by Default? - Yes
• Set up by customer Admin? - No
• Enable via Support ticket? - No
• Affects configuration or data? - Yes

Release Note Info/Steps

To apply the product banding global setting for an organisation:

• In Inventory, go to Setup > All Options > Global Settings
• Use the Module drop-down and select Products
• Expand Organisation Settings and apply the Apply Product Banding to Organisation setting as required

Fig.1-Apply Product Banding to Organisation global setting

In the example shown in Fig.2, a user has run the verification for the ‘Bourgas’ location. The product banding setting is enabled for the organisation, and the price band is missing for ‘Appleton Special Jamaican Rum AF’.

Fig.2 – Missing price band exception

When the product banding setting is disabled and the user runs the verification for the same location, the missing price band exception is not returned - see Fig.3.

Fig.3- Missing price band exception not returned