SkyTab Lighthouse Business Manager Menu Builder Guide

Description: Learn how to create, edit, and maintain your POS menu remotely in Lighthouse Business Manager.

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For information on how to log in and board a location, refer to this article.

Log in to your Lighthouse account and hover over SkyTab Settings on the left-side menu.
Next, select Menu and a group of further options becomes available:

• Items
• Departments
• Modifiers
• Modifier Sets
• Order Types
• Scheduled Pricing
• Coursing

To set up menus on SkyTab POS, visit the Menu Items on SkyTab POS article.

To watch more how-to videos, visit our video section.

Items

This is a list of all the active and inactive menu Items. You can search for a specific item by typing its name into the search bar or narrowing down the items shown by using the department's drop-down menu. From this page, you can add and edit items.

Add a New Item

1. Select the Add Item button.
2. Enter the General item information. This includes entering a name and price, along with selecting a department and revenue class. If you’d like, you can also mark the item as a favorite or attach any relevant tags here.
   Note: Keep in mind that fields marked with an asterisk are required.
3. Enter the Advanced information. This section allows you to set an alternate kitchen print name, default quantity (which is the quantity that is automatically added to the ticket when the item is selected), and item description. You can also enable the following options:
   1. Open Items which will prompt for the item price when ordered. This may be useful for items such as seafood or items that are sold at market price.
   2. Special Request will enable the special request screen when the item is added to the ticket. 
   3. Indicate whether or not an item is purchasable with gift cards.
   4. Enable the Item Sold By Weight toggle to let your system know a scale must be used to assess the amount to charge.
4. Assign a Course if applicable.
5. Apply a specific tax in Accounting if the item differs from the department tax already assigned.
6. Select Tracking options related to inventory tracking, such as displaying the quantity of an item on log-in, how many of the item are available, if the item should show an alert if the stock falls under a specific amount, what that amount should be, and if the system should allow ordering of the item when quantity hits zero.
7. Assign relevant Modifier Sets to the item.
8. Choose where the item is printed.
9. Select any relevant Price Schedules.
10. Select Save to commit your changes.

Edit Items

To edit, select an individual item from the list, or choose more than one item by selecting the checkbox by the item’s name followed by the Bulk Edit button. The information you can edit will slide out from the right. Remember to select Save to commit the changes.

Departments

From the Departments tab, you can select an existing department to make changes to it or select Add Department to create a new department.

From here, you can set the department name, add or modify items within the department, and assign coursing.

Note: If you choose to assign a department to a specific course, all future items assigned to this department will inherit this course type by default.

To watch more how-to videos, visit our video section.

Modifiers

In the Modifiers section you can add a modifier or edit an existing one.

Within the modifier details, you can set the name, print options, enable special requests, assign to modifier sets, and assign nested modifier sets.

Note: selecting a printer for modifiers may result in duplicate prints. If you’re noticing duplicate prints, try disabling this option.

Modifier Sets

In the Modifier Sets tab, you can create a new set or edit an existing one.

Begin by setting the name, price, and print options of the modifier set. Then, configure whether the set is required, will display until manually dismissed, or allows multiple selections.

Next, add the appropriate modifiers to the set as well as assign the menu items that will use it.

To watch more how-to videos, visit our video section.

Order Types

Add a new order type or edit an existing one in the Order Types tab.

You can change the name, assign a section layout, enable custom ticket names, and enable customer selection. 

Scheduled Pricing

The Scheduled Pricing tab allows you to configure new or existing price schedules within your system.

You can set the name of the scheduled pricing group, select the days of the week it will apply, and then set the time range. You can also select Add Schedule to add additional coverage within a scheduled pricing group.

Coursing

The Coursing tab is where you can create new Coursing groups such as Appetizers, Entrees, and Desserts.

Enter a name for the course, then select Manage Items to select which items will be included in the course.