Add your Menu & Products to Kounta

Add and manage your products in Kounta

Learn how to create, edit and, manage your products, menu, pantry lists (items you sell, buy and, stock) from the Kounta back office. You can also use Kounta to track your inventory.

It's easier than it looks and, by the end of this article you will have your products safely loaded into your Kounta.

Frequently Asked Questions

Products, Variants and, Modifiers - What's the difference?

We get asked this a lot, don't worry;

Products - You either sell these on your menu, buy these from your suppliers or, stock these products

Variants - Set variations of your menu items to capture common options - think sizes for coffee (or wine & beer) and, flavours for milkshakes.

Modifiers - Common changes to products that your customers might request (but generally aren't sold solo) - soy milk for coffee or rare for that cut of steak

How do I add pictures or colours to my products on the POS?

Hang tight, you are almost there. For adding pictures you should check out our Advanced Product Settings or, to simply add colours or rearrange the POS screen, you should look at our guide on Arranging your POS.

Before you start

Have you got your menu finalised yet? That's really the first step - if not, our team has a helpful post on Creating a Customer-centric Menu that's very helpful. Otherwise, let's go!

Create your products 

1. Head to the Product Page in the back office
2. Click that shiny orange "Add Products" button
3. Fill in the basic product information
   1. Name
   2. Category (Categorise your products to make them easy to find on the POS screen)
   3. Sales Price
   4. Sales Tax Type
4. Click "Add Product" to save this product and add another product

Pro Tip - The product names are what shows on the POS or in your stock lists for your staff - keep the names logical (ie not - "Shake - S" but maybe "Shake - Strawberry") and, for raw goods it helps to include the sizes (ie not "milk" but maybe "Milk, Full Cream, 2L")

Did we miss a product setting you were looking for? Our Advanced Product Settings covers much more detailed settings.

Edit your products

For basic changes, these can be made on the main Products Page - the options for name, category, sales price and tax type can all be edited from here and will autosave after you click off the product.

Made a mistake and need to delete your product?

Easy - just click on the little trash can - but once it is gone it is gone for good. No more recipe, no more stock levels. Although, the sales data will still be there for you - safe and secure.

Organise your categories 

Categories can either be created when you create your products;

or,

1. Head to the Categories Page,

2. Click on the orange "Add Category" button

3. Name your category and click "Add Category"

Well, that was easy. Now let's look at tweaking those products;

Have your products got multiple variations (ie size or flavour?) - Create variants for your products

When you have your products in, you might need to set up your meal combos using our Option Sets

Need to add recipes or stock levels to your products? - Enable Inventory addon to get started

Tech Savvy and can work your way around a CSV sheet? - You might find it easier to Bulk import your product list to save time