Food Category and Product Settings

Useful information for food banks and donor organisations.

There are a number of configuration settings that influence how a User can add Food Categories or Product details when Creating a donation.
You can also configure Foodiverse to only allow default food categories or approved products.
- These settings can help provide standards and consistency for a donor organisation when posting donations.

The 3 settings work together in combination.

The Settings are configured in Manage Branches → Edit

Category quantity and Product Setting

The Category quantity & Product settings features three options:
- Donors can add category and product quantities.
- Donors can add product quantities only.
- Donors can add category quantities only.

Option 1 - Donors can add category and product quantities

This setting means the donor can add
- Category data
- Product data

This setting can be used in combination with Default Values only and/or Approved Products only.

Option 2 - Donors can add product quantities only

This setting means the donor can add
- Product data only

This setting can be used in combination with Default Values only and/or Approved Products only.

Option 3 - Donors can add category quantities only

This setting means the donor can add
- Category data only

This setting can be used in combination with Default Values only and/or Approved Products only.

Default values only

This setting means the donor
- Cannot add new categories to add data for

Approved Products only

This setting means donors
- Cannot create new products during the donation creation process

Combining the three configuration settings.

You can configure all three settings in a way that suits your donor organisation policies.

Category/Product Level Quantities	Default Categories Only	Approved Products Only	Result
Donor can add category & product quantities	ON	OFF	No ‘Add Category’ button available Can create or edit approved products
Donor can add category & product quantities	ON	ON	No ‘Add Category’ button available Cannot create or edit approved products
Donor can add category & product quantities	OFF	OFF	‘Add Category’ button available Can create or edit approved products
Donor can add category & product quantities	OFF	ON	'Add Category' button available Cannot create or edit approved products

Donor can add product quantities only	ON	OFF	Please ‘Add Products’ using the green cart icon No ‘Add Category’ button Can create or edit approved products
Donor can add product quantities only	ON	ON	Please ‘Add Products’ using the green cart icon No ‘Add Category’ button available Cannot create or edit approved products
Donor can add product quantities only	OFF	OFF	Please ‘Add Products’ using the green cart icon ‘Add Category’ button available Can create or edit approved products
Donor can add product quantities only	OFF	ON	Please ‘Add Products’ using the green cart icon ‘Add Category’ button available Cannot create or edit approved products

Donor can add category quantities only	ON	OFF	Please add category data No ‘Add Category’ button available Cannot create or edit approved products
Donor can add category quantities only	ON	ON	Please add category data No ‘Add Category’ button available Cannot create or edit approved products
Donor can add category quantities only	OFF	OFF	Please add category data ‘Add Category’ button available Cannot create or edit approved products
Donor can add category quantities only	OFF	ON	‘Please add category data Add Category’ button available Cannot create or edit approved products

Category quantity and Product Setting

Option 1 - Donors can add category and product quantities

Option 2 - Donors can add product quantities only

Option 3 - Donors can add category quantities only

Default values only

Approved Products only

Combining the three configuration settings.

Category/Product Level Quantities

Default Categories Only

Approved Products Only

Result

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