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 > Branch Details
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
The “Add Category” and “Add Product” buttons are both visible and the User can add quantities of categories and products to the donation.
This setting can be used in combination with Default Values only and/or Approved Products only.
Refer to the picture below for the end results of selecting various combinations.
Option 2 - Donors can add product quantities only
The green PLD button/icon is visible to allow the user to add quantities of products.
The user cannot add quantities to categories of food.
This setting can be used in combination with Default Values only and/or Approved Products only.
Refer to the picture below for the end results of selecting various combinations.
Option 3 - Donors can add category quantities only
The green PLD button/icon will not be visible.
This setting can be used in combination with Default Values only and/or Approved Products only.
Refer to the picture below for the end results of selecting various combinations.
Default values only
When this setting is set to ON it will restrict a donor user creating a donation to default food categories only. You can see in the screenshot below that the Add Category button is not visible. The user may only add quantities of the default categories.
When this setting is set to OFF (default) the User may add categories when creating a donation.
The default food categories are set in My Organisation > Manage Organisation > Organisation Settings
Approved Products only
When this setting is set to ON it will restrict a donor user when creating a donation to the Approved Products only. If the user chooses the green PLD button/icon to add product information they can choose existing products only. The Add Product and Edit Product options are not visible. The user may not add or edit existing product information.
When this setting is set to OFF (default) the User may Add and Edit product information.
Approved Products are configured in My Organisation > Manage Organisation > Organisation Settings
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, add PLD, has ability to add or edit approved products |
Donor can add category & product quantities | ON | ON | No ‘Add Category’ button available, add PLD, No ability to add or edit approved products |
Donor can add category & product quantities | OFF | OFF | ‘Add Category’ button available, add PLD, has ability to add or edit approved products |
Donor can add category & product quantities | OFF | ON | 'Add Category' button available, add PLD, No ability to add or edit approved products |
Donor can add product quantities only | ON | OFF | Please ‘Add Products’ using the green cart icon, no ‘Add Category’ button, has ability to add or edit approved products |
Donor can add product quantities only | ON | ON | Please add Products using the green cart icon, no ‘Add Category’ button, no ability to add or edit approved products |
Donor can add product quantities only | OFF | OFF | Please add products using the green cart icon, ‘Add Category’ button available, add PLD, has ability to add or edit approved products |
Donor can add product quantities only | OFF | ON | Please add products using the green cart icon, ‘Add Category’ button available, add PLD, No ability to add or edit approved products |
Donor can add category quantities only | ON | OFF | Estimates only, No ‘Add Category’ button available, No Green cart icon |
Donor can add category quantities only | ON | ON | N/A - Donor can only add estimates, no requirement to restrict usage of approved products only |
Donor can add category quantities only | OFF | OFF | Estimates only. ‘Add Category’ button available, No Green cart icon |
Donor can add category quantities only | OFF | ON | N/A - Donor can only add estimates, no requirement to restrict usage of approved products only |
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