The Menu screen  options for Dutchie E-Commerce give you the ability to create and manage how products will sort and appear to shoppers on your Dutchie E-Commerce menu.

From this screen you’ll be able to manage the visibility of products across your menu and configure the order of products in the following categories:

• Manage products: A robust way to access and view all of the products on your menu, choose whether to display, and view out of stock items.
• Default: You can manage how products are sorted by default within each category on your menu.
• Featured: When customers view a category page sorted by "Featured", they will see your featured products first in the custom order you set below, followed by all other products sorted by popularity.
• Brand: When customers sort by "Brand", they'll see your featured brands first.

Things to know

• This feature is available for customers who have both Dutchie POS and Dutchie E-Commerce.
• Permissions
• Changes made to sorting or product visibility are cached for approximately 10 minutes.
• Featured product lists have a cap of 100 products.
• Global sort settings apply to all categories unless a category is manually set to a specific sort method.

Manage products and visibility

The Manage Products screen allows you to filter, edit, and toggle the visibility of items across your entire inventory.

1. In the Dutchie E-Commerced Admin, go to Menu. The Manage Products screen will display.
2. Use the filters on the right to search for products by different variables:
   
   
   • Status (Active or Inactive), 
   • Brand, Subcategory, or 
   • Strain Type
      
3. You can also sort and order by types of products, different characteristics, and whether they are ascending or descending.
   
   
   
    
4. Click on a product name to open the Edit Menu Item page to adjust effects, subcategories, or other details.
   
   
    
5. Use the Toggle switch next to a product to change its visibility:
   
   
   • Green: The product is active and visible on the site.
   • Red: The product is hidden from the site.
   • Note: Products that go out of stock are automatically removed from the live site list.

Configure Default Sort

The default sort is the initial order a shopper sees when they land on a category page. 

You can set a global sorting method for your entire site or choose specific methods for individual categories.

Global Sort

1. Navigate to the Default Sort tab.
2. To set a site-wide default, select an option from the Global Sort Method dropdown menu. Options include:
    
   • Popular, 
   • Recently Added, or 
   • Relevance.
      
3. To set a specific sort for one category, find the category in the list and select a method from its individual dropdown.
4. If a category is set to a specific method, it will no longer follow Global Sort updates. Click Reset to Global to reconnect it to the site-wide setting.

Category sort

You can choose sort methods for individual categories

Sort Methods

Popular: Products are sorted by popularity, with the most popular items displayed first.

Recently Added: Products are sorted by date added, with the most recently added items displayed first.

Price: Low to High: Products are sorted by price, with the lowest priced items displayed first.

Price: High to Low: Products are sorted by price, with the highest priced items displayed first.

Potency: Low to High: Products are sorted by potency, with the lowest potency items displayed first.

Potency: High to Low: Products are sorted by potency, with the highest potency items displayed first.

Brand: Products will be displayed in a custom order that you define. To set up custom brand ordering, use the Featured Brands page where you can drag and drop brands into your preferred order.

Featured: Products will be displayed in a custom order that you define. To set up custom product ordering, use the Featured Products page where you can drag and drop products into your preferred order.

Configure Featured Order

Featured sorting allows for granular, manual placement of products within a category. 

You choose the category, then you pick which products to feature, and the order they will appear in.

1. Select Featured as the sort method for a category in the Default Sort tab.
2. Click Click to Manage or navigate to the Featured tab at the top of the screen.
3. Select the category you wish to organize.
4. Click Add Product.
5. Select the products you want to feature (up to 100) and click Done.
6. Drag and drop the products into your preferred order.
7. Click Save.
8. Note: Any products in the category beyond the 100 featured items will display based on popularity starting at slot 101.

Configure Brand Order

Brand sorting allows you to prioritize specific brands at the top of a category page.

1. Select Brand as the sort method for a category in the Default Sort tab.
2. Click the Brand tab at the top of the screen.
3. Select the category you wish to organize (e.g., Flower).
4. Select the brands you want to feature and click Done.
5. Drag and drop the brands to set their priority order.
6. Click Save.
7. Note: Products within these brands will be sorted by popularity. Any brands not included in your featured list will appear alphabetically after the featured brands.

Troubleshooting: Changes not appearing on the site

If you do not see your changes immediately on your live dispensary site, it is likely due to browser caching.

1. Open an Incognito or Private browser window.
2. Navigate to your dispensary site and the specific category page.
3. Confirm the products or brands appear in the updated order.
4. Close the Incognito window when finished to reset the cache again.
5. If changes still do not appear, wait 10 minutes for the system cache to refresh.