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Set how customers order from a category and the order of its items.

A category is a menu section, such as Burritos. Clover sets which items are in a category. The dashboard sets how customers order from the category and the order of its items.

The Burritos category with Main Image, Name, Description, Ordering Mode set to Builder, Display Order, and Related picker categories. Status shows Published.

Choose Builder or Picker

Ordering Mode sets how customers order from the category.

Ordering ModeWhat customers doGood for
BuilderBuild an item step by step: protein, ingredients, extras, and sidesBurritos, tacos, and other dishes with choices
PickerPick ready-made items from a listDrinks and sides
  1. Click Menu > Categories in the side menu.
  2. Click the category to open it.
  3. Choose Builder or Picker in Ordering Mode.
  4. Click Publish changes.

Set the item order

Display Order sets the order of the items on the category page.

  1. In Menu > Categories, open the category.
  2. Click in Display Order and pick an item or an item group.
  3. Drag the entries into the order that you want.
  4. Click Publish changes.

Display Order lists only the items and item groups that are in the category in Clover. An item group shows here instead of its items. Entries that you do not pick show after the picked ones: item groups by name, then items from the lowest to the highest price.

A builder category can also show items from a picker category, such as drinks and sides on the Burritos page.

  1. In Menu > Categories, open a builder category.
  2. Click in Related picker categories and pick a category.
  3. Click Publish changes.

You can only pick categories that use Picker. A category cannot relate to itself.

Publish a category

The dashboard saves a category draft about every 1.5 seconds while you type. The website shows a change only after you click Publish changes.

  • Status at the top shows Published when the website shows the latest version.
  • The eye icon, Live Preview, shows the draft before you publish it.
  • The arrow icon, View live, opens the category on the website.

Drafts and publishing explains each Status value and how to restore a version.

Good to know

  • To move an item to another category, change the item's category in Clover.
  • If a category's Status shows Draft, the website does not show the category or its items.
  • You set the order of categories on the homepage in Storefront > Pages > Homepage. Edit the website shows how.

Edit item groups

Edit a family of items, such as one drink in three sizes, that shows as one card.

Edit modifiers

Edit add-ons and choices, link half portions, and block choices that conflict.

On this page

Choose Builder or PickerSet the item orderAdd related picker categoriesPublish a categoryGood to know