Items
Menu items are catalog products that you sell through FoodStorm. Use the API to create and update items in the FoodStorm OMS from an external source.
By default, after you create an item, the item is visible in all active sites/stores configured in FoodStorm. All sites have the same data points for the item. You can override a subset of item properties for a particular site, such as an item's availability and price.
Best practices
Consider the follow best practices when you create and update items:
- If you know that you want to override item properties by site, create the item with the visibility set to
Hidden. After you send all the item override requests for target sites, you can then update the item to make it visible. - Send requests for items that you want to create or update as required. Don't create a process to send requests for all items (changed and unchanged) on a set schedule.
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