Lightspeed Restaurant offers several different product types for building your menu, and it can be quite confusing to know which ones you should use. 

This guide will cover each of these product types at a very basic level, but we encourage you to read through each of the guides below to get a full understanding of how they will work with your menu.

• Creating and managing your products
• Creating and selling with product variants
• Creating and selling with on-screen Modifiers
• Creating and selling with Option sets

Products

Products are the default product type in Lightspeed, and it will likely be the first and most common product type you'll use.

Products can be used when selling a product on its own, such as a Croissant, or they can also be used in conjunction with some of our other product types, such as Modifiers and Option Sets. 

Product Variants

If you sell a product in different sizes, flavors, or with any other variable attribute, then setting up Product Variants is for you. When these Variants are shown on the POS, they will appear under the same product button, keeping your POS looking organized and maximized for speed.

Modifiers

Modifiers are used to easily add modifications to a product, such as recording item changes like no salad or extra bacon, in just a few taps.

A modifier cannot be purchased alone, but it can have its own price (or discount) if needed.

Option Sets

Option Sets allow you to easily organise product-related options on your menu. Option Sets are a group of either products or modifiers.

You can link multiple Option Sets to a product to help guide staff through the selling workflow or keep less common modifications hidden on the POS. It can also be created once and easily applied to multiple products, for example, such as creating an Option Set for burger options that are applied to all of your burgers.