With Lightspeed Produce, you can use recipes to track wine sold by the glass against your bottled wine inventory. When a glass of wine is sold, the recipe automatically deducts the corresponding volume from your bottled wine. This allows you to accurately track stock movement without manually adjusting your wine inventory after each sale. 

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Configuring your wine products
Linking your wine glass recipe to its bottle product
Frequently asked questions

Configuring your wine products

Before configuring your wine product settings, you must first create the main wine product along with its bottle and glass variants in Back Office. If you haven't created your stocked product yet, refer to our article on creating and managing your products.  

Configuring your bottled wine products

Once you've created your wine products and its variants, configure the settings for the stocked bottled wine product in Back Office. This product serves as the inventory source for your wine sold by the glass. 

To configure settings of your bottled wine products: 

1. Log in to Back Office with your Lightspeed credentials. 
2. From the navigation menu, select Products. 
3. Use the search bar to locate your bottled stock item. 
4. Click the cog wheel (Settings) to access the product details. 
   
5. In the Measured section, enter the default measurement of the bottled wine product. 
6. Select mL as the unit of measurement.
7. Under Container, select Bottle. 
   
8. In the Cost Price field, enter the cost price and corresponding tax code for your bottled wine. If you're using Lightspeed Purchase, the average cost price is automatically updated when the item is received through a purchase order.
9. Click Save. 
   
10. Navigate to the Accounting tab and configure the following:
    • I Buy This Item: Enable this option if you purchase the bottled wine from a supplier. This allows you to include the product in purchase orders and track its purchase cost. 
    • I Sell This Item: Enable this option if the bottled wine is sold as a standalone product in the POS. 
    • I Stock This Item: Enable this option to track inventory for the bottled wine. Inventory increases when the product is received through a purchase order or updated through a stock count, and decreases when either a bottle or a glass from the same variant is sold. 
11. Click Save.
    
12. Navigate to the Inventory tab and select how your bottled wine item is purchased. In this example, the wine product is Purchased in Individual which means it is purchased from a supplier as a single unit. 
13. Click Save. 
    

Configuring your wine by the glass products

The next step is to configure your wine by the glass so it can be linked to the bottled wine and automatically deduct the corresponding quantity from the bottled wine inventory when sold through a recipe. 

To configure your glass wine products: 

1. From the navigation menu, select Products. 
2. Use the search bar to locate the glass of wine product. 
3. Click the cog wheel (Settings) to access the product details. 
4. In the Measured section, enter the default serving measurement for the glass wine product. This is the quantity that will be deducted from the bottled wine inventory when a glass wine variant is sold.  
5. Select the appropriate unit of measurement, such as mL.
6. Under Container, select Unit. 
   
7. Navigate to the Accounting tab and configure the following settings:
   1. I Buy This Item: Disable this option since the glass of wine product is not purchased separately. 
   2. I Sell This Item: Enable this option to make the wine by the glass product available for sale in the POS. 
   3. I Stock This Item: Disable this option since inventory is tracked through the bottled wine product. 
8. Click Save.
   
9. Navigate to the Inventory tab and set This product is to Made Here. 
10. Click Save > Manage Recipe. The next step is to link your wine by the glass product to its corresponding bottle product. 
    

Linking your wine by the glass product to its bottle product

In this section, you'll create a recipe that links your wine by the glass product to its corresponding bottle product. Once configured, the recipe automatically deducts the configured volume for one glass serving from your bottled wine inventory. 

To link your wine by the glass to its bottle product: 

1. Log in to Lightspeed Produce using your Back Office credentials. 
2. From the navigation menu, select Recipes > Create a recipe. 
3. Search for your wine glass product, then click Create Recipe. Alternatively, you can access the same screen by clicking Manage Recipe after configuring your wine by the glass product. 
4. In the INGREDIENTS field, search for and select the corresponding bottled wine product. 
5. In the QTY field, enter the volume (mL) to deduct from the bottled wine inventory each time a glass of wine is sold.
6. Click Save recipe. 
   

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