User Guide
This is MOTOCOM theme Food Ordering Niche documentation, containing helpful information, features and detailed instructions about how to use the niche.
1. General Information & Installation
1.1 Introduction
Take your restaurant business online and increase your reach with MOTOCOM's niche Online Food Ordering. There are various styles of menu that you get with the website, you can choose any menu of your choice. With the given food website you can create a website for your restaurant, including food, Ice-cream parlor, organic food, Cakeshop, Meat store, Wine shop, and Beverages.
Online Food Ordering gives you the option to convert your restaurant into instant food ordering hub and it will provide all your restaurant related options.You can open it for customers to show your available menu online and let them pickup at a suitable time they prefer.
1.2 How To Set Up Online Food Ordering Niche
In this section you will get the information of the plugin installation .
After downloading the theme and getting authenticated the next step you have to install the plugins according to the niche.
For the Online Food Ordering also, you will get the two options for plugin installation Auto- Install and Manual Install. You can install the plugins using any mode.
MOTOCOM's niche Online Food Ordering includes two plugins - WooCommerce and Online Food Ordering .
For the detailed information of these plugins please click on the below mentioned links.
1 If you need any information about the WooCommerce click on the link. WooCommerce Documentation
2 To know more about the Online Food Ordering Plugin click on the following link. Online Food Ordering
2. FoodStore Settings
Navigate to Dashboard >> FoodStore
This menu contains so many settings which enables you to customize your foodstore. These options are very easy to use and in a few minutes you can change a lot of things on the website.
You can change all the general settings of foodstore from FoodStore.
2.1 General
This setting will enable the user to do general setting for your foodstore.
General Settings
- Enable Catalog Mode - To enable the Restaurant menu without Add to Cart button select the checkbox.
- Exclude Categories - This will exclude the categories from the frontend categories menu and items under those.
- Enable Special Instructions - This setting will allow customers to add notes for each item during order.
- Purchase Button Redirect - Select the page where the customer would be redirected when clicks on Purchase from the FoodStore cart .
2.2 Services
With this user can customize the general settings of pickup service and delivery service.
2.2.1 Service
Service Settings
- Enable Pickup/ Delivery Service - It will enable the service.
- Enable Checkout Service Fields - To enable the service on the Checkout select the checkbox.
- Default Service - Using this user can select the default service type which will act as a fallback in case both delivery and pickup are disabled.
- Store/Service Start Time - Here you can set the time from when you can start the service.
- Store/Service Close Time - Here you can set the closing time of your store or service.
- Preparation Time - Using this setting user can set the food preparation time. Enter the time in minutes.
- Store Closed Message - With this setting you can set the message which your customer will see when the store is closed.
- Service Modal Settings - Choose how you want your customers to select the Service Settings.
2.2.2 Pickup Services
Pickup Service Settings
- Enable Pickup - It will enable the pickup service. It is enabled by Default.
- Pickup Label - Enter the pickup label.
- Pickup Time Interval - Enter pickup time interval in minutes.
- Min Order Amount - With this setting user can set minimum order amount for pickup service.
- Min Order Amount Error - Error message for minimum order amount. You can use variable {service_type}and {min_order_amount}
2.2.3 Delivery Services
Delivery Service Settings
- Enable Delivery - It will enable the delivery service.
- Delivery Label - Enter the delivery label.
- Delivery Time Interval - Enter delivery time interval in minutes.
- Min Order Amount - With this setting user can set minimum order amount for delivery service.
- Min Order Amount Error - Error message for minimum order amount. You can use variable {service_type} and {min_order_amount}
2.3 Layout & Styling
Using this setting user can customize the layout settings of of their online store.
Layout Settings
- Number of Columns - Please select the number of columns for food items.
- Hide Bottom Cart - This will disable bottom cart on items page.
- Default Service - Using this user can select the default service type which will act as a fallback in case both delivery and pickup are disabled.
Usability Tweaks
- Sticky Categories - It will make the categories area stick to its position while scrolling..
- Show Items Count - If you want to display the number of items available for the category select the checkbox.
- Food Item Image - Select the option for how you wnat to show the image of foood items on the frontend.
- Enable Lazy Load - With this setting item image will be loaded once you scroll to it. Loads your items page faster.
- Enable Popup from Title - If enabled popup can be opened by clicking on item title or image.
- Show Image in Popup - Display item image/gallery in popup with this setting.
2.4 Advanced
Here you will get some advanced settings.
Advanced Settings
- Other Product Types - To enable other product options like Grouped, External, Virtual etc select the checkbox.
- Purge Settings - This will Remove Food Store data when plugin is deactivated..
Note - Never forget to hit Save Changes button after customizing the settings.
