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# Combos and bundles

> Sell several items at a single price — a combo in restaurant mode, a bundle in retail — without duplicating your catalog.

A **combo** groups items you already sell à la carte and rings them up at a single price: starter + main + dessert for €19.90. In retail mode the same thing is called a **bundle**: three products sold together, with their own barcode.

You recreate nothing. A combo points at your existing items — they keep their VAT, their prep station, their course, their stock and their modifiers.

<Note>
  Combos are configured in **Catalog → Combos** (**Catalog → Bundles** in
  retail mode).
</Note>

## How the price is split

You advertise **one** price. The register then splits it across the combo's items, **pro rata to their à la carte prices**.

On a €19.90 combo made of a €15.50 main and a €6.00 glass of wine, the register charges **€14.35** to the main and **€5.55** to the wine. Each keeps its own VAT rate — which is exactly what the French tax authority requires when a combo contains alcohol.

<Note>
  An **upcharge** never changes the combo's own price: it is added on top, on
  its own item, and taxed at that item's rate.
</Note>

## Create a combo

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Catalog → Combos">
    Click **New combo** (**New bundle** in retail).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Name it and set its price">
    The name is what your guests see on the receipt. Under the price field, the
    page shows what the default selection would cost à la carte — so you can
    see at a glance what the combo gives away.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add your groups">
    A group is one choice to make: "Starter", "Main", "Dessert". **Min** and
    **Max** say how many items the guest takes from that group — 1 and 1 for a
    single choice.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add the eligible items">
    In each group, add the items on offer. For each one:

    * **Upcharge**: what the guest pays extra for picking this one (the cod at
      +€2.00). Leave 0 when there is no upcharge.
    * **Default**: the item is preselected when the register opens the combo.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save, then publish">
    Like every catalog change, the combo only reaches the registers on the next
    publish — see [menu and items](/en/backoffice/menu).
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  An item sold in versions (a size, a format) must be named by its version in
  the combo: "Coffee · 1 kg", never just "Coffee". The picker only offers
  versions, never the parent item — see [versions](/en/backoffice/variants).
</Note>

## Put it on the register

A combo is placed on a register screen like an item. In **Catalog → Menus &
screens**, open the screen you want, pick the **Combos** tab in the right-hand
panel, then click the combo to place it. See [register
layout](/en/backoffice/pos-layout).

## What staff see

On the register, the tile opens a screen where staff pick one item per group.
The price at the bottom recaps the combo, any upcharges, and the total. Once
added, the combo appears on the check as **one block**: its name, its price,
and the items listed underneath.

See [taking an order](/en/pos/taking-orders).

## Things to know

* **A combo goes to the kitchen item by item.** Each item joins its own prep
  station and its own course: the starter fires with the starters, the dessert
  with the desserts. The kitchen ticket names the combo the item belongs to.
* **A combo is voided whole.** Removing one item from a combo removes the whole
  combo — there is no half combo.
* **A sold-out item can block the combo.** If a required group has no available
  item left, the tile greys out and the register says so. Make an item
  available again, or sell the items à la carte.
* **Reports give you both readings.** Each item counts at its real share of the
  price, and **Reports → Product mix** adds a table of combos sold with their
  share of revenue.

## Bundles in retail

In retail mode a bundle works the same way, with two differences:

* there is **nothing to choose**, so scanning or tapping the bundle adds it
  straight to the cart, with no intermediate screen;
* it carries its **own barcode** and SKU, so it scans at the till like any
  other product.

That is why the editor only lets you put **one item per group** in retail: the
barcode is stuck on one specific box, so it must name one specific content. The
Min / Max and Default controls do not appear there.

<Note>
  To sell several versions of a gift box — one with Bordeaux, one with Burgundy
  — create **one bundle per version**, each with its own barcode. That is what
  the shelf already does.
</Note>

Stock is decremented **item by item**: selling a bundle of three products takes
three products out of stock.