Manage your menu categories

Who is this article for?

• Gegsy merchants who want to control how their menu categories appear and are ordered in their storefront and app.

About the Categories page

Like items, your categories sync from Square — you create and rename categories in Square. On the Gegsy Categories page, you control each category's visibility and the order categories appear to customers.

Sync categories from Square

Select Sync with Square to pull in your latest categories and changes from Square. Run this whenever you add or rename categories in Square.

If a category has an image in Square, it syncs too and shows as a thumbnail in the Image column. Add, change, or remove category images in Square; they update in Gegsy after the next sync.

Find a category

Type in Search categories to find a category by name. Matching categories show with their parent categories, and collapsed groups open so nothing is hidden. Drag-and-drop reordering is off while you search. Clear the search to reorder.

Reorder categories

Drag a row by its handle to change the order of your categories. The order you set here is the order customers see in your storefront and app.

Show or hide a category

Each category has a Visibility toggle. Turn it off to hide the entire category — and its items — from customers, or on to show it. The No. of Items column shows how many items each category contains; items you've archived in Square aren't counted, so the number matches what customers can actually order.

Set a prep time for a category

Use the Prep time column to give every item in a category the same prep time, from 5 min to 120 min — useful for a grill or specials category that always takes longer. Changes save as soon as you pick a value.

• An item's own prep time wins over its category's (see Manage your menu items). If an item is in more than one category with a prep time, the longest one applies.
• The slowest item in an order sets the prep time for the whole order, so the earliest pickup or delivery time customers can choose moves out to match.

Edit multiple categories at once

Select Bulk Edit to update several categories together: check the categories you want, then choose Show, Hide, or Set prep time from the action bar and select Done. Use Collapse All / Expand All to tidy the list when you're managing a long menu.