How to create a product category in Mews Operations

In Mews, you can create product categories to organize the products you offer with your service. You can group similar products, such as breakfast, dinner and room service into categories for easier tracking and management. Once you create products, you can create an associated product category at any time directly from the Products page.   

To create a product category: 

1. In Mews Operations, go to the main menu  > Settings > Services.
2. Click your stay service, for example, Stay.  
3. Click Products >  Product category.  
4. In the new side-window, enter the following details:
   • Additional languages: In the drop-down, click to select the language you want to add. This creates duplicates of the fields listed below. You can then enter the information again in your selected language. 
   • Parent category: Add a parent category to place other product categories within it.  
   • Name: Enter the name of the product category, for example, Meals. 
   • Short name: Enter a short name for places in Mews Operations with limited space, such as in reports. 
   • Description: Enter a description you want to list in the Guest Portal, Mews Booking Engine and Mews Kiosk. 
   • Ordering: Enter a number to represent the order in which you want Mews to list your products. Note: Lower number positions are higher in the list. For example, 0 is higher than 1.
5. Click Save.  

This creates a product category. 

You can learn more about how to create a product here.