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Products & menus

Importing products

Bring in your whole menu at once with a CSV file, or let AI read your menu from a photo or PDF.

Typing a 120-item menu by hand is nobody's idea of fun. Anywhere POS gives you two bulk options: a structured CSV import, and an AI import that reads your existing menu from images or PDFs.

Both live under Products → Bulk import (with the right location selected). There's also a quick-start version of the CSV import in the setup wizard.

CSV import

Best when your menu already lives in a spreadsheet or another POS export.

  1. Go to Products → Bulk import.
  2. Click Download example CSV to get a template with the expected columns — product name, price, category, description, and other optional fields.
  3. Fill it in using your spreadsheet app and save as CSV.
  4. Upload it under Upload your CSV.
  5. Review the preview: it shows how each CSV column maps to a product field and flags any rows with problems (missing names, unreadable prices) before anything is created.
  6. Click Import to create the products.

Tips:

  • Categories named in the file are created automatically if they don't exist yet.
  • Import creates standard items — add photos, modifiers, and variants afterwards (see Products and modifiers).
  • Importing the same file to a second location is the quickest way to copy a menu between sites.

AI import: from a menu photo or PDF

Best when all you have is the menu itself — a photo of the board, the PDF from your designer, or last season's printed menu.

  1. From Products → Bulk import, open Import from menu (AI).
  2. Upload one or more menu images or PDFs. Multi-page menus are fine.
  3. The AI reads the files and extracts the items — names, prices, descriptions, and categories and tags where it can spot them. This takes a moment for large menus.
  4. Nothing is added to your menu yet. You're taken to a Review extracted items grid showing everything the AI found as a draft.
  5. Go through the grid: fix any misread prices or names, edit descriptions, change categories, and drop anything you don't want (the AI can misread fancy fonts or read a wine list a little too enthusiastically).
  6. When you're happy, commit the batch — only then are the reviewed items created as real products.

Each upload is kept as a batch, so you can see past imports, their status, and when they were committed.

Review checklist

  • Prices — double-check items where the menu showed multiple prices (e.g. glass/bottle); consider making those variants.
  • Categories — the AI follows your menu's section headings; rename or merge them in the grid if needed.
  • Duplicates — if you upload overlapping files, drop the duplicate rows before committing.

After any import

  1. Spot-check a few items on the Products list.
  2. Add photos — menus convert far better with images, especially on kiosks.
  3. Attach modifier lists and set availability schedules.
  4. Place categories in your apps with the app builder.

Something imported wrong? Products can be edited or deleted individually at any time — nothing about an import is locked in.