I'm attempting to use the catering module so people can pick their food before they come to the LAN.

I have the items and categories setup, but I don't see anywhere to actually pick the food or even a place to SEE the food.

In the catering module, I have "View Orders" and "View Statement", but I don't see where you go to actually buy the food.

lol, i was just going to post about this I'm going to use it to sell bawls and MAYBE chips, candybars and other snacks in advance. I've already got a 'food and beverage' category, i've added the items, i'm just not sure how to make this visible to the public as well as payments, i would assume there will be 'buy now' paypal buttons or something?<br><br>Post edited by: wonderbra, at: 2006/07/09 18:15

The catering component is actually directed to be used during the event, not for pre-orders. So there is no paypal payment facility there.

If you create a link in one of the frontend menus for the &quot;myLANsite Catering&quot; component you will see the form where they can order their food. It has a workflow:

1. User orders the food
2. Bar-Staff then process the order, maybe place it with a pizza-delivery or prepare it themselves (sandwiches)
3. Once the pizza-guy arrives, they set the order as &quot;delivered&quot;
4. Users can see that orders are ready for pick-up when you have the additional catering-module installed (they get a JavaScript popup)
5. User goes to the bar, picks up the food and pays (bar-staff set order as paid/picked/-up)

In the new version, this will be made a bit different. You will have a nice interface for the till where you can directly and conveniently place orders from the backend. And certain items can be marked as &quot;direct sale&quot;, so they do not go throught the whole workflow. For example drinks: If somebody comes to the bar to order a dring, bar-staff just enter it in the till, and then it directly jumps to a page where they can enter payment and the item will directly be marked as ordered, delivered, paid and picked up.
I already have a first release candidate which I gave to a few people for testing. There are still a few major bugs, so be patient

It would be nice to be able to sell items in advance. not so much chips and things, but for example, bawls. I'm also looking at the option of renting monitors at my LAN Party, i would add this as well. The only thing is, I need to know about these things in advance so I can pre-order them so they are raedy and waiting on the purchaser. I had Bawls added as a package, admission+ a case of bawls. I would like to sell this seperately, the reason is, i've already got say 50 or so people registered and paid, if they want to purchase a case of bawls, they can't purchase it by itself in the packages page as the 'pay' link disappears after they pay. Do you have a recommendation for how to get around this issue?

I am also interested in making it a part of the package as well, but my situation is al ittle different. Scenario:

Person registers for the LAN.
Person then pays for the LAN.
Person chooses his food for the LAN when paying for the LAN, via a package.
Person would only be able to purchase one (or 2) food items with their admission.

Our LANs have free food, biut we need to know what to order ahead of time before the LAN starts.