How do I add bottled water in aPOS?

Create a Retail Product from Products → Add Product, turn on Track physical stock?, and set MRP.

How do I add water used in recipes?

Create an Ingredient from Ingredients → Add Ingredient. Ingredients are not sold on the till.

How do I add a drink such as a latte?

Create a Finished Product. Optionally add a recipe so milk and coffee deduct when you sell it.

How to add water

What this is

“Add water” means three different jobs in aPOS. Pick the one you actually do.

Bottled water you buy and sell

Go to Products → Add Product.
Name it (for example “Water 500ml”).
Choose a Product Category.
For restaurants, keep type Retail Product and turn Track physical stock? on.
Set We keep stock in to pcs, enter cost and MRP, then save.

It appears on Sale New. Receiving a case from Male’ is a purchase or stock run, not a second product.

Water used in recipes

Go to Ingredients → Add Ingredient (restaurants only).
Name it “Water”.
Keep stock in ml or L.
Enter purchase cost. There is no MRP — ingredients are not sold on the till.

Add it to a Finished Product recipe (espresso, rice, dough). Type the amount for one finished item. If your kitchen card is for a larger batch, divide first — Recipe batch yield.

A drink you make (latte, lemon water)

Create a Finished Product. Optionally add a recipe with milk, coffee, and recipe water for one cup. You do not need to track the latte’s own quantity, and you should not invent a purchase price for the latte.

If it is not on the till

Ingredients never appear on Sale New.
The item may be inactive.
Staff may lack product visibility.