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Scheduled menu updates across online platforms

Purpose

1.1. Automate scheduling, updating, and distribution of New Zealand restaurant menu data across multiple online ordering and marketing platforms.
1.2. Ensure that new dishes, prices, and availability changes are updated automatically and with accuracy, reducing manual intervention and operational delays.
1.3. Automate the synchronicity between point-of-sale (POS), website, delivery aggregators, and social media, avoiding menu inconsistencies and customer confusion.
1.4. Automatedly update allergen, ingredient, origin, and dietary information for compliance and customer transparency.
1.5. Drive automation of promotions or seasonal updates for timeliness and marketing alignment across all digital touchpoints.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Scheduled daily, weekly, or custom time triggers to automate menu reviews and push updates.
2.2. Automated trigger on POS menu changes (additions, deletions, price edits) to initiate instant sync.
2.3. Manual override trigger for urgent updates through a management portal.
2.4. Automate trigger on inventory depletion for item status changes (e.g., automatically mark “sold out”).

Platform Variants

3.1. Shopify
• Feature/Setting: Menu sync via Storefront API
• Sample: Automate updates by calling “menu.create” and “menu.update” endpoints with new menu JSON
3.2. Square
• Feature/Setting: Catalog API
• Sample: Automate menu update by POSTing to /v2/catalog/object
3.3. Lightspeed
• Feature/Setting: Restaurant POS API
• Sample: Automate PATCH to /rest/pos/menus endpoint
3.4. Deliveroo
• Feature/Setting: Menu Partner API
• Sample: Automate menu push via PUT /api/menus
3.5. Uber Eats
• Feature/Setting: Eats Menu API
• Sample: Automate JSON menu payloads to MenuManagement endpoints
3.6. DoorDash
• Feature/Setting: Merchant API
• Sample: Automate PATCH menu updates to /v1/menu
3.7. Menulog
• Feature/Setting: Partner Menu API
• Sample: Automate PUT requests to partner menu endpoint
3.8. Zomato
• Feature/Setting: Business API
• Sample: Automate updates via /restaurant/updateMenu
3.9. Wix Restaurants
• Feature/Setting: Restaurant Menus API
• Sample: Automate PUT menu item updates via /restaurant_menus
3.10. WooCommerce
• Feature/Setting: REST API
• Sample: Automate menu (product) updates via PUT /wp-json/wc/v3/products
3.11. GloriaFood
• Feature/Setting: Menu Update API
• Sample: Automate menu sync via /menu/update endpoint
3.12. OpenTable
• Feature/Setting: Menu Partner API
• Sample: Automate updates via POST /api/partner/menus
3.13. Facebook (Meta)
• Feature/Setting: Pages API
• Sample: Automate menu tab updates through /{page-id}/tabs
3.14. Google My Business
• Feature/Setting: Business Information API
• Sample: Automate menu uploads via accounts.locations.update
3.15. Instagram
• Feature/Setting: Graph API
• Sample: Automate menu posts via /me/media endpoint
3.16. Toast POS
• Feature/Setting: Menu API
• Sample: Automate POST /menus for real-time menu sync
3.17. UpMenu
• Feature/Setting: Menu Management API
• Sample: Automate menu integration via PATCH /api/menus/{id}
3.18. SquareSpace
• Feature/Setting: Data API
• Sample: Automate dynamic block updates for menu collections
3.19. BigCommerce
• Feature/Setting: Catalog API
• Sample: Automate PUT to /catalog/products for menu items
3.20. ResDiary
• Feature/Setting: Menu API
• Sample: Automate menu item updates via /api/menu/changes
3.21. Mailchimp
• Feature/Setting: Content Studio API
• Sample: Automate campaign or landing page menu sections sync

Benefits

4.1. Automates the labor-intensive task of multi-platform menu management.
4.2. Reduces operational errors—ensures accurate, up-to-date menu information everywhere automatically.
4.3. Enables scheduled or real-time menu automation for higher efficiency.
4.4. Automates compliance with allergen and legal information updates.
4.5. Improves customer experience by automatedly minimizing outdated or incorrect menu options.
4.6. Creates a foundation for further automation such as analytics on menu performance and automated sales promotion.
4.7. Automates cross-platform consistency, improving brand professional image and reducing manual work.
4.8. Frees staff for high-value tasks, relying on robust, automated menu distribution.

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