Edit dishes or preparations retroactively to include any recipe changes to your previous sales. Change ingredients or edit their quantity in sold dishes or preparations, and Poster will recalculate the cost and remaining stock balances for the selected period.
☝️ Retroactive editing, available for both dishes and preparations is exclusive to the Pro plan only.
All employees with full access to the menu can retroactively edit dishes. To limit this capability to only the owner or manager, restrict access permissions to the menu section for other roles."
To edit dish retroactively:
Go to Menu → Dishes in the management console.
Find a dish and click ••• → Retroactive editing.
Select a time period when you need to apply retroactive changes and recalculate the stock deductions.
💡 Date must fall within the open inventory check period.
Change the dish ingredients or their quantity in the Recipe section.
To add a new component click + Add item.
To remove an existing component click ×
Click Save.
💡 To view previous editing history click on Recipe next to a dish in Menu → Dishes.
See which employees made changes to the dish, the ingredients that were edited, and the time period when those changes were applied.
Retroactive editing cannot be applied to:
Manufactured dishes or preparations
Dish modifiers
Not available for franchises using Poster Connect.
Feel free to contact our customer support if you have any questions or concerns. We're available in chat @joinposter.com and email contact@joinposter.com
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