# Menus and categories

> You build each location's menu with its categories, in the order your customers see them, and put the products in each one.

**Menu** holds your business's menus and the locations each one shows at. Each new restaurant comes with its own menu, empty, named after the location.

**Who can:** everyone sees the menu. The owner, the admins and anyone with a [custom role](/en/guia/roles) that has "Product catalog: Edit" change it.

A product is a single product even when it's in several categories or menus: if you change its price, it changes in all of them. Products are edited in [Products](/en/guia/productos).

## The menus

The list shows each menu, the locations that use it and how many categories and products it has.

- **New menu**: enter the name and tap **Create menu**. Only your team sees the name: customers see the location's name.
- **Archive**: the menu can no longer be assigned to a location. Its categories and products stay as they are. While a location uses it, it can't be archived.
- **Reactivate**: it's active again.

Tap **Edit** to open a menu. The top says which locations use it: changes show at all of them.

## The categories

1. Under **New category**, enter the name (for example, Burgers) and tap **Add**.
2. Order them with the up and down arrows: that's the order your customers see them in.
3. Tap a category to see its products. Below, you can change its name and its **Description** (it appears under the name, on the customers' menu) and tap **Save**.

**Archive category** takes it off the menu; its products stay in any other categories they're in. Archived categories are listed separately, under **Archived**, with **Reactivate**: it comes back in the same position.

## A category's products

- **Add an existing product**: choose it from the list and tap **Add**.
- **Or create a new one here**: name and price, then **Create product**. It goes in this category; fill in the rest on its page.
- Order them with the up and down arrows.
- **Remove from category** takes it out of this category but doesn't delete it: it stays in Products and in the other categories.

To change the menu's name, use **Rename**, at the end of the page.

## What each message means

| Message                                           | What happened and what to do                                                                 |
| ------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| … can't be archived: … uses it                    | A location shows that menu. While it does, the menu can't be archived.                       |
| The menu changed while you were looking at it     | Someone changed it at the same time. Reload the page and try again.                          |
| That menu is archived: reactivate it to change it | Reactivate it from Menus.                                                                    |
| That product is archived: reactivate it to add it | Reactivate it from [Products](/en/guia/productos).                                           |
| You reached the … maximum …                       | A business has up to 20 menus; a menu, up to 100 categories; a category, up to 300 products. |