# Locations

> You add, edit, archive and reactivate the business's locations. Each one has its digital menu and a unique identifier.

Each location has its own digital menu, with its own address, and the people who work there. In **Locations** each person sees the locations they can reach.

**Who can change them:** the owner and the admins. The rest of the team sees them read-only.

## Add a location

1. In **Locations**, scroll down to **Add location**.
2. Enter the **Name** (for example, Palermo).
3. Choose the **Type**: **Restaurant** or **Food hall or venue**.
4. Check the **Identifier**. We suggest one that starts with your business's, such as `bibis-palermo`; you can change it.
5. Tap **Add location**.

Each new restaurant comes with its own [menu](/en/guia/cartas), empty.

## A restaurant's menu

Each restaurant shows **Menu:** and the name of the one it serves; tap it to edit it. Several locations can serve the same menu: a change to it shows at all of them.

To have it serve another one, tap **Change** beside it, choose the menu and tap **Use this menu**. If a restaurant serves none yet, it says **Choose a menu** instead. Only active menus are offered. The owner, the admins and anyone with a [custom role](/en/guia/roles) that has "Product catalog: Edit" can do it. What the location had [sold out](/en/guia/agotados) stays sold out.

Beside it is **Sold out**: what can't be ordered at that location today.

## The identifier

It goes in the address of the location's digital menu, and it's unique across **every** business on Restoman: that's why it's best to start it with your business's. Only lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, up to 63 characters.

If you change it, the links and QR codes with the old identifier stop working.

## Edit a location

1. Tap **Edit** in its row.
2. Change the **Name** or the **Identifier**.
3. Tap **Save changes**.

## Archive a location

An archived location is read-only: it can be viewed but not changed, and nobody can be invited or added there. Its people stay assigned.

1. Tap **Edit** in its row, then **Archive**.
2. Confirm with **Archive location**.

Archived locations are listed separately, under **Archived**. To use one again, tap **Reactivate** in its row.

## What each message means

| Message                                                                        | What happened and what to do                                 |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Another location already uses that identifier, in this business or another one | Try a different one, for example with the neighborhood.      |
| Use only lowercase letters, numbers and single hyphens                         | No spaces, accents or capital letters. E.g. `bibis-palermo`. |
| This location is archived: reactivate it to change it                          | Tap **Reactivate** first.                                    |
| This business has reached the maximum number of locations it can have          | Contact Restoman.                                            |
| Venues serve no menu                                                           | Only restaurants have a menu.                                |
| Restoman support access can't archive locations…                               | Someone from the business has to do it.                      |