# Unified Menu System (UMS)

**UMS** = one unified menu at **Manage Group**. Price per country via **Working Country**. Stores merchandize after **Sync Items** — they don't invent a second catalog.

## The cast

- **Menu section** — category heading (Burgers, Drinks).
- **Item config** — product family (not priced yet).
- **Variant config** — what customers buy: photo, name; **one variant can hold multiple region prices** (one per country).
- **Modifier** — choice group (pick your sauce).
- **Option** — one choice inside a modifier.
- **Store item** — live on the store menu = synced **Item Config + Variant Config**.

## Working Country & multi-country prices

- Before pricing: **Manage Group → Settings → Working Country** (which country/currency you are configuring).
- Add a price for that country on the Variant Config; switch Working Country to price another market on the **same** Variant Config.
- **Sync Items** for stores in country X only shows variants that have a price for X — otherwise they are invisible in that country's Sync Items tab.

## Group vs store job

- **Group / UMS** — build and price the unified menu once (managers).
- **Store** — merchandising: hours, QR, Menu du Jour, section/item order, availability overrides, Live orders.
- **Group managers can do everything store partners can** on every store, plus UMS + People.

## Limits (comfort zone)

- **20** modifiers per dish · **20** options per modifier.
- **99** dishes per section · **100** **Menu du Jour** picks per store.