This feature is in early development. More details will be added as functionality expands. If you have questions about Prep & Batches, reach out to your Garde support team.
Getting Started
- Your Garde Support Team
- Training at Garde
- Your First 30 Days with Garde
- VIDEO - Basic Navigation in Garde
- How are Vendor Items and Products related?
- Invoice FAQs
- Invoices, Purchase Orders, and Related Pages
- Uploading Invoices
- Invoice FAQs
- What We Can Process and What We Cannot Process
- What We Process - Examples
- What We Don't Process - Examples
- AI Onboarding
General
- Making the Most of Garde
- Garde At A Glance - An Overview
- Garde Referral Program
- Setting up Payment for your Garde Subscription (New Customers)
- How do I Pay or Change my Garde Subscription? (Current Customers)
- Input Billing Details to Pay Your Garde Subscription
- Managing Your Garde Subscription through our Payment Portal
- Garde Billing System Upgrade: What to Expect
- How Restaurant Units Are Connected Within a Company in Garde
- Operations Checklist — Monthly Inventories
- Operations Checklist — Weekly Inventories
- Setting Up a Shared Device Tablet
- Enterprise (Multi-Unit) Client Tips and Tricks
- File Formats, Size Limits, and Tech Specs
- Garde Public API
- Task Queue
- AI Chat
- AI Insights
- Scheduling
- Garde Pricing
- Questions about Canceling your Subscription
- Garde in Spanish
- Garde in Chinese
Accounting Setup
- “What are the Different User Permissions in Garde?”
- The Garde Admin Role
- “How Do I Add or Remove Users?”
- How to Update Billing Permissions
- How Do I Change a User's Role in Garde?
- Your Personal User Account Settings
- “Managing User Notifications”
- Resetting Your Password
- Logging in to Garde with a One-Time Email Code (MFA)
- Turning on Multi-Factor Authentication for a Garde User
- Login Trouble? Try These Steps.
- Push Notifications in the Mobile App
- Benchmark Sales Reporting
- Sales Comparison View Options - By Week and Year
Products & Categories
- Finding Invoices in Garde
- Manual Category-Level Invoices
- Recurring Category-Level Invoices
- How Do I Check the Status of Invoices I've Uploaded on My Phone?
- Setting Up Invoice Approval
- Using Invoice Approval
- Invoice Approval in the Mobile App
- Using the New Vendor Item Review
- How to Change Your Invoice Number or Invoice Date
- Making Changes to a Closed Invoice
- How to Move an Invoice Uploaded to the Wrong Restaurant Unit
- How to Delete an Invoice
- Viewing Deleted Invoices
- Invoice Allocation Options
- Multiple Charges on Utility Bills
- Reimbursement Template
- Create an Invoice to Upload / Invoice Cover Sheet
- What Can I Do if an Invoice is Stuck Uploading?
- How to Download PDFs of Invoice Images
- Your Default Payment Account
- Creating Additional Payment Accounts
- Ensuring your Invoices are Closed to the Right Payment Account
- Changing the Payment Account on a Closed Invoice
- How do Invoices Exported with Credit Card Payment Accounts Look in QuickBooks?
Vendor items and products
- Finding and Editing Your Products in Garde
- Dig Into Your Spend with the Purchase Report
- How to Add Products in Garde
- Core Categories Explained
- How to Change a Product's Category in Garde
- How To Change Product Categories in Bulk (Video)
- How to Fix a Vendor Item Associated with the Wrong Product
- Make Products or Categories Tax Exempt
- How to Change the Count-by Unit of Measure of a Product
- How to Create a Custom Count-by Unit of Measure
Ordering and order guides
Inventory
- Getting Started with Inventory
- How do I Set Up my Inventory Count Sheets?
- Setup Complete! Steps for Taking Inventory
- Taking Inventory Video Series
- Mobile Inventory on your Phone
- Count Sheet Edits on the Mobile App
- Barcode Scanning with your Mobile App
- Waste Log - Track Your Waste
- Best Practices for Posting Inventory to Accounting
- Steps for Posting Inventory to Accounting
- Prep & Batches
- How to Add/Remove Products While Taking Inventory - Using Config Mode
- Adding and Removing Products From Inventory in Bulk
- Adding Multiple Count-By Units for Inventory
- How to Use the Inventory Products Page
- Inventory for Paper Goods & Consumables
- How Can I Standardize Inventory Across My Units?
- How to Copy a Count Sheet Between Units
- Best Practices for Posting Inventory to Accounting
- Steps for Posting Inventory to Accounting
- Barmetrix + Garde
- AvT Variance (Actual vs Theoretical)
- Prep & Batches
- Adjustments
Recipes
- Why Are Recipes So Important?
- Your Recipe Foundation - Recipe Types
- Creating a Recipe
- Copy and Paste to Enter Your Ingredients
- Getting started without complete recipes
- Recipe Setup Service
- AI-Powered Recipe Onboarding
- Tips for AI Recipe Import
- Understanding Conversions in Garde
- Setting Up Unit Conversions
- Recipes - Conversions
- Accounting for Recipe and Ingredient Yields
- How to use the Menu Analysis Feature
- Visual Chart for Menu Analysis
- Menu Analysis FAQs
- Menu Analysis Troubleshooting - Menu Items and Modifiers
- Printing Your Recipes
- Restricting Recipes to specified Restaurant Units
- Setting Recipes to Be Inventoried
- Allergens in Recipes and Products
- Setting Up Your Plate and Pour Cost Alerts
- Viewing your Recipe Cost History
- Using Your Garde Recipes as Your Digital Binder
Performance reporting
- Understanding Your Costs with the Reports in Garde
- COGS Explained
- Controllable P&L
- PnL Release
- P&L Multi-Unit Side-by-Side Comparison
- Category Report
- Sales Figures, Views and Reports
- Sales Forecasting in Garde
- Exploring Your Sales Forecast
- Tips for Improving the Accuracy of Your Sales Forecast
- Usage Report - Your COGS Breakdown
- What Are Misc. Charges and Credits on the Usage Report?
- Budgets
- Theoretical P&L
- Store Groupings - Setup and Usage
- What Is a Price Mover?
- How Do I Set Up a Price Alert?
- How to Use the Purchasing Export
PMIX mapping and theoretical usage
- Getting Started with Theoretical Usage Reporting
- Theoretical Reporting Setup Service
- Theoretical On-Hand Report
- How Do I See My Theoretical Usage?
- How Do I Complete PMIX Mapping?
- Mapping Modifiers for PMIX
- Multi-Unit PMIX Copy Tool
- Best Practices for Toast + Garde PMIX
- Toast PMIX Enhancements
- Overview of Toast's Nested Modifiers in Garde
- PMIX Mapping Beer
- PMIX Mapping Wine & Liquor
- PMIX Mapping - Scales for Draft Beer, Wine/Liquor, Soda BIBs
- Some Examples of PMIX Mapping Scales
- Missing Revenue in Theoretical Usage Report
Digital invoices
Commissary and internal transfers
- Commissary Kitchens: Overview
- Commissary Onboarding Services
- Commissary Kitchens: Best Practices
- Commissary Kitchens: Vendor Settings
- Commissary Kitchens: Order Guide
- Commissary Kitchens: Creating Products
- Commissary Receiving Unit: How to Place an Order
- Commissary Kitchens: How to Receive, Edit and Process an Order
- Internal Transfers
- Setting Up Payment Accounts for Commissary and Internal Transfers
Reporting
PMIX & Theoretical Usage
Inventory
Prep & Batches
Manage prep lists and batch recipes for kitchen production planning.
The Prep & Batches feature helps you manage prep lists and batch recipes for your kitchen production planning. Use it to organize daily prep work, track batch quantities, and ensure your team knows exactly what needs to be produced for each shift.
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