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Getting PMIX mapping right starts with how your menu is set up in Toast. A few smart choices on the POS side will save you a lot of headaches when you’re connecting things in Garde. Here are the practices we’ve seen work best.

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General Tips

  • Don’t reuse POS buttons for different recipes. If a menu item comes in multiple versions, use modifiers to capture the differences or create separate buttons. One button mapped to one recipe keeps everything clean.
  • Never rename an old button when adding a new menu item. Always create a brand new button in Toast. Renaming an existing button messes up the mapping and can corrupt your historical PMIX data. It’s a quick shortcut that causes long-term problems.
  • Running the same menu across locations? Take advantage of Toast’s Multi-Location Management. It keeps your menu consistent across locations, which also helps Garde recognize which items are the same everywhere.

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Size Pricing (Pizzerias, Cafes, etc.)

Use Toast’s “Size Pricing” feature to define different sizes rather than making sizes into modifiers. Garde will break out your menu items by size automatically, which makes mapping modifiers much more accurate. Example: A Cheese Pizza with Size Pricing becomes “Cheese Pizza - Small”, “Cheese Pizza - Medium”, and “Cheese Pizza - Large” in Garde. When someone adds Pepperoni, you can see whether it was for a small, medium, or large pizza — and map the right amount accordingly. Same idea for beverages. “Drip Coffee - Small” vs. “Drip Coffee - Large” lets you track that the Almond Milk modifier uses a different amount depending on the cup size.

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Pre-Modifiers

Avoid Pre-Modifiers in Toast. Our integration doesn’t pull them in properly. You’ll lose the distinction between “Add Bacon” and “No Bacon” — both just show up as “Bacon” in Garde, which makes accurate mapping impossible.

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Pick 2 / Combo Deals

If you offer a combo where customers pick two or more items to form a meal deal (like a “Pick 2”), here’s the right way to set it up: Do this: Create a menu group called “Pick 2” and add your item options to that group. Don’t do this: Create a single menu item called “Pick 2” with the actual food items as modifiers. That approach causes the menu items (like “Chicken Taco”) to come into Garde as modifiers, and the real modifiers (like “Add Cheese”) become submodifiers. It makes PMIX mapping unnecessarily complicated.
We can technically support the modifier-based approach if needed, but it’s not recommended.

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Cocktails

When setting up cocktails in Toast, select the cocktail first, then the liquor. Picking the liquor first can cause issues with PMIX mapping. Set up “Single” and “Double” as submodifiers under the liquor modifiers. Example: Menu item is “Old Fashioned,” modifier is “Basil Hayden Rye Bourbon,” submodifier is “Double.”