Item Countdown lets you cap how many of an item can be sold during a service and have the POS automatically stop selling it once the limit is reached — for example, a daily special with only 20 portions. It works for menu items, variants, modifiers, and remarks.

Setting it up has three parts: mark a product eligible in the Back Office, give staff the permission, and set the remaining quantity on the POS.

In the Back Office, mark the products allowed to have a countdown on the Item Countdown Eligibility page (or from a product's own edit page — set it to "Eligible for the countdown meter"). Eligibility only allows a countdown; it does not set a quantity or turn anything on. It applies to items, variants, modifiers, and remarks.

Setting counts on the POS requires the "Edit item countdown" permission. Grant it to the appropriate POS role so the people running a service can open the countdown meter.

On the Workstation, open the Countdown meter ("Compteur produit"), set the remaining quantity for each eligible product, enable its countdown, and save. On success the POS confirms "Countdown data updated successfully."

The remaining quantity is shared across every workstation at the location — the system keeps one authoritative count, so a sale on any terminal updates it everywhere in real time.

Once a countdown is enabled:

An unsaved change to the count is highlighted until it's saved, so you can tell what's already committed.

If someone tries to send more than the remaining quantity — often because another workstation just sold the last ones — the order is rejected with an "Insufficient quantity" message showing the remaining versus requested amounts. Reduce the quantity to what's left and send again, or reset the count in the countdown meter if a fresh batch is available.