Concession Bites

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Concession Bites Management

Guided help

Setup & Help

Answer a few plain-language questions. Guidance saves your progress and learns what helps this customer account.

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Buy only what you need

POS, printer & tablet guide

Start with devices you already own. Test one complete order before buying several tablets or printers.

Easiest start

Kitchen display

Keep the Kitchen page open on a dedicated, powered tablet or laptop. This avoids paper jams and is the simplest supported handoff.

  • Current Safari, Chrome, or Edge
  • 8-inch or larger readable screen
  • Reliable Wi-Fi and all-event power
  • Screen can stay awake during service
Cashier device

Tablet, laptop, or phone

The Window POS and change calculator run in a current browser. A phone is a good emergency cash backup; a larger screen is faster for a busy line.

  • Receives current security updates
  • Dependable Wi-Fi; cellular is a useful backup
  • Protective stand or case
  • Charging while volunteers use it
Test before buying

Paper ticket printer

Paper printing is not plug-and-play from the cloud. Use a local bridge on the stand network so private printer access is never exposed to the internet.

  • 80 mm network printer with Ethernet or Wi-Fi
  • Raw TCP port 9100
  • Plain-text or ESC/POS support
  • Thermal for the counter; impact is often safer near heat and grease
Existing card POS

Keep what already works

You can keep an existing Square or other card terminal and use Concession Bites for ordering, cash backup, kitchen tickets, inventory, and reports.

  • Do not replace working payment hardware just to start
  • Keep cash available during outages
  • Tap to Pay requires the separate native staff companion
  • Never repeat an uncertain card charge

Ask your helper

Use everyday words, like “How do I add a hamburger?” or “Where do I see volunteers?”

Guidance privacy & learning

Customer-scoped guidance can personalize this account. Shared training requires explicit opt-in and is de-identified before export.

Help from Concession Bites

Support tickets

Tell the platform owner what happened, keep the ticket number, and return here to read the answer.

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Ask for a fix

Say where you were, what you tried, and what happened. Never paste passwords or payment keys.

Customer experience

Brand Kit

Choose a safe color palette and layout for this school or vendor. Save a draft, preview it, then publish when it looks right.

Manager access

Start with a preset

Pick the closest look, then change only your school colors.

Choose your two school colors

These are the only colors you need to choose. We keep the page background, cards, and text readable automatically.

Live preview

This preview uses the same tokens as the customer menu.

Draft preview — changes are not live until you publish.

Your event menuOrder ahead, skip the line
Combo meal$10.00
Contrast checked when saved

Published versions

  • No published versions yet.

Walk-up sales

Window POS

Take cash orders at the concession window and send paid tickets directly to the kitchen.

No offline cash orders waiting
Checking connection… Cash ordering will remain available if this device loses internet.

Volunteer Quick Help

Short, customer-specific tips for the task in front of you.

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Use a phone if the main POS goes down

Sign in on an authorized phone and use this same Take Orders page. Cash ordering and the change calculator work here; card tapping requires the native staff companion.

Checking Tap to Pay…
Cash backupReady in this mobile web POS
Tap to PayChecking Stripe Terminal setup…
Spotty connectionChecking internet status…

Pay at Window Claim

Look up the customer’s code. Inventory and price are checked again before cash is accepted.

Menu

Current Cash Order

Total$0.00
Add items to begin—

Catalog

Manage Menu

Staff Access

Individual accounts are scoped to this organization. Password hashes stay server-side.

Menu Items

Use Bulk Edit to change prices or availability for several items, or Add Item for a new food or drink.

Ingredients & supplies

Ingredients affect menu recipes. Supplies such as foil, food boats, oil, pans, and propane can be tracked separately as per-sale costs or shared overhead.

Manage ingredients & supplies

Menu Image Library

Choose one of our free, ready-to-use pictures or upload your own. Every picture is optional and uses the same clean card shape on the customer menu.

Drop a photo here or click to choose a file
Change picture card size (usually leave this alone)

What customers will see

Preview
768 x 576 Displayed with object-fit cover so every landing page card stays consistent.

Square

Square Sync

Square Mapping

Map Concession Bites menu items to Square catalog item and variation IDs. Inventory still comes from Concession Bites recipes and ingredients.

Test Mode and Service Charge

Keep test mode on until launch. Concession Bites will calculate the service charge here and include it in the Square order payload as a Square service charge.

Import from Square

Window Order Test

Square Sync Queue

Operations

Inventory and Pickup

Inventory Adjustments

Use this for halftime giveaways, comps, waste, or restocks. It updates inventory only and does not create a customer order.

Pickup Policy

Tune the pickup window rules from the browser without editing JSON by hand.

Late-Night Markdown Alert

Set a reminder time for the end of the night and choose when leftover inventory should be marked down.

Accounting

Finance

A simple cash-style operating view. Concession purchases count when purchased.

For your bookkeeper or CPA

Review and reconcile

Concession Bites helps organize records; it does not provide tax, legal, or accounting advice and is not a general ledger, audit, or tax-filing system. Before filing, have a qualified professional reconcile these records with your bank, payment-processor statements, payroll, donations, sales-tax obligations, and any activity tracked outside the app.

Amounts in the exports use whole cents so spreadsheet totals do not round unexpectedly. Draft and void expenses are included for review and must not be treated as posted expenses without confirmation.

Net Sales$0.00
COGS$0.00
Operating Expenses$0.00
Net Profit$0.00
Net Profit Margin0.0%

Add Expense

Receipt Inbox

0 awaiting review

JPG, PNG, or PDF. Starter hints work immediately; confirmed choices teach only this customer account. Parsed receipts stay drafts until a person approves them.

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JPG and PNG receipts can be scanned for free before you upload. Always review the suggested details—nothing changes inventory or profit until you approve it.

Ingredients & supplies

Recipe and overhead

Choose how each item affects profit. A predictable amount used for each sale belongs in a recipe; shared event materials belong in overhead.

Recipe Builder

Choose an item

Checked food ingredients and per-sale supplies are deducted whenever one menu item is sold. Shared overhead is intentionally kept out of recipes.

Theoretical Menu Margins

Based on confirmed ingredient costs

Recent Expenses

Event Profitability

Assign sales and expenses to an event to see profitability here.

Payment Provider

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Configure multiple processors. Venmo is an optional in-app choice when Braintree is ready; customers can choose card, another wallet, or Pay at Window instead. Priority 1 is preferred; unhealthy or open-circuit providers are skipped before a charge starts. Credentials stay in server environment variables.

Concession Bites subscription

Start a 7-day free trial for this organization. Stripe securely collects the payment method and automatically starts the subscription after the trial.

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Export

Use the package for a handoff. It includes cash-style P&L, sales, refunds, taxes collected, processing fees, expenses, receipt files when available, inventory/cost support, event results, payment references, and the finance audit trail.

Sales CSV Expenses CSV Receipt Lines CSV P&L CSV