Per-Group Commentary: Add Descriptions Under Menu Headers and Categories in Your Quotes

Puree already lets you add commentary to a whole section of a quote — an introduction, or a note above your menu. Now you can go one level deeper: add a block of text under any individual menu header or item category, sitting between that group's heading and its items. It's the perfect place for a short description of a course, an explanation of how a grazing table works, or a note about what's included in a particular category.

A Third Level of Commentary

Quotes now support commentary at three levels, each nested inside the one above:

• Section commentary — text for a whole section, such as the Menu, Beverages, Equipment or Miscellaneous section
• Per-group commentary (new) — text under a specific menu header or item category within that section
• Item detail — the description on each individual item

Per-group commentary works across the Menu, Beverages, Equipment and Miscellaneous sections, and for both menu headers and item categories — so wherever a group heading appears on your quote, you can add a description beneath it.

Per-Quote Text, With Account-Wide Defaults

Each quote can carry its own commentary for a group, so you can tailor the wording to a specific event. But because most groups say the same thing most of the time, you can also set an account-wide default on the menu header or category itself. That default automatically seeds every new quote that uses the group — so your standard description is there without retyping, and you're free to tweak it for the event in front of you.

Editing a quote's commentary never touches the default. And if you clear a quote's commentary (submit it blank), the group simply falls back to the account-wide default again.

Setting a Default

Open a menu header or an item category from your settings and you'll find a default commentary field. Whatever you write there becomes the starting text for that group on every quote. Leave it blank if you'd rather add commentary quote-by-quote.

Editing on a Quote

Inside a quote, click the commentary text (or the pencil icon) beneath a group heading to edit it inline. The editor opens seeded with the group's default, ready for you to adjust. Save to keep a per-quote version, or submit it blank to clear your override and drop back to the default.

Customer-facing commentary renders in an understated, italic style in your template's own theme font, so it reads as a considered description rather than a bolt-on note. And when you duplicate a quote, its per-group commentary comes along with it.

Inside the order, an Add commentary link sits beneath each group heading — click it (or the pencil) to edit inline.

For full instructions, see our Menu & Category Commentary help page.