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How to get PoS GUIDs in Toast®

Step by step instructions on how to get point-of-sale IDs for Menu Items and Menus in Toast®

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Written by Marc Rosenberg
Updated over 2 weeks ago
  1. Login to the Toast portal

  2. Go to Menus → Bulk management → Items database

  3. Select Show/Hide Columns, enable GUIDs

  4. If the menu item is used in multiple menus, you will need to append the menu GUID (see example below)

Example GUID:

052f9330-10d1-43c1-80f4-63bd2c57337c

If you are utilizing multple menus and have the same menu items on multiple menus, you'll need to append the Menu GUID to the string you will be entering in Menuboard Manager's POS ID fields.

To get Menu GUID:

  1. Login to the Toast portal

  2. Go to Menus → Bulk management → Menus

  3. If the menu item is used in multiple menus, you will need to append the menu GUID (see example below)

Example GUID with appended Menu GUID:

052f9330-10d1-43c1-80f4-63bd2c57337c>menu=44e27708-aa95-4efa-b793-98cd6c91caf9

Notice the appended Menu GUID ">menu=[MENU GUID]" after the menu GUID:

If you are utilizing sizes, for example for drinks, you may need to append the size to the GUID.

Example GUID with appended size:

052f9330-10d1-43c1-80f4-63bd2c57337c>size=16oz

Notice the appended size ">menu=[SIZE]" after the menu GUID:

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