Products tab

The Products tab is where you control which products customers can buy and how much they cost. Three product types are supported: Photo Strips, 4×6 Prints, and Smartphone Print. Each one can be enabled or disabled independently, has its own base price, and has its own extra-copy pricing.

Who this is for: Operators setting prices for the first time, or adjusting them seasonally.

What this tab is for

  • Enable or disable each product type (so the customer doesn't see disabled products on the product selection screen)
  • Set the base price of each product
  • Set the extra-copy price (what the customer pays for each additional copy of the same product)
  • Set the maximum copies per transaction
  • Set the multi-copy discount percentage (a percentage off when the customer buys more than one)
  • Save your changes

Layout

Each product gets its own card with:

  • The product name and a small icon
  • An enable / disable toggle
  • A base price input
  • An extra-copy price input
  • A max copies input (typical default: 5 or 10)
  • A multi-copy discount percentage input
  • A short description

There's a Save button that commits all changes at once (don't forget to tap it).

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Products tab with three product cards: Photo Strips, 4x6 Prints, and Smartphone Print.

Enabling and disabling a product

To remove a product from the customer-facing screens:

  1. Find the product card.
  2. Tap its enable toggle to off.
  3. Tap Save.
  4. The next customer who reaches the product selection screen will see only the products you have enabled.

You can disable any product at any time. If you disable all three, the booth will show an empty product selection screen. Don't do that.

Note
Use case: if your printer is out of paper and you only have time to get more before the lunch rush, temporarily disable Photo Strips and 4×6 Prints (both consume paper) and leave Smartphone Print enabled. (Note: Smartphone Print also prints, so this is a contrived example. But the pattern of "disable products to limit what the booth offers" is real.)

Setting base prices

The base price is what the customer pays for the first copy of a product. For example:

  • Photo Strips base price: $5.00
  • 4×6 Prints base price: $7.00

The customer sees these prices on the product selection screen as soon as they walk up to the booth.

To change a base price:

  1. Tap the base price input field for the product. The on-screen keyboard appears.
  2. Type the new price (e.g. 5.00).
  3. Tap Save.

Be careful with the decimal point. 5 and 5.00 mean the same thing, but 500 is five hundred.

Extra-copy pricing

The extra-copy price is what the customer pays for each additional copy of the same product, ordered in the same session. For example:

  • Photo Strips base price: $5.00
  • Photo Strips extra-copy price: $2.00
  • A customer who buys 3 strips pays: $5.00 + ($2.00 × 2) = $9.00

This is how you charge less for bulk orders without giving away the first copy.

Multi-copy discount

The multi-copy discount percentage applies an additional discount on top of the extra-copy price when the customer buys more than one. For example:

  • Photo Strips extra-copy price: $2.00
  • Photo Strips multi-copy discount: 20%
  • A customer who buys 3 strips pays: $5.00 + (($2.00 × 2) × 0.80) = $5.00 + $3.20 = $8.20

Set this to 0% to disable the bulk discount entirely. Set it higher to encourage bulk orders.

Note
The exact math may vary slightly depending on which legacy pricing fields are in use on your booth. Use the Extra prints and cross-sell customer screen to test your pricing. The live price preview is the source of truth.

Maximum copies per transaction

The max copies input caps how many copies a customer can buy in a single session. Typical defaults are 5 or 10. This prevents a customer from accidentally ordering 99 copies and locking up your printer.

Set this to a number you're comfortable printing in a row without paper jam risk.

Saving

Don't forget to tap Save. Changes you make to product fields are not committed until you tap the Save button. If you navigate away from the tab without saving, your changes are discarded.

When you save, the change is recorded in the local database and (if cloud sync is enabled) pushed to the cloud.

Verify it worked

You're using the Products tab correctly when you can:

  • Toggle a product on and off and see the change reflected on the customer-facing product selection screen
  • Set base, extra-copy, and discount values and see them reflected on the customer payment screen
  • Cap max copies and confirm the extra-prints screen respects it

To verify a price change, exit admin and walk through a customer session. The prices should match what you set.

Common problems

Price change isn't reflected.

You forgot to tap Save. Re-open the Products tab and tap Save.

Negative price rejected.

BoothIQ enforces non-negative prices. Use 0 (free) instead.

Max copies set very high doesn't take effect.

The product has its own internal cap. Lower the value to a reasonable number (5-10).

Customer payment screen shows the old price.

The booth caches some pricing data. Try restarting if changes don't appear.

Disabled product is still visible to customers.

You forgot to tap Save, or the cache hasn't refreshed. Save again, then exit admin and re-enter to confirm.

Pricing strategy

For tips on how to price your products (not just how to set the inputs), see Running Your Booth › Pricing strategy (coming soon).

Next steps