Set up your POSaBIT menu on WordPress (Single or Multi-store)

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The POSaBIT WordPress plugin puts your POSaBIT online menu directly on your own website, for example https://yourstore.com/menu, instead of sending shoppers to ecomm-app.posabit.com. This guide takes about 20 minutes. You (or your web developer) will enter settings in two places: the POSaBIT portal and your WordPress dashboard.

Before you start

• ☐ You have a POSaBIT V2 (ecommerce) menu. If not, set one up first: How to set up a new POSaBIT menu.
• ☐ Your site runs self-hosted WordPress (Bluehost, Hostinger, WP Engine, SiteGround, etc.). On wordpress.com hosting you need the Business plan or higher to upload plugins.
• ☐ You can log in to WordPress as an Administrator, or your developer has an account that can install plugins and edit pages.
• ☐ You know the address you want your menu at, e.g. https://yourstore.com/menu. For several stores, pick one address per store, e.g. https://yourstore.com/menu/bellevue and https://yourstore.com/menu/kirkland.
• ☐ All stores you want on this site are under the same POSaBIT merchant account. Stores under a different merchant need their own site or a POSaBIT-hosted menu.

Step 1. Point your POSaBIT menu at your website (POSaBIT portal)

Repeat for each store.

1. Log in to the POSaBIT portal and select the store.
2. Go to Menu Feeds and click Edit on your POSaBIT V2 menu.
3. In the menu settings, click Edit.

   

4. Set Menu Type to WordPress Plugin.
5. In Wordpress URL, enter the full address of this store's menu page, e.g. https://yourstore.com/menu.
6. In Ecommerce URL, enter the same address. Replace the default ecomm-app.posabit.com address; leaving it will block the menu on your site.
7. Click Save.
8. Click Publish. WordPress can only show a published menu; Preview does not work on WordPress.

Step 2. Install the plugin (WordPress)

1. Download the POSaBIT Menu plugin (https://app.posabit.com/pb/ecomm_wordpress_download) (a .zip file; don't unzip it).
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins → Add New Plugin → Upload Plugin, choose the .zip, click Install Now, then Activate.

Step 3. Connect the plugin to POSaBIT (WordPress)

1. Navigate to the WordPress Dashboard.
   1. On the left side of the page, find the Settings tab on the menu toolbar.
2. Click Settings → POSaBIT Menu.

   

3. Fill in the three fields:

1. Click Save Changes.

Step 4. Add the menu to a page (WordPress)

1. Go to Pages and open the page whose address matches your menu (e.g. a page with slug menu), or click Add Page to create it.
2. Optional: in the page Settings panel, set Template to Full Width if your theme offers it. Skip if there's no Template option and keep it set to 'Default Template'.

1. Open the three-dot menu (top right) and switch to Code Editor.
2. Paste:

<style>


.wrap { max-width: 1600px !important; }


</style>


[posabit_menu]

1. Click Save or Publish.
2. To preview the page, click the preview icon in the top right corner of the page.

   

Step 5 (Multi-stores only). Add a page for each store (WordPress)

One plugin install handles all your stores. Each store gets its own child page under your main menu page.

1. Click Add Page. In Settings, set Parent to your main menu page (e.g. "Menu").

   

2. Set the page Slug to the last part of that store's address from Step 1. For https://yourstore.com/menu/bellevue, the slug is bellevue.
3. In Code Editor, paste the shortcode with the same value:

[posabit_menu location="bellevue"]

1. Save, then click View Page and confirm the address in your browser exactly matches the Ecommerce URL for that store in the portal.
2. Repeat for each store.

Step 6. Check that it works

Open your menu page in a private/incognito window (not logged in to WordPress) and check:

• ☐ Products load within a few seconds.
• ☐ Click a product, then refresh the page. The product page reloads (no 404).
• ☐ Add an item to the cart and open checkout.
• ☐ Multi-stores: each store's page shows that store's products.
• ☐ Update your site's navigation and any "Shop" buttons to link to the new menu pages.

If anything fails, see Troubleshooting your POSaBIT WordPress menu.

Optional settings

• Google Analytics: in the portal menu settings, choose an Analytics Provider and enter your Analytics ID.
• Sitemap: on the portal menu page, click Copy Sitemap and submit it in Google Search Console. See How to setup a Sitemap for a POSaBIT Hosted Menu.
• Look and feel: add your own CSS between the <style> tags in Step 4. POSaBIT doesn't show its own logo on WordPress, because your site header already shows yours.

Testing on a staging site first? Use the staging address in both places (Steps 1 and 3). When you go live, update the Wordpress URL and Ecommerce URL in the portal and the E-commerce URL in WordPress to the live address, then Publish again. There's no IP or domain license to transfer.

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