Hi,
unfortunately it is not possible to mass import the products in VikRestaurants, not even with the PRO version. At most you could import your products directly from your database.
VikRestaurants handles websites with many orders the same way it would if it used the default WordPress tables. Even if a plugin inherits the WordPress custom post types, that doesn’t mean it will run faster than a plugin that uses ad hoc tables.
All the orders are stored within the database table called #__vikrestaurants_takeaway_reservation, which is also used to calculate the time availability and the remaining products in stock.
If a restaurant is able to take 500 orders per day, it will have something like 5.5 millions orders at the end of the year. In this case I can only recommend you to use a very good server for the hosting and to consider removing old orders periodically to improve the execution of your queries.
It is in our roadmap to add the possibility to choose OpenStreetMaps rather than Google. However it is not as simple as you might think, because Google Maps is not only used to display maps, but also to calculate the distance between 2 addresses, to generate a static image of an address, to evaluate the coordinates of a given address and to draw the delivery areas as polygons and circles.
in VikRestaurants the customers are already able to order via phone, but not through the common QR code technique. Every reservation in the software owns a bill, that can be populated from the back-end, from the operators area and from the reservation summary directly by the customer (only if enabled).
All that you have to do is configure your menus and the products available for online ordering. Afterwards you should enable the Allow Courses Ordering setting from the restaurant configuration page.
When the courses ordering is enabled, the customers will be able to directly order the dishes through the website. Courses can be ordered from the summary page of the reservation, once the status will be confirmed.
It is also possible to allow the ordering only when the group actually arrives at the restaurant. This can be accomplished by assigning the Arrived status code to the reservation. The ordering of the dishes will be allowed as long as the bill is open.
In case the reservation has been assigned to one or more menus, it will be possible to order only the dishes that belong to those menus. Otherwise, all the menus available for the check-in date can be used for ordering.
If you have walk-in customers that didn’t book a reservation online, you have just to register a new reservation from the back-end, enter the e-mail address and/or the phone number of the customer and pick the “Arrived” status code for the newly created reservation. The system will immediately send an e-mail/sms to the customer containing the link to start ordering the food.
You should be able to try this functionality also with the FREE version of the program.
