How to add drinks

The first step in building drink menus, either a package or bespoke menu offering, is to create a listing for each drink that is available for selection. 

Drinks is the section where you fill out your drink offering inventory, to include the name and description, individual prices and measure, and the drink category in which it is available.  The information provided here will feed into the Drink Menus section from which bespoke and package menus can be created for event selection. 

Video Tutorial:

Step-by-step guide to add drinks:

Near the bottom of the main Sonas menu, click on Company to bring up a sub menu. 

In the sub menu, click on Drinks. Company > Drinks

There are example drinks listed in the menu already.  These drinks can be amended to match your drink availability or deleted. You can also add drinks in from your bar list individually.

Each drink listing is made up of:

• Type (This determines which category they are available to be selected from when each event makes drink selections. See table below for more information)
• Name (helpful for staff and the customer)
• Description (varietal, tasting notes, etc)
• Measure (e.g. 175ml wine, bottle of beer, cup of tea)
• Minimum order (if one applies)
• Default price (list price at the time of creation, you can create menus to increase a selected percentage above this price for future years) 

Category used for Drink Selection 

Recommended measure

Type for Drinks listings

Examples

Reception

Individual serving

Reception Drinks 

Reception Soft Drinks

Welcome toast, Bottled beer, Signature cocktails, Soda

Table Drinks

Bottle

White Wine

Rose Wine

Red Wine

Water

Soft Drinks

Special

Bottles of wine, bottles of champagnes, soft drinks, bottled water, any special drinks for couple only

Children Reception

Individual Serving

Reception Soft Drinks

mocktails, chocolate milk, juice

Extras

either, price accordingly

Extras

Coffee, tea, dessert wine, after dinner drink (to be served at the table)

When you are have a new drink's information, and you are ready to add it, click the Actions menu in the top right hand corner and then + Add New Drink.

Fill out the boxes including:

• Category 
• Name 
• Measure  
• Description
• Minimum order 
• Default Price

Click Save in the top right hand corner of the screen to add the drink to your list.

Should you wish to change any existing drinks you can amend the information as required.  Click on the individual drink, make the necessary changes and click Save in the top right hand corner of the screen to update the information.

See How to create Drink Menus to learn how to use your drink list to create a drink menu and how to add new drinks to existing menus.

Updated on: 16/03/2026