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Shopping has two distinct views. In-person lists organize a store trip, including recipe ingredients. Online orders prepare a purchase from one vendor. Both can use your saved staples: cinnamon can be something you usually have on hand and something you order online. An online order is not a recipe list, and items cannot be transferred or converted between the two. Use Current for lists and orders you have not filed away, including placed orders, and Archived for older ones. Stores and Staples are available from the Shopping overview; list and order pages keep their controls focused on the current task.

In-person lists

Open Shopping > In-person lists > New shopping list. The list starts with today's date as its name; another list made on the same day gets a numbered suffix. Rename it in the heading. The Add to list panel opens on an empty list and can be folded away while shopping. For everyday entry, choose a store, type an item, and press Enter. Keep entering items for that store; choose another store when you change stops. Use New store beside the store selector if needed. For a list copied from a message, choose Paste items and enter one item per line. Or choose Add recipes, select one or more recipes, adjust servings, and review their ingredients before adding them. The Add to list action on a recipe leads to the same ingredient review.

To assign several pasted items to stores at once, put an in-person store name on its own line followed by a colon. Items below it use that store until the next store heading. Use Unassigned: to leave later items without a store:

Costco:
Paper towels
Dish soap
Market:
Apples
Unassigned:
Milk

Store names are matched without regard to capitalization, punctuation, or extra spaces. If a heading could refer to more than one store, use the exact store name. If a store is missing or retired, Viandly keeps your text and asks whether to create or restore the in-person store before adding the items. Correct a typo in the text instead if you did not intend a new store. Online vendors cannot be used as store headings on an in-person list. Add up to 200 items at a time. Submitting an empty Paste items dialog simply closes it.

During review, To buy shows needs for this trip and Usually on hand shows ingredients matched to staples. Select an on-hand ingredient if you actually need to purchase it. Matching uses full names, your aliases and explicit defaults; it does not guess from loosely similar words. Compatible ingredient amounts from multiple recipes can share one purchase row, while each source recipe's requirement remains inspectable. Manual additions remain separate. Editing a shopping item never edits its source recipe.

Use Shopping > Staples to save things you commonly keep around. A staple may have aliases, a default name for ambiguous recipe wording, a usual purchase amount, and a usual in-person store. For example, name two staples Flour (all purpose) and Flour (bread), then set flour as the default for the first. Hide from shopping suppresses recipe needs that are not normally bought, such as tap water. You can still add such an item manually. Add staples inside a list helps replenish items you are running low on; saved preferences are starting points, not live pantry inventory. Manage staples from a list takes you to Staples; Back to list returns to that list. The Staples page can also add several staples directly to an in-person list. Choose an existing list or create a new one, select what to replenish, and add the selected items.

Use Shopping > Stores to name your in-person stores and arrange a usual route. Within a list, assign an item to a store or move it elsewhere if the first store is out of stock. Only in-person stores are offered for these assignments. Store sections start open; collapse a store to focus on another, or use Expand all and Collapse all. Not assigned stays open. Arrange stores reveals drag handles for this list's route; changing it does not alter the default route in Stores. Checking an item marks it purchased without moving it out of its store section. Its text is struck through, and the restore control asks for confirmation before returning it to needed. Already have sets an item aside without recording a purchase and remains a separate section. Purchased and on-hand items retain inspectable recipe-source details. Archive a finished list without deleting it; search archived lists by name or date later. An archived list must be restored before editing.

Online vendor orders

Open Shopping > Online orders > New online order and choose a vendor, or use Order beside an online vendor in Shopping > Stores. Both create the same vendor-bound draft. Its suggested name combines today's date and the vendor; edit it if useful. Online vendors appear alphabetically in Stores and are separate from the in-person route.

Choose Add product in the draft to browse that vendor's personal catalog. Saved products are shown alphabetically and can be searched by name, package, or item number. Choose a product, its package, and a new count for this order. Previous order counts are not reused. Use New product right in the picker when the product is not yet saved; the new product and its first package become available for the order. Manage products opens the separate catalog page for occasional corrections and returns to this order. The catalog is your own collection of products you care about, not the vendor's entire inventory or a template for repeating an old order. When creating a product, enter its first package separately from its name. In the product editor, use Add package to save another size or package for the same product. Select a package row to edit its label, optional item number, or link. Product details and package options have separate save actions; canceling a package edit does not discard unsaved product-detail text.

An order item has wording and a count specific to the draft. Change product or package picks a different saved catalog option; the current product and its packages are shown immediately. Apply product and package saves that selection immediately and returns to the order item; canceling the picker returns without changing it. In the order-item dialog, Save item edits saves changes made there, while Close or Discard unsaved edits leaves an already-applied product or package change intact. The order-item dialog also links directly to the vendor product page when a link is saved. Edit saved product details changes reusable vendor data. Product names, Sort under names, package descriptions, links, and item numbers can also be maintained from the vendor's Products page. A product may be linked to a staple, but that link does not add recipe ingredients to an online order. Package labels are vendor descriptions, not measures Viandly converts. A vendor item number/SKU identifies a particular package option.

Use Review order to check the draft, open saved product links, and copy a plain list. Open the vendor's website to build the cart there. If the store has an Express Order page configured, Review order also offers Copy item numbers and warns about products without numbers. Item numbers repeat according to each order item's count. They remain optional catalog identifiers for vendors without Express Order support. Viandly does not submit the order or take payment. Complete checkout with the vendor, then choose Mark order placed in Viandly. Confirm which products and counts were actually ordered. Omitted draft lines are removed; the remaining order becomes one read-only placed record. Placement, not delivery, ends the Viandly workflow. There is no shipment or arrival tracking and no per-item purchase checkbox.

If you recorded placement incorrectly, Reopen order reverses Viandly's purchase-count record and lets you correct the draft before recording placement again. It does not cancel or change the vendor's real order. Archiving is optional filing, separate from placement. You can later inspect a placed order or the vendor's purchase history, then start a new order from that vendor's catalog. Old order lines and counts are never copied automatically.

Retiring a store hides it from new choices but preserves historical list and order references. Adding the same store name again restores it. Account exports include shopping records, catalogs, and purchase history.