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Two "Stores" Sharing Inventory

We are a garden retail and landscape design store (with one location). We have two registers that we run all retail sales through and one separate register through which we run all landscape sales. We would like to separate the landscaping completely so that we can view our financial data, separate labor costs more accurately, and compare our numbers to others in the industry. The main issue is that we need the separate "stores" to share the same inventory. All materials are pulled from our lot and separate inventories would not work well for our situation. I need some suggestions on how to make this happen as easily as possible. I realize that we can look at data by register, but this solution is not satisfying our needs.

Thanks for any help!

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conniesager
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Exactly what information do you need to separate between stores/registers?

You could do an HQ setup with 2 stores and perform interstore transfers between the two. That would give you two completely independent stores with separate inventories, but you could move inventory between stores as required. It sounds like this is really more separation than you need. If Labor tracking is your big issue, I think that an external time tracking solution may be the answer.

Glenn Adams Tiber Creek C> We are a garden retail and landscape design store (with one location).

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Glenn Adams [MVP - Retail Mgmt]

Connie,

Have you tried using "Sales Rep" as your classification between "stores"? jeff suggested that to us as a way to track all activity between our "ebay", "in-store", "amazon", and "website" store. So we have a "SALES REP" for each type of sale origination.

Now I can see how many items we sold in each 'store', plus sales totals etc.

mickie

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Mickie

Have you considered separating your business by customer?

This may sound crazy, but if you make your system reflect reality as closely as possible you will be happier in the end.

It sounds like you have one business with two classes of customers: retail and commercial. I would recommend that you create a customer called Cash Sale (or Retail or whatever) and then create accounts for the landscapers. Configure POS to require a customer for every transaction.

You can run all kinds of reports and simply exclude the Cash Sale account for the results you're looking for.

HTH, Tom

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Terrible Tom

You could also use the Retail Realm MultiLocation system.

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Afshin Alikhani

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