What this page is for
A store is a place stock is held: a sales counter, a kitchen, a bar or a back room. Everything in your stock ledger — a sale, a purchase, a transfer — happens at a store. Stores lists every one in your business.
The columns:
- Code: the store's own short code, stamped on every stock movement it makes.
- Name: the store's name.
- Branch: which branch it belongs to.
- Kind: Main, Sales, Preparation, Commissary or Storage. Every branch has exactly one Main store, its receiving point.
- Trading mode: Hospitality or Retail.
- Default order: the order type the store assumes unless the till says otherwise.
- Status: Active or Deactivated.
Everyone whose role can see the business's structure, or who can operate stock, sees this page. Adding or changing a store needs a role that can manage structure.
How to…
How to add a store
Press New store. See New store.
How to change a store's details
Press the row, or open its row menu and choose Edit. A store's code and branch cannot change once it exists, because stock movements already name them.
How to deactivate or reactivate a store
Open the row menu and choose Deactivate or Reactivate. A store with active tills cannot be deactivated; deactivate its tills on Tills first. A deactivated store cannot receive or sell stock, but its history stays.
Worked examples
Butchery that also roasts meat
Mama Njeri's Butchery has a shop counter and a grill under one branch. The shop counter is the branch's Main store; the grill is a second, Sales store, so the two count their stock separately.