Multi-location / Multi-company

• can be  2 or more  businesses in the same or multiple locations
• can be  2 or more  corporations in the same or different locations

• can be  2 or more  businesses in the same or multiple locations
• can be  2 or more  corporations in the same or different locations

• Up to 99 independent locations and/or businesses can be configured

• Up to 999 independent corporations and/or locations may be configured
• Each corporation can have up to 99 locations

• usually all locations manage separate inventories
• inventories can be combined
• inventory transfers are permitted and automatic

• all inventories are separate
• inventory transfers are independently done at each corporation

• can be combined into 1 company or
• each location and mange their own receivables

• each company manages their own receivables

• Each location/business can report independently
• combined sales reports are available

• Each company reports independently

• 2 lumberyards (in different cities)
• 1 hardware store (across town)
• 1 millwork operation (in a separate building inside the lumberyard)
• 1 feed mill (1 block from the lumberyard)

All locations are separate companies but operate under a single multi-location umbrella.  Sales personnel may operate at different locations.

• 1 grocery
• 1 brick plant
• 1 concrete plant
• 1 dairy plant

Persons working at these locations operate 100% independently of the other businesses.  There is no interrelation with staff, customers & inventory. 

Employees in these businesses do not know or see any information from the other companies

• 2 lumberyards
• 1 millwork plant
• 1 installed sales division

Each company manages its own operations.  Employees may work for any of the companies depending on their assigned passwords.

Receivables may be combined or separate.

• Convenience store

Employees in the convenience store operate separately and independently of the other businesses.  There is no interaction between the companies and neither knows the other businesses exist.

• my employees work at more than 1 location/business I operate
• my employees are permitted to see inventories in different locations/businesses
• I need to transfer inventory and materials from one business to another
• my receivables are separate or combined
• I have businesses that are similar or may relate to the other locations/businesses

• my employees never need to see the other businesses
• my employees never need to transfer inventory between locations
• I always operate separate receivables
• I have unlike business that are not related in any way to my other companies

• No. 
• Your businesses can be the same or different corporations. 
• Your locations can be at the same physical location but they operate as separate corporate entities

• Yes.
• Multi-corporation = 100% different, independent businesses that do not interrelate except to share the same IBM server
• Each business (corporation) does not know the other one exists on the same server.  It is the same as if each had its own independent server and POS system.