Several counters, one company, no mixed stock
A second shop is not a second login and a shared pile of cartons. It is the same company, with stock and cash that know which door they belong to.
Opening another counter feels like copying the first one. Same suppliers, same prices, same customers who wander between the two. The mistake is to keep one stock number for both doors. Then a sale in the new shop reduces a carton that is still sitting in the old godown, and both managers are telling the truth about a number that describes neither place.
The company is the owner. The branch is the place.
Customers, suppliers, and the way you price can belong to the company. The carton, the cash drawer, and today's invoices belong to a branch. When you sell, you sell from the branch you are standing in. When you count, you count that shelf. When you close cash, you close that drawer.
DealerBook is built that way on purpose. A company holds the business. Branches hold the stock movements, the document numbers, and the cash. Two shops can both issue invoice 00001 on the same morning without pretending they are the same counter.
If a report cannot say which door the sale walked out of, it is a story about the company and not a tool for the manager.
Do not share a login to share the truth
A shared password is how a second shop starts. It is also how you lose the ability to see who adjusted the stock. Give each person their own login, on the same company. The plan limits how many people and how many branches you can add, which is a better constraint than a password written on the shutter.
When the business itself is a different owner, that is not a branch. That is another company, with its own customers and its own trial. Mixing two owners in one set of books is how a family argument becomes a balance sheet.
Move goods, do not imagine them
Stock that travels from one branch to another should be an adjustment out and an adjustment in, with a note that names the other door. A phone call is not a transfer. Until both sides have moved the quantity, one shop is selling a ghost and the other is counting a ghost.
Set the second branch up before the first sale, not after the first argument. The first week will feel like extra typing. The first mismatch you avoid is the week it pays for itself.
