A second branch should not mean a second system
On a desktop licence, another location means another installation, a sync arrangement and a consolidation exercise every month end. In tBiz both branches write to one company, and the branch-wise trial balance is a filter rather than a merge.
| Branch | Sales | Gross margin | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coimbatore — main | 42,80,600.00 | 7,91,400.00 | 3,12,800.00 |
| Tiruppur | 18,40,200.00 | 3,22,100.00 | 1,04,600.00 |
| Erode depot | 9,12,400.00 | 1,48,700.00 | -18,200.00 |
What you get
Branches inside one company
One set of books, one numbering policy, one party master — with every document carrying the branch that raised it.
Branch-wise everything
Trial balance, profit and loss, stock and receivables filtered to a branch, without running separate books that have to be added up later.
Separate companies where they belong
A different legal entity gets its own company, its own books and its own returns, in the same account and the same login.
Cost centres across branches
A project or a vehicle that spans two branches is a cost centre, tagged on the voucher and inherited by the day’s postings.
Stock per location
Each branch holds its own stock, transfers between them post documents, and nobody sells from a godown three hundred kilometres away by accident.
Permissions per branch
A branch manager sees their branch. The owner sees all of them. Nobody has to be given the whole company to do their job.
How it works
- Decide company or branch. A separate legal entity is a company; a location of the same entity is a branch. That one decision settles numbering, returns and consolidation.
- Set up the branches. With their own warehouses, their own document series and their own users.
- Work normally. Every document records the branch it came from, without anybody selecting it each time.
- Read it either way. Per branch when you are managing one, consolidated when you are running the company.
Multi-branch questions
What is the difference between a branch and a company in tBiz?
A company is a separate set of books for a separate legal entity, with its own returns and its own numbering. A branch is a location within one company that shares its books and can be filtered out of any report. Getting this right at the start saves a migration later.
Can I see profit per branch?
Yes — profit and loss, trial balance, stock and receivables can all be filtered to a branch, because every document carries the branch that raised it.
Do branches need separate licences or logins?
No. Users are unlimited and a login is scoped by permission rather than by licence, so adding a branch does not mean a purchasing conversation.
How do stock transfers between branches work?
As a document, with a challan — which is also the document an e-way bill is raised from. Stock leaves one warehouse and arrives in another, and both sides are traceable.
Related
Open the second branch this week
Add a branch, give the manager a login, and get a branch-wise profit and loss from the first invoice.