Multiple branches/locations/stores with one company file

[BrentNewland]

I work for a computer repair shop which uses QB Pro 2009 to manage all the finances. Right now I'm making a service order system in PHP using Consolibyte's connection scripts (to manage customers, make service orders, automatically send payments to quickbooks for invoicing, etc). That's not a problem (besides being horribly complicated).

I'm thinking about future proofing the software I'm making, which brings to mind multiple locations. We're thinking of expanding in the next year or two, and we'll obviously need to use Quickbooks to manage the new location's finances.

What concerns me is that we need to have all of our clients in one quickbooks database (since connecting the software to multiple quickbooks databases would be a huge nightmare and could lead to accounting errors).

So, is there any way for one Quickbooks company database to manage the finances for multiple locations? (We would be using a single installation of Quickbooks with a single company file, with all the work done by the script I'm writing) I guess, specifically, we would need to assign invoices, bills, payments, etc. to different stores for accounting and tax purposes (keep in mind that I'm just a tech and PHP programmer, and I've never really used Quickbooks).

[Lyle Workman]

Look into the use of Classes to track sales, etc. for multiple locations. QuickBooks help is a good place to start.

Good Luck and Merry Christmas!

[Dena Stern]

I work for a computer repair shop which uses QB Pro 2009 to manage all the finances. Right now I'm making a service order system in PHP using Consolibyte's connection scripts (to manage customers, make service orders, automatically send payments to quickbooks for invoicing, etc). That's not a problem (besides being horribly complicated).

I'm thinking about future proofing the software I'm making, which brings to mind multiple locations. We're thinking of expanding in the next year or two, and we'll obviously need to use Quickbooks to manage the new location's finances.

What concerns me is that we need to have all of our clients in one quickbooks database (since connecting the software to multiple quickbooks databases would be a huge nightmare and could lead to accounting errors).

So, is there any way for one Quickbooks company database to manage the finances for multiple locations? (We would be using a single installation of Quickbooks with a single company file, with all the work done by the script I'm writing) I guess, specifically, we would need to assign invoices, bills, payments, etc. to different stores for accounting and tax purposes (keep in mind that I'm just a tech and PHP programmer, and I've never really used Quickbooks).


Hi,

Quickbooks application is very helpful in tracking your sales to different clients by adding them to your quickbooks applications. But in here you have to add the different types of expenses applicable for that particular clients in order to track your accurate income for every clients.

Jong