Available at¶
Which of your shops sell a product. Only appears if your business has more than one shop.
Where: menu → Sales → Products → any product → Available at.
A product can belong to one shop, or be available at several. When it is available at several there is still only one product: rename it once and every shop sees the new name. Each shop keeps its own price.
The three choices¶
| Choice | What it means |
|---|---|
| This shop only | Nobody else sells it. The default, unless your business is set up otherwise. |
| All shops | Every shop sells it, now and any shop you open later. |
| Choose shops | You pick. This shop is always included — to stop selling it here, untick the others and choose This shop only, or delete it. |
Pick more than one shop and a price box appears for each of the others. Fill it in or leave it — a shop with no price of its own starts at this shop's.
What is the same everywhere, and what each shop sets¶
This is the whole idea, so it is worth knowing before you share anything.
| The same at every shop | Each shop sets its own |
|---|---|
| Name and description | Price |
| Barcode | Department |
| Photos | Show in online store |
| Options and modifiers | Order in the online store |
| Cost price | Recipe, if it differs |
Change anything in the left column and it changes everywhere, immediately for you and within a few minutes on the other shops' tills. Anything in the right column is that shop's own business and yours never overwrites it.
Sharing a product¶
Choose All shops or Choose shops and save. Marlow & Vine's sourdough is then on Little Kite's till too.
What the other shops get:
- Your price, as a starting point. They can change it and you will not see the change on your own till — that is correct, not a fault.
- Not shown in the online store. Always off to begin with, at every shop but yours, because a product they have not looked at yet should not appear to their customers. They turn it on when they want it.
- The department with the same name, if they have one. Marlow & Vine's "Bakery" finds Little Kite's "Bakery". If they have no department of that name it arrives unfiled and they file it — you cannot create a department at another shop from here.
Photos move with the product and keep working at every shop. Nothing is re-uploaded and nothing changes on your screen.
Stopping¶
This shop only takes it back. It becomes an ordinary product of this shop's, keeping whatever price, department and online setting it has here right now, and it leaves the other shops' tills at their next refresh.
If this was the only shop still selling it, the product simply becomes yours again.
What is and isn't affected¶
| Past sales | Untouched. Sharing keeps the same product, so reports and receipts from before still line up. |
| Stock | Untouched. Stock is already counted per shop and this changes nothing about it. |
| Barcodes | Same everywhere. Scanning it at either shop finds it. |
| Deleting | Deletes it everywhere it is sold. There is one product, so there is one delete. To stop selling it at one shop only, untick that shop. |
Good to know¶
- Changing a price here changes it here. The box at the top of the editor is always this shop's price. Other shops' prices are the ones in the table under Available at.
- A product only another shop has cannot be shared from this till. Go to that shop, or ask whoever works there, and share it from their end.
- You cannot set another shop's department or online listing from here. The row says set at that shop, and that is deliberate — it stops one shop quietly rearranging another's storefront.
- Selecting shops one at a time is the same as All shops if you tick them all, with one difference: All shops also covers any shop you open in future, and a hand-picked list does not.