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Multi-store POS: every shop, one back office

RetailPOS Studio is a multi-store POS: one business, one catalogue and one login, with stock, registers, staff and prices kept per location. Move stock between shops with a transfer instead of a phone call, compare sales across stores in one report, and give each manager access to their own shop only. It works the same whether your shops are on one street or in Dubai and Lahore.

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Included from Chain from $115 per location / month · + sales tax

Stock transfersSample data

BR-1

Saddar

12 in stock

BR-2

Tariq Road

2 in stock

BR-3

Clifton

6 in stock

Earbuds · Black — Tariq Road is below its alert level.

Try it — this is how it works in the app

What is a multi-store POS?

In short

A multi-store POS runs several shops as one business: a shared product catalogue with stock, registers, staff and sometimes prices kept separately per location. Owners see combined and per-store reports, move stock between shops with transfers, and control who can see or change each location.

By trade

Why shops open a second location — and what changes

General retail

Two variety stores, one buyer

One person buys for both shops. With a shared catalogue they place one purchase order, receive it into the main store, and transfer part of it to the second shop. Each shop sees its own stock, and the owner sees the total before deciding to buy more.

Gift shops

A shop plus a seasonal kiosk

Many gift sellers open a mall kiosk for the holidays. Add it as a location with its own register, transfer a starting stock, and transfer back what's left when the kiosk closes. Sales from the kiosk appear in the same reports as the main shop.

Phone shops

Handsets moving between branches

A customer wants a model that one branch has and another doesn't. Transfer it, and the IMEI travels with the unit, so the selling branch knows exactly which handset it received and the warranty is recorded against the right sale.

How it works

How do stores share one system?

  1. 01

    One catalogue, stock per location

    Products are created once and stocked per location. A new item added at head office is available to every shop, and each shop's count is independent. You can also make a product available only at certain locations, useful for a branch with a different customer base.

  2. 02

    Transfers with a paper trail

    A stock transfer records which items left which shop, when, and who sent them. Stock drops at the sending store and rises at the receiving one, with optional shipping charges recorded. No more borrowed stock nobody wrote down.

  3. 03

    Prices per store where you need them

    Selling price groups let one location charge differently, for example a tourist-area branch or a wholesale counter, while the catalogue stays the same. Each location can also have its own invoice layout, receipt footer and tax settings.

  4. 04

    Roles locked to a location

    Staff accounts are tied to the locations they work in. A cashier at the airport branch sees only that branch; a manager may see two; the owner sees all of them, with purchase prices and profit visible only to the roles you choose.

Set it up · focus ring

Adding a second shop

47 minutes, start to selling

Step 1 of 5 · ~5 min

Add the location

Enter the new shop's name, address, invoice layout and tax settings. It shares your catalogue from the start.

Spec table

What is shared and what is per store?

How data is organised across locations.
ItemShared across storesPer store
Products and barcodesYesCan be limited to certain stores
Stock quantityTotal visible to ownerYes, counted per location
Selling pricesDefault priceOptional price group per location
Customers and reward pointsYesPurchase history shows the store
Registers and cash—Yes, opened and closed per register
Staff accessOwner and adminsRoles limited to chosen locations
Invoice and receipt layoutTemplatesAssigned per location

How data is organised across locations.

What goes wrong when shops run separately

  • Two catalogues drift apart

    Separate systems per shop mean a price change is made in one and forgotten in the other. One catalogue fixes that.

  • Borrowed stock disappears

    Items carried across town without a transfer leave one shop short and the other over, and neither count is right.

  • Customers lose their points

    If a customer's points only exist at one shop, they stop bothering. Shared customers keep points valid everywhere.

  • No single view of profit

    Adding up reports from two systems at month end is slow and error-prone. Combined reports answer it in seconds.

Works with

Features this one leans on

Inventory

Stock levels per item, variant and location, updated by every sale, purchase, return, transfer and count.

Reports

Profit, stock, trending products, purchases and sales, registers, expiry and staff performance, per store or combined.

Purchase orders

Raise purchase orders from low-stock lists, receive deliveries against them, and handle short or damaged shipments.

Spec sheet · FAQ

Multi-store: your questions

01Is multi-store pricing per location?Day to day
Yes. Every plan is priced per location per month, and the Chain plan adds the central multi-store tools: transfers, per-store price groups and location-level roles. Two shops on Chain cost two times the Chain price in your currency.
02Can my stores be in different countries?Day to day
Yes. Locations can be in the USA, the UAE and Pakistan under one business, each with its own tax rates and receipt layout. Reports show figures in your business currency; talk to us on a demo about how you want cross-border reporting set up.
03Do customers' reward points work in every store?Day to day
Yes. Customers belong to the business, not to one shop, so points earned at one location can be redeemed at another. Each sale still records which store it happened in.
04Can a branch manager see head-office profit?Day to day
Only if you allow it. Permissions are set by role, and roles are limited to locations. You can let a manager see sales for their branch while hiding purchase prices and other branches.
05How do stock transfers work?Day to day
Create a transfer, choose the sending and receiving locations, add items by scanning or searching, and save. Stock moves on both sides with a record of who did it. Serialized items carry their IMEI or serial with them.
06Can each store have different opening hours and receipts?Day to day
Each location has its own address details, invoice layout and receipt footer, so a branch can print its own phone number and returns note. Opening and closing is done per register with a cash count.
07Can I add a temporary location like a pop-up?Day to day
Yes. Add it as a location, transfer stock in, sell, then transfer what's left back and deactivate it. You pay for it only while it's active on your plan.
08Can I see all stores in one report?Day to day
Yes. Sales, stock, profit and register reports can be filtered to one location or shown for all of them, so you can compare branches side by side.

Multi-store, in focus from day one.

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