Chapter 35
Is it time for a second shop?
There is no report that decides this for you — opening a second branch is a decision about your own business, not a number this guide can supply.
What the product does give you: goods keep ONE cost across every branch, so a second shop never forces you to re-price or re-value anything already on your shelves — moving stock between branches only ever changes WHERE it sits, never what it is worth. And a branch must trade in the same country as the rest of the organisation; a shop abroad needs its own separate organisation, because two countries' tax rules cannot share one set of books.
What tells you it might be time
Not a feeling — read what this shop already records. If the Branch Comparison report (Business plan) or your own daily totals show you are regularly turning sales away because a shift is fully booked or a delivery is out of reach, that is a fact you can act on. A guess dressed up as a target is not.
Once you do open one, Branch Dashboard (also Business plan) is what lets you watch the new shop without standing in it — today's sales per branch, which tills are open, and any counted cash difference, in one place. It will not tell you whether to open a third; that question comes back to you again.