Click >Multi Store tab >Setup button
For steps to convert a Single Store to Satellite with Central see: Change From Single Store to Central Acme
The Multi Store Shared Storage Setup dialog morphs depending on the Store Type.
Store Types are either Single, Central or Satellite.
Single Stores will only have the right hand tab active:
Central Acme's have have two tabs active:
If you have a stand-alone (not hosted) Acme, check the box to update customer open balances.
If you have a host accounting system, un-checking this box will make import form Satellite Stores run faster but Central Acme (all stores) will not reflect proper customer balance until you Post to Host, Import from Host and then pump to stores.
If you have a host accounting system that is fully interfaced (or QuickBooks with INI switch) customer balances in Central Acme are overwritten when you Import from Host anyhow.
If your host accounting system is QuickBooks, you have the option to update customer balances from QuickBooks or not. This is controlled by UpdateFromQB setting in the AcmeCustBal section of the Acme2HostQB.ini file. If you ever post customer payments directly in QuickBooks then set the INI to yes, and do as you wish with this checkbox. If you never post customer payments directly in QuickBooks, set the INI to no and check this box.
Send Current Month’s Tickets To Satellite Stores
Sends all tickets currently received by central back to the stores in the form of an archive table.
Additional Months To Send, ‘-1‘To Send ALL Tickets
indicates how many additional months (of archives) to include in the transfer. Additional months can only be sent if the current month is being sent. The recommendation is two months to provide good overlap during the period when switching to the next month or if updating has not been occurring and hasn’t been noticed for 6 weeks. If the merchant is in the habit of voiding tickets 6 months ago, then the setting will need to be increased to accommodate this. At least once, ALL Tickets should be sent to the satellite stores so each store has a complete history. After that, it should only be necessary to send the last few months on each update.
Send Consolidated Item History to Stores and Send Consolidated Customer History to Stores
These were added so sending history could be shut off. This data can represent a significant amount of time to generate while building the data set and if the merchant does not look at history data at the stores, then shutting these off makes sense. It’s possible that item history is not exposed anywhere in the UI.
Satellite Stores have both tabs active:
FTP information should be entered similar to this:
"Update On Hand Quantities"; set to No if this is a Stand Alone Acme Satellite Store. When set to no, the store will be the source of all on hand information, getting data from Central will not overwrite on hand levels.
A third tab called Update Settings may be visible with "Update Customer Open Balances" check box. This setting has no effect in Satellite Acme.
If you have a host accounting system, checking this box in Central Acme could speed up Get Transactions from Satellite Stores, but it makes Central Acme (and other stores) dependent on getting updated customer balances during Import from Host accounting system. Only check the box if you have a host accounting system you get cost from, in other words, not QuickBooks or AccountMate push.
