taking payments for 2 companies on one reader?

[vincewak]

Hi, Might be a bit odd but we have just started a farm shop that sells products from 2 companies, 1 is VAT registered and the other is not. It would be good if each product had an owner attached to it and payments went to the correct supplier instead of just to one account. Currently we have to take 2 payments on 2 different machines and it would be good if we had just one machine and the software split up the monies and paid to the correct accounts.  

Any thoughts?

Cheers

Vince

[Sam_400º]

This would be very ‘non standard’ so anything here is not a supported solution, but……

You could run the main app signed in as one business and then run the beta app signed in as the second business - as both are on the same device I think the reader would be seen by both (my reader is seen by restaurant app and also the main app). 

You could try the same with the retail app and also the standard app. 

Question though - does it matter? You could have things in categories and this would mean your reporting would be sound. You are the retail business, so if you’re VAT liable/registered then that’s the thing you have to sort. Even if you’re paying one supplier VAT on a product it’s irrelevant if you’re not charging VAT/registered. 

[doc_choc]

I would have to agree with @Sam_400º both of VAT accounting and the use of categories, I think running the app and beta is an option but may produce issues if beta encounters a bug that affects specific functionality.  

[vincewak]

Thanks for the replies. I did not think it would be possible but thought I would ask. I don't want to run 2 versions as it would still need to be 2 separate transactions so might as well run 2 machines as we are now. As is normal I want the simplest (for me) solution, that would be 1 logon, 1 list of items, 1 payment from the customer, and from that point on the software would allocate the split funds to the correct bank accounts based on a field in the product details to say who the owner of that product was. 

Cheers

Vince

[Sam_400º]

Obviously we don’t know your business @vincewak but I’d highly recommend speaking to an accountant from what you’ve said. 

You are the business taking payment, so therefore it’s all on you. Totally irrelevant who your suppliers are.