Manage businesses

Overview

• Owners can manage the businesses attached to their MiniTill account from Owner → Businesses.
• Each business has its own name, contact details, address, GST number, slug, active status, stores, staff memberships, billing context, and business-scoped settings.
• One owner can operate more than one business. Each business remains a separate operational boundary even when the same person owns them.

When to use this

• Use Business management when setting up a separate company or trading operation that should have its own stores, staff access, business settings, and billing context.
• Use Edit Business when contact details, GST information, address, or active status changes.

Step-by-step

1. Open Owner → Businesses.
2. Choose an existing business to review its details, or select Add business to create another business.
3. Enter the business name and required contact details, then add address, phone, and GST number where applicable.
4. Keep the business active while it is in normal use.
5. After creating a business, add one or more stores and configure staff access for the people who will operate it.

Common mistakes

• Do not create a new Business for every physical location when the stores belong to the same operating business.
• Do not delete a business merely because one store has closed; manage the store separately.
• Deleting a business is a destructive owner action and should not be used as a normal way to hide or pause operations.

Troubleshooting

• If Owner → Businesses is not visible, confirm that your account has the Owner role.
• If you can operate a store but cannot edit its parent business, you may be a Store Manager or Cashier rather than an Owner or Business Manager.
• If a newly created business has no operational pages yet, add a store and ensure your active business/store scope is set correctly.