# Several stores in the same organization: what belongs to each store and what is shared

> For the administrator: what is configured in each store and what applies to the whole organization when your company has several stores.

Source: https://vendria.com/en/ajuda/varias-lojas-na-mesma-organizacao

## Where to find it

In your account menu, under **Company Settings**. The page first shows
what applies to the whole organization and, at the end, the list of **Stores**: each store
opens its own page when clicked.

## What a store is, and what the organization is

The **organization** is your company in Vendria: the account that brings together people, customers
and settings. The **store** is a sales operation inside it, each with its
own catalog and its own prices. A distributor that sells two brands through
two channels, or a manufacturer with two sales units, usually has one store
for each.

An organization with a single store works the same way; the difference shows up when there are
two or more, and that is when it matters to know what belongs to each store.

## What belongs to each store

These things are configured and live **store by store**: changing one doesn't touch the
others:

- **Catalog**: products belong to a store. Importing a spreadsheet or
  syncing the ERP feeds that store's catalog.
- **Price tables**: each store has its own, and the default table belongs to the store. They are
  under **Prices**, **Price tables** tab.
- **Store rules in Commercial Rules**: minimum order value, payment
  terms and default freight, among others. Whether the store controls stock is under
  **Catalog and exports**, **Product page** tab. The fields
  that depend on the store carry its name in the title (for example, **Minimum Order
  Value (R$) — Store X**).
- **Default Discount (%)**: on the store's page, under **Summary**.
- **ERP connection**: each store has its own (or none), and each synced
  item is enabled store by store.
- **Being active or deactivated**: deactivating a store doesn't affect the others.

## What belongs to the whole organization

These apply to **all stores at once**:

- **Company identity**: name, CNPJ, address, phone, email and logo. The
  store only has its own name; that is why changing the CNPJ or the logo on a store's page
  changes it for all of them.
- **Customers**: there is a single customer registry, and it serves all stores.
- **Sellers**: the registry also belongs to the organization. That is why the number of
  **sellers** and **customers** in the store list is the same on every row.
- **Carriers**.
- **The Company Settings switches**: **Multi-store cart**, **Independent
  orders per store**, **Companies from different groups in the same order**,
  **Pre-sale counts as stock**, **Default unit when the quantity comes without a
  unit** and **Order extraction hints**.

⚠️ Taxes are per store: each store has its own switches for where the tax appears
(quotes and orders, lists, product page and search), and the quotes one also has
a switch per tax. There is no organization-wide switch. A rep agency can
decide the tax on quotes credited to it, instead of the store's switches. See
[Taxes and tax settings](/en/ajuda/impostos-e-configuracao-fiscal).

## A purchase with items from several stores

With **Multi-store cart** on, buyer and seller build a single cart with
products from different stores. At checkout, the purchase splits into **one order
per store**, each with its own number and with its store's prices. See [Quando um pedido vira vários: a compra multi-loja pelo lado da casa](/ajuda/compra-multi-loja-do-lado-do-vendedor).

With the switch off, each cart stays in a single store.

## Which store the screens are showing

Several settings screens work on **one store at a time**: the store your
session is in. ⚠️ **Opening a store's page in Company Settings
switches your session to that store, without warning.** From then on, the parts of
**Commercial Rules** that don't list the stores one by one start answering for it.

In practice: to adjust another store's rules, first open that store's page
in the **Stores** list and then go to **Commercial Rules**. Check the store name
in the titles before saving.

## Common questions

**I changed the CNPJ on one store and it changed on all of them.** That is expected: the CNPJ belongs to the
organization. A store has no tax identity of its own in Vendria.

**The customer appears in every store.** Yes: the customer registry belongs to the
organization. What changes from one store to another is the catalog and the price they see.

**I created a store and its catalog is empty.** A new store is born with no products and
no price table. See [Create a new store in the organization](/en/ajuda/criar-uma-loja-nova-na-organizacao).

**I want a store to stop selling without losing anything.** Deactivate it on its page.
See [A store's page: details, default discount and deactivation](/en/ajuda/pagina-de-uma-loja-dados-e-desativacao).