Nine at night, laptop open. Log into store one, open the report, copy revenue and cash onto paper. Log out. Store two, copy again. Store three, again. Then the phone calculator: add it all up yourself. If nothing got mistyped, tonight’s combined number is ready by ten — and stale by breakfast.
More often, the ritual never happens at all. The business ends up judged from memory: “store A looked busy,” “store B seems fine.” The trouble is, feelings don’t add up.
A healthy total can hide a bleeding branch
Illustration (hypothetical figures): store A earns $900, store B $600, store C loses $280. Combined, that’s $1,220 — it still feels “decent,” and store C hides safely behind it. Two healthy stores quietly subsidize one leaking store, month after month.
The expensive part isn’t this month’s $280 loss. It’s how many months that number gets to live undetected — because the only way to see it used to be three logins and a calculator session that rarely happened.
The consolidated report: one login for every store
The Account Panel — where you already manage your Store Apps — now carries a consolidated report (the app UI is in Indonesian; the menu is called Laporan Gabungan). It reads every subscribed store on your account and merges the numbers onto one screen, arranged in tabs: Summary, Profit & Loss, Cash Flow, Pocket Balances, and Receivables & Payables.
Three things make it feel different from reports read one at a time:
- A store-scope picker. Tick which stores count — every tab follows that choice. All branches at once, or just the two you’re comparing this week: one click.
- Profit & loss by month. The whole business reads as a single number, and each store is computed on the same basis, so comparisons are fair. The lines read exactly like a single store’s P&L — except now the total is honest for the entire business.
- Pocket balances show today’s position. Cash drawers, bank accounts, and e-wallets across stores are read as the position right now — not merely this month’s movement. “How much money do we actually have, and where?” finally has a one-screen answer.
The numbers reload themselves periodically while the screen is open. And for anyone fluent in bookkeeping, a GL consolidation tab traces the merged figures down to each store’s ledger.
Two decisions that change shape
First: which branch is draining cash. As long as the numbers live in your head, a leaking branch surfaces only once it’s bad. With P&L and cash flow sitting side by side per store, the pattern shows early — and the follow-up is concrete: check that branch’s pricing, check its expenses, or sit down with its manager this week instead of at year’s end.
Second: when to dare open the next branch. Opening a branch isn’t a question of nerve; it’s a question of numbers — combined profit that has held steady for months, and pocket balances that cover the initial outlay plus the new branch’s expenses until it stands on its own. Both now read off the same screen. When the numbers say yes, the practical steps are in our second-workshop article.
Merged numbers are only as honest as the records beneath them
Every store in Automan still stands on its own — its own register, its own stock, its own books. The consolidated report reads; it changes nothing.
The consequence: if goods still move between branches by “take it now, record it later,” both branches’ profits are wrong — and the merged report is confidently wrong with them. That’s why this report is one package with multi-branch stock transfer: goods move as recorded transactions with the cost price traveling along, so each branch’s profit stands on the same footing. Copying product data and settings from an existing store also keeps item naming uniform across branches — apples get compared to apples.
One boundary we state up front: the consolidated report reads stores on a paid plan — Lite-plan stores aren’t merged in yet. Plan details are on the pricing page.
Opening it takes less time than reading this article
The steps are short: sign in to the Account Panel, open the consolidated report, pick the store scope. The full walkthrough, tab by tab, is in the consolidated multi-store reports tutorial.
A tidy owner isn’t the one who keeps three stores’ numbers memorized — it’s the one who stops guessing. Three logins become one, the scratch paper retires, and “how much did we make this month?” finally gets answered with a number, not a feeling.