Problem How
to run two businesses with MacNail construction
management software. Handling a second multiple sideline business
or company, both general contractor and subcontractor
Diagnosis
The key question is, how separate are the
two businesses?
1. If the businesses share many vendors
and employees (e.g. a remodeling biz and a roofing biz),
they
can probably share one MacNail folder.
2. If the businesses are VERY distinct,
use two separate MacNail folders.
Solution
CASE 1--SHARING ONE FOLDER.
Each biz will have separate Ledger (or possibly more than one apiece). Will probably also
have separate estimators, Labor Log, Material Log, etc. But they will all be in the same Accounts/Estimates/Schedules
folders.
Payroll reports will be based on employees from BOTH businesses together--to pay some employees
from one account and some from another, they'll have to do it by hand rather than use the 'post to ledger'
command.
Comments
CASE 2--USING SEPARATE FOLDERS
Make a second MacNail
folder for the 2nd business, and set up a completely different Master
Index, ledgers, logs, cc sheets, estimators, estimates, etcetera in each folder.
They can only work on one business at a time unless they have enough RAM to create and open
two separate copies of Excel (they'll have to duplicate the Excel application and have two
copies of it under 2 different names on the hard disk), which can then run two different Managers.
Entered 11/9/92 by Vinay, expanded 1/8/93
by Dennis. Updated 11/25/2010.
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