We want to start over with Manager, so we have a few questions

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@matysanchez

The first question is about a how to start from zero. We have money in our accounts: that amount we can put in opening balance. We have a lot of inventory items, that we can put in opening balance too. But we have invoices to pay to our suppliers for that inventory, we know how much we owe, but its really really hard to put the invoices because some inventory were sold.

you can set a starting balance for the suppliers.

@matysanchez

We have different areas in our company: ecommerce, retail stores, our own clothing line, we received merchandise on consignment (we offer a service for other clothing brands to sell in our stores and website without buying their products). We should create a new business inside manager for each division?

if all these business is carried out from a single company name, you do not need to create separate business in Manager.
you can track the cash flow using separate cash accounts.
also you can use separate inventory locations for all the different business you do.
you can check the guides for these.

@matysanchez

In our ecommerce division we offer free shipping if you buy more than X amount. How we can input in Manager the value that our logistics provider charges us for shipping. We want to know how much we owe, because is a service that we pay at the end of the month. This is not a expense to us, is a cost, so we want to know how to input to affect the cost of goods sold.

read this topic.

Recording (free) shipping charges on invoice

First of all thanks for the excellent software. It is very easy to use and simple to understand the concept of accounting. My question: In the sales invoice I would like to add a separate shipping cost but this must be reduced from product selling cost(Currently it just adds to the total) But if I give 100% discount on shipping it will work as I want but will not add this amount to my shipping account( configured as liability account). Please note shipping is free for my customers.

@matysanchez

We have a situation that apply for ecommerce and fisical stores: packaging. We should add the boxes and bags as a inventory? And for each sale add one with sale price: 0? Or how we can manage this, we want to know how the packaging affects our costs of inventory and how to input.

yes add them as an inventory. follow the same step as suggested in the above attached topic. or else enable and use production orders. if the packaging is a fixed quantity, you can use inventory kits under settings.

@matysanchez

We offer free changes and money back if you don’t like the product. How we can handle this in manager, for example for:

** A person who want to return the product, but don’t want the money back.

** A person who want to return the product, and want the money back. (100% the money in some cases and other cases less money (because the shipping cost))

use credit notes. in case they do not want money back, just leave the value as blank.

@matysanchez

We have more than 100 trasanctions per day in our ecommerce and stores, is there any way to create in batch the sales? And the same for purchase invoices.

not at present. you can use the Clone option though if most things in an invoice are same.

@matysanchez

Do you have a official PHP API, or at least a Restful API. It would be awesome to us to integrate our POS and ecommerce system to manager.

read this topic.

The Manager API

Hello, I have recently started using the manager API. I want to create a bunch of useful scripts for requesting info, in Python. @Lubos, this is great! I’m really glad, so many years on, to be so gladly still using manager. It’s grown my business greatly! Hopefully, this API will make life even easier. Could you comment on the status of the API? Do we have anything more than GET at the moment? I was hoping this would become a useful place to have some ‘centralised’ discussion on the API, as I…

@matysanchez

Any way/service to do a daily backup of our data?

you can backup you business manually. also you can sync this to your google drive, etc.

the solutions provided are in general. you can find detailed guides for mostly everything in the guides section. also, you can search the forum for specific answers as most of your questions have already been discussed in detail by other users.