Hi Dan,

W.r.t your query, I have gone through it and tried to replicate it . Few recommendations which I would like to suggest you are :-

1. The Multi Company concept basically means managing in a same database different companies that share information like Address Book, Products Catalog

2. As in your case you have several brands, drawing on the same inventory, but with different names/sku's for each brand hence by maintaining Multi Company you would be able to share the parent company's informations to the child companies.

3. Please go through the below links which clearly explains the business scenarios where you can use the multi company concept

\http://www.slideshare.net/openobject/francois-multi-company

4. Also this document link would also help you in understanding the Multi company concept in Odoo

https://doc.odoo.com/book/multi/

Hope this helps.

 Cheers!!

Hi Fabien,

I am experimenting exactly the same concern indicated by Dan:

Unique company operating accross distinct brands.

How do we work Odoo out in order to get:

a) Multiple distinct brands with different logos.

b) Separate targeted clients for each brand.

c) Separate quotations, sales orders, invoices logos while sharing a unique sequence.

d) Same product inventory (unique inventory shared among brands).

e) Unique account chart.

I guess MultiCompany is not the right choice, as indicated.

Please help,

Thank you !

Thank you Fabien!  So my next question is, how do I set up multiple distinct brands with different logos, product names and product sku's while drawing on the same inventory?  My situation cannot be unique, so I imagine the solution has been created by others before, but I have not found a "best practices" guide for this...

Also, if I have DBA's for each brand (DBA = Doing Business As = separate business names for each brand) does this still hold true? 

Thank you again for your quick response!

Hi, 

You can see following for this:

https://youtu.be/GkNgc-fZO-I

Hope it helps,

Thanks

I have the same thing I'm trying to work out. I want to have 3 different companies (legal entities with separate accounting), but each company has multiple brands. For example, I have a dental equipment business, a dental consumables business, and a dental scanning business, all with different branding/invoicing/quoting but under the one 'parent' company. Then I have a web design and development company with different brands for the various business divisions, each with different branding/invoicing/quoting but under the one 'parent' company. Then I have a company with a friend and we do various business ventures together until we build it up enough to create a new company, so there are multiple legal entities and then multiple brands for each company. 

Soooo.... from a technical side, I might be able to create a new app in Studio which duplicates the same functionality as the Sales App and set up new/different quoting and invoicing templates for each brand. I'm not 100% sure if this will work, but I think as a project it might be cool. So then I just duplicate the app for the different brands. So on the dental businesses I could have a "Dental Scanning" app, "Dental Consumables" app, "Dental Equipment" app, each with the functionality of quoting and invoicing branded as if they are their own entity. 

Prior to Odoo I was using 4 different billing systems, one for each brand is a hacky sort of way using WHMCS. It works well, but having multiple licenses and having to log into different platforms for each business is inefficient. My dream is to run multiple companies with multiple brands all  from the one platform.

Hi, Did anybody found a way ? I feel like the whole ODOO multicompany is FAR FAR from what this means in real world (separate logos, domain, email gateways, etc.) Simple thing as multiple DOMAINs I did not found a way, so I am pretty sad about this great feature. 
Seems the only solution is odoo multiple independent instances, and forget about having it clever ....."central warehouse, or central settings, or central client informations, etc)