Hi. I’m starting up a second company and have begun considering whether I should choose a multi-enterprise setup or have separate installations. Any opinions, anyone?
Hello,
There are many differences between them. For example, if the products and third parties are the same, MultiCompany is recommended.
Centralized management yields better results; installing 10 Dolibarrs can create many problems and is difficult to control.
With Multicompany, you can manage them completely separately. Only the database will be shared. For more details, I recommend researching SaaS and LaaS.
Personally, I prefer using MultiCompany.
Exactly, if data needs to be regularly shared between instances then go for Multicompany.
if the companies have nothing in common you can do separate Dolibarr. Better for security in some cases.
Thanks to you both for your answers. What about if I one day sell one of the companies, can I then separate what is in the the Database?
This is a careful and small ‘probably’. I think you can separate what is in the database, the question is how easy it is going to be.
Maybe it is enough to do a database backup under Top menu Home, left menu Setup, backup, … and then restore that for a separate installation.
Or maybe you actually need to do more SQL trickery where you either only copy elements where there is an entity, or drop elements from the tables where the entity is the unwanted company, but have in mind that not all tables have an entity column…
Unless I missed an option for this, separation is not going to be an easy one click with multicompany. The best in that case would probably to copy the whole database and restrict access to unused company.
Difficultly also depends on what has been shared between companies.
