Create your business
Set up your first business — industry, country, time zone, and name.
ShopRunner organises everything around a business (the internal name is "organisation", but the app says business). A business has one Owner, can have many shops, and contains all your staff, lists, suppliers, and settings.
Creating your first business
- Open the app for the first time, or tap Menu → Create your own business.
- Pick your industry - corner shop, café, restaurant, hardware store, and so on. The picker also covers care homes, schools, hospitals, and other non-retail businesses.
- Confirm your country (drives currency, units, and tax defaults).
- Pick a time zone (auto-detected from your country in most cases).
- Name your business.
- Add your first shop - see the next article.
Industry profile affects defaults
The industry you pick changes things across the app - labelling ("shop" vs "café" vs "restaurant"), default list categories, department layout, and which features show up in Menu. You can change the industry later in business settings but expect a few moments of re-labelling.
Multiple businesses
If you run more than one business - for example, two unrelated cafés - you can create a separate business for each. Switch between them in the shop switcher. Staff and lists are scoped per-business.