Channel Stock Points

A stockist or distributor holds your stock and keeps its own books. A dispatch to one is mirrored as a sale out of your godown and a purchase into theirs, so each side reads its own stock and its own balance. Off bills them as ordinary customers.

Switch: Settings > Field Sales > Channel Stock Points.

Where it appears

The channel tiers (Super Stockists, Stockists, Distributors) carry a warehouse of their own, and the office dispatches to it. See Stock & Warehouses.

Flow

flowchart TD
    A[Company godown] --> B[Dispatch to a stock point]
    B --> C[(Sale in your book)]
    B --> D[(Purchase in theirs)]
    D --> E[Stockist sells on to retailers]
    E --> F[Its own stock and balance]
    F --> G[Downline balance: what that tier owes upward]

One movement, two books — which is what lets a distributor’s stock be counted without it being yours.

Screens

Shops and channel tiers - a tier is a customer of the tier above, with a warehouse when this is on.
Dispatch - out of the right stock point for the order, rather than always out of the company godown.

Switching off. Warns at save when parties are set up as a stock point, holding stock in a godown of their own — the settings page says how many.