Two companies, one book

Why one book?

Savistar (interior design) and Saag (furniture manufacturing) are sister companies — a sister concern arrangement, in Indian accounting terms — under the same owners, sharing a single client list. Rather than running two separate systems that need to be kept in sync, both businesses operate out of one app with one combined finance ledger.

How "two companies" actually works

There's no tenant or company table underneath this — it's a single shared database with one client table. What distinguishes a Savistar job from a Saag order is mostly a matter of which tab it lives in (Projects for Savistar's design work, Orders for Saag's furniture orders), plus a single field on each invoice that picks the right letterhead, logo, GSTIN, and registration details when a PDF is generated. It's a shared single-tenant app modeling two business lines, not a multi-tenant system — simpler than "two companies, one book" might suggest, and that simplicity is the point: nobody has to maintain a heavier structure than the business actually needs.

Where the real structure is: who can see what

The part that isn't simple is financial visibility. Staff log day-to-day cash transactions, but their view of the cash ledger is scoped to only the entries they personally created — enforced at the point the data is fetched, not just hidden in the interface. Bank data goes further: it isn't scoped, it's excluded entirely. Every request touching bank information from a staff account is rejected before any query even runs. Owners see everything; staff see their own cash activity and nothing from the bank side.

Why it's built this way

None of this depends on every integration being perfectly configured. The database, file storage, and AI extraction the app uses elsewhere are each optional at the infrastructure level — the app runs regardless, and each feature behaves according to whether its own configuration is present, rather than the whole system depending on all of them being wired up.

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"They really took the time to understand our concerns and requirements, and the system was built the way we had envisioned it. It has brought much more structure, visibility, and control to the way we operate."

— Sachi & Haripriya, owners of Savistar and Saag

shared structure

one client list, one combined finance ledger, no tenant/company table

staff cash visibility

own entries only

staff bank visibility

none, every bank route rejects staff