Site, in terms of Ginesys, is an entity which is the location of various operations of the business from purchasing to sale. Suppose a company manufactures shirts and directly sells it to the customers from its own stores as well as uses franchisees for selling its products. In such a case, it will first create a Organization Unit for manufacturing (by default one organization unit gets created on installation of Ginesys and need not create another for manufacturing). For sale it will create a managed consignment site and for franchisee, it may create a customer site.

Sites in Ginesys are of three types - 

1. Organisation Site

2. Managed Site

3. Unmanaged Site

Organisation Site

Organisation owned site are sites which belong to and are owned by the organisation directly and are obviously managed through Ginesys. It is defined at the following software location - Admin > Organization > Hierarchy > Organization Site. It may be recognized by the fact, that Ginesys HO modules (Desktop and/or Web) are running on it and if the organization uses the Ginesys Finance module then it will be running at the organization site.

Managed v/s Unmanaged Site

The major difference, between the Managed and Unmanaged sites, is that in case of managed sites Ginesys POS will be running at the store. In case of unmanaged sites, however, any other software can be used in the store. In other words, in case of managed site, it is controlled by Ginesys and in case of unmanaged sites, there is no link with Ginesys. 

Managed sites are defined at Retail Management > Setup > Site and Unmanaged sites are defined at Sales and Distribution > Setup > Unmanaged Sites.

While managed sites (POS) may be both organization owned or customer owned; unmanaged sites are by default customer owned.

Typically, the organization owned managed sites are managed in consignment mode

while any customer owned site may be managed in consignment or  outright mode.