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Independent books

The most important rule of working together: books are per person, and mutually invisible.

One brand on the outside, separate money on the inside — that is a deliberate design, not an unfinished feature.

Why the books stay apart

  • Everyone here is an independent operator, and your tax is your tax. Your ABN is yours; theirs is theirs.
  • HuanHuan only strings people under one brand so the work gets done. It does not merge your money into one set of books.
  • Merge the books and nobody can say whose income it was, who declares it, or who owes whom. Keeping them apart is the simpler answer.

HuanHuan never touches the money

The platform takes no payments, makes no payouts and takes no cut. Every transfer happens between you offline; the app only keeps the status straight: the owner pays and taps "Mark paid", and the helper's side flips from "Waiting for owner to settle" to "✓ Paid".

Three dividing lines

① Between stores. One account can run several stores ("My stores (N)", with ＋ Start another business underneath; switching says "Tap a store to switch which one you're managing."). Each store has its own Ledger, its own 📊 Reports, its own ⚙ Invoice settings.

Your own stores are summed on your own home page

The big number at the top of Today reads "Net today · all stores", and with more than one store you can tap it open ("▼ tap to see each") for each store's "Today … · Total … · Deposit …". That sums the stores you own — it is all your money anyway. It never crosses people: someone else's store, or someone else's helper income, is not in that figure.

② Between owner and helper. The scope a helper joins under is stated on the invite page: "Once joined, you help with this store's work as a helper and only see collaboration-related content." They see the job dispatched to them and their own pay; they do not see what the job sold for — that promise is printed under the button on your dispatch page:

Helpers only see their own amount, not the price of the job itself.

③ Helper income is its own block. Money earned helping other stores sits in its own section of their ledger — 🤝 Helper income (working for other stores) · N — listed apart from their own store's entries, and it gets its own block with its own numbers on the report page too.

The intro line on the 🤝 Collab page sums the structure up:

Every subcontract your stores dispatched, plus the jobs you take on as a helper — all in one place.

What your stores sent out, and what you personally took on: one page, two sets of books.

Where the money on one job goes

Ah Qiang runs "Ah Qiang Moving". Lin is one of his helpers and also runs a cleaning store of her own. Ah Qiang dispatches a job to Lin at an agreed $240.

Whose side What shows
Ah Qiang (owner) A card only he can see on the dispatch: This job's books — Revenue booked − Subcontract cost = Net {amount}. Before the source job is billed it reads "Net −$240 (not booked yet, subcontract cost only)".
Lin (helper) Only the Your job card: pay $240, time slot, address, customer. Not what the customer was charged.
Lin's cleaning store Nothing at all. The $240 lands in her 🤝 Helper income (working for other stores).
What Ah Qiang sees of Lin Her name, phone and join date (under 🤝 Helpers), plus her pay and status on this dispatch. What her cleaning store turns over, or what she earns elsewhere, appears nowhere in his app.

The helper's four numbers follow that same money:

Number When it sits here
Potential You invited them; no answer yet
Committed They tapped "✓ Accept"
Earned They tapped "✓ Mark complete"; the money hasn't arrived
Paid You transferred it offline and tapped "Mark paid"

The same four appear on their Today, 🤝 Collab and Me pages; in the ledger each entry also carries its own tag — "Pending" until it lands, "Paid" once it has. To reconcile, trust the tag on the entry, not the summary.

Everyone binds their own ABN

The ABN belongs to the store, not to the account: each store fills its own ABN, address and email under 🧾 Invoices → ⚙ Invoice settings → Business details, and that prints on that store's invoice header ("ABN 12 345 678 901"). Tick "Include GST 10% (Tax Invoice)" and the printed heading becomes TAX INVOICE.

So two people teaming up, each with their own store, their own ABN and their own invoices — that works today.

It is not a tax tool

HuanHuan prints the ABN you typed, timestamps your ledger, and exports CSV for your accountant. What you declare and how is between you and that accountant.

What the app cannot do today

  • No percentage splits. Pay is either a fixed amount agreed per person (Fixed price) or settled as "base + rate × hours" (⏱ Hourly). A 60/40 or 70/30 auto-split does not exist — the old Assigning and splits page described one, and that design never shipped.
  • No "attributed to" field inside a single store. The old page mentioned tagging each record with who handled it as a stopgap; checked line by line against the live app, that field does not exist. The way to split by person today is to subcontract the job: each helper gets their own record, their own pay and their own status.
  • What a helper earns elsewhere never enters your reports, and vice versa. That is what "independent" means — no data went missing.

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