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title: "Multi-entity"
description: "Multi-entity meaning: one system runs several legal companies, each with its own books, currency and registrations. Learn why groups need it, with an example."
url: https://1flux.ai/glossary/multi-entity
last_updated: 2026-10-10
---

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# Multi-entity

Multi-entity meaning: one system running several legal companies, each with its own books.

Glossary Updated 10 October 2026

Definition

Multi-entity describes a system or set of books that handles several legal entities, each with its own registrations, currency and accounts, inside one environment.

## Multi-entity meaning for a group of companies

Groups of companies, such as a trading company with a subsidiary in another country, must keep each entity’s books separately for tax and statutory purposes, but want shared customers, items and users, and a combined view. A multi-entity system lets staff switch between companies, limits who can see which, numbers documents per entity and consolidates the results.

The alternative, a separate system for each company, means duplicate master data and [consolidation](https://1flux.ai/glossary/financial-consolidation) in spreadsheets.

Example: one workspace holds a Dubai entity in AED and a Riyadh entity in SAR, each with its own VAT number and letterhead. Read more in [running a UAE and a Saudi company in one system](https://1flux.ai/blog/uae-and-saudi-companies-in-one-system).

In 1flux

One workspace holds several legal entities, each with its own currency, registrations, letterhead, numbering for ERP documents (quotations share one workspace-wide sequence), warehouses and books, switched from the top bar. Entities can be registered in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and India. [See multi-company and multi-entity](https://1flux.ai/platform/multi-entity)

1. Legal entities

   - AE · AED Sadaf Building Supplies LLC
   - SA · SAR Sadaf Trading Company
   - Holding Consolidation into AED

2. One workspace

   - Sadaf Group workspace One login, entity-level access

Separate legal entities, each with its own currency and books, on one workspace.

Related

## Keep exploring

### [Legal entity](https://1flux.ai/glossary/legal-entity)

A company the law treats as separate from its owners.

### [Financial consolidation](https://1flux.ai/glossary/financial-consolidation)

Combining a group's companies into one set of figures.

### [Intercompany elimination](https://1flux.ai/glossary/intercompany-elimination)

Removing dealings between group companies when consolidating.

### [Multi-company and multi-entity](https://1flux.ai/platform/multi-entity)

Several legal entities in one workspace, each with its own registrations, currency and books.

Last updated 10 October 2026