---
title: "[Flow Classic] Common Group Settings"
description: "A guide to adding, editing, and deleting common groups or Area Manager groups, and adding stores to them."
url: https://help.flow-insight.com/en/articles/392-flow-classic-common-group-settings
collection: "Account & Settings"
updated: 2026-08-06
language: en
alternates: [ja]
---

# [Flow Classic] Common Group Settings

A guide to adding, editing, and deleting common groups or Area Manager groups, and adding stores to them.

> **Info:** This article describes Flow Classic, the previous version of Flow. Some screens and features may differ from the new app.

> **Info:** Role settings can only be configured by administrators and accounts with the required permission.

## Purpose and Use Cases

Create your own store groups or Area Manager groups, and add or edit stores within them — useful if you want to:

-   Create your own store groups for analysis
    
-   Add an Area Manager group
    

## Access

Select \[Settings\] ⇒ \[Common Groups\] from the menu bar.

## How to Use

### Adding a Common Group, Area Manager, etc.

1.  To add a new common group, Area Manager, etc., select the relevant item and click \[Add\] at the top right of the management screen.
    
2.  Enter/select the required fields, then click \[Save\].
    

### Export Order

You can set which groups are shown in Common Report 1 and 2 when exporting using the \[All-Store Report\] type in the \[Data Export\] feature.

\*If a store belongs to multiple groups and multiple groups have both 1 and 2, the groups are shown in the order they were created.

### Editing an Existing Group

Here's how to edit an existing common group.

1.  Click the edit button in the \[Edit\] column of the common group you want to edit.
    
2.  Modify the fields you want to change and click \[Save\]. This completes editing the information.
    

### Deleting an Existing Group

Here's how to delete an existing common group.

1.  Click the delete button in the \[Edit\] column of the common group you want to delete.
    
2.  Click \[Delete\] on the confirmation screen.
    

## Permission Restrictions

If you run into issues such as "Common Groups isn't showing", please check your Role settings.

-   Part of the Settings menu isn't shown
    
-   You can't add, edit, or delete
    

## Adding Stores to a Group

Here's how to add stores to an existing group.

1.  Click the \[Edit\] button for the group you want to add a store to.
    
2.  Under \[Add Store\] at the bottom of the group edit screen, check the box next to the store name you want to add, then click \[Add\].
    
3.  Click \[Save\] at the bottom right of the common group edit screen.
    

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If you have any questions or feedback, please contact support at [support@flow-solutions.com](mailto:support@flow-solutions.com).