Three homes, one system:
- On the record. Nearly every record and transactional document carries an Attachments tab: the masters (customers, suppliers, products, employees) and the working documents (orders, invoices, receipts, payments, waybills, and the rest). A file here is visible to exactly the people who can see the record — there is no separate filing permission to get wrong (§14.3).
- In the Document Library. Standalone files that belong to no single record — the lease, the insurance policy, the registration certificate — live in a folder tree you shape yourself, beside the tree the file plan maintains (§14.4).
- In the capture inbox. Paper on its way in — supplier bills and receipts uploaded or emailed — waits here, already read, until a person decides what it becomes (§14.6).
A record's files have two doors: the same file you open from a customer's Attachments tab also stands in the library, in the folder the file plan computed for that customer (§14.5). It is stored once — the library folder is a place the system works out, not a copy. Prints join in too: the issued PDF of a posted document files itself onto the document (1.10), which puts it behind both doors at once.