Two stores are real. Pay-ins and pay-outs persist under their minted confirmation numbers, and counterparty entities persist under the alias id you choose — including edits, since the update route folds new values into the stored record (the GET path's program id, notably, is decoration; the alias alone is the key). Everything else is fixed: created counterparty users never resolve — reads always answer Mary Smith — invoice and payable searches return their single canonical documents whatever the criteria, and the payments routes serve one Deposited ACH debit regardless of path id.