A customer, who is sometimes known as a client, buyer, or purchaser is the one who receives goods, services, products, or ideas, from a seller for a monetary consideration. A customer can also receive goods or services from a vendor or a supplier for other valuable considerations.
You can either directly create your Customers via
Selling > Customer
or upload it via the Data Import Tool.
Note: Customers are separate from Contacts and Addresses. A Customer can have multiple Contacts and Addresses.
Contacts and Addresses in ERPNext are stored separately so that you can attach multiple Contacts or Addresses to Customers and Suppliers.
Read Contact to know more.
In ERPNext, there is a separate Account record for each Customer, for each Company.
When you create a new Customer, ERPNext will automatically create an Account Ledger for the Customer under “Accounts Receivable” in the Company set in the Customer record.
Advanced Tip: If you want to change the Account Group under which the Customer Account is created, you can set it in the Company master.
If you want to create an Account in another Company, just change the Company value and “Save” the Customer again.
You can link a Price List to a Customer (select “Default Price List”), so that when you select that Customer, the Price List will be automatically selected.
You can set “Credit Days”, so that it is automatically set due date in the Sales Invoices made against this Customer. Credit Days can be defined as fixed days or last day of the next month based on invoice date.
You can set how much credit you want to allow for a Customer by adding the “Credit Limit”. You can also set a global “Credit Limit” in the Company master. Classifying Customers
ERPNext allows you to group your Customers using Customer Group and also divide them into Territories Grouping will help you get better analysis of your data and identify which Customers are profitable and which are not. Territories will help you set sales targets for the respective territories. You can also mention Sales Person against a customer.
A Sales Partner is a third party distributor / dealer / commission agent / affiliate / reseller who sells the companies products, for a commission. This is useful if you make the end sale to the Customer, involving your Sales Partner.
If you sell to your Sales Partner who in-turn sells it to the Customer, then you must make a Customer instead.
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