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CRM: manage and track sales, fulfillment, and accounting activity for a specific customer on a single page

Customers - need to know
The Customer Master enables you to manage interactions (e.g. email) and transactions (e.g. Sales Orders) between your business and your Customers across multiple channels. 
Customers are trading partners and the central element of the Sales and CRM activities in the system. 
From the Customer Master you can track the respective AR (accounts receivable) balance, credit terms, and credit status.
Create Customer(s)
There are multiple ways to create a Customer Master:
List - manual
Import 
TAP (Trade Acceleration Portal) 
API 
Third Party Shopping Cart
Set the correct trading currency
When you create/set up a Customer make sure you set the correct Currency. The default will be the base currency of your General Ledger. See ‘Currencies’
Customization: additional fields and functions
If you don’t have all of the fields (or the functionality) you need on the Customer Master, you can add Custom Fields to store and use additional data. Data from Custom Fields on the Customer Master can be inherited by child Documents (e.g. Sales Orders) See 'Customization’.
Contacts, Billing and Shipping Addresses
If you have only one Main Contact, it's the default Contact, Billing and Shipping address. You can add additional Contacts, Billing and Shipping addresses from the Action dropdown on the Customer Master.
Alternatively you can import Contacts (including Billing and Shipping addresses) using the Import Contacts sheet which you'll find under Import Data in Setup.
You can view your Contacts, Billing and Shipping addresses on the Contacts tab.
You can find your Contacts, Billing, and Shipping Addresses using the Find Actions.
Customer Accounting
Balance
The debtor balance derived from Accounts Receivable.
Credit Limit
Manually set the value of the Customer's credit limit. 
Hold
if checked this Customer is on Credit Hold. See Credit Control.
Profile 
Stores preset information inherited by transactions:
Customer Portal (TAP) login credentials and permissions.
Default Trading Information (Tax, Site, Terms, Price List, Shipping, Check info, Payment Processor)
Bank Details
Credit Card profile data (See Paragon Payments)
Transaction History
List find and review all transactions.
Email 
Send and receive emails from Outlook, Google and other mail systems. Email is automatically filtered at the Customer contact level, so you only see and can send emails related to the Customer and its contacts. See ‘Email’.
Notes
Notes are free text areas. Notes are saved with the author (owner) and time/date stamp.
Memos
Track events and tasks.
Search and review Memos. See ‘Memos’
Classifications
For Reporting
Origin
If this Customer Master was created via the API, TAP or a 3rd Party Cart.
Attachments and Links
Look for the Paperclip Icon on the header
Attach or link files and Documents. See ‘Attachments’
Actions
As well as creating transactions, e.g. Sales Order, or adding a Contact, Billing, or Shipping Address you can:
Receive Payment
Take you to a list of unpaid Invoices 
View Account
View a list of AR transactions and balance
Create Statement 
Create a statement from the AR
Show History 
Show change history for this Master.
Take Ownership
Change Owner
Customer List Actions
Statements
See: 'Customer Statements'.
Credit Hold status
See: 'Credit Controls'.
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