Business Partner Manual

Goal of Manual

The goal of this manual is to give you an introduction to business partner in iDempiere from a user's perspective.

Introduction to Business Partner

A business partner in iDempiere represents an entity with whom you carry out business operations. iDempiere differentiates three different types of Business Partners: Vendors, customers, and employees or any combination of these three.

A business partner should have one or more locations and one or more contacts, which can or may not be linked to a location. Contacts can have Interest Areas. These interest areas are the basis for customer relationship management and gives the sales personnel or sales representative the opportunity to manage email-lists.

In iDempiere a business partner also possess a "bank account" and "withholding" capabilities.

Relationships can exist between business partners. This enables a Sales Order to be shipped to one business partner and invoiced to a second business partner.