This field in Customer Maintenance is the customer number for this account. It is the number you use to identify this account. Each account must have its own customer number.
If you do not already have a numbering scheme, you may want to:
Use the last six digits of the customer's phone number.
Start your customer numbers at 1000 and work your way up. Leave ten numbers between numbers so you have room to add more accounts later. For example, start your customer numbers at 1000, make the next number 1010, and so on.
If this is a special account (for example, transfer, employee, one that usually does business at another location, or one that is out of state), keep the following in mind:
You may want to assign a number that is outside the range of numbers that you use for regular accounts.
If this is a transfer account, and you want to track the amount it pays for transferred merchandise, add a separate account for each shipping/receiving store combination. For example: Store 3 receives transfers from stores 1 and 2. Store 3 should have an account in store 1, and another unique account in store 2. Use each account's Name or Address fields to identify when to use that account.
This field is numeric. You can enter up to six numbers. The first number cannot be zero.