# Customers Home

Customers are your purchasers of products and services provided by your company. They are used in PhreeBooks to represent people or companies that payments (receipts) are made from. Generally, customers include anyone that you receive payments from.

PhreeBooks uses a single database table to hold vendor and customer account information.

Customer account features include:

- Fields for main account address along with unlimited branch billing and shipping addresses.
- Default general ledger settings for receipts (sales)
- 2 main telephone numbers; 1 fax number, email and website field
- Customer account number
- Assign sales representatives to individual accounts
- Government tax re-sale number field
- Discount and Payment terms specific to an account

### Related Topics

#### User and Security Settings

Setting user access security
Setting up sales representatives

#### Customer Accounts

Entering a customer account
Deleting a customer account
Editing a customer account
Setting default payment terms
Adding branch and shipping addresses

#### General Ledger

Adding a general ledger sales account

#### Sales

Enter a customer quote
Enter a sales order
Enter an invoice
Receiving a payment
Enter a customer credit memo
Using point of sale (POS)

#### Reports and Forms

Standard customer reports
Standard customer forms