Hi I'm playing around with the AP and AR module and for that i need to create a Party (Customer). So i went to the Party Manager to create a new Customer which needs both, a first and a last name. This seems to be wrong since most customers will be companies themselves.
Ofbiz offers me to create one of the following of which i don't fully understand the differences: So in the following i will list the options and try to explain my understanding of it. Please correct me if i'm wrong. Please fill my gaps. - Create New Party Group => Only way to create a company. Can be billed so it looks OK to use it. - Create New Person => Just a person. Don't know what to use it for. - Create Customer => A Person which is a customer. Like a private account in an online shop. Has an account. - Create Prospect => Don't see much difference to Customer, Maybe a person in the process of becoming an employee? - Create Employee => Person which is probably linked directly to my company. >From all of them i can create "party group" and "person". Customer, prospect and employee can't be created due to the lack of a product store. I hope AR and AP modules can bi used without a product store since it would make testing easier. What i'm trying is simply billing a customer and getting billed by someone. For this i would like to understand the differences between the choices above and if / where i can change those later. I understand that ofbiz uses models from the book "the data modeling resource book". I've found 3 volumes of that one and i'm not sure which one to buy. Could you point me to the right book and chapter/page where a can look this up? Regards, Adrian Stern
