What a customer can and cannot do
Know exactly what a signed in customer can read and change.
Updated 23 September 2026
- Why
- You open your system to people outside your company, so the edges must be plain.
- What
- A customer user is a separate kind of account, never a member of your workspace.
- How
- Every read is limited to rows that belong to their own customer record.
A customer can
- Accept or decline a sent quote, with a purchase order reference or a reason.
- Follow orders, deliveries and serviced items, and answer an inspection waiting on them.
- Request a collection of a serviced item.
- Run the wizards you open to them and choose Ask for a quote on a result or a saved design.
- Download the documents addressed to them.
- Ask the customer AI, when you switch it on.
- Leave your workspace from Account, and see the other suppliers that gave them a sign in.
A customer cannot
- See another customer's records, your catalogue, your costs or your margins.
- Open your workspace at
/app: a customer account is never a member. - Create a workspace from your address.
- Reach an area you have switched off, or one whose product is off.
Reading costs nothing. A request and a wizard run each draw a little of your usage, and never refuse the customer; the customer AI draws on it per answer.
Related
- The customer surfaceKnow what your customers see when they sign in, and at which address.
- The customer facing trust boundaryKnow why a customer signed in to your Commerce surface can see their own records and nothing else.
- Access codes and invite linksGive a customer's people a sign in, and take it away again.