Customers and contacts
Keep one record for each customer with its contacts, addresses, terms and agreed prices, loaded by hand or from a CSV.
Updated 10 November 2026
On this page
- Why
- A quote, an order and an agreed price all hang on who the customer is.
- How
- Open Customers from the area menu, at
/app/customers.
Add customers
- Step 1.
Choose New customer and enter the Company, with its Email domain and Payment terms if you have them.
- Step 2.
Or choose Import CSV for a whole book. The file takes company, contact, email, phone and terms columns in any order, mapped by heading. Download a sample CSV shows the shape.
- Step 3.
The import previews the rows first: how many are new and how many look like a customer you already hold, by email domain or company name. Tick the box to skip those, then import.
One customer's record
| On the record | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Contacts | Each person's name, email, phone and role. The primary contact is the default recipient when a quote is sent. |
| Addresses | A billing address and a shipping address. |
| Details | Payment terms, VAT number, website, notes and the currency the customer trades in. The currency is for your records: quotes and orders are raised in your organisation's currency. |
| Quote terms | The terms template new quotes for this customer start from or your organisation's default. |
| Your own fields | The extra fields your business keeps. See your own customer fields. |
| Activity | The customer's quotes and orders, each opening the document. |
| Special pricing | Prices agreed with this customer, fixed or a percentage off, by scope and date. See special prices and customer discounts. |
| Access | With Commerce on: who can sign in for this customer. See customers signing in. |
Contacts across every customer
The Contacts view at /app/customers?view=contacts lists every person on every customer, searched by person, firm, role or address.
Finding, exporting and deleting
- The list searches by company, email domain, contact, payment terms or activity and shows each customer's open quotes and last activity.
- Export takes the rows the table shows as CSV or JSON, your own fields included.
- Deleting a customer is for admins and owners. It removes the contacts, addresses and special pricing; linked quotes and orders keep their record and lose the link.
In a round tool workspace
The record is leaner: the company, one contact, the terms and a single percentage discount for the whole customer. The list filters to customers with open quotes, customers who have ordered and customers on special terms. It takes a CSV import of its own.
Adding and editing customers needs the sales role or above. Special pricing is managed by admins and owners.
Related
- Your own customer fieldsAdd the fields your business keeps about a customer and know that what is filled in is never lost.
- Special prices and customer discountsGive one customer an agreed price for part of your range or a discount on everything they buy.
- Customers signing inGive a customer's people a sign in of their own, see who has joined and take access away again.