Setting up a Customer’s Account

	You must create the customer before activating any of the customer features. This customer will sit below your account, and you can switch to each customer from within your account. Your account is referred to as the top-level account. This makes it easy to maintain all of your customers. These options are on the main menu on the left-hand side of the portal (please see the left image).
	You will need to select Commerce—Customers here. The screen below will then appear. If you have existing customers, you can view them here.

For most customer setups, you will require the Normal customer option, which allows you to add all services and features. The residential customer option will only allow you to access limited features. 

Here is an example of a normal customer setup.

As this is a basic setup guide in the first part of this manual, it will only cover the necessary parts of your customer's account setup. 

Firstly, you will need to give your customer a unique name. Please remember that other resellers could already have used the same company name. If the name is not unique, it will show a system error. 

Customer Settings

Customer name

 

Insert the name of your customer here.

Billing 

Rate plan

 

The next setting you may wish to consider changing is the rate plan. This will automatically assign the first one to the list. If you do not use our built-in billing system, you will most likely want to choose the master rate plan. This can be changed later but will affect the charges being applied right now. 

Credit Limit

 

You must give your customer a credit limit so that you can add chargeable features like extensions and numbers. The amount of credit on the customer's account depends on the customer's size and what you add to the system. We recommend providing enough credit to set up the customer; this can be increased if required.

Address

Billing email address

The final detail you must complete is the billing email address. This can be the customer's email if you use the system for invoicing or your accounts department if you intend to download the CDRs and import them to a separate billing system.

 

Press save at the bottom of the page. You are now ready to proceed with adding the features in this manual's basic setup guide. Click Switch to this customer.