For the purposes of this book, we will not focus on actual accounting database storage: most small enterprises either outsource their accounting to a separate firm or use a canned software accounting package, which has its own database and storage capabilities. Instead, we will focus on defining the following collections:
- Products
- Customers
- Purchases
In addition, we will include one more collection called common, which holds the defaults for drop-down menus, product categories, units of measurement, social-media codes (for example, FB is the code for Facebook), and so forth.
