Defining your business partners

Business partners are your Customers, Vendors, and Employees (or any combination of the three). Similar Business Partners are grouped into Business Partner Groups. Business partners may have one or more locations, contacts, and users attached to them. Business partners may also have special relationships in the form of proxy and linked business partners.

Proxy business partners

This refers to proxy relationship scenarios where, for example, a store receives the goods and HQ gets invoiced and pays, or where the store receives the goods and is invoiced and HQ pays. This applies to both customers and vendors (material receipt) transactional scenarios.

Linked organization business partners

This is a special type of business partner that is explicitly linked to organizations within Compiere in order to facilitate counter document processing. Counter document processing involves inter-organization transactions generated by the system automatically between linked...