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Removing Colon in Customer ID
Hello—
I learned recently that if you set a Parent Company when creating a new customer, NetSuite will use the parent's Customer ID and append a colon and a number for the child's Customer ID, like below:
In this case, MMC2 is the second child of the parent, so it got a :2 added to its Customer ID.
We don't like how this system works. It is causing a lot of questions among our team members. We'd prefer for the child to receive the next sequential Customer ID value, not inherit the parent's ID. Is there a way to deactivate this? Or can we change the child's
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