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Best Practice - Customer numbering

edited Dec 6, 2019 2:40PM in General 9 comments

Currently we have not enabled auto-generated numbers for customers.  This decision was made a while ago after we saw how these appeared on forms( eg.  sales orders, picking and packing slips, emails to customers).  As our customer database has grown, this is not becoming a problem when entering sales orders in netsuite and creating customer records via xml.  We now have to append incrementing numbers to a customer name if the name already exists.  The web store will automatically add a number to the name.

This is starting to look just as bad as having auto numbering turned on.  ( eg John Doe 1, John Doe 2, John doe 3 etc....)

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