How to make a common Customer & Supplier?

[Aditya Duggal]

In real business situation there are many times when there are situations when a company is your Customer as well as Supplier.

I would like to know if this kind of a thing is possible in the current system or not. If it is possible then how and if not then would there be any plans to do make this thing possible or we should create separate entities for Suppliers and Customers.

[Umair Sayyed]

Hi Aditya,

System won't allow adding supplier same as customer (and vice versa), because with customer / supplier record, system also creates an accounting ledger in chart of account.

When try adding customer / supplier which already exist, it actually throws validation when find account head with same name existing.

When saving customer as supplier, make a little change in name to bring uniqueness.

Hope this helps.

Thanks and regards,
Umair Sayyed

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Aditya Duggal <aditya...@gmail.com> wrote:

In real business situation there are many times when there are situations when a company is your Customer as well as Supplier.

I would like to know if this kind of a thing is possible in the current system or not. If it is possible then how and if not then would there be any plans to do make this thing possible or we should create separate entities for Suppliers and Customers.

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[meisam negini]

Hi
we have some customer some times we buy goods from them or we have some supplier some time we sell some thing to them , is it any way to merge one customer with supplier , so when we open customer account we can see goods be purchase from customer ?
for example in open erp we can do like this some one supplier and customer .
Regards

[Rushabh Mehta]

Hi,

Unfortunately not at the moment, you will have to create two slightly different accounts.

Party X - Customer, Party X - Supplier

In our roadmap we plant to merge the Customer and Supplier in one table. That might take 2-4 months.

best,

Rushabh

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[Aditya Duggal]

I think we can all wait for this for some time, but do let us know whenever this is done so that we could merge the customer and supplier.

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[vikram....@agrilife.in]

I would agree with Aditya and meisam. I would like you to count me in as well as another user who finds such cases wherein the customer is also the supplier. Look forward to your release 

Vikram

[Nabin Hait]

We will start working on "Party model" on the current month where there will be a common table for customers and suppliers. That will solve the problem.

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[Ahmed Samir]

Hello, is this feature done? I am starting in ERPNext, and I don't want to do a lot of changes later on. If there is still a lot of time until the common customer&supplier is done please let me know so that I go ahead with the renaming trick..

Regards,

Ahmed

[Anand Doshi]

We are going to keep customer and supplier in different tables. You can continue with them having different names for now. 

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