I think I understand the problem, but suggest a system parameter is not the best answer. It would mean a company could not do both B2B and B2C.
Perhaps in the ecommerce the customer placing the order can state whether the order is on behalf of an organisation or for themselves. If it is for an organisation, then the person gives the organisation's details (if not previously entered). Then the code that creates the order can relate both the person customer and the organisation customer to the order in the appropriate roles. The roles to support this appear to already exist. I do not know whether other code (invoice creation etc) deals with these roles appropriately. Any solution should also consider sub-organisations. For example, Joe Customer is employed by Awesome Department of Big Organisation. Setting this up in Parties is easy, but when Joe Customer places an order, should it be Awesome Department or Big Organisation that takes the delivery and is billed? Maybe Joe Customer has to specify this at the time of order creation, so the right organisation is related to the order in the right roles. Cheers, Anne. On 5 March 2012 19:13, Hans Bakker <[email protected]> wrote: > At the moment the system is focused being a b2c (business to consumer) > system. We are now getting more and more requests for systems mainly for > b2b (business to business) > > The main difference is that in the b2c case the order/invoice is for the > person and in a b2b the order/invoice is for the related company of that > person. > > In the registration process a person can register referring to a company, > a second person can register to the same company however somewhere needs to > be a approval process..... > > I was thinking introducing a system parameter to make the related company > of a person mandatory or not.... > > any thoughts on this? > > Regards, > Hans > -- Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 2773 Cheltenham Vic 3192 Phone: (03) 9585 6788 Fax: (03) 9585 1086 Web: http://www.cohsoft.com.au/ Email: [email protected] Bonsai ERP, the all-inclusive ERP system http://www.bonsaierp.com.au/
