Accounts are primarily used to represent the wholesale and retail companies to which you sell products, and the organizations and physical locations within those companies. You can also use accounts to represent your own company and competitor companies.

This chapter describes how to set up and maintain accounts and account hierarchies. It includes the following topics:

• About Accounts
• Scenario for Setting Up and Maintaining Accounts
• Process of Managing Accounts
• Creating or Modifying Accounts
• Deleting Accounts
• Setting Up Account Hierarchies
• Profiling Accounts
• Creating Addresses for Accounts
• Removing Yourself from Account Teams (End User)
• Associating Activities with Accounts (End User)
• Associating Contacts with Accounts (End User)
• Adding Merchandising Locations to Accounts (End User)