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A Sample Customer Import

The following diagram shows a customer with several addresses, customer profiles, contacts, telephone numbers, business purposes, bank accounts, and payment methods. Compare this diagram to the data examples that follow to see how you would prepare your interface to successfully import this information.

To import the customer illustrated in the above diagram, your import program should load the Customer Interface tables as follows:

RA_CUSTOMERS_INTERFACE

Customer
Reference
Name Address
Reference
Address Site
Code
C1001 ACME A2001 200 Main BILL_TO
C1001 ACME A2001 200 Main SHIP_TO
C1001 ACME A2002 550 State SHIP_TO

Suggestion: Receivables requires that you separate your city, state, and postal codes, whereas your current system may not. To save time, separate these components in your current system before importing customers into Receivables.

RA_CUSTOMER_PROFILES_INTERFACE

Customer
Reference
Address
Reference
Profile
Name
C1001 Good
C1001 A2001 (This address reference refers to the Bill-To site) Excellent

RA_CONTACT_PHONES_INTERFACE

Customer Reference Address Reference Contact Reference Last
Name
Phone Reference Phone
Number
C1001 A2001 S4001 KWAN S5001 555-1234
C1001 A2001 S4001 KWAN S5002 555-7000
C1001 A2001 S4002 SMITH
C1001 A2001 S5003 474-8664
C1001 A2002 S4003 BASS
C1001 S4004 RUDIN
C1001 S5004 506-7000

RA_CUSTOMER_BANKS_INTERFACE

Customer
Reference
Address
Reference
Bank
Account
C1001 WF-0784
C1001 A2001 (This address reference refers to the Bill-To site) BA-5431

RA_CUST_PAY_METHOD_INTERFACE

Customer
Reference
Address
Reference
Payment
Method
C1001 Automatic1
C1001 A2001 (This address reference refers to the Bill-To site) Automatic2

See Also

Customer Import

Creating Unique Customer References

Importing Customers


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