Understanding Parent/Child Relationships

Parent/child relationships among the address book records of your suppliers, customers, and prospects are like family relationships. One address book record is the parent and one or more address book records are the child of that parent. Creating parent/child relationships can make your business more efficient. For example, you can send billing for field offices or subsidiary companies (children) to the corporate headquarters (parent) if you set up parent/child relationships.

After you enter address book records in the Address Book system, you can create parent/child relationships among them. You can create these relationships for these structures:

• Accounts receivable structures.

• Accounts payable structures.

• Reporting structures within your organization.