New Customer Dialog
This dialog lets you enter information about a new customer. It is opened from the
customers menu or from the
context menu in the
table of the customer screen. The shortcut CTRL+N can also
be used to open the dialog.
The customer is not added to the database until you close the dialog by clicking on the OK button.
The first name can be blank if the title is blank, but the last name is mandatory.
If you have a customer that is for
example another business, you can type its name as the last name and leave the first name and title blank.
The credit limit is the amount of credit you are prepared to give this customer, without a warning.
If this customer owes you more than this value in unpaid / unconfirmed sales orders,
then you are given a warning in this screen, as well as when you create new sales orders for this
customer.
The category - you can choose from an existing category by clicking on the down arrow to open the
combo box, or you can type a new category.