Create customer (individual/company) via sales invoice

Disclaimer

All screenshots in the article were taken in the Dutch version of Yuki.

Individuals are contacts in Yuki at companies, customers (individuals), private persons, users in Yuki or employee and may or may not be in the personal address book.

A newly created contact will be linked directly to the company for whom the invoice is intended.

Businesses can be customers, suppliers or nothing in Yuki and may or may not be in the personal address book.

Create customer

To create a customer, go through the following steps:

• in an opened invoice, click in the Customer field
• select + New contact from the dropdown menu. 
• then, in the now-opened screen behind the Type field, click on the Individual or Company radio button to add a new contact of type ‘Individual’ or ‘Company’ respectively.
  
  

Enter contact details

The initial contact details of the individual or company should be recorded and supplemented or changed later if necessary:

Step 1

Name (required)

Address:

• Street + number
• Postal code + City
• Country (required).

Financials (only available with company type):

• OIN number (only available when the country 'Netherlands' is selected for the address)
• GLN (a globally unique 13-digit identification number that can be used to identify a specific location or department of a company)
• VAT number
• CoC
• Contact code.

Contact details:

• Phone (work)
• Email (work)
• Website.

Step 2

Click on the Next button to record non-address-related data including, among others, the default values of the individual or company:

Default values:

• Invoice layout
• Price list
• Sending method
  • Email
  • Postal
  • Peppol.

More details:

• Heading
  If you have a contact in Yuki, you can enter a salutation in this field that can be used in invoices that you send from Yuki. By default, 'Dear Sir/Madam' is used.
• Printer label
  In this field, enter the name as it should be printed on the label.
• Gender (only available with individual type)
• Function (only available with individual type)
• Project
  Select the project to which this individual or company should be linked here. A project contains various items such as tasks, appointments, contacts, documents and email belonging to a subject or dossier.
• Tags
  A 'label' that can be stuck on the contact, making it easy to find in Yuki. You can also use a tag, for example, to create a mailing list.

Postal address (when creating a quotation, this address, if filled in, is used): 

• Street + number
• Postal code + City
• Country (required).

Other address (only available with individual type):

• Street + number
• Postal code + City
• Country (required).

Extra:

• Notes
  All other important details of the individual or company can be recorded in this field.

Once you have entered all the details of the individual or company, click on the Create button which will create the individual or company as a contact in Yuki's address book.