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Presenter: Christina Fausbøll, Product Manager

How to create a customer template in Business Central?

A neat little feature when working with customers is that we can make templates for creating customers.

This is what happens in the video

To make a new customer template, we open the customer list and open a random customer card.

We go into Actions, Functions, and Templates.

Here I can create a new template.

I give my template a Name, such as Domestic, state if it’s enabled or not, give it a number series.

I can type in address or contact information.

In Invoicing, I can set the posting groups.

I can give prices and discounts.

I can set the currency code, or the language code.

I can also predefine payments.

If I’m working with dimensions on my customer, I can also apply this to the customer template.

I do this up in Dimensions.

In here, I can set up the dimensions that I would like to be contained in this template.

I can here see that the template is saved so it will be possible to use it for creating customers.

I can also make a customer template based on a customer that has already been set up.

If we go back to the customer card, I can go into Actions, Functions, and Save As Template.

I first give my template another Name, for instance Export.

In Customer, I can then either define or change information that has been brought in automatically from the customer.

I would like to delete the address information… If dimensions were set on the customer, as they were here, they will automatically be transferred here.

And if this is not what I want for my template, I can simply delete it.

Though I could have changed it if that was what I wanted.

When I now make a new customer, I will be asked which template I would like to use.

I will choose the Domestic.

If I accidentally choose the wrong template, I can change it by applying the other template.

I go into Actions, Functions, and Apply Template.

Now I can choose Export instead and press OK.

And under here, under invoicing, I can now see that the general business posting group has been set to Export.

If I later want to change my template, If I later would like to change the content of my template, I can do this from the template list.

I go into Actions, Functions, and Templates, mark the template that I want to edit, and open the card.

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