MIGRATED TO  http://wavelet.asia/customer-portal/2011/02/28/customer-create-account/

• Customer > Maintenance > Create account
• * Direction goes from left to right *
  
• Click 'here' to search if the account already exists before creating another one.
• The 'Account PKID' will be self-generated by the system.
• Enter the company's name. Tick 'Disable Name Checking for Corporate Account' if you do not want to check if that account name already exists.
• Input and Account Code Prefix if you have a designated one. Otherwise, just ignore it because the system will append a code to it.
• Under terms, select a number of credit period the customer is allowed to receive. Please check with the relevant persons first. Do the same for credit limit.
• Also, the credit settings may be fixed as drop-down list or set as default amount under Customer Module Configurations.
  
• (continue from above) Enter a description.
• Select a 'Type' of whether the customer is a Personal or Corporate client.
• Type in a Company Registration No., Co. Email and Homepage.
• Enter the Telephone numbers (please see Customer Module Configurations) and Address according to the label.  
  
• Pick a Status of 'OK' or 'Blacklisted'. If the status is set to Blacklisted, the user will not be able to issue and invoice to that customer.
• For Customer Type, you can configure to set your own options in the Configure Drop Down List to describe the customer.
  
• Select the Salesman's name responsible for the customer.
• Under Factor:
• Discount - how much discount the customer is entitled to for every sales transaction.
• Pricing - the remainder after discount
  
• eg. Price = 1 - Discount
•                = 1 - 10%
•                = 1 - 0.1
•                = 0.9 or 90% of original price 
• Price and Discount must always = 100%
• Enter the areas in the Property section.
• Finally, click 'Create New Customer Now'.