Customer Profile Overview in Centime
Learn how to manage individual customer settings and preferences in Centime’s Customer Profile, including payment options, communication workflows, notes, and contact history.
👤 Customer Profile Overview
The Customer Profile is a dedicated side panel that appears when you click on a customer's name from any tab in the Manage Receivables solution. It allows you to view and edit customer-level settings that may override global configurations.
The profile consists of the following sections:
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Summary
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Contacts
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Payments
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History
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Notes
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Documents
📋 Summary
The Summary tab displays basic customer information including:
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Address, phone number, email, and website
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Assigned hierarchy preference for payment responsibility:
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Buyer
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Immediate Parent
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Top-Level Parent
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📌 See Hierarchy Preferences for more details.
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You can also:
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Assign a reminder workflow specific to the customer
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Toggle the monthly statement on or off
👥 Contacts
In the Contacts tab, users can:
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View existing customer contacts along with their communication roles and status
- Adjust roles for all contacts
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Add new contacts (these will not sync to the general ledger)
📌 See Managing Customer Contacts for further guidance.
💳 Payments
The Payments tab displays data from the General ledger:
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Payment terms assigned to the customer
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Preferred payment currency
You can also manage CentimePay options at the customer level:
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Disable Online Payments – Prevent customers temporarily (or indefinitely) from accessing the customer portal
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Customer Portal Access – Enable a secure online portal for viewing and paying invoices
Additionally, you can define customer-level preferences for:
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Credit card payments: Set surcharge and credit card controls at the customer level
- ACH: Set ACH discounts and ACH controls at the customer level
💡Customer level payment preferences override global settings.
📌 See additional information on payment preferences
🕘 History & Notes
- The History tab logs all customer level changes
- Adjustments to the customer's profile
- Changes to contacts
- Changes to communication settings
- Full communication history
- Notes
- The Notes tab allows users to leave internal notes specific to the customer’s account. This helps facilitate communication across the AR team.
Notes and Activity made on a specific invoice are visible in the Invoice history and note side panel but not at the customer level.
📁 Documents
The Documents tab lets users upload and attach important files directly to the customer record.
📌 See Document Repository for more details.