Customer profiles

Customer Profiles allow you to set up the required or optional information fields for customers. The information is stored using the same attribute mechanism that is used for products. Elastic Path has a predefined set of system customer profile attributes that cannot be changed. You can add, update, delete new customer profile attributes for your application through Commerce Manager. All customer profile attributes are not locale dependent.

System customer profile attributes

Users

Key	Name	Description	Required?	Type
CP_FIRST_NAME	First Name	Customer first name	Yes	Short Text
CP_LAST_NAME	Last name	Customer last name	Yes	Short Text
CP_EMAIL	Email	Customer email address	No	Short Text
CP_PREF_LOCALE	Preferred Locale	Customer preferred locale	No	Short Text
CP_PREF_CURR	Preferred Currency	Customer preferred currency	No	Short Text
CP_PHONE	Phone Number	Customer phone number	No	Short Text
CP_FAX	Fax Number	Customer fax number	No	Short Text
CP_DOB	Date of Birth	Customer date of birth	No	Date
CP_COMPANY	Company	Customer company	No	Short Text
CP_BUSINESS_NUMBER	Business Number	Customer company business number	No	Short Text
CP_HTML_EMAIL	HTML emails	Indicate whether to receive html format email	No	Boolean
CP_BE_NOTIFIED	Be notified of News	Customer company	No	Boolean
CP_TAX_EXEMPTION_ID	Tax Exemption ID	Customer tax exemption ID	No	Short Text

Accounts

Key	Name	Description	Required?	Type
AP_NAME	Business Name	Customer first name	Yes	Short Text
AP_BUSINESS_NUMBER	Business Number	Business number	No	Short Text
AP_PHONE	Phone	Business phone number	No	Short Text
AP_FAX	Fax	Business fax number	No	Short Text
AP_TAX_EXEMPTION_ID	Tax Exemption ID	Business tax exemption ID	No	Short Text

Key classes and files

• Customer - Represents a customer. A customer has a customer profile. For easy access, some system attributes can be set and retrieved through the customer object directly
• CustomerProfile - A customer profile contains a collection of customer profile attribute values. It provides the interface to retrieve or update all profile values
• AttributeValue - Represents the value for a given attribute for a given customer
• Attribute - Defines the customer profile attribute type, usage, key, name etc
• AttributeService - A service that provides all attribute maintenance functions
• CustomerService - The register and edit account pages will interact with customer service to add and update customer information