Every account that is created in SmartStore.NET Smartstore is a customer account that will have different roles such as guest, admin, registered, etc.. Therefore, even if shop visitors who have just entered your store or have just registered without having bought anything yet will be handled internally as customers. You can manage your customers by going to Customers > Customers. Here you can filter the customers of your shop depending on their customer role or you can search for certain customers with their e-mail address, username, first- & lastname, date of birth or company.
Customer Details View
By clicking on the e-mail address or the edit button you will get to the customer details view, whhere you can edit customer details, send them a direct e-mail/private message, or even delete the account.
Customer Info Tab
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| Username | The customer's username. |
| Password | This field won't show any actual data as the password of the customer is confidential. It's purpose is to give you the possibility to alter the password of the customer. |
| Admin Comment | Admin comment regarding the customer. For internal use by the shop administrator only. In this field you can store any comments about the customer you want to remember. |
| Is Tax Exempt | Determines whether the customer is tax exempt. |
| Time Zone | The time zone of the customer. |
| VAT Number | Holds the company VAT number. NOTE: VAT numbers have to be entered with the country code (e.g. GB 111 111 11). This field will only be displayed if the option EU VAT Enabled in Configuration > Settings > Tax Settings is active. You can mark the contained value as Vaild or Invalid manually after you've checked it's validity. |
| Affiliate | If the customer was transferred to you by a affiliate the corresponding affiliate will be linked here so you can directly navigate to him. For more information about affiliates read the topic Managing Affiliates. |
| Last Visited Page | The page of your shop which the customer has visited last. |
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Fields like Gender, Date of Birth, Company and many others are only shown and can be edited in the Customer Info Tab if they are enabled in the Customer Settings. For more information about Customer Settings read the topic Customer Settings. |
Customer Roles Tab
This tab shows all available customer roles. You can manually add or remove them from the customer in this tab by clicking on the corresponding checkboxes next to the customer roles.
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As already stated above, all visitors of your shop will get their own customer account. Therefore, you need to delete your guest accounts on a regular basis. Of course, you wouldn't want to do this manually. There is a scheduled task named Delete Guests that will run once an hour by default to accomplish this automatically. For more information about scheduled tasks, read the topic Managing Scheduled Tasks.