Customer vs Company

Retracile retracile at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 1 07:51:17 CST 2003


On Monday 31 March 2003 10:06 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Retracile <retracile at earthlink.net> writes:
[snip]
> > My wife teaches private music lessons.  So all her customers are
> > individuals, not companies.  Hmm, perhaps I should use the term 'client'?
> > I can see vendors always being a company, if only a sole-propietorship.
>
> I suppose you could use the term client, but I don't see a real reason
> to switch terminology at this point.  Remember that the more
> terminology you change, the more work the translators have to do...

I was bringing up the term 'client' in case I was just using the wrong term.  
No, I don't want to change things just to change them.

> > One of the things that bothers me is that you have to give a company
> > name, and a contact name.  When dealing with an individual,
>
> Sorry, that's not going to change.
>
> > John Doe
> > John Doe
> > 1234 XYZ Lane
> > Podunk, AL 12345
> >
> > Just looks _wrong_.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> Get over it?
>
> Seriously, I don't see anything wrong with this.  I've had plenty of
> companies send me personal stuff with the double name.
>
> Re-architecting the system to make individuals a first-class object
> would be... Problematic.  The best I could do is change the Customer
> dialog to allow running without a "Contact Name", but IMHO that would
> be wrong for the vast majority of cases.

I will address these in another email.

Eli


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