# Parties

Parties are users which either sales or purchase an item/product from your store/shop. You can create a party from **Parties** menu from sidebar. There are two types of parties in our app:

1. Customers
2. Suppliers

## Customers

We sales items to customers. You can create customers from **Parties → Customers** page. Customers are common for each warehouses/store. But Opening balance, Credit period, Credit Limit are warehouse bases

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## Suppliers

We purchase items from suppliers in our app. You can create customers from **Parties → Suppliers** page. Suppliers are common for each warehouses/store. But Opening balance, Credit period, Credit Limit are warehouse bases.

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The following fields are used when we create new party:

- Profile Image
- Name of party
- Email of party
- Opening Balance - it party have some pending amount then you can enter that amount.
- Opening Balance Type - it can be pay or receive. If you want to receive amount, then it will be received.
- Credit Period - time for which you want to give credit
- Credit Limit - amount for which you want to give credit

> Opening balance, Credit period, Credit Limit are warehouse bases. So, update it according to new warehouse/store.