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TeamCollaboration tutorial: Set up a customer account

Learn how to set up a customer account from the Zuora UI.

This portion of the TeamCollaboration tutorials walks you through the creation of a test payment gateway, customer account, contacts and payment methods.

The exercises will take approximately 5 minutes to complete.

Exercise: Set up a customer account

Objective: To add a new customer account.

  1. Navigate to Customers > Customer Accounts in the left-hand navigation section.

  2. Click add new account .

  3. Enter values in the following fields:

    • Account Name: ABC, Inc.

    • Bill To Contact First Name: Bill

    • Bill To Contact Last Name: Smith

    • Sold To Contact: Select Same as Bill to Contact .

  4. In the Payment Method section, enter the following values:

    • Select the External Payment radio button to simulate a customer who will pay you by check.

    • In the External Payment Method field, select Check .

  5. Click save to create a new customer in Zuora. On the detail page for the new customer, the Key Metrics section shows a quick snapshot of the customer account in Zuora.

  6. In the Billing and Payment Info section, you can specify the invoice template to use for billing the customer. There is a tutorial exercise for creating custom invoice templates later in this guide.

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Learn: Subscriptions