You store the names, address, phone, telex and fax number of the business partner on the entry screen. The following documentation explains the features of the various fields.

If the business partner is a natural person, enter the patient’s name in the Name and First name fields.

If the business partner is a legal entity, enter the name in the Name, 2nd name and 3rd name fields.

You characterize a general business partner as a natural person by selecting Pers.ind. If this indicator is not set, the business partner is considered to be a legal entity.

The system proposes the name of the business partner as the business partner short name. You may change this specification. The short name is one of the search criteria you can specify for the business partner search when maintaining business partner data on the initial screen of the transaction.

You also store the country and language of the business partner within the address data. You can store default values for this data by setting system parameters in Customizing for IS-H.

You can store detailed comments on a business partner in the Comment field. If this field is not long enough, you can branch into the text editor in order to store a long text. To do this, choose Create long text.