The business partner category denotes whether a business partner is a natural person (private individual), organization (legal person/entity or part of a legal entity, such as a department), or a group.

When you create a business partner, you have to select a business partner category. Depending on the business partner category, a certain set of fields has to be filled with data. For example, if you are creating a business partner as an organization, you can enter the legal form and industry, whereas in the case of a person you can enter first names, name affixes, gender and so on.

The standard business partner categories are:

It is not possible to create any other business partner categories. You cannot alter the business partner category at a later stage.