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People
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Rattail considers the Person to be a central concept, which underpins
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various other concepts such as User, Customer etc. and ideally ties
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them together (e.g. one Person may be both a Customer and Employee).
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It can be tricky to keep straight all the various relationships
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between e.g. a Customer and Person. Here is a quick overview of the
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*intended* structure:
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* **Person** - represents exactly one (real) human
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* **User** - represents a user account within the Rattail system.
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typically a user associates with one person, but "system" users do
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not
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* **Employee** - represents an employee in the org; this is always
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associated with one person
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* **Customer** - represents a customer account for the org. this may
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have an "account holder" set, which is a person. it also may have
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shoppers (next)
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* **CustomerShopper** - represents a "shopper" for a customer account.
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these always relate not only to a customer, but also (separately) to
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a person who "is" the shopper. the first shopper is usually the
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account holder, and is treated as such if no account holder is set
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* **CustomerPerson** - DEPRECATED but documented here for clarity.
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there is a table just for connecting person and customer accounts.
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it is no longer needed since the customer now has "account holder"
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and "shoppers" which are more explicit
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* **Member** - represents a member account for the org. in a retail
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context this usually associates with a customer account. it
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probably also has an "account holder" which is a person
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* **VendorContact** - represents a contact for a vendor. always
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associates with one vendor and one person
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Rattail can import this data from other (e.g. POS) systems, but it
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also can *export* data to other systems. And once this data is in
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Rattail it can be used for other features as needed; for instance
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:doc:`../custorders/index`.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 2
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entry/index
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users/index
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employees/index
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customers/index
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members/index
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household/index
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