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title: "Create a customer"
description: "Note If you do not want to use the default customer class for the customer you are creating, you can select a different one on the General settings tab, in the section Financial settings. Visma Net immediately changes the related information."
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  en: https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/create-a-customer/index.md
lastmod: 2026-02-23
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# Create a customer

Last modified February 23, 2026

> Note If you do not want to use the default customer class for the customer you are creating, you can select a different one on the General settings tab, in the section Financial settings. Visma Net immediately changes the related information.


## Before you start

To make it easier to create customers, you can first create customer classes and select one as your default. This way the customers you create afterwards will already have some default information filled in. See [Create a customer class](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/customer-classes/create-a-customer-class/index.md).

> [!NOTE]
> If you do not want to use the default customer class for the customer you are creating, you can select a different one on the **General settings** tab, in the section **Financial settings**. Visma Net immediately changes the related information.

1. Go to the [Customers (AR303000)](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/customer-ledger-windows/customers-ar303000/index.md) window.
1. Click ![icon-add](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/media/visma-net-erp/icon-add.png) to create a new customer, and enter the **Customer name**. The next available **customer number** is automatically added to the new customer when you save. The default **Status** for the new customer is **Active**.

    The fields marked with \* are mandatory.
1. [Add general information for a customer](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/add-general-information-for-a-customer/index.md) on the **General information** tab.
1. Add information on the **Invoicing settings** tab.
1. Add information on the **Delivery settings** tab.
1. On the **General ledger accounts** tab, check or select the customer ledger accounts/subaccounts you want to use for the general ledger transactions for the customer.

1. Click ![icon-save](https://docs.vismasoftware.no/media/visma-net-erp/icon-save.png).

> [!NOTE]
> The system automatically adds the **customer number** when you save.

<h2>Related pages</h2><h3>Concepts</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/about-customer-account-setup/index.md">About customer account setup</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/preliminary-configuration/about-preliminary-configuration/index.md">About preliminary configuration</a></li>
</ul><h3>Tasks</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/make-customer-specific-changes/index.md">Make customer-specific changes</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/delete-customer/index.md">Delete customer</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/set-customer-print-and-email-preferences/index.md">Set customer print and email preferences</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/prepare-to-use-electronic-invoices-for-customers/index.md">Prepare to use electronic invoices for customers</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/enable-write-offs-for-customer/index.md">Enable write-offs for customer</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/set-up-e-mail-invoices-for-one-customer/index.md">Set up e-mail invoices for one customer</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/configure-mailing-settings-for-dunning-letters-for-a-customer/index.md">Configure mailing settings for dunning letters for a customer</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/set-up-invoice-mailing-for-a-customer/index.md">Set up invoice mailing for a customer</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/add-a-payment-method-and-a-bank-account-to-a-customer/index.md">Add a payment method and a bank account to a customer</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/add-delivery-settings-for-a-customer/index.md">Add delivery settings for a customer</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/add-general-information-for-a-customer/index.md">Add general information for a customer</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/manage-customers/add-invoicing-settings-for-a-customer/index.md">Add invoicing settings for a customer</a></li>
</ul><h3>Windows</h3>
<ul><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/customer-ledger-windows/customers-ar303000/index.md">Customers (AR303000)</a></li><li><a href="/visma-net-erp/help/customer-ledger/customer-ledger-windows/customer-ledger-preferences-ar101000/index.md">Customer ledger preferences (AR101000)</a></li>
</ul>


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