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title: "Business Partners"
description: "A business partner is any external entity your organization has a commercial relationship with — the companies and people you buy from, sell to, or both."
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# Business Partners

A **business partner** is any external entity your organization has a commercial relationship with — the companies and people you buy from, sell to, or both.

Beelocity uses a **unified partner model**: suppliers and clients live in the same system. A partner can be a **Supplier** (you buy from them), a **Client** (they buy from you), or **both** simultaneously. This avoids duplicating contact information when you both buy from and sell to the same company — you maintain a single record with both roles.

## What a Partner Record Contains

| Component                             | What it stores                                                         |
| ------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Core identity**                     | Name, code, tax ID, website, notes                                     |
| **Supplier details**                  | Supplier type, status, payment terms, credit limit                     |
| **Customer details**                  | Customer type, status, payment terms, credit limit                       |
| **[Addresses](addresses.html)**         | Multiple physical locations — billing, shipping, returns, headquarters |
| **[Contacts](contacts.html)**           | Key people at the partner — names, roles, phone, email                 |
| **[Legal Identifiers](legal-identifiers.html)** | The registration numbers your invoices to them must carry — NIF, RC, AI |
| **[Categories](categories.html)**       | Hierarchical tags for organizing and filtering partners                |
| **[Payment Terms](payment-terms.html)** | Agreed conditions for invoice payment                                  |

## How Partners Fit Into Beelocity

Partners connect to many other parts of the system:

- **Products** — your product catalog tracks which products you sell to clients and defines pricing through [price lists](../products/pricing-and-price-lists.html).
- **Inventory** — when goods arrive at your [warehouses](../inventory/warehouses-and-locations.html), they come from suppliers. When goods leave, they go to clients.
- **Access control** — [row access rules](../access-control/row-access-rules.html) can restrict which partners a user sees, and [policies](../access-control/policies.html) can enforce rules like "cannot approve orders to partners they created".

## Navigation

In the sidebar, the **Business Partners** section contains three items:

| Item              | What it manages                                                            |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Partners**      | The partner directory — create, view, and edit supplier and client records |
| **Categories**    | The hierarchical category tree for classifying partners                    |
| **Payment Terms** | Standard payment conditions that can be assigned to partners               |

Source: https://docs.beelocity.com/en/business-partners/index.mdx