Searching for Customers or Vendors

You can search for customers and vendors in various places throughout the system, such as:

Customer Maintenance
Vendor Maintenance
Sales Order Entry
Purchase Order Entry

The system uses the same search method to find customers and vendors as it does to find products and transactions.

To search for a customer or vendor:

Do one of the following:
Enter keywords or special characters.
Enter telephone numbers or zip codes, as described in the table below.

If you enter...	Then the system displays the...
a 10-digit telephone number	customer or vendor matching the telephone number.
the last four digits of a telephone number	customers or vendors whose telephone numbers end in those four digits and whose zip code begins with those four digits.
a five-digit zip code	customers or vendors whose zip code matches the search criteria.

Press Enter.

The system compares your search criteria to the values in the Name and Index fields on the Customer Maintenance or Vendor Maintenance screens and displays the matching results.