#Customers

#Overview

Customers (internally called "Clients") represent the polymorphic bridge between a Person or Organisation and their role as a customer. This allows both people and organisations to be treated uniformly as customers throughout the system — on Leads, Deals, Orders, etc.

Model: VentureDrake\LaravelCrm\Models\Client Table: {prefix}clients (default: crm_clients)

#Attributes

#Computed Attributes

#name

Returns the name of the underlying person or organisation.

$client->name; // "John Smith" or "Acme Corp"

#Relationships

#Polymorphic Usage

A Person or Organisation becomes a customer via their client() relationship:

// Create a client from a person
$client = $person->client()->create();

// Create a client from an organisation
$client = $organisation->client()->create();

// Access the underlying entity
$client->clientable; // Returns Person or Organisation instance

#Searching & Filtering

Searchable by the underlying person or organisation names.

#Traits