How to decide whether to go for Person Accounts or Bus Accounts and Contacts? | Question | Customer Resources. MIgrating Person Accounts to Contacts | Question | Customer Resources. Community - Person Accounts with Nonprofit Salesforce-ambiguit... - Force.com Discussion Boards. Community - Person Accounts V.S. Contacts Round 1 - Force.com Discussion Boards. Na1.salesforce.com/help/doc/en/salesforce_B2C_cheatsheet.pdf. Working with Person Accounts in Salesforce.com. June 22nd, 2010 Out of the box (so to speak), Salesforce.com is a B2B product.
But what if your company provides home healthcare services or lawn care services or any other type of service for individual consumers. You don’t hear alot of talk about it but Salesforce.com can be tweaked for this scenario using “Person Accounts”. By default, Person Accounts are not enabled. You’ll need to call support to have them enabled and they will repeatedly ask you if you really want to do this and if you understand the consequences. Once enabled, Person Accounts cannot be disabled. So what actually happens when you enable Person Accounts and what are the consequences? You can configure Person Account page layout like you would any other type of page layout. Once you’ve done they you will be able to create accounts for Business and Personal record types. So what happens when you create a new Person Account. The following fields are not available for Person Accounts: Account Contact Categories: Salesforce.