Partner

In the ECommerce context, a Partner represents a registered webshop customer — the individual or company that places orders through the online channel. Partners carry their account number (debitor ID), VAT number, preferred language, and a flag indicating whether they are displayed on the webshop as a visible entity (e.g. as a reseller storefront). The tax model is automatically derived from the presence of a VAT number: a partner with a UID is treated as a business customer subject to reverse charge or net pricing, while one without is treated as a private consumer.

Partners in this implementation expose a lean subset of fields compared to the full F4M master data — focused on what the webshop needs to identify the customer, apply the correct tax and pricing rules, and track their account state.