Customers, suppliers, members of associations or political parties, individuals, banks and so on are all partners of the company, and their data is maintained here.
For the purposes of various automatic processing, every partner is assigned one of the following types:
Partners
Brix keeps a shared register with basic data on a large number of businesses in the background, so a new partner is usually not entered manually but taken from that register. The procedure is the same in the Partners form and when entering a partner from a partner field on a document, e.g. {Customer} on an invoice.
First look for the partner by entering part of the OIB or keywords from the name; the order of entry does not matter. Brix searches the company's partners.

If the partner is not found, entry of a new partner is started with the

icon — at the bottom of the partner
list or next to the partner field on the document.
The
[ Partner - Add ] dialog is shown with the
{Find Entity} field, where the OIB (preferably) or part of the entity's name has to be entered again. Brix now searches the shared register and shows the
list of entities it knows; the more
data is entered, the shorter the
list.

If Brix shows the matching entity, select it from the
list and, if necessary, correct or complete the partner
data brought in.
If Brix does not show the matching business in the
list, the

icon to the right of the
{Find Entity} field opens the form for entering all partner
data. First the partner type is marked:
{Individual},
{Business} or
{Temporary}.
For a domestic business, enter the
{OIB} first. On leaving that field, Brix tries to find the matching business in external sources (e.g. the
Court Register) and, if it finds the
data, shows it. Correct or complete the
data shown.
If Brix does not find
data in external sources, all partner
data has to be entered manually: select the
{Country}, then enter the remaining
data.
For an individual and a temporary partner the
data is always entered manually.
The
data is saved with the
SAVE button. This also enters the business into the shared register of businesses.
Brix has no shared register of individuals; each company enters and keeps its own records of individuals.
Rules for entering partners
Since all Brix users share the same basic data of businesses from the shared register, the following rules must be observed.
From the list, using the document icon in the upper right corner of the form:
From the form, using the icons in the dialog header:
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Address label on A4
Basic
data of partners that are also Brix users
cannot be edited through the
[ Partners ] form. That
data can be updated only through the
Companies form, and access and editing are allowed only to administrators of the company concerned. For such partners neither the
{Search for Address} field in the
~ BASIC ~ tab nor the
~ DEPARTMENTS ~ tab is shown.
If a new business that has “inherited” the OIB of a former business needs to be entered, submit a support request stating the
data of both the inactive and the new business.