Hey there, Rachel here with Finale and this video will'll demonstrate how to create a customer creating a customer in Finale is simple and can be done two ways you can create your customer manually or you can import multiple customers by using a spreadsheet in this video I'll be demonstrating how to create a customer manually to get started head over to the selling dropdown and click on customers from this next screen you'll click the blue button at the top right hand corner labeled create customer give your customer a name in this field here this can be an actual name or a business name if you're using a business name here you can also add a contact name here use the terms drop down to specify if the customer you're creating has special terms if you would like to create your own special terms for sales orders navigate to the application settings here and click on the selling tab you'll find the default special terms in Finale by clicking on the terms from this side menu here click on ADD order terms here and use the optional days until due column use the check boxes here to choose if these terms will be available for sales and purchase orders click save changes and navigate back to your customer page to finish setting up now along with special terms you also have the option to assign price levels to each of your your customers and just like the special terms pricing levels can be managed from your application settings let's go ahead and click back to the application settings and this time head over to the product section here you'll scroll down and locate your selling prices you'll notice that I have three set up which all provide a discount to the base price of my products we'll click into the wholesale one here and you'll see that I'm using the formula that will give a 50% discount on my products this level is applied so locate a variety of formula options use this drop down here and to pre preview how this formula will affect your product use this preview tool here like
this to create a new pricing level click add formula here and then to finish setting up your new customer come back to the screen and continue adding additional fields
when you are ready to add your new customer click save changes and that's it for creating a customer in Finale.