Invoicing for retail customers

Hello everybody,
in my small business, I have company customers and retail (private) customers.

I understand invoicing with customers who are a company - but not with retail customers.
When adding a new business partner, I can add the “partner name”, which is the company name. In addition, I have to add a contact, so the invoice will find its way within the customer company.

With retail customer, I only have pre- and surname, no company name. If I insert it into the “name of partner” box, I have pre- and surname in one data field, so processing this entry (for shipment e.g.) will not work. So I had to type my customer’s name twice - this is not what I want when using a computer to make things faster and more efficient.

I asked this question at the German forum - but people do not know a solution:
https://www.dolibarr.de/forum/howto-hilfe/53143-frage-zu-geschaeftspartnern-und-kontakten

At the end of the day, the question is:
Is there a more efficient way to deal with private customers?
Or does an enhancement to dolibarr for dealing with private customers make sense?
NB: Threre are some other implications - as I private customer, I’d prefer brutto (VAT included) sums, so (as an entrepreneur) I’m using different invoice templates for private and company customers.

Cheers,
Wolf

Hi,

You can try to put THIRDPARTY_DEFAULT_CREATE_CONTACT at 1 to create contact in the same time as thirdparty
https://wiki.dolibarr.org/index.php/Setup_Other#Third_Parties_Module