A customer is the person who is doing business with your company. An account represents the company the customer works for, or a group of customers. For example, if you are doing business with Adam Stein from Consolidated Fish Co., Adam Stein is the customer and Consolidated Fish Co. is the account.
When you create a new customer record in Customer Manager, you must specify or create an account for that customer. You may also set the customer to be the primary contact for an account.