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1 Table of Contents 1. Introduction Notice of license Instructions for setup Frequently asked questions Compatibility Description and functionality Overview Edit Customer Id in Backend Login in frontend and edit account data Database structure Helper functions System configuration Customer ID Interfaces CSV Import Upcoming features Service & Support Introduction 1.1 Notice of license In der Schratwanne Hildesheim Germany Please note, that you have purchased a time unlimited license for one Magento installation / system. All copyrights and rights of source code of these and other extensions are property of AIRBYTES GmbH, Germany. This is also the case if you need custom development of this extension. Distribution, sales and donation are strictly prohibited and will be prosecuted. Only through a fair use of the extension a further development is secured. Also refer to our license terms in case you have any questions which aren't answered here: Instructions for setup Please don't setup this extension on your live environment. The installation is at your own risk.

2 You can use our professional installation service for 49,00 to go safety at the installation. Upload: Please copy all files contained in the ZIP archive to your root folder. If you don't use modman, you should delete the modman file before uploading. If you are using modman, create folder beneath.modman folder with the extension name (MageB2B_CustomerId). Please note that this extension isn't built for installing over MagentoConnect, as you only use this for community extensions, which are free available. Theme related information: If you are using a custom theme, make sure you copy all theme related files to your theme interface directly (the default one or the theme directly). In that case, you have to copy these files: app/design/frontend/default/default/template/customer/form/edit.phtml to your current template directory. Please make also sure that you have the correct language files for your Magento system ready. In most cases we are offering german and english language package, including templates (if there are any). Please note, that you need to copy all files in app/locale/en_us/ to the language used by your system, if it's not german or english. Secondly, clear all caches (if not in admin, under var/cache) and logout and login again in the administration area of Magento. Under system -> configuration you should now see a tab "MageB2B -> Sublogin". Notice in case you use modman: If you are using modman, please also make sure symlinks are enabled under System -> Configuration -> Dev -> Enable Symlinks. 1.3 Frequently asked questions When uploading the installation process failed due to an error There are several reason why an installation might fail. We are observing in many cases customers are using more than 30, up to 60 extensions in their environment. Please not that we can not give a guarantee that the extension works in every circumstances when you have a customized installation. We give a guarantee that our extensions are working on a clean Magento environment. If you have rewrite conflicts with other extensions, you can refer to our installation service, which is available at 49,00.

3 I'm getting 404 while accessing the system configuration values of this extension This is a common issue of Magento. Just log out and log in the admin area again. 1.4 Compatibility This extension is compatible to the following versions: Magento Commerce Community Edition Magento Enterprise Edition 1.1.x If you are encountering an error, which is probably caused by an interception of your current Magento version, please write us an . 2.Description and functionality 2.1. Overview Adds a new attribute "customer id" to the customer entity Visibility of this attribute inside customer profile in frontend and backend Customer can login with this customer id (as an alternative to their address) The customer Id can be display on different locations (e.g. Template or Order Confirmation ) Import/Export of customer Ids with Magento dataflow profile Configurable template of customer ids with place holder e.g. "CID-0042"

4 Automatic incrementing of customer id with a specific schema (like No.001) Customer can add and edit his own customer id (when configured in the settings) Support for multi store / multi website environments 2.2 Edit Customer Id in Backend 2.3 Login in frontend and edit account data The login in the frontend area is possible through the customer ID (if set) or . If you copy the theme file and allow that customers can edit their customer ID themselves, this is also possible. Use this source code to integrate the customer ID in the frontend where ever you

5 want: <?php echo $this-> ('Customer Id');?><?php echo Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')- >getcustomer()->getcustomerid();?> To display the customer id at a cms block or at a transaction , use the command: {{var customer.customer_id}} For integrating in the order mails, use: {{htmlescape var=$order.getcustomer().getcustomerid()}} If you use Magento 1.8 and above, you might use: {{htmlescape var=$order.getcustomerid()}} 2.4 Database structure EAV customer attributes: customer_id[varchar] Those attributes are stored in the table "eav_attribute" 2.5 Helper functions Helper functions can be called globally in your environment, regardless if you calling it in a controller, model or the template. We are providing the following helper functions within this extensions: Mage::helper('customerid')->getIdByCustomerId($customer_id, $websiteid = 0, $getall = false) returns the internal ID of a customer when the customer_id is set Mage::helper('customerid')->getFreeIdInRange($minRange, $maxrange, $websiteid = 0) returns free ID in range, if range is set in configuration you can find out what the next number available is Mage::helper('customerid')->getDefaultStoreIdFromWebsiteId($websiteId) get default store ID from website ID

6 You can load a single customer model by calling Mage::getModel('customer/customer')- >load($entityid); Inside the model, the attribute "customer_id" is available. You can load a collection of customers by calling Mage::getModel('customer/customer')- >getcollection(); 2.6 System configuration Following system configuration values are available under System -> configuration -> MageB2B -> CustomerId Customer ID Login with ID If yes: customers can login with their id. Log Customer IDs while saving

7 Will give you an overview which customer IDs exists twice or more, lookup in system.log Customer can change If yes: customers can change their customerid in their account information. Activate automatic set for customer id Basic setting for the following settings. template for customer id %d will replaced with the customer id. For example, CID-%d will be displayed to CID-1. With %04d the customer id can be added will 0. Example, CID-%04d will be displayed to CID-0001 Apply template also to already existing id's When you chose yes" here the system tries to convert existing ids into a number and apply the template (In some cases this might cause problems or is impossible)." Next number The number, which will be assigned to the next registered customer. This will be count up automatically. Idrange is global If you use id ranges (Next Number has value like ) it works website specific - with this config the search for a new id will watch out for conflicts with other webpages. List of characters, which should not be allowed For example use "% $ " to dissallow percent, space, dollar and all numbers 3. Interfaces 3.1 CSV Import If you need to import the customer_id, the attribute is available because it's an eav customer attribute.

8 4. Upcoming features If you are subscriber of our yearly support package you will grant access to the new, upcoming features. We also support new versions except Magento 2.0 (which is a completly new architecture). 5. Service & Support If the error is a software error, please report to us the version and all the data so that we can verify the error. We will check this as soon as possible and then provide you with a new version. Please inform us when a support request the following data: your Magento version Magento URL Magento Backend access FTP and database access a detailed error description As we are a friend of quickly communication simply write an to us at info@mageb2b.de