Retail Customer Blueprint
This page describes a retail-oriented CRM implementation blueprint built on standard tSM CRM.
Implementation Profile
This blueprint is not a mandatory standard tSM behavior set. It is an implementation profile for retail customer care and backoffice operation.
1. Blueprint Goal
The blueprint targets operators that need:
- full customer onboarding for B2C and B2B,
- strict data-quality validation at entry,
- role-based customer operations in backoffice,
- direct linkage from customer records to orders, products, tickets, and billing views.
2. Profiled Domain Model
3. Customer Onboarding Profile
3.1 Creation flow
- User starts by selecting customer type.
- Form variant is selected by customer type (for example B2C domestic, B2C foreign, B2B).
- Required fields are validated before save.
- Duplicate prevention is applied using national/company identifiers.
- On success, customer is created in initial valid state.
3.2 Mandatory relationship expectations
In this profile, customer creation expects:
- at least one contact person,
- at least one address.
Related person/address records are initialized immediately after customer creation.
4. B2C/B2B Form Behavior
4.1 B2C domestic
- person name is mandatory,
- personal identifier checks are applied when configured,
- optional ID-document capture,
- basic phone/email format validation.
4.2 B2C foreign
- same baseline as B2C domestic,
- nationality is mandatory,
- local personal-id fields can be restricted by configuration.
4.3 B2B
- company identifier and company name are mandatory,
- tax fields are optional/required by local policy,
- optional external company-data prefill integration,
- at least one contact person is required.
5. Customer Detail Workspace (Retail)
Typical retail customer detail sections:
- base identity and segmentation,
- product and order overview,
- persons, accounts, addresses, bank accounts,
- status change panel (permission-based),
- verification and notification controls,
- notes, comments, attachments, documents,
- tickets, events, audit/history/log views,
- invoice and payment-state visibility.
6. Permissions and View Filters
Typical profile-specific controls:
- privileged roles can execute extended status transitions,
- privileged roles can manage assigned sellers/owners,
- list views support
all customersandmy customersmodes, - indirect-sales roles are restricted to assigned/created customers.
7. Configuration Profile (Registers)
Retail implementation usually extends code tables beyond standard defaults:
- customer status taxonomy (valid, blocked, non-payer, cancellation, debt-collection variants),
- customer legal forms,
- customer segments and categories,
- customer and partner types,
- account types,
- payment methods,
- invoicing methods,
- person role catalog and communication categories,
- agreement/contract type catalogs.
8. Standard vs Retail Blueprint
| Area | Standard tSM CRM | Retail blueprint profile |
|---|---|---|
| Onboarding | Generic configurable forms | Dedicated B2C/B2B variants and validation rules |
| Relationship model | Customer + Account + Person + Address core | Adds specialized account patterns and agreement overlays |
| Status model | Configurable status registers | Extended operational statuses for retail debt/blocking workflows |
| Workspace depth | Core entity maintenance | Full backoffice workspace (orders/products/invoices/tickets/logs) |
| Role model | Standard privilege model | Additional role filters and privileged customer operations |
9. Integration Hand-off
This blueprint still relies on standard cross-module hand-off:
- to Ordering for commercial execution,
- to Inventory for service/resource ownership context,
- to Billing for charging/document lifecycle,
- to Ticketing/WFM for operational customer support.