This article explains what accounts are and how to create and modify them.

What is an account?

Although our core objects are locations, we needed a way to manage and group them. Therefore we introduced accounts.

Imagine an account being a folder in which files are nested. Each file being a location. You can have unlimited files in one folder. You can give access to the folder only to certain people. You can specify the purpose of a folder.

Accounts are used to group Locations, in order to give more flexibility to the user in terms of products and user-rights.

How to create accounts?

It is very easy to create an account.

1.  Log into the platform - on the left you will find the navigation bar. Find the tab "Accounts":
   
   
   
2.  Click on "Add Accounts":
   
   
   
3.  Provide Account Info:
   
   Pay attention to the "Account Identifier" - it will be used to recognize the account in the Location Import file as "businessIdentifier".
   
   
4.  Create a responsible user or skip this step (users can be created at a later stage).
5. Choose the desired product plan.
6.  Click on "Add Account":