# Categories

Categories allow you to organize you customers/ suppliers on an additional level.

You can create categories by going to:

```
Sales > Categories
```

ERPAG will offer you some predefined categories, such as standard, retailer, distributors, supplier... You can add additional categories by using the 'Add new' option.    

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For each of the categories you can define different terms of payment and opening any of the categories will give you a list of all the customers/suppliers that belong to that category.

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You can add a category by choosing between the existing ones from the drop down menu within the customer/supplier.

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Of course, you can always change it by choosing a different one.

{% hint style="info" %}
Setting up categories can be very useful because with ERPAG, you can generate a sales report/purchase report based on categories (sales > sales by categories ; purchasing > purchasing by categories)
{% endhint %}

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