TCA Entity Descriptions

Describe the major entities contained within the TCA Customer model.

·    Parties: Party is an entity that enters into a business relationship. There are four types of parties –

§  Organization  

§  People           

§  Groups        

§  Relationship

·   Locations: A Location is a point in geographical space.

·   Party Sites: A Party Site links a Party with Locations. Parties can be associates to one or more locations and locations can be associate to one or more Parties.

·  Party Site Uses: A Party Site use describes the usage of locations (e.g., mailing address, billing address etc.)

·  Party Relationships: A Party relationship allows for the linking of any two parties. When two parties are connected via a party relationship type is assigned, which describe the relationship.

·   Contacts: A Contact is a party that serves as a contact for another party. e.g., A person is a contact for another person or a organizations is a contact for another organization.

·  Contact Points: Contact points store electronic methods of communicating with entities such as parties and party sites.

·  Customer Accounts: Customer accounts represent a business relationship. When a party becomes a customer an account is created and associated to the party to track the attributes of the customer relationship. A party can have more then one account.

·  Customer Account Sites: A Customer Account site is a party site that is used within the context of a Customer account.

·   Customer Account Contacts: A Customer Account Contact is a contact that is used in the context of a Customer Account.