Company accounts

A company is the account a group of customers (the members) act for.

How companies are created

A company gets created in three ways.

1. Automatic provisioning on registration

When a new customer registers with a company name, B2B+ Base automatically creates a company and makes the customer its owner.

• The company name is taken first from the account-level "Company" field; if empty, the company name of the default billing address is used.
• If the customer enters no company name, no company is created.
• If the customer is already a member of any company, nothing is created (provisioning is idempotent).

INFO

Provisioning runs in the background on the registration event. If it fails, registration is never blocked — the error is only logged.

2. Invitation (for later members)

Additional people are not added via a new company, but through an invitation into an existing company. See Invitations.

3. Backfill for existing customers (console command)

Customers who registered with a company name before the plugin was installed (or who were imported) do not have a company yet. A re-runnable console command handles this:

bin/console avellon:b2b:backfill-companies

The command walks through all customers with a non-empty company name that are not yet a member of any company and, for each, creates:

• a company (name = the customer's company name),
• an owner membership,
• and copies the customer's address book into the company addresses (carrying over the default billing/shipping flags from the customer's own defaults).

Safe to re-run

The command is idempotent: customers who already have a membership are skipped, so a second run changes nothing. A summary is printed at the end (companies created, addresses copied, customers skipped).

Company data

A company carries the following master data:

Field	Description	Required
Company name	The name of the company account.	Yes
VAT ID	VAT identification number.	No
Registration number	The company's registration number.	No
Active	Controls whether the company can be used. An inactive company cannot be selected as the active company.	–

Members see the company data and their own role in the storefront under Account → Company account → Company ("My company" page).

Admin module (read-only)

Under Customers → Companies the Administration lists all companies and shows each company's members. Creating/editing happens in the storefront account area (owners/admins) or via the Admin API. See Configuration.

Active company & company switcher

A customer can be a member of several companies. At any moment, however, they act for exactly one — the active company.

• The active company is remembered in the session.
• If no choice has been made (or it is no longer valid), the system falls back to the first active membership.
• Only companies in which the customer has an active membership and that are themselves active are eligible.

How customers switch companies

1. The account sidebar shows an Active company section.
2. If the customer belongs to several companies, a Switch company dropdown lists all companies to choose from.
3. After selecting, the shop confirms with "Active company switched." and stays on the current page.

If the customer belongs to only one company, the company name is shown without a switcher.

INFO

When switching, the shop verifies server-side that the customer is actually an active member of the chosen company. A tampered company identifier simply results in "The company could not be switched."

Roles overview

Each membership carries a role that determines what the member may do in the company:

Role	Storefront label	In short
owner	Owner	Full management, including granting the owner role.
admin	Administrator	Manages members and addresses, but has no owner privileges.
member	Member	Acts for the company, without management rights.

Details on rights, status and protection rules are on Members & roles.