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Hi all, sorry if this has been answered before, does anyone have a use case where customers and vendors are the same entity? How do you handle entity creation and AP/AR creation? 

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Just beware that one you create the join, you better not mess it up!

(it's hard to impossible to correct if you make an incorrect join)

Thanks all. Is an alternate approach to set up the entity twice with an external ID of say AP-Kevin and AR-Kevin for the vendor and customer distinction. At some point we do balance sheet netting of the asset and liability facing the entity 

Are these external Customers or Intercompany customers? (i.e. you own both sides of the transaction)

If it's inter company, there's a whole series of things you should do. If it's external (meaning you'll eventually pay cash out or receive cash from an external company) what you suggest is generally what I push for.