by the way… i agree with @Mark_Wonsil on this… I typically do NOT promote auto sequencing of customer IDs EXCEPT in environments where there are many new customers per day… My experience says that humans who add a new customer can manually choose a good ID for a customer based on how they will remember the customer. The ID can be changed later if this is a probelm. Customer search allows for searching by name, ID or you can create a quicksearch to find them by address, phone number, contact, etc.
When you auto assign, you are basically guaranteeing that nobody will remember the ID (except for super high use customers) so the ID is just another number to try to remember.
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