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# Account Details Pane

| Field | Guidance | Relevancy |
| - | - | - |
| **ID** | Your unique identifier for this customer such as the database ID. The ID is a string of up to 1024 bytes with digits, characters and special symbols support such as [anonymoususer1234@yourcompany.edu](mailto:anonymoususer1234@yourcompany.edu) **Note:** use of the forward slash character (/) in merchant identifiers is not allowed. | Required |
| **Name** | Customer’s full name—typically corresponds to the name associated with the payment method on the account. | Optional |
| **Company** | Name of the company the customer is associated with. | Optional |
| **Email** | Email address associated with this account. If provided, the email address is used by Subscribe to send billing notifications. **Note:** Providing a value for the email fields is recommended. | Optional |
| **Email Style** | Format of email notifications sent to the customer. Select the option from the dropdown menu: - **html**—email is sent in HTML format - **plaintext**—text is sent as plain text | Optional |
| **Email Before Billing** | Indicates whether to send pre-billing notifications to the customer prior to automatic subscription-period renewal. Toggle right for **Yes** or left for **No**. By default, set to No.**Note:** This setting only affects Subscribe pre-billing notifications. Other notifications such as Success, Expiration, and failure messages, are independent of this setting. | Optional |
| **Language** | Select from the dropdown menu the supported language. These are Two- or three-character IANA sub-tag registry language codes. Subscribe uses this setting to determine which of its email templates to use when sending notification messages to the customers.**Note:** Subscribe supports both ISO 639 and IANA language codes, Vindicia recommends using IANA codes. | Optional |
| **Currency** | The currency you specify becomes the default currency for the account. Subscribe uses these when you send in a one- time Transaction or Subscription without specifying a currency. Only one currency can be selected per account. **Note:** At your request, Client Services can define a Global default currency for your business. Place your cursor in the box and select the relevant Currency. To search, enter the relevant letters in the search box.When you do not specify a currency, Subscribe determines the currency to use by proceeding from the specific to the general, in the following order: 1. Transaction 2. Subscription 3. Account 4. Global (merchant) default 5. Vindicia default - USD | Optional |
| **Tax Type** | Customer account-level tax exemption code. Overrides any individual exemptions defined for the account and instructs the tax engine to tax according to the matching predefined taxability profile (usually fully or partially tax exempt). | Optional |
| **External ID** | An optional unique ID you can use in place of the merchantAccountId, or in conjunction with it by mapping the merchantAccountId to your merchant-facing Interface, and the externalId to your external billing system.**Tip:** Best Practice is to use this field when you have two external (non-Subscribe) systems using two different identification schemes for the same customer. Note that the externalId must be unique or null in the Vindicia system. Attempting to create an Account with an existing externalId will return a Failed response to an update Account API call with no specific error. | Optional |
| **Shipping Address and Phone Number** | Used for shipping a product to the customer but can also be used in the calculation of applicable taxes. Merchants who charge taxes typically use the shipping address as the first choice because that is the location where the product will most likely be used. If a shipping address is not provided, the billing address associated with the payment method is used for tax calculation. | Optional |
| **When viewing the Account Details Panel** | | |
| **Account Since** | An automatic entry created by the system indicating when the account was created. | N/A |
| **Parent** | If this is a child account that is linked to a parent account, the Parent's account ID appears here. Click it to open the Parent account. | N/A |
| **Amount Due** | The amount due on the customer account. If no value appears, there is no amount due currently. | N/A |
| **Past Due** | Amount that is overdue from previous billing periods. If no value appears, there is no outstanding debt for the account | N/A |
| **Currency** | The default currency on the account displaying the country flag and name. | N/A |
| **Subscriptions** | Number of subscriptions on the account. Click the number to jump to the Subscriptions Pane. For more details on Subscriptions, refer to [Account Subscriptions Pane](accountSubscriptions) | N/A |
| **Children** | The number of accounts linked to this account. Click the number to jump to the Child Accounts Pane. For more details on Child Accounts, refer to [Child Accounts Pane](accountChildAccounts) | N/A |
| **Parent topic:**[Working with Accounts](../topics/accountWorking) | | |

**Parent topic:**[Viewing Account Info](../topics/accountViewing)


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