# Setup: Configure the customer model

This articles explains how to design your own customer model in Norce, with organizations, people (contacts and customers) and their relation between themselves.

## Required Steps

- [Set up applications](/setup/createapplication) first.


## Preparations

- Decide how you want to represent your customer model, including the roles and permissions for different users.
- Determine who should have access to various components of the customer model.


## How-to

1. Navigate to **Settings -> Client -> Components**.
2. Decide which customer fields should be visible in the admin panel.
3. Go to **Customer -> Settings** to configure the customer model.
4. Define roles for different users.
5. Set up information types for customers.
6. Set up information types for companies.
7. Navigate to **Customer -> Flags**.
8. Add flags to meet your needs, such as customer classifications and business rules.


### Further Configuration

There are some client settings that sets up the behaviour of customer and company model:

- Configure settings such as anonymizing customer data and
- "Customers by application". This setting lets you have the same people or organisations on different applications. Otherwise they will share the same register.


## Further Reading

- No additional reading materials are provided.


## Where to Go from Here

- Explore [customer pricing](/setup/customerpricing) to further enhance your customer model setup.