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# Create your first customer

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### Creating a contact
In your contact overview you see a list of all your existing contacts. There are also overviews specific to customers and suppliers. CoManage makes a distinction in the following ways:

* Person - a person is only displayed under a company
* Company - this is a full contact (possibly with persons in it)

A contact can be supplier or customer (or both).
You can add a contact by clicking on the button 'new contact' in the overview page.

* Per contact you can do the following:
* Add contact and address data
* Add a bank account
* Setup currency
* Setup language
* Setup VAT rate
* Setup default discounts
* Add custom fields
* ...

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/9449cf8917f7b800/image-7_jcom5y.png)

### Automatically retrieve data with a VAT number
CoManage can retrieve data  for a company by the VAT number. It uses the 'System for the exchane of VAT-information' (VIES) to automatically fill missing contact data. Just enter your contacts VAT number and press the arrow to the right of the field 'VAT number'.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/9449cf8917f7b800/schermafbeelding-2021-09-30-om_1kfaq6e.png)