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# What’s Your Customer Account Portal Strategy?

The type of customer account portal you create depends on your business needs and what you want to accomplish. For example, an insurance company has a different strategy from a clothing retailer.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

To get the most out of your Customer Account Portal implementation, ask yourself some questions.

- How many Customer Community licenses do I need? Do I invest in Customer Community licenses or Customer Community Plus licenses?
- What level of data visibility and privacy do I need for each object that I’m exposing to my customers?
- Which objects do I grant permissions to in my customer profiles?
- Do I want to allow my customers to self-register?

#### See Also

- [Experience Cloud User Licenses](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.users_license_types_communities.htm&type=5&language=en_US)