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description: Define a relationship between two business accounts by using Account Account Relationship records. An automotive manufacturer or dealer must track the relationship between different types of accounts. For example, two households can be related if members of these households are in a marital relationship. Or, a bank can be related to a customer because the customer has taken a car loan from that bank. A service dealer account can be related to a housing community account, which in turn has multiple individual household accounts. Create account account relationships to relate parent and child accounts or peer accounts.
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# Create Account Account Relationships in Automotive Cloud

Define a relationship between two business accounts by using Account Account Relationship records. An automotive manufacturer or dealer must track the relationship between different types of accounts. For example, two households can be related if members of these households are in a marital relationship. Or, a bank can be related to a customer because the customer has taken a car loan from that bank. A service dealer account can be related to a housing community account, which in turn has multiple individual household accounts. Create account account relationships to relate parent and child accounts or peer accounts.

### Required Editions

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d75831e63 ">To create account account relationships:</td>

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1. From the App Launcher, find and select **Account Account Relationships**.
2. Click **New**.
3. Select the account and the related account.
4. For Party Role Relationship, select a record that defines the relationship between the two accounts.
    
    Select a record that has the relationship object name as Account Account Relationship.
5. For Related Inverse Record, select the account record that has a reciprocal relationship with the account.
6. Select the hierarchy type as Parent, Child, or Peer.
7. Select the start and end dates for the relationship.
8. Save your changes.

![Example](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-ind-automotive-264-0-0-production-enus/55098325-b838-4fed-9e79-8cfa2d7b33a3/images/icon_example.png)

Example

Scenario: Two business accounts are related in a parent-child hierarchy. Here are the key details.

- Record 1
    - Account: Lakeside Housing Community
    - Related Account: Leah Mason’s Household
    - Hierarchy Type: Parent
- Record 2
    - Account: Leah Mason’s Household
    - Related Account: Lakeside Housing Community
    - Hierarchy Type: Child

Scenario: Two business accounts have a peer-to-peer relationship between them.

- Record 1
    - Account: James North Household
    - Related Account: BlackRobe Legal Representatives
    - Hierarchy Type: Peer
- Record 2
    - Account: BlackRobe Legal Representatives
    - Related Account: James North Household
    - Hierarchy Type: Peer

Scenario: Multiple business accounts have a hierarchical parent-child relationship. The Rose Household within the Lakeside Housing Community has rented one of their homes to the Fairview Household.

- Record 1
    - Account: Rose Household
    - Related Account: Lakeside Housing Community
    - Hierarchy Type: Child
- Record 2
    - Account: Lakeside Housing Community
    - Related Account: Rose Household
    - Hierarchy Type: Parent
- Record 3
    - Account: Rose Household
    - Related Account: Fairview Household
    - Hierarchy Type: Parent
- Record 4
    - Account: Fairview Household
    - Related Account: Rose Household
    - Hierarchy Type: Child

#### See Also

- [_Salesforce Help_: How Groups and Households Are Modeled in Automotive Cloud](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.auto_household_group_data_model.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To show how different relationship groups are represented in Automotive Cloud, we’ll use the example of Neo Motors, an automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM).")