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# Considerations for Using Account Hierarchy

All hierarchies display accounts related via the Parent Account field. Keep these considerations in mind when you create account hierarchies.

### 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 Lightning Experience and Salesforce Classic</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions in Lightning experience. Available in all editions except <strong>Database.com</strong> in Salesforce Classic.</td></tr></tbody></table>

## Lightning Experience

- The Account Hierarchy page displays up to 2,000 accounts in Lightning Experience, sorted by name. To view accounts in a different part of the hierarchy, enter the hierarchy from a different account. The hierarchy doesn’t display accounts you don’t have permission to view.
- If the current displayed record exists in the middle of the hierarchy (for example, the parent record has 500 children and the current record is child #250), the parent record isn’t visible when the Account Hierarchy page first appears. To see results further up in the hierarchy, scroll up.
- For companies with multiple office locations, use the Account Site field to distinguish among the locations
- If divisions are enabled, you can use the Parent Account field to relate accounts in different divisions.
- Person accounts aren’t supported for the Parent Account field or the View Account Hierarchy action.
- You can’t view account hierarchies in the Salesforce mobile app.

## Salesforce Classic

- An account hierarchy displays up to 500 child accounts in Salesforce Classic. The hierarchy doesn’t display details of accounts you don’t have permission to view.
- For companies with multiple office locations, you can also use the Account Site field to distinguish among the locations.
- If divisions are enabled, accounts that are related via the Parent Account field don’t have to be in the same division.
- Person accounts aren’t supported for the Parent Account field or the View Account Hierarchy action.
- To list an account as a subsidiary, edit the subsidiary account and type the name of an existing account in the Parent Account field. Alternatively, you can click the lookup icon to search for (or optionally, create) a parent account.

#### See Also

- [Set Up Account Hierarchy in Lightning Experience](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.account_hierarchy_setup_lex.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Show the relationships between parent accounts and their subsidiaries to sales reps using Lightning Experience. You can customize hierarchy columns to show the information that’s most useful to your sales teams.")
- [Set Up Account Hierarchy in Salesforce Classic](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.account_hierarchy_setup_aloha.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Provide a link to the account hierarchy on account records so sales reps can view relationships between parent accounts and their subsidiaries.")