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title: Enable Person Accounts
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description: Person accounts store information about individual people by combining certain account and contact fields into one record.
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# Enable Person Accounts

Person accounts store information about individual people by combining certain account and contact fields into one record.

### Required Editions

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              <p>Business accounts available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning
                Experience</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Business accounts available in: <strong>All</strong> Editions</p>
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              <p>Person accounts available in: Both Salesforce Classic and Lightning
                Experience</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Person accounts available in <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>,
                <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d11377e82 ">To enable person accounts:</td>

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              <p>Customize Application</p>
              <p>AND</p>
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![Important](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_core-264-0-0-production-enus/3c339c40-ca6c-49ba-9c6e-684be7a55f80/images/icon_important.png)

Important After Person Accounts is enabled, it can’t be disabled. We recommend that you create a sandbox to preview how Person Accounts affect your Salesforce org.

1. From Setup, enter Person Accounts in the Quick Find box, and then select **Person Accounts**.
2. Go through the steps listed on the Setup page.
3. Turn on Person Accounts.
4. After Person Accounts is enabled, a Person Account object with a corresponding person account record type is created. You can create additional record types on Person Account as needed.
5. Assign the person account record type to user profiles.
6. To allow users to associate person accounts and contacts to other person accounts and contacts in a reporting structure, turn on the Reports To field and add it to your page layouts.

#### See Also

- [Person Accounts](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.account_person.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "By default, Salesforce accounts are business accounts. Business accounts store information about companies or other entities. Person accounts extend the standard business-to-business account functionality by allowing you to store information about individual consumers. Person accounts combine certain account fields and contact fields into one record. You can use both business accounts and person accounts in the same org.")
- [Person Accounts Implementation Guide](https://resources.docs.salesforce.com/latest/latest/en-us/sfdc/pdf/impl_person_accounts.pdf)
- [Assign Record Types](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.permissions_record_type_access.htm&type=5&language=en_US)