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# Prepare Your Organization for Person Accounts

Before enabling person accounts, prepare your sharing settings and record types.

![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_core-264-0-0-production-enus/3c339c40-ca6c-49ba-9c6e-684be7a55f80/images/icon_note.png)

Note Person accounts can’t be turned off once they’re enabled. We recommend testing your person account implementation in a trial, development, or sandbox environment before having person accounts enabled for your active Salesforce organization.

1. Create at least one record type for business accounts. Salesforce creates a record type for person accounts when they’re enabled.
2. Set the organization-wide sharing settings to one of these two ways.
    
    - Set contacts to Controlled by Parent.
    - Set both accounts and contacts to Private.
3. Give at least ”Read” permission on contacts to all profiles that have at least ”Read” permission for accounts.