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title: Business Contact Sharing for Orgs That Use Person Accounts
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description: Orgs that use person accounts can modify the Organization-Wide Sharing Default for Contacts. Modifying the Organizing Sharing Default provides flexibility in how you share business contacts, including the ability to define contact sharing rules and manually share business contacts.
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# Business Contact Sharing for Orgs That Use Person Accounts

Orgs that use person accounts can modify the Organization-Wide Sharing Default for Contacts. Modifying the Organizing Sharing Default provides flexibility in how you share business contacts, including the ability to define contact sharing rules and manually share business contacts.

### 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: 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>

Manually sharing contacts applies only to the business accounts because person accounts don’t have contacts. To share information about a person account, you must share the entire account.

To use this feature, edit your Sharing Settings.

1. From Setup, enter Sharing Settings in the Quick Find box.
2. For Account and Contract, select **Private**.
3. For Contact, select **Private**.
    
    ![Image of org-wide sharing defaults](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-sales-sales_core-264-0-0-production-enus/3c339c40-ca6c-49ba-9c6e-684be7a55f80/sales_core/images/accounts/b2c_contact_sharing_owd.png)
    
    To disable business contact sharing, change the Contact sharing setting to **Controlled by Parent**.

#### 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.")