How can we create CommerceCustomer using Commerce Plugin

Question

We have a scenario where the client will add customers (company information) with properties like Company Id, Company Name from the business tool as user specific.

Lets say a scenario, where I am the storefront user, I have created an account from the website. So the business team will map this user to the different CommerceCustomers.

As we know, we usually create the CommerceCustomer using the CustomerServiceProvider and its pipelines.

As per our case, we wanted to create the commerce customer from the plugin and do the mappings.

Please suggest me a solution for this. Thanks in advance !

Here are the few screenshots of the process we have.

Answer 1

I would suggest to create a new one commerce entity like Company. This entity will have fields like Company Id, Company Name and etc.

Extend Customer entity with custom component, which will store the entity id reference to the related company entity.

Then you can go with OOTB user registration flow and when user will be created in commerce engine you can manually set/change linked company through the XC BizFx interface.

Of course, it's a high level solution, but something similar you should implement.