Salesforce Person Account Inside Out
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Hope you are doing well. In this article, I tried to summarise some key points related to person account. Your feedback will play an important role for me. So feel free to comment if you have anything to share.

- Person Account is used for B2C purposes.
- When we don’t want to store the Account and contact separately.
- A person account consumes 4KB of storage for each record, because it is a combination of account and contact information.
- If we want to change the record type of a person account, then it can only be changed to another record type of person account. We can not set the business account record type for a person account while changing the record type.
- Person Account page layout does not display, reports to or parent account field.
- A person account can be added to the contact roles list for the opportunity.
- While converting lead, if the lead doesn’t have value in the company name, then it will be converted to a person account; else, it will be converted to the business account.
- Person account fields are combination of both object (Account and Contact) , except few exception like Reports To , Parent Account id.
- Standard fields like Email, phone , mobile from contact object can be accessed as personemail, personmobile,personphone on Account.
- If we create any custom field on contact, it will be visible on person account . Its api name will be ending with __pc instead of __C.
- If we enable field history tracking on person account fields, it will display on AccountHistory object.
- Parent Account Id is not supported on person account , therefore Account hierarchies is not supported for person account.
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