Title
Conversion of Internet Customers to Consumers

Purpose
In the Internet Application Component (IAC) SAP Online Store, you canmanage customers as consumers. Use this report to convert existingInternet customers, which you created as persons in customer masterrecords in SAP Online Store prior to Release 4.6A, to consumers.

Prerequisites
Use the report Creating Personal Addresses forInternet Customers (RINTCON_P) to ensure that there are no Internetcustomers without personal addresses.

Features
To preview the results of a conversion, test run the report.
Converted customer master records have the consumer account groupdefined in Customizing for Business Partners in the activityDefine Account Groups and Field Selectionfor Customers (transaction OVT0). During conversion, general data(address fields and fields from the table KNA1) is checked as follows:

• That all fields that are Required entry fields in the new
account group are filled

• That all fields that are Suppress or Display (inactive
fields) in the new account group are not filled
You can have these inactive fields deleted during a conversion. SAPrecommends this.

Output
Following conversion, information on every customer master recordinvolved is displayed in a log, for example:


• Customer number


• Customer name


• Required entry fields that have not been filled


• Inactive fields that exist or that have been deleted

SAP recommends that you check customer master records for consistency.You can access them directly from the log for maintenance.