# One supplier & customer

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Yes, you must create separate supplier and customer accounts under the respective tabs. This is because suppliers and customers are separate subaccounts of `Accounts payable` and `Accounts receivable`, respectively. They are not accounts in themselves. See the Guide below:

> [@Handling situation where customer is also supplier](https://forum.manager.io/t/handling-situation-where-customer-is-also-supplier/5496):
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> If you have a customer who is also a supplier, you may want to offset the outstanding customer and supplier invoices. This is known as a contra entry. In Manager, all sales invoices are sub-accounts of Accounts receivable while purchase invoices are sub-accounts of Accounts payable. This means you can easily credit sales invoices and debit purchase invoices using journal entries. For example, you have a customer who owes you 1,000. [image] At the same time you have made a credit purchase of …

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