Paid-by Customer

The customer that normally pays the bills for a customer.  During corporate payment application, you can view a list of all bill-to customers associated with the same paid-by customer.  This simplifies the effort of applying a payment to invoices for multiple customers.  It is typically used as an interim level in the corporate customer structure.  For example, a paid-by customer might pay invoices for all bill-to customers in a region, while customers in all regions are part of the same corporate structure for pricing and credit checking.