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Introduction
This section provides an overview of basic concepts and architectural features used in Intershop Commerce Management.
Catalogs and Products
This section introduces catalog and product concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to repository management, catalog management, and import & export.
Content Management
This section covers tasks related to creating, managing and sharing master pages, components and other assets that are subject to content management.
Online Marketing
This section introduces online marketing concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to managing promotions and discounts, coupons and gift certificates, affiliate partners and partner programs, and short links.
Orders and Fulfillment
This section introduces the order process and outlines administrative tasks related to managing orders, including order status handling and order export, as well as managing shipping methods and payment methods.
Customer Management
This section outlines concepts and administrative tasks related to managing customer profiles and customer segments. It also covers customer import and export tasks.
Operation and Maintenance
This section gives an overview of typical activities in the context of managing the organization, channels, applications, partners, services and mass-data business operations.

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Customer Management
This section outlines concepts and administrative tasks related to managing customer profiles and customer segments. It also covers customer import and export tasks.
Customer Management: Concepts
Login Types

Introduction
This section provides an overview of basic concepts and architectural features used in Intershop Commerce Management.
Catalogs and Products
This section introduces catalog and product concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to repository management, catalog management, and import & export.
Content Management
This section covers tasks related to creating, managing and sharing master pages, components and other assets that are subject to content management.
Online Marketing
This section introduces online marketing concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to managing promotions and discounts, coupons and gift certificates, affiliate partners and partner programs, and short links.
Orders and Fulfillment
This section introduces the order process and outlines administrative tasks related to managing orders, including order status handling and order export, as well as managing shipping methods and payment methods.
Customer Management
This section outlines concepts and administrative tasks related to managing customer profiles and customer segments. It also covers customer import and export tasks.
Operation and Maintenance
This section gives an overview of typical activities in the context of managing the organization, channels, applications, partners, services and mass-data business operations.

Login Types

Depending on the use case, different data may be required for customer registration or user creation in the storefront.

Intershop Commerce Management therefore allows to choose between two login types. Those determine the value that should be used as username for registered private customers or users of business customers when they want to sign in to the storefront.

The login type preference is related to storefront users only. It does not apply to Intershop Commerce Management users.

The following preferences are available:


Login Type	Description
e-mail	The user's e-mail address is used as login. Hence, during the registration or user creation only the e-mail must be provided.
username	The explicitly provided username is used as login. Hence, during the registration or user creation both the e-mail address and username must be provided. This preference allows to register different users that have the same e-mail address but different usernames. The username must be unique for the given channel.

The following diagram shows use cases in which the login type preference should be taken into account:

Use Cases for Login Preferences — Figure 1. Use Cases for Login Preferences

Note: Changing the login type affects several pages in Intershop Commerce Management and also storefront pages and their behavior. For production usage it is recommended to setup the login type preference before the channel gets operational and not to change it afterwards.

For information on how to change the login type, see Managing Login Preferences.