How to Enable Person Accounts Without Contacting Salesforce Support?

You can now enable Person Accounts without reaching out to Salesforce Support. Person accounts store information by combining certain account and contact fields into one record. This allows you to store information about a person in a record that can act like an account when necessary.

Where: Person accounts is available in Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer editions.

How: You can enable person accounts after you meet these prerequisites.

The account object has at least one record type.

User profiles that have read permission on accounts have read permission on contacts.

The organization-wide default sharing is set so that either Contact is Controlled by Parent or both Account and Contact are Private.

NOTE: Person accounts can’t be disabled after they’re enabled. Make sure you test the features in a sandbox to preview how the changes affect Salesforce and review the implications of enabling the feature.

To enable person accounts in Setup, enter Person Accounts in the Quick Find box, and then select Person Accounts.