# 2025-04-01: CE - Customer Groups

## Overview

In B2B commerce, companies often deal with different buyers or procurement teams for different organizations. With Customer Groups, we enhance our customer management capabilities and provide businesses with the ability to control customer access and purchasing visibility, to ensure that only the right people are seeing and doing what they should.

## New features

| Feature                            | Benefit                                                                                               |
| ---------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Customizable user access**       | Define specific access such as order visibility per organization to match your business requirements. |
| **Enhanced data security**         | Protect sensitive business information by restricting access based on roles and responsibilities.     |
| **Self-Service for end customers** | End customers can independently manage their organization and users without relying on support teams. |

## Fixes and improvements

None as this is a new feature.

## Known problems

No known problems at time of release.

## Documentation and links

User guides:

* Core Commerce: [Customer Groups](/ce/core-commerce/customer-management/groups.md)
* Management Dashboard: [Customer Groups](/ce/management-dashboard/customer-management/customer-groups.md)
* Customer Use Case: [Company Related Orders and Customer Groups](/ce/customer-use-cases/scenarios-introduction/shared-orders.md)

API Reference:

* [Customer Service](/api-references/api-guides/companies-and-customers/client-management.md)
* [Order Service](/api-references/api-guides/orders/order.md)


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