# 2025-09-16: CE - Legal Entity

## Overview

This release provides shop administrators with greater flexibility and consistency when managing customer assignments across predefined groups and subsidiaries. The new controls ensure that customers are always assigned according to clear rules while providing options for how those assignments propagate between subsidiaries and the root company. This improvement helps to maintain clean and consistent customer group structures, reduce errors from conflicting assignments, and control how customer relationships are inherited across subsidiaries and the root company.

## New features

| Feature                                    | Benefit                                                                                                                                                |
| ------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Group assignment validation**            | Prevents conflicting group assignments, ensuring reliable permissions and cleaner customer management.                                                 |
| **Subsidiary and root assignment control** | Provides flexibility in customer visibility by allowing configurable options for whether subsidiary customers also appear at the root level.           |
| **Configurable inheritance rules**         | Aligns customer management with your business model through preferences to enable or disable assignment inheritance between subsidiaries and the root. |

## Fixes and improvements

None as this is a new improvement.

## Known problems

No known problems at time of release.

## Documentation and links

Management Dashboard:

* [Customer Groups](/ce/management-dashboard/customer-management/customer-groups.md)
* [System Preferences](/ce/management-dashboard/settings/system-preferences.md)


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