# Compulsory/required Customer Fields **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & feature requests\ **Created:** [16 May 2021 14:59 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/compulsory-required-customer-fields/198 "2021-05-16T14:59:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![greg-pritchard](https://community.breww.com/user_avatar/community.breww.com/greg-pritchard/32/141_2.png) [@greg-pritchard](https://community.breww.com/u/greg-pritchard)\ **Post date:** [16 May 2021 14:59 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/compulsory-required-customer-fields/198/1 "2021-05-16T14:59:53Z")
Hello, Just a thought: it would be really handy to be able to mark selected fields as compulsory for when new customer accounts are set up. We often have issues with unknown gaps in our customer data, which only come to light when reports are run and numbers don’t quite add up correctly, for example if Customer Group fields are left blank. Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![max](https://community.breww.com/user_avatar/community.breww.com/max/32/232_2.png) [@max](https://community.breww.com/u/max)\ **Post date:** [17 May 2021 16:40 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/compulsory-required-customer-fields/198/2 "2021-05-17T16:40:07Z")
Hi Greg, Oh sure - I can see how that would be useful! Are there a few specific fields that you had in mind which this option would be most useful on? For example the core customer fields like price book, customer group and sales person? Would you want to enforce that certain address fields are entered? Thanks, Max ---
**Author:** ![greg-pritchard](https://community.breww.com/user_avatar/community.breww.com/greg-pritchard/32/141_2.png) [@greg-pritchard](https://community.breww.com/u/greg-pritchard)\ **Post date:** [18 May 2021 07:42 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/compulsory-required-customer-fields/198/3 "2021-05-18T07:42:55Z")
Hi Max, Customer type, Sales person, Price book and Customer group would all be particularly useful. Also the option to make a Custom field compulsory would be great! Thanks, Greg ---
**Author:** ![max](https://community.breww.com/user_avatar/community.breww.com/max/32/232_2.png) [@max](https://community.breww.com/u/max)\ **Post date:** [18 May 2021 08:54 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/compulsory-required-customer-fields/198/4 "2021-05-18T08:54:51Z")
Hi Greg, Sure thing - we can look to add that in! Custom fields have this option already, you can tick the “Required” option when setting them up or editing them if you’d like the field to be required whenever editing / adding a customer: ![Screenshot 2021-05-18 at 09.52.13](https://breww-community.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com/original/1X/fabd3af01a9bc5480425d999bb765e252c913fbf.png) Cheers, Max ---
**Author:** ![greg-pritchard](https://community.breww.com/user_avatar/community.breww.com/greg-pritchard/32/141_2.png) [@greg-pritchard](https://community.breww.com/u/greg-pritchard)\ **Post date:** [19 May 2021 16:46 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/compulsory-required-customer-fields/198/5 "2021-05-19T16:46:20Z")
Hi Max, Great, thank you so much! And ah we haven’t actually created any new Custom Fields yet - ours were imported - so hadn’t spotted that you already have that option to make them compulsory! Perfect. Thanks, Greg ---
**Author:** ![ben-dumbreck](https://community.breww.com/user_avatar/community.breww.com/ben-dumbreck/32/268_2.png) [@ben-dumbreck](https://community.breww.com/u/ben-dumbreck)\ **Post date:** [21 December 2022 15:32 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/compulsory-required-customer-fields/198/7 "2022-12-21T15:32:34Z")
I’m potentially missing something but was this ever done? I’ve had a look around settings and can’t find anything to make fields compulsory ---
**Author:** ![luke](https://community.breww.com/user_avatar/community.breww.com/luke/32/3636_2.png) [@luke](https://community.breww.com/u/luke)\ **Post date:** [21 December 2022 15:46 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/compulsory-required-customer-fields/198/8 "2022-12-21T15:46:54Z")
For **custom fields** , the “required” option should be able to be ticked on each custom field, by going to the custom fields page and editing the fields one by one. This allows you to have some compulsory and some optional. There’s no way to mark all custom fields as compulsory in one go, I’m afraid. If you mean for other (non-custom) fields, then no, I’m afraid this hasn’t been done yet. If you’d like this, please can you give this thread a vote with the button in the top-left.