> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://developer.paddle.com/llms.txt).

# Businesses

Business entities hold information about customer businesses. They're subentities of customers.

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Businesses store information that you need when working with a business rather than an individual. They're always created against a [customer](https://developer.paddle.com/api-reference/customers.md) entity.

You can create as many addresses as you like against a customer — useful for billing companies with different legal entities.

Businesses hold information like:

- What the company is called.
- Company number and tax number.
- Who should receive invoices at the company.

Customers, [addresses](https://developer.paddle.com/api-reference/addresses.md), and businesses work with [checkouts](https://developer.paddle.com/concepts/sell/self-serve-checkout.md), [transactions](https://developer.paddle.com/api-reference/transactions.md), and [subscriptions](https://developer.paddle.com/api-reference/subscriptions.md) to let customers purchase [products](https://developer.paddle.com/api-reference/products.md) and [prices](https://developer.paddle.com/api-reference/prices.md).

Customers don't need a business to make a purchase. You only need one when working with a business.

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There's no delete operation for businesses. Use the [update a business operation](https://developer.paddle.com/api-reference/businesses/update-business.md) to archive businesses when you no longer need them. To learn more, see [Delete entities](https://developer.paddle.com/api-reference/about/delete-entities.md)
{% /callout %}