Changing the inital Customer Number generated

HI all,
I'm pretty sure this will be an easy one:

How can I make my new ZC 1.3.8 install's customers start with a number other than 1?

Thanks in advance,
-Ray

Customers, or orders?

Customers. I do know how to change the order numbers if needed, but its customer's ID that I'd like to start with 1000 or something other than 1

TIA,
-Ray

While it is NOT RECOMMENDED TO MESS WITH THESE SETTINGS,
you can go to phpMyAdmin and change the auto_increment value on the customers table to a number you desire, and must be higher than any existing value already in the table.

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Originally Posted by DrByte

While it is NOT RECOMMENDED TO MESS WITH THESE SETTINGS,
you can go to phpMyAdmin and change the auto_increment value on the customers table to a number you desire, and must be higher than any existing value already in the table.

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Thanks again, DrByte...I definitely understand your clear warning, but as we're using the customer number for something related to product licensing, I need it to be starting at a certain range.

This is a spanking new install, so there's nothing that I can't undo quickly if it blows up :) Are there specific things to avoid, or is this simply an incrementing field?

Thanks Again,
-Ray

It's an incrementing field. You give it a starting number higher than that of any existing record in the table, and new records start from that value ... hence the term "auto_increment".