Importing custom user/customers and orders

[ee-forge]

I'm migrating a custom Laravel build (with users and orders) into Statamic and Simple Commerce. I have a few questions in the best way to approach that in regards to how Simple Commerce handles Users and Customers. And things are stored in a databse.

In my instance users have accounts and can login so they are full Laravel (and therefore Statamic) accounts.

1. What is the connection in the DB between a User and a Customer? Is the customer ID the user ID?
2. Is the assumption that it makes the most sense to store custom User data (i.e. a stored address and phone number) on the User model rather than the customer model correct?

I believe I have a grip on the migrations I need to write to move the data around other than the above questions.

[duncanmcclean]

Out of the box, Simple Commerce stores customers separately from your Statamic users. However, you can make it use Statamic users instead, which sounds like it might be the route you'd want to go down.

1. What is the connection in the DB between a User and a Customer? Is the customer ID the user ID?

Assuming you're using Statamic users as your customers, it would be the user ID.

2. Is the assumption that it makes the most sense to store custom User data (i.e. a stored address and phone number) on the User model rather than the customer model correct?

Yes, if you're using Statamic users as your customers, you would add columns/fields to the User model.