Assigning contacts to multiple accounts

Contacts association to multiple account is most wanted idea in the Idea Exchange.

https://success.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=08730000000BrBSAA0

Salesforce has released this feature in Spring 16 as pilot, but now this available for all the edition after the Summer 16 release. So lets take a look onto this.

Lets take a scenario where in a B2B business model your Sales Reps may need to part of multiple accounts. Here the contacts should be associated to multiple accounts.

Follow the below steps to enable this settings:

• From Setup, enter Account Settings in the Quick Find box, then select Account Settings.

• Select Allow users to relate a contact to multiple accounts.
• Add the Related Contacts related list to the account page layouts that your reps use.

Below link is also useful https://releasenotes.docs.salesforce.com/en-us/summer16/release-notes/rn_sales_shared_contacts_enable.htm